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by swores 3y ago
Well, HR staff are people like any other department, so as with all people there's always potential for asshole behaviour even in a company that generally encourages HR to be employee-friendly, and potential for someone to do a nice th
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by swores 3y ago
No worries, easy to not foresee every possible way in which strangers could interpret a comment! But I think that people (at least jwr, and probably even nyc_data_geek saying "on prem") are talking about cloud (like AWS) vs. renti
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by swores 3y ago
Could you please explain what you mean by "physical backbone connection", as I can't think of a meaning that fits the context. If you mean dealing with the physical dedicated servers that can be rented from Hetzner, that&#x27
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by swores 3y ago
I've hardly touched a fountain pen since my primary school days, but I recall that regardless of brand of pen or ink, everyone found that if you left a pen with its lid off the nib would dry out in an annoying way. Does modern ink (or
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by swores 3y ago
Forgive me if I'm thinking like a TV writer since I don't have the scientific knowledge, hence the question: can GPS signals not be spoofed, if you are in possession of the device you want to trick? I.e. Couldn't they have fa
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by swores 3y ago
(I'm OP of this submission, but otherwise unrelated to the story so can't answer questions on it.) The article also contains a link to the source study, " Impacts of ambient air quality on acute asthma hospital admissions dur
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Asthma hospitalisations drop 41% in improved air of lockdown, Oxford study finds(theguardian.com)
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by swores 3y ago
If you're not trolling, you've genuinely just misread the room. One of them just said "I'm guessing this is irony." and surely you would agree that your first comment was ironic? You were using irony to mock the dow
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by swores 3y ago
The two people you've accused of "lashing out" at you weren't doing that - you wrote a sarcastic comment (for the reason you've explained, seeing the comment you replied to get downvoted - but that context was gone
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by swores 3y ago
Given Apple have complete control with their OS of how the dynamic foveated rendering system works, if they particularly wanted a screenshot feature to be included - reasonably likely for marketing purposes, it seems to me - then surely it
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by swores 3y ago
Surely the device just has a screenshot function?
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by swores 3y ago
Presumably for something as expensive as the US nuclear weapons program, they could afford to hire and fully train 10x as many people as they need to be experts in externally-obsolete software/hardware and it just have the effect of a
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by swores 3y ago
> "I'd expect the legal team were employees, too." The article actually says this: > "Despite Facebook hiring several law firms to defend their case, Soldati, representing himself, was able to successfully argue
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by swores 3y ago
I wasn't suggesting you were wrong to define your local busses as not having (working) heating :) Just that I have no idea where in the world your local busses are, and that you were speaking as if your experience was true of busses ev
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by swores 3y ago
Maybe I'm also misunderstanding you, but if that comment was aimed about me then I wasn't remotely offended by somebody mentioning god, I just didn't understand if they were literally talking about the God they believe in or
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by swores 3y ago
Makes sense, thanks for the explanation!
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by swores 3y ago
I've not yet read to the end so apologies if this idea is covered already, but a ctrl+F for "colour" (and "color") yields nothing so I'll comment away: > "If you’re thinking ahead you’ll realise that t
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by swores 3y ago
Ah, yeah if it had been worded like that I'd have recognised it as the idiom, but hadn't occurred to me it could be an unusual wording of that idiom.
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by swores 3y ago
Am I missing some joke or wordplay, or are you just a genuine believer who felt God warranted a mention here?
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by swores 3y ago
> Todays busses don't even have heating in the winter Reminder that not all busses are the same, and your experience is extremely localised to you - even different bus companies (or bus models used by a single company) in the same
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by swores 3y ago
You've misread the type of children they saw - an awful lot of schools, like yours, did (do?) trips to Isle of Wight and that activity centre, but the comment you replied to was talking about seeing kids who lived on the IoW doing thei
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by swores 3y ago
I'm not a moderator so you have no obligation to listen to me, but I'll make a request none the less: please consider only commenting when you've something to say that adds to the conversation in some way. The HN guidelines a
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by swores 3y ago
In addition to the usual risk any company has with breaking the law that a whistleblower might be brave and speak up, it could also come out in discovery during a court case, of which there are likely to be quite a few brought against them
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by swores 3y ago
According to the marketing copy on the website, this Captcha system is both open source and perfect in just about every way. I'm not capable of judging it myself (*) but look forward to people who are able to review and tell people lik
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by swores 3y ago
> ' There is literally nothing on that page that says how to tell them to "not use my data for training"... ' You can opt out of ChatGPT using your conversations for future training, without disabling any features lik
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by swores 3y ago
I mean, I obviously agree that the complication in the US tax system is crazy, and also think that every country should do what the UK does in allowing PAYE income taxation (Pay As You Earn - most people in standard jobs have their company
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by swores 3y ago
Twitch streamers get ad revenue sharing, afaik TikTok users don't?
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by swores 3y ago
I don't buy their claim, but the logic (I think) goes: in order to create an AGI that's good enough to benefit all humanity, they need huge amounts of money, and therefore acting like a greedy for-profit to get that money is justi
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by swores 3y ago
They were kindly letting you know that a commonly held misconception you had is actually not true, not airing a grievance.
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by swores 3y ago
Cool, thanks for the reply

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