virgilp

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by virgilp 5y ago
I might be interested, I have some questions thought - is it best to contact you via the form on the site? I don't see an email there or on your HN profile.
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by virgilp 5y ago
This is all speculation. We'll see soon enough how this all plays out - I was just expressing my doubt that any country will say "if you had COVID 3 years ago, you're free to travel". They might lift restrictions complet
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by virgilp 5y ago
Would it, though? Sure, 4000 _might_ be saved from car crashes. But how many would die by not making it in time to a hospital? From the likely collapse of transportation, and distribution of goods? From the extra pollution of going that slo
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by virgilp 5y ago
I wouldn't bank on them extending "recovery" duration... they'll simply ask for proof of vaccination after those 180 days.
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by virgilp 5y ago
You can't walk naked on the street, despite it "doing no harm", because of other people's sensitivities. You need to adapt to the society, it's not the society's duty to adapt to you. If it bothers enough peopl
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by virgilp 5y ago
> If those 100 people are still worried about that, they can choose to keep themselves locked away forever. You must be trolling, no way you're so self-centered. "I like to drive with 200km/h through cities, those who don&
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by virgilp 5y ago
It's always fun to take an "impossible" ask and figure out a way to make it possible. In your case, this one is far closer to possibility that you might've realized - take a H2GO [+], make it ~20% cheaper and slap a ferr
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by virgilp 5y ago
Perhaps you imagine DHH's response was different than his actual response? Read it (link below) - do you still consider it wrong? https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e
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by virgilp 5y ago
Was it wrong on DHH's part, though? Here's how I read it: DHH: "Making fun of names is wrong and clearly a failure on our part that we didn't stop it. Please don't take extreme views though, it is not genocide, we&#
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by virgilp 5y ago
It's a tad more complicated than that - it needs to consider also driving conditions, any hazards on the road. Probably can't be done on computer vision alone, you need at least some sensors to get a "feel" of how good i
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by virgilp 5y ago
My car already does a pretty good job of showing the speed limits (and it's definitely based on computer vision/ works offline and in places where map metadata is poor). And it doesn't have "self driving", just a li
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by virgilp 6y ago
I never said they do, I said they sell "GCE VMs with years of uptime" i.e. "just pay for VM and let us worry about maintenance, you can simply assume it works for all intents and purposes". But, the kind of stuff that pe
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by virgilp 6y ago
> No one talks about their GCE VMs with years of uptime. This is literally what you sell. It's like a restaurant owner complaining about the bad reviews, saying "nobody talks about all the people that we fed and never got food
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by virgilp 6y ago
I get where you're coming from, but I disagree. They actually prey on seemingly small changes that have large "unintended"/non-obvious side-effects. I argue that finding such situations is much much harder in Rust than i
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by virgilp 6y ago
You went pretty fast from "you are just a cog in the machine and there is no 'you'. Sign here please" to "signing away your soul to the Devil". I understand the first statement/feeling, and my reply was me
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by virgilp 6y ago
I'm in the EU; I mentioned that I don't think the verbiage was really enforceable, but that can't stop them from putting it in. Fortunately it never came to be tested in a court of law :)
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by virgilp 6y ago
I get the feeling, just want to say that it all worked out well (towards "spectacularly well") for me. It's easy to say "for any amount of money" in the abstract, but that job directly and indirectly took me from &q
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by virgilp 6y ago
No, they had that one too, it's the non-compete clause basically (it extends a few years after your employment terminates, if I'm not wrong). Again, not sure it's enforceable, I'm not aware of them ever trying to. Probab
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by virgilp 6y ago
While working for the previous employer (multinational corporation), my contract had a clause that any work/personal projects that I do outside work must be approved, in writing. Doesn't matter if I only work on them outside worki
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by virgilp 6y ago
I think digital media & document cloud still bring in the lion share of the revenue, and definitely of the profits (not even sure whether digital marketing is profitable yet, I think it wasn't when I left the company 2.5 years ago,
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by virgilp 6y ago
What? I'm pretty sure I have Photoshop on my iPad...
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by virgilp 6y ago
> I run some generic knowledgebase website and use my own ES installation to provide user-facing search, does Elastic want to see my Ansible scripts? According to Elastic, "it depends" - if you can just search by entering a ter
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by virgilp 6y ago
That is not entirely true, of course. Not if you don’t want to pay. As proof - just look at Amazon, they can’t (that’s why they forked it).
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by virgilp 6y ago
Roser himself addresses that: https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1378992929465847809
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by virgilp 6y ago
This does show you the fallacy in your line of thinking, right? Twitter was on that list, and now it's not. In 5 years, maybe none of the companies in your list will be in it; sure you will easily find "replacements" that are
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by virgilp 6y ago
No longer exists as an independent company though. > In January 2006, after falling on difficult times, it became a subsidiary of the Takamatsu Construction Group. The oldest one that still operates independently appears to be still from
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by virgilp 6y ago
They didn't include Romania :(
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by virgilp 6y ago
This is good advice but it cuts both ways. The other side of the same coin is whenever you receive nasty and undeserved feedback, you don't reply or argue.. You say "thank you for the feedback" and ruminate what good you can
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by virgilp 6y ago
I believe that's exactly what lyu07282 actually implied (that it doesn't even matter if you're a "feminist" but what matters is if the "feminists" consider you an enemy; and that the average "Hunga
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by virgilp 6y ago
Right. Label common sense as racism, and then be surprised that men clam up.

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