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by w-m 7y ago
Around 2013 it was bothering me that the process of typing my question into Google, then clicking on the first result, then scrolling down to the most useful answer took so much time and interaction, to get simple answers of things I just c
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by w-m 7y ago
As the article goes "The most admired arguments are made with data, but the origins, veracity, and malleability of those data tend to be ancillary concerns.", let's see what we can do here. The latest HN comment dump I could
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by w-m 7y ago
Posted the link on the fine above by mistake, here’s the one about the pop star (German as well): https://www.golem.de/news/datenmissbrauch-hessens-polizisten...
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by w-m 7y ago
It was only a 1400 Eur fine, as it was a first offense a there was only one affected person. But misuse of the available databases for fun and personal gain seems to be quite rampant in the police force, for example they looked up the perso
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by w-m 7y ago
When working on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, this is such a productivity killer. Quite annoyed at the time lost from this behavior, after coming from a Mac. In shells where I run a program that may load a larger data set (e.g. before ipython), I now r
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by w-m 7y ago
The sudden downfall in the chart looked so strange, I thought they must have conflated the city of Rome with the Roman Empire. But no, people actually left the city proper in droves, as resources became unavailable and the city fell into ov
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by w-m 7y ago
I can see that going either way, depending on how the question is posed. Fewer 16-year olds may be able to afford a vacation paid from their own income, compared to the population mean. But sponsored through parents/relatives, more 16-
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by w-m 7y ago
React Native will work on Mac through project Catalyst, Apple's way of supporting code written against iOS's UIKit to run natively on Macs. Some initial work was already done to make React Native compile for this target: https:&#
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by w-m 7y ago
Not so sure about that. For example there’s this German TV show that lasted 6000+ episodes over the last 20 years, with popular science content (at least originally). It’s known by almost everybody and it is called Galileo, not Galilei.
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by w-m 7y ago
> Oh, nice. It's hopeless for C/C++ for legacy reasons, but D - that could work. What in particular do you think would be impossible in C++ for legacy reasons? From a very high level it seems to me that all the necessary ingre
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by w-m 7y ago
Stackoverflow may be the only site where I ever use tags. Tags are useful there for finding questions you can answer. You can watch tags of topics that you probably can reply to and browser the front page with a collection of interesting qu
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by w-m 7y ago
Interesting links, thanks! So it's mostly an IR lamp, an IR sensor with an optical filter and the air to test in between. I don't understand from the article how long the waveguide actually is. Is this just a cylinder that is a fe
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by w-m 7y ago
How are CO2 sensors built? Can you make them small and cheap enough to put in a phone, so I'd get a notification if the CO2 levels are rising?
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by w-m 7y ago
Here are the actual release notes (which don't seem to be linked anywhere from this marketing page): https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
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by w-m 7y ago
You'd have to periodically update the time zone, if people started moving. Large part of the population moving from the country to cities may very well move the population center around. So the centroid may be a more future-proof versi
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Mercedes-Benz Starts Production of EQC Electric SUV(electrek.co)
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Implementing the C++ Core Guidelines' Lifetime Safety Profile in Clang(youtube.com)
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by w-m 7y ago
> They put fans on tall poles in their orchards and run blowers up and down the rows. But this isn’t usually effective. From my armchair I wonder what the reason is for not having a ground-based solution. Running a small vehicle (lawnmow
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by w-m 8y ago
Germany will in fact have the worst ratio of population per member of parliament after the 2019 elections, with 860k people per MEP vs Maltas 77k people per MEP, on the other end of the scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by w-m 8y ago
I would have been probably less irritated by something simple like "current serverless solutions". But I'm not a web developer and don't understand the differentiation details you mention, so I'm not in the target d
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by w-m 8y ago
> If the previous generation already had a decent quality-of-life, there's less reason to assume that the next generation will have it even better. I do agree that the rate of improvement may be lower for already highly developed co
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by w-m 8y ago
"Traditional serverless offerings come with challenges such as constrained runtime support and vendor lock-in. [...]" I'm quite aware that there's a technology hype cycle in web development, quickly replacing last year&#
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by w-m 8y ago
Will People Born Today Have a Better Life Than Their Parents? > Respondents in China are the most optimistic, and those in regions like Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East are especially hopeful compared to those in Wester
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by w-m 8y ago
Heads up: the boxes are drawn in the wrong places using Firefox 66 on Ubuntu 18.04. https://imgur.com/a/4d51spv A bit confusing as the drawn boxes don't match the text. Works with Chromium though.
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by w-m 8y ago
They haven't faked Matt Damon yet. Thank god! https://havetheyfaked.me/u/f/ab60f524-6111-41a4-afef-211d299...
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by w-m 8y ago
On top of that, the QA style is simply not a good fit for helping "new users", as you put them. If you are just starting out with programming, you don't have a feeling for what constitutes a good question that people can effe
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by w-m 8y ago
There was a big emphasis on privacy. Apple does all the categorization and geolocation on device. There was a slide dedicated to the point that Goldman Sachs will never share the data with advertisers. But no word on MasterCard. Will they s
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by w-m 8y ago
Only if you map 0=right and 1=left. Mapped the other way, 0=left and 1=right, the guesser gets it right ~43%.
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by w-m 8y ago
One of the few things where Google Search is really awful for me personally. I've set it up to get search results in German (country of residence) and English (everything else). But I haven't found a way to communicate to it that
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by w-m 8y ago
Why not? Many people research their ancestry at some point in their lives and the name does not seem to be very common.

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