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by zasdffaa 4y ago
There's enough understanding that things need to be changed, now the doing is needed. > because I become more aware each passing week of the blindspots in the HN community regarding the struggles and perspectives of women That'
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Err, looks like we were hit by a polar jet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_jet so the energy doesn't radiate equidirectionally. But still mindblowing, and thanks for doing the maths.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Okay, missed that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_galactic_nucleus says "An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the center of a galaxy that has a much-higher-than-normal luminosity over at l
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I've seen people in primark pick stuff off a rail, hold it up to themselves to size it, then if not happy just drop it on the floor and reach for another. It amazes me and not in a good way.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
From the article "It’s also likely that the BOAT’s powerful jet was pointed toward us" The energy given out is(?) very non-isotropic. A random shot got 'lucky' and hit us.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
2.4 x 10^9 light years away, so not in our galaxy by a very large measure.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
'something' and 'something'. So you have no actual ideas then. As for living, perhaps you will - do you think you might wish you weren't?
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
That's a pity. It's from Brass Eye ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Eye ), a piss-take on panicky documentaries, it's the drugs one and totally brilliant. And they got a mandrill on it. Most of them
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Howzabout some clarky cat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIAJemmO-bg The first 5 minute of this is one of the funniest things I've watched.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Companies want mainly decent tech skills, or so they claim, but don't ask the tech questions to pick out those candidates (again, IME). How does that add up? > Research the company ahead of time and build a case that you are ready t
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
WRT hiring, I've been looking for a job and had a number of interviews, perhaps 15-20. Odd thing is they've almost all asked for touchy-feely things such as my values, what's my favourite language and the like but no actual h
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Companies want commitment but typically (IME) aren't much interested in reciprocating that commitment, either directly as in valuing you, or indirectly as in giving a damn about managing you properly so you can do your job. So I don&#x
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
FYI the seeds are bloody revolting to eat. Caveat Nibbler, I suppose.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I'd say programming Grain is just simplicity. It takes real work to find that simplicity.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I tried using omnisharp with emacs and it was as crappy as you say. I gave up with it and went back to Vis. studio, with regrets.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Pretty sure I've never had a maccy D's either, but I get what you're saying, thanks.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Check out the global strategic maple syrup reserve ( https://www.ediblegeography.com/syrup-stockpiles-wine-lakes-... )
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Never had a domino's - heard people say they're expensive but good but you disagree? Ur views welcome (am in the UK if that makes any difference).
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
With you, and I hate the destructiveness of it. I notice thought, it's those who have least to offer are first to criticise. Look at the comments of those who are genuinely good (eg. BeeOnRope here on HN) and you see a far more toleran
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
The usual stuff then! Thanks.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Was intended as blunt, not hostile (how does it come across hostile?). WRT 'giving the users what you want not what they want', that's a classic mistake I've made several times and finally learnt from. Hopefully you can
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> Saying "enjoy it while it lasts" serves no purpose other than to blunt a person's enjoyment of the the thing Does it blunt it, or make you realise what you have while you have it, and value it the more? Or are you right
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> The customers hated it. Sigh. You screwed up. You gave the users what you wanted to give, not what they wanted. You must always test & iterate. > The next release had a lot more text. Yes, I was too general - different interface
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Icons are used for a very good reason; us humans have a remarkable visual memory. Also we can distinguish icons by appearance faster than by words. Also words are language specific, icons... it's more complex... I can't provide ev
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> Chinese and Russian are the ones portrayed as evil in that literature I've not noticed that. OTOH as a brit, the number of times I see us portrayed in American films as cold, unemotion, untrustworthy, manipulative, I could go on..
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> Too inscrutable to change, to complex to replace can you give some advice to me, maybe others, on what you'd like to see in that codebase that would make things easier for you? Serious question, ta.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
A small counterpoint. The pain of losing someone is the cost of having someone decent and good, for the time you had with them. Some of us have never felt that because we've never had someone decent to lose (though I will be glad; feel
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Abstractions usually (always?) have a cost because physics . > The damned thing even ran sendmail and? > Cloud computing really still it "somebody else's computer." That's the definition of 'the cloud'
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I'm not sure you need intelligence to appreciate beauty. > solving problems is often not done by intelligence but by guessing, or intuition Have you any evidence that this is a significant and useful strategy.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> The idea that intelligence is problem solving is quite limited That what is it, or at least, what else can it do in your view?

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