virgilp

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811.
by virgilp 7y ago
Yes, but having one smart meter at each lighting pole? Neah, sorry, I don't see that happening in my city. (we don't have "smart parking meters" either. In fact, we have no parking meters at all....)
812.
by virgilp 7y ago
I don't know... it also requires: - charging cables that can't easily be stolen, between my car & lamp post. - infrastructure that allows me to pay for consumed electricity, and doesn't allow random person to steal it (or
813.
by virgilp 7y ago
> "can work from sunup to sundown" I would definitely travel to Norway to buy one of those.
814.
by virgilp 7y ago
Why? It’s a much coarser feedback, doesn’t tell you that you’reno putting in enough feedack, just tells you about catastrophic failure to learn the basics. Unless you want to make “fail’ everything below a B
815.
by virgilp 7y ago
As a Romanian that worked a lot with US companies, I find this to be pretty spot-on: https://medium.com/octavians-thoughts/what-does-its-a-good-s...
816.
by virgilp 7y ago
I would go farther and claim that 100% test coverage is worse than 90% test coverage. You're probably testing irrelevant stuff - which just means that you have more test code to maintain, and also likely means that your tests are bad (
817.
by virgilp 7y ago
I.e. the Mercedes CEO? Also for the other two.... really? Who t.f. wants voice control in their car? Better lights are nice, sure... but it's a minor improvement (most people drive most of the time by day, and even by night, all car li
818.
by virgilp 7y ago
Depends a lot on the company and situation (how easy is it to fire a bad hire? Does the company do it?) - but you can use something like F2 or F0.5 where relevant. Remember Facebook rejected Brian Acton, and paid billions for that. An over
819.
by virgilp 7y ago
> I can say that I've never regretted a hire I said yes to, so the method works to my satisfaction. This may just mean that you say a lot Of wrong “No”s. To get very high precision or very high recall is really easy... what you must
820.
by virgilp 7y ago
FWIW, I was actually, honestly wondering whether this is now an EU rule. Didn't know Sweden initiated this, good for you guys, obviously it's a fairly advanced society so one would expect a lot of the good EU ideas come from you.
821.
by virgilp 7y ago
This is an EU rule, no? Because it's not just Sweden. Still, tbh, it still works on some items. Eg here most producer gradually shrinked yoghurt from 175 to 140g - pisses me off, but I must assume it works.
822.
by virgilp 7y ago
For the simulated entities? Yes you are - you have absolute power over the simulation.
823.
by virgilp 7y ago
I have a different experience - with 3 kids, in a 2M city does't even have a great transport infrastructure (Bucharest). School/kindergarden is within walking distance. Highschool is farther away, indeed (because that's what
824.
by virgilp 7y ago
Really? SF is one of the best, IMO. You can actually take long walks, it actually has a subway (plus busses, trams), it has sidewalks almost everywhere..... sure, less parks than one would like/ a bit too much concrete, lots of homeles
825.
by virgilp 7y ago
You would think so, no? Yet, the entire US population seems to be fine with the notion that tips go to the restaurant, not the waiter. Even in this Reservoir Dogs scene, the guy who brings forward the logical arguments is presented as a sel
826.
by virgilp 7y ago
It's fascinating that Americans find this outrageous, given how the very same Americans consider it to be MY duty to tip 20% (since restaurants, despite being obscenely expensive, don't actually pay waiters unless waiters get less
827.
by virgilp 7y ago
The problem I have with these sort of lists is that they try to be comprehensive and add a lot of second order biases that tend to drown the basic/ fundamental ones. Take your example for IKEA effect: it is in fact a consequence of los
828.
by virgilp 7y ago
That's for different source files though, right? Try having a 10Mb auto-generated C++ file, see how fast it compiles, regardless how powerful your computer is.
829.
by virgilp 7y ago
True dat. And Solitaire, I guess :)
830.
by virgilp 7y ago
By that token, is there ANY application where the attack vector is not 'network' and 'remote' is 'no'? Because I fail to think of any minimally-useful app that doesn't open external files.
831.
by virgilp 7y ago
I actually made a simulation of this because it seems obvious - you can actually double your bet each time you lose, and this basically guarantees that you eventually win each time! Turns out, you have to go surprisingly high for this to be
832.
by virgilp 7y ago
What do you mean? Lane assist software is so good&safe, that Boeing put it in one of it's planes!
833.
by virgilp 7y ago
In something that could be worse than solitary confinement. I remind you, that is the place used to punish people who were already in jail. Nobody is known to resist more than a few days there, yet you want an entire eternity. Far from me t
834.
by virgilp 7y ago
And what will your brain perceive, how would you feel? Does "en eternity in hell" sound exciting? Because it might be a very real possibility.
835.
by virgilp 7y ago
You know, it's the same as with financial advice. Good financial advice is good.... except if absolutely everyone applies it, then it becomes a disaster. Fortunately, there's no risk of that happening. Same here. No matter what yo
836.
by virgilp 7y ago
Would anyone consider that the corebrightnessd process at 117% cpu is expected/desired behaviour?
837.
by virgilp 7y ago
It was paid or time off where I worked before. It's just being established where I work now, but what's discussed is 2x regular pay for working outside your work hours due to an incident. Doesn't seem "slavery" to
838.
by virgilp 7y ago
Yeah, but the weather is mild enough that I bet many don't fully realize the risk. In Helsinki, spending the winter sleeping outside is obviously not an option.
839.
by virgilp 7y ago
Wooden toothpicks are often too thick. My swiss army knife has a flat plastic toothpick that seems to have been designed exactly for the job of cleaning USB-C ports: https://i.redd.it/79iesas532521.jpg
840.
by virgilp 7y ago
This is a powerful example but for some reason it never dives into what happens when the 3rd stand appears :D

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