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by sonthonax 4y ago
Yeah, heated seats are just wire filaments connected to the car’s power supply. That has to be trivial to bypass. Maybe as an added bonus you can turn it on with a button.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Why aren't the Chinese and Russians successful at building airliners? International politics aside, they have workable products, so why can't they break into the duopoly.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Hacker News is really going to the dogs. This comment shouldn't be downvoted. It's a dissenting viewpoint that comes from a vastly more informed place than the top comment which is a petty-minded justice boner about 'princi
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Because Monzo will pay more than Google or Amazon in the UK.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
GraphQL seems to be one of those 'bootcamp technologies'. I see it being advertised as a skill a bootcamp teaches more than I've ever seen used. I can imagine that for a junior developer the endless freedom might be quite p
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by sonthonax 4y ago
> The British took all our trees to build their navy Not only that, they took our young men to fight in their colonial armies; and deracinated the educated to serve as middeling officials in their colonial governments! Anyway, I'm b
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by sonthonax 4y ago
How does such a thing work? Parsing XML is full of branches and dynamic allocations that general purpose CPUs are good at.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
I’ve written quite a lot of rust GRPC web services. The reason being that we wrote a lot of propriety derivatives library code in Rust that we needed to Interface with. We could have wrapped this in python, but to be honest, it just would
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Getting 20% CPU utilization on 300 tran/s is crazy.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Would this be compiled into a graph of subqueries and window statements?
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Not really an option on a Mac. Docker is so incredibly slow not only because of the virtualisation layer, but because of file system performance (Python hits a lot of files on startup). It’s also not that complex at the end of the day. Yo
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by sonthonax 4y ago
I remember moving to the UK at 19. I was room sharing so had no bills in my name. I had no job yet, so no payslip. Only documentation was a British passport. I eventually gave up trying to find a bank that would do passport only bank acc
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by sonthonax 4y ago
British Intelligence has bars inside their offices. In fact the British security services are basically an oxbridge drinking society.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
> https://skirtlesden.com/articles/json-lisp-queries It’s a useful pattern when you need to encapsulate some complexity.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Refugees' lives are rarely at risk. The reason that refugees leave 'safe' camps is that they, more often than not, will live with with the prospect of living their whole lives in a tent and subsisting off WFP rice bags. It&
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by sonthonax 5y ago
Careful now, you’ve read too many real books to be commenting on HN. What did you study?
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by sonthonax 5y ago
What employer when trying to hire high value people would use Equifax to verify resumes?
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by sonthonax 5y ago
Basically the lesson here is: don't underestimate how stupid HFT algorithms can be, especially when there isn't really a penalty for doing this. I've worked at an above board HFT with a big crypto desk, and this happened cons
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by sonthonax 5y ago
No it hasn’t. Most US public debt is held domestically (while I’m not sure on the specifics, I think it’s about 80%).
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by sonthonax 5y ago
In all fairness, trying to keep cables intact that are plugged into an overpacked rucksack and are attached to your head is pretty hard for anyone.
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by sonthonax 5y ago
It’s not really that impressive all things considered. Localstack is effectively Python’s Boto library (an AWS mocking tool) running as a server. In turn, all of the AWS APIs are defined by a kind of JSON schema document, so there’s not re
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by sonthonax 5y ago
Agreed. I wonder what's driving the upsurge? It's the same in the UK too. I remember being at a park party a few months ago with some fellow 20-25 year olds; I suggested turning the music down, but it took the police to kindly as
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by sonthonax 5y ago
Ah!
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by sonthonax 5y ago
What’s a DSO?
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by sonthonax 5y ago
It’s rationalised xenophobia. And quite a common rationalisation of the outside world being unclean or diseased. Why do you think unconnected tribes kill those who approach them? One reason is that it’s still in their cultural memory tha
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by sonthonax 5y ago
> That's some emotive language, and projecting viewpoints that I don't think represent the beliefs or thoughts of most Australians or New Zealanders. But xenophobia is literally the policy; even their own citizens aren’t able t
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by sonthonax 5y ago
I think it’s the smug xenophobia of their zero Covid policies that people are irked by. It’s effectively calling the rest of the world unclean. It’s eventually going to spread and take hold, but until then, their leaders get to bask in tec
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by sonthonax 5y ago
> While German politicians still ask for the internet to be printed for them. That's actually somewhat reassuring. I still print of long PDFs, because I actually want to read long documents rather than skim.
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by sonthonax 5y ago
It sounds like you had a very upset stomach and a bad hangover.
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by sonthonax 5y ago
350g of gasoline (for a 70kg person) is a huge amount to accidentally ingest. That's an LD50 of 5g per kilo, which to put into perspective isn't really that toxic compared to ethanol which has an LD50 of about 7g per kilo. Highly

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