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by slovenlyrobot 6y ago
If you click into the per-country view on Worldometers you can see their sources. For example the current numbers for USA came from nyc.gov.
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by slovenlyrobot 6y ago
This could have been true except probably half of HN have an Android phone in their pocket. So this, like with Android and Google Play Services, is a case study in perception management. Suddenly the perception of Zoom seems to be forced in
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by slovenlyrobot 6y ago
Entirely shoot from the hip comment, but at this point I feel it's warranted.. What is with all the Zoom hate? The company have been around for a decade, enjoyed relatively mediocre success until the outbreak of Covid, and suddenly app
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
I mistakenly thought you wanted clarity on my reasoning, instead it seems I've been made a fool of by providing an opportunity for you to argue a position I already understood and couldn't care less about. It's funny, this is
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
There's really not much to it, but if it's a foreign concept it may require a kind of conceptual leap. Essentially, this code worked perfectly well, and suddenly it no longer worked. From your perspective, as you quite effortlessl
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
I recognize it may be difficult to understand, but this is a thread about backwards compatibility. Of course if I had any faith in the contemporary Python community, I would still be treating Python as a serious programming language and not
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
I'm several years into the "upgrade" and find myself still swearing daily at the idiocy of the whole thing. Hundreds of scripts used maybe once a year, such as 'dups.py' I tried to run today, broken by a missing par
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Notably compared to the 2008 program, this time around they allow dealer banks to take out cash loans using... equities.. as collateral. Dealer goes bust, market takes a huge hit, and the collateral value shrinks in correspondence to that h
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
The dates are up to present day. Trump is due to give another press conference during market hours (3:30 today), watch the chaos he's wreaking on your friendly neighbourhood index Expecting another rally followed by another crash
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
> Here is evidence why it works: new cases/day decreasing dramatically since February: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESywcEKUwAADhcQ?format=png&name=... . Such an impressive single day drop, it's almost l
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
You can think of them all as JPEG NB.. 'no browser support' ;)
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Is it my imagination or was this the second country announcing the same in the past few days?
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
It eliminates the sizeable premium that previously attracted skilled labour to the instability of contracting. Without premium, why bother with the risk? FWIW, prior to the recent change, I believe the situation had been the status quo sinc
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
The most common thing I've heard is "blast radius reduction", i.e. the general public are not yet smart enough to run large shared infrastructures. That seems something that should be obviously true. People had exactly the sa
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
They moved responsibility for determining whether a person is acting as an employee or a vendor in the vast majority of cases to the client, who must demonstrate a bunch of factors (I'm not a tax guy), not least - the "vendor&#x27
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
The UK HMRC has just absolutely devastated the London contracting market due to a rule shakeup like this. Speaking as an ex-contractor and current hiring manager, the result has been disastrous.
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
OVH also offer a free control plane, but their service is relatively beta so far.
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
It appears to be pretty much all western governments. at least 3 countries in the middle east appear to be pretty transparent, including surprisingly, Iran The level of censorship around unquestionably authentic videos coming out of China h
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
BitBucket still has users? I assume at least one, the person who thought the last redesign was a good idea.
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
> it's so rare for an application to ask you to open a port in your firewall, most users probably don't know how to do it. in home settings this step has been automated for something like a decade or more. One of UPnP or NAT-PM
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
> How do you know where the key is, and how are you guaranteed to be able to read enough of it before the "shifting sands" that is timing unpredictability and general noise in the system make you read something else? I don&#x27
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CloudFlare API Down for over an Hour(cloudflarestatus.com)
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
You get what you pay for with Tesseract, don't judge OCR performance based on it. Would highly recommend checking out FineReader if you're on a supported platform. You can feed it crumpled beer receipts and the results are still d
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Speaking just for one, I haven't adopted a new Google consumer product in 7 years. I don't even click the links. Pretty sure Reader had that effect on a large chunk of the technical base they previously relied heavily on.
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
A slight twist on this is a cheap, beefy colo box with nothing installed except something like k3s. This way you end up with all the YAML bureaucracy paid down in case that dreamy future with millions of users finally manifests
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
For some reason Docker is struggling to download the image right now (lots of interested parties? :), I just wanted to trap writes to the database file and look at what's actually getting written there. Is there any possibility e.g. of
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Posts like this always come up in these threads and they're really great, but it's worth adding that 'switching to Firefox' isn't something anyone actually has to do. Just start using it for one thing or another and
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
There are more or less 2 major modes of managing a product relative to the current technological zeitgeist: - expand to consume every new use case and buzzword that comes along. Survive in some form indefinitely, while the product becomes l
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
I had a 4 roundtrip email thread with their support over a speech API bug. Eventually sent them a narrated step-by-step screencast, and the guy is finally like "oh, it's not supposed to work that way." (Yes, that's what
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
You've never in 28 years lost a single day to a compiler/linker flags/version mismatch and some random tool? I find that difficult to imagine. The horrifying alternative would be that such situations had been encountered but

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