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by voytec 3y ago
> What do we want from self driving cars? Security, by not making human mistakes. But this won't happen for a long time and probably never with people like Musk leading the way. Autonomous vehicles are a poor substitute for long-pro
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by voytec 3y ago
He now blames[1] Apollo's author for saying other things in private and in public and "leaking" the phone call recording proving Huffman's lying, which - the developer mentioned at least twice - is legal in Canada where
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by voytec 3y ago
Thank you. Saddening but informative. I was chatting about resveratrol this very week with a colleague, ex pro athlete, writing about "Nutrition in Sports" for his PhD. Looking forward to discussing these findings with him.
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by voytec 3y ago
David Sinclair wrote in "Lifespan"[1] that they extended mice lifespan by (iirc) something like 40% but amounts of resveratrol used was something like mentioned 750-1000 wine glasses daily when translated to humans. While Wikipedi
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by voytec 3y ago
> Google, as a company, is as cool as Oracle nowadays. Feeling rather uncomfortable as Devil's advocate in this case but I was testing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a cost-saving replacement for Google Cloud Platform recently and t
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by voytec 3y ago
> Jokes aside, This feels like one of "Wine is Good for you" In moderation and other fine point details. Not buying it. I mean, pinot noir has a lot of resveratrol. You'd just need 750-1000 glasses daily.
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by voytec 3y ago
Smaller companies and organizations have an incentive of going remote-only or mostly-remote to save on rent. Google owns offices. Similarly, Apple may have not demanded workers' presence in office if they haven't built their huge
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by voytec 3y ago
With a hiring freeze, they couldn't get cheaper workers shortly after letting current ones go.
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by voytec 3y ago
Hugged. Version from May 31: https://web.archive.org/web/20230531062024/https://natehoffe...
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by voytec 3y ago
> Elon and Andrej Karpathy argued that since humans can drive using just vision, that’s how we should do it in self driving cars, but I think that’s a flawed argument. Of course. The real argument is "LIDAR is expensive in compariso
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by voytec 3y ago
The salt thing can tell you that a person may be well-hydrated due to high sodium intake. Dumb test for "didn't tried it first".
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by voytec 3y ago
> Due to the failure of the company Freenom, which has managed the .ga TLD up until now, to provide the Internet community with a satisfactory service, the Gabonese authorities decided to terminate the current contract and bring the mana
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by voytec 3y ago
> banned Sunday shopping only recently to pander to the religious voter base More like to the Catholic Church corporation, to ensure that before next elections, church goers will receive proper instructions during Sunday masses, on how
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by voytec 3y ago
> Why were the death camps in Poland and not Germany? Former Nazi Germany concentration camps are located on Poland's current territory. When they were built however, the land was occupied by German Nazi Reich. Death camps were buil
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by voytec 3y ago
(2008)
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by voytec 3y ago
"Using the Internet for the 1st time" from the "Programmers are also human" YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7NLMwynYg
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by voytec 3y ago
Haven't read it (yet); 3.25", not 3.5" or 5.25"?
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by voytec 3y ago
I'll never get FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 out of my head.
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by voytec 3y ago
> It communicates to new users that this is a currently maintained project Busywork, which I consider logo change to be, doesn't really make a project seem "maintained". But at least it's not a productivity-disrupting
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by voytec 3y ago
"Good ol' days"
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by voytec 3y ago
> Surely that can’t be true (...) every modern recipe has pictures to show what the result should look like You may be looking at glue used as milk, motor oil as sauce or mashed potatoes pretending to be ice cream [1]. (And don't ca
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by voytec 3y ago
> Ubuntu provides a modified version of the GNOME desktop, which does not match how GNOME envisions its desktop At one point I didn't understood what the deal is with default WM being Gnome. I was happily using compton+i3 on Ubuntu
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by voytec 3y ago
Curious why they decided to blog about tech on Medium and not under own domain, like they do[1] for corporate posts. [1] https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/
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by voytec 3y ago
Some had very customized kernels which stopped being released. Since getting all the custom drivers to work was too much pita for these devices' vendors, why would I pay them and invest my time in getting their hardware to work? That t
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by voytec 3y ago
> Buy something else. I have a raspi running pretty much non-stop since 2011 and am still able to update its software 12 years after purchase. All "somethings elses" which I bought had 3-4 years of software support and then th
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by voytec 3y ago
I call my "timer" a "nagger" and use it via a shell nagme() function. Takes care of certain ADHD traits which were previously causing "refocusing" during unpleasant tasks, like emptying the washing machine (hal
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by voytec 3y ago
Catholic Church is also the largest organization in the world which openly protects pedophiles.
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Related thread from 2 weeks ago: Vice is said to be headed for bankruptcy [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780517
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by voytec 3y ago
Currently I'm happy with what I found on HN's Who's Hiring [1] post. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
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by voytec 3y ago
Not my experience in over a decade but I'm looking strictly for remote and don't bother with hybrid/onsite.

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