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by sh1mmer 5y ago
When we used 5Ys at Uber SRE I always like to say that you are looking for a tree of depth 5 but if it's width 1 you've not tried hard enough. "Root cause" or at least the idea there was a single factor that was the defi
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by sh1mmer 5y ago
I find it interesting with many of these criticisms that subject matter experts on maths, sciences, etc think that they are also subject matter experts on the pedagogy of maths, science, etc especially at a high school level. Many advanced
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by sh1mmer 5y ago
iOS Safari now support “content blocker” extensions which means you can download 3rd party blockers (such as Firefox Focus). It’s pretty non-obvious feature until you know about it.
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by sh1mmer 5y ago
My Audi e-tron has this habit of switching the adaptive cruise control to the on-ramp speed limit even when I’m in the middle of the freeway. It’s something I’ve learned to deal with but the sudden attempt to break from 70 to 55 is pretty b
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by sh1mmer 5y ago
According to the UN [1] 2019 worldwide mortality was 58m people. So that’s roughly a 12-22% increase assuming mortality stayed the same. [1] https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publicatio...
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by sh1mmer 5y ago
It would be great if the JSON data could be easily plugged into a linter so you could quickly validate if you are likely to have issues on a given client or not.
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by sh1mmer 6y ago
> So NPR is artificially (with a high-pass filter) removing a natural side-effect (of directional mics) to avoid getting artificial-sounding boomy bass. He says later on in the article that they try and get people in the studio to not ta
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by sh1mmer 6y ago
If they care about global warming there is tremendous potential for carbon sequestration in agriculture they could push. Obvious examples would be: no-till practices that keep soil carbon sequestered, forest farming methods that mix woodlan
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by sh1mmer 6y ago
378sqmi is roughly 0.01% of the US (3,796,742sqmi) which still seems like a pretty large amount of land.
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by sh1mmer 6y ago
> To assemble its mRNA production network, Pfizer used its own money and didn’t take any from the federal government. Executives said they didn’t want to give agencies outside the FDA more leverage over the design of the trials. > Riv
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by sh1mmer 6y ago
A lot of the articles I’ve read (including this one) say that Pfizer had to invest $2B to develop this vaccine. However this article says they bought seven $200M machines to manufacture lipid nanoparticles. This implies to me that $1.4B of
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by sh1mmer 6y ago
I’d love to see something like this for game mechanics, although that might be harder to achieve. For example being able to find games that have certain movement mechanics and compare them would be amazing. Like “jump”, “double jump”, “slid
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by sh1mmer 6y ago
This is why writing scripts/tools for ops work is helpful. You can do `alias mv='mv -n'` or similar but then you have to hope everyone is using the same shell prompt, etc. Even if your tiny script is just: ``` #!/usr&#x2
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Nextstrain SARS-CoV-2 strain analysis resources(nextstrain.org)
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by sh1mmer 6y ago
I wonder if they could do something with Proton to make a Linux desktop version. Since Valve made Proton for games I imagine that graphics cards support for things like CUDA might work just fine still.
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by sh1mmer 6y ago
Curious where you are located. I was talking with our high end GC in Texas and they basically said Geothermal for heat exchange never seems to pan out for clients after the numbers are run. This seemed surprising to me. Some of the other st
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by sh1mmer 6y ago
My understanding (not having used a new one) is that current RaspberryPis get pretty hot. I’m sure it’s not as hot as a printer head (~200c) but I’d worry it might be enough on the inside of an enclosure made of lower-temp thermoplastic to
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by sh1mmer 6y ago
While this issue is worth exploring and talking about from a policy and science perspective it’s disappointing that the article doesn’t mention that solar e-waste is still considerably less harmful, and much smaller in scale than fossil fue
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by sh1mmer 7y ago
This makes me think of the report [1] that Apple won’t let movie bad guys have iPhones, or apparently soda companies won’t let you see branded soda cans being thrown in the trash in movies. It does seem to me like it shouldn’t be in the pub
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by sh1mmer 7y ago
If Apple are really bothered by this they should just make 2 versions (lightening and USB-C) and let consumers choose. They already do multiple versions for radios (GSM vs CDMA) so I can’t imagine this would be a terrible challenge for them
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by sh1mmer 7y ago
It seems odd to me that the lesson here wasn’t reporting to the police when some rando you met on IRC has apparently hacked into a political party. Especially given all the state-sponsored meddling in politics recently. They might have done
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by sh1mmer 7y ago
I’m surprised there isn’t a comment yet about how this seems like monopolistic behavior and Amazon should be look out for anti-trust probes for stuff like this (at least I’d hope).
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by sh1mmer 7y ago
You definitely can't fix anything by not trying... (to make a website?)
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by sh1mmer 7y ago
Have you considered contributing your technical expertise to something like Code for America? Their two flagship projects (GetCalFresh and Criminal Justice) reform both started off as simple web forms to make it easier to file for SNAP (foo
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by sh1mmer 7y ago
I guess my thought is that much of correctness comes from the compiler being able to make assertions that some type (and thus some memory address) will only be used in a correct way at compile time, etc, etc. For example if we were dynamica
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by sh1mmer 7y ago
I'm curious if there is a discussion thread on that design choice.
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by sh1mmer 7y ago
Based on this link I wouldn't trust the critical thinking of the content of this site. > We also know about Google firing James Damore and their ideological echo chamber. They are already displaying their own bias based regardless o
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by sh1mmer 8y ago
The video linked below literally has an example of this technology recognizing individual credit card even when stacked. While (I assume) the CVV code isn't readable because it's not embossed into the card this still seems like ex
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by sh1mmer 8y ago
I'm running a project at Uber to develop an AIOps (Data/ML applied to ops and release management) platform for a number of our business critical systems. If that sounds interesting drop me a line. tomc at the company dot com.
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by sh1mmer 8y ago
I really don't understand some people on HN's desire to shield Musk from any criticism. When I started in tech as a career nearly 20 years ago I was really excited because I wanted to make the world a better place through technol

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