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Polar Vortex 2021/2022 season

severe-weather.eu
3 points·by dstola·5 ปีที่แล้ว·2 comments

Was 'Oumuamua' a visiting alien spacecraft?

rt.com
2 points·by dstola·5 ปีที่แล้ว·0 comments

House Will Vote on Bill Restricting Chinese Firms Listed in US

bloomberg.com
4 points·by dstola·6 ปีที่แล้ว·1 comments

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dstola
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
If you use Alternate Player for Twitch DDG privacy extension was preventing it from connecting with twitch servers and lose quite a bit functionality as you would always stay logged out. Not sure why it was doing that, but just a PSA regarding same extension
dstola
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Twitter is not new though. It had sway in 2016 and 2012 elections with prominent personalities doing public relation on the platform. Saying its new to political space is pretty disingenuous

> You're getting flagged for naked partisanship

So you're allowed to support democrat agenda "nakedly", but not any other. Got it.
dstola
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Have you ever seen White House getting fact-checked with democrats in power before the acquisition? If there is any bias going on its from people that have a bone to pick with Elon and his choices

The fact that my comment got flagged for some odd reason highlights the fact that people (including on HN) dont want to hear that Elon is making twitter better and less biased
dstola
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I think the issue with these massive scale apps is that people want better and fresher features which are not always well defined and get lost in the maze of product development of a huge company. They have to make decisions, do we go with web3 stuff or do we improve current NLP system etc etc. Making decisions is much easier for a small startup than a behemoth of twitters size. And yes, it takes many people. 1000 engineers? Maybe not, bloat has set in at that point, but a few hundred for sure.
dstola
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
dstola
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
"optimization gremlin" = dark-pattern to take as much money away from you as possile
dstola
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> multigenerational prosperity

With a lot of young people opting out of having kids and trying to find their own way in life, it would make sense that the anti-work and anti-hustler culture is much more prevalent in younger people (millenials being first). Its a generational shift first of all driven by oncoming climate disaster due to over population and will be felt through wars and hungers. Why should young people contribute to such a society and create more suffering in the process.

I am not an anti-natalist, but if we start talking multi-generational that's what it comes down to
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Not a fan since proposal would do an implicit join on foreign keys rather than explicit join on the columns. If you know the schemas its great, but would add an extra step to check FKs on the tables otherwise

In general explicit > implicit, IMO
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> rewriting a repository to use a ORM, jOOQ in this particular case with Java8

> spend two weeks on this, write extremely meticulous tests, I am a junior/mid level engineer at this point in my career and this is a game changing ticket

> day of the switch approaches, sweating bullets

> switch happens, so far so good

> This was for a food delivery company so the volume of orders changes throughout the day (lunch, dinner, evening etc)

> at lunch time orders suddenly start disappearing, but eventually over time things go back to normal

> goes on like this for hours, at least a few

> tech team is confused ... why are these orders disappearing into nowhere

> senior engineer is suspicious and reviews my PR from the night before

> I forgot to remove `LIMIT 100` on the GET /order query when I was testing

Still makes me chuckle to this day
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
And then accuse China of stealing their patents and business secrets
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Hopefully they completely ignored this and other issues in GTA5 online because they have been working on GTA6 all these years /end sarcasm

But honestly, on a large enough team with a large enough backlog much worse things slip through the cracks. Doesn't excuse this at all though.

Also kudos on the write up! Enjoyed reading it
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
You would be surprised how much bacteria can grow on fabric after an 8 hour workday assuming you have a customer facing job and need to wear a mask all day
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Humidity also encourages bacterial growth and I doubt inhaling that constantly is healthy
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> Anything over that can just be taxed.

Except the politicians will take that extra tax money and use it to bail out banks and wall street and spend it on shit that no one needs and impose policies that no one cares about and continue the corruption cycle, only now with a lot more money than they had before. We should trust the government a lot less, not more, with our hard earned dollars.

Greed is part of the human nature, and people in the government are no exception.
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Interesting how the whole thing devolves into 4chan-esque cesspool the moment anonymity is introduced. Humans are interesting creatures.
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
A sack in this case would be different because in the end it was still controlled by Christiandom, as opposed to the Fall when it switched to being controlled by the Ottomans. I think these small details do matter in this case, but maybe its just me.
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Interesting, thank you. I had no idea. Especially since it was done by the Christian crusaders themselves.

I guess the article makes no distinction between a Sacking and a Fall.
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> After the fall of Constantinople in 1204 CE

Fall of Constantinople was in the mid 15th century [1] (1453 to be exact), not 1204. Its unfortunate when overall informative articles make basic mistakes which could be easily verified/researched

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> Maybe you could open source your bank account data, and all your movements to show that you couldn't have opened any secret accounts? That's a ridiculous ask.

Actually, maybe not open source, but otherwise that is exactly what would happen should I be suspect of being a thief. No reason why dominion cannot show their source code to professional investigators to get their name cleared right? If they are so vocal about being innocent, why not do it?
dstola
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
My point is that unvetted IP/code shouldn't be used in democratically critical processes such as elections in the fist place, doing so increases the surface area of bad actors to act maliciously.