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by vosper 6y ago
Agreed, I've never understood this. There are lots of good migrations tools around for SQL databases. If people mean "you don't need to run migrations with Mongo, you can just start adding fields to documents as they're
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by vosper 6y ago
I wouldn’t expect the collapse of global civilization
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by vosper 6y ago
> why not just use stevia or aspartame to get the sweetness without the calories? I find the aftertaste of stevia disgusting, and really long-lasting, but when I need to sweeten something I’ve had much better luck with erythritol. It’s
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by vosper 6y ago
I had the same experience with Epoccam, it was far too unreliable to actually use for meetings. Thanks for the pointer to Camo. In the end I ponied up for Logitech C920, I think it's worth the money rather than fussing with a phone, ap
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by vosper 6y ago
Apple did the same thing with undo. Such a commonly used feature, hidden behind shaking your phone? That’s not even an interaction. They’ve slightly improved it with three-finger swipe to the side, which at least is a bit like a gesture, bu
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by vosper 6y ago
There’s a good Omega Tau podcast episode froma few weeks ago, called “Modern Fission Reactors”, that covers modular reactors (and many other interesting reactor topics) https://omegataupodcast.net/359-modern-fission-reactors
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by vosper 6y ago
There are lots of options in this space - tools like LogRocket can record a whole user session, capture all the interactions and errors, and let you watch a replay in order to see how the error came about, and what the user did afterwards.
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by vosper 6y ago
> representing speculative things as high-confidence erodes your credibility I wish you were right, but I actually think most of the time the exact opposite is true: appearing highly-confident about speculative things makes someone seem
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by vosper 6y ago
I vouched for this comment, because a quick Google suggests it’s happened once, at least: “ShotSpotter system records tragic plane crash” https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2010/02/19/shotspotter-s...
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by vosper 6y ago
Society has a lot of tolerance for stupid people. In normal times their stupidity isn’t spreading an infectious disease that’s killing thousands of people every day in the US alone (3,764 people died in the US from Covid yesterday)
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by vosper 6y ago
> Or even more reductionist there are only a finite amount of talented and smart people ever in history doing truely new and interesting stuff. It’s just the nature of the game. You can’t just turn a dial and add more talent. It’s true t
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by vosper 6y ago
This is something Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) has been talking about these past few years. Here’s an Atlantic article from Collison and Tyler Cowen called “We Need a New Science of Progress” https://www.theatlantic.com/sci
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by vosper 6y ago
Are you implying that the author of the post I linked to is untrustworthy, because their site also has a post about why it’s good to have a blog? And then something about Covid which has nothing at all to do with this? Sorry, but this is ju
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by vosper 6y ago
> Basically Chrome Developer Tool's Sources tab but as files and folders on your computer. Isn’t that what happens when you save a page? Or is that not possible with Puppeteer?
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by vosper 6y ago
You may be interested to know that the book has come in for strong criticism, including an accusation of deliberate manipulation of data. See: ‘Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors’ h
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by vosper 6y ago
True story, but I’m not making a point here, or trying to disagree with you. Just something that happened to me once: I was leaving a hotel near the airport in Delhi, and as were waiting outside for an Uber the manager of the hotel told us
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by vosper 6y ago
Adding to this: BeQuiet cases. You want that internal sound dampening on all sides of the case (so avoid tempered glass) to get rid of any annoying high-pitched coil whine, not just to silence the drone from fans. I have an overclocked 9700
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by vosper 6y ago
> This isn't really vendor lock-in, though. It's simply a technical/design lock-in. Going from unstructured to structured data presents problems, and if you do that, it's rightfully up to you to fix. This is true, but
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by vosper 6y ago
Mongo is also proving the success of vendor lock-in: you (or the engineers before you, and the engineers before them) make a mess in Mongo, because there are no relations and no schemas [0], and it becomes really difficult to get off it. Th
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by vosper 6y ago
Also, Facebook doesn't have a monopoly on VR - there are several competitors in the market, like HTC and Valve.
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> Estimates given by the subject matter expert (the only one who could give an estimate) are way too small because it implies they will be doing the work. If you play the pointing poker game you tell everyone on the team (of people who m
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by vosper 6y ago
So... you editorialized the title in order to get some traction? I hate to be that guy, but the HN guidelines ask not to do that > please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize I should have
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by vosper 6y ago
You’re right - one of the great unheralded achievements of modern computing is that most people can run all the applications they need (of which there are more, all of them more powerful than ever before), all at the same time, on a middle
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> It is normal that doing more takes more resources. Modern raytracers require more processing power because they generate better images. Likewise, compilers of 2020 have awesome static code analyzer which they did not have in 2009. >
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by vosper 6y ago
You're probably right, but I'll give you a concrete example: here's a post from today that was downvoted when I commented on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25280929 It appeared to be making a factua
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by vosper 6y ago
I'm not sure that Slashdot's community is/was inherently a result of their voting/tagging system. Their heyday was a long time ago, and the communoty standards were different to here. It was maybe somewhere between reddi
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by vosper 6y ago
> Would be nice if flaggers had to provide a short sentence of why... Yes, and same for up and downvotes: I'd like to require a selection from a small set of required tags, and for the aggregates to be visible (perhaps with a delay)
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by vosper 6y ago
In the context of the movie, Rickert had already retired from finance to own an orchard, and was dragged back into it by the two other characters in the clip. I can't remember how they know each other. He's a fairly reluctant play
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by vosper 6y ago
Why is this being downvoted? Is it not accurate? If so could someone explain where djrogers is wrong?
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by vosper 6y ago
There's another great scene in that movie which also captures this really well, when Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt) explains to Jamie Shipley and Danny Moses what it means for normal people if the group's big bet against the economy pays

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