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Re:Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @09:02AM (#48192751)
shame the bishop behind looks a bit flat though ;-)
Mickey Mouse has been extended to ~95 years so far
they work in single cells...
Re:Feb 27 2023 GCP Outage Incident Report on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:25PM (#35060684)
tldr; no system failure is human error. if a human can cause this, then your system lacks adequate controls and mechanism. the root cause is the lack of controls, not the human error
Re:Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game on Sunday March 05, 2023 @05:11PM (#35034634)
671 flips, lol
Re:Privacy Is OK on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:28PM (#34178943)
> Absolute privacy still results in tyranny,

what are the examples of this, can't think of any?

Re:Privacy Is OK on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:15PM (#34178776)
false and dangerous analogy. knowing your number plate is comparable to knowing your phone number, rather than the real analogy of bugging your converation in the car. the number plate yields metadata about journeys, not the actual conversation.

"i mean people who argue for privacy would never have a problem with barcodes on milk"

Re:Geodesic Domes Made Simple on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:02AM (#34015266)
linux only i am afraid
Re:Overlapping markup on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:10PM (#33959554)
overlapping b and i elements <p>he<b>ll<i>o w</b>or</i>ld</p>

contary to the article it can still be represented as a tree, by decomposing the children into their own nodes (so in this case characters become nodes with child nodes expressing what formatting is active, followed by the letter, and then turn of all the active formatting)

Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:37PM (#33709276)
this statement needs some detail, "high meetings" is obscuring that meetings use the docs (not meetings with no agenda or lots of presentations). meeying use docs as the primary driver, be that a narrative or analysis of a dataset
Re:The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:24PM (#32322451)
Inertia is a thing, especially around mental models and ways of working. Its hard to change an early decision, because many other parts and people have subsequently made decisions ontop of that. Like the ship of theseus, replacing parts is possible, but the replacement needs to fit in the gap, and the inertia means even if you replace everything, its always a ship.
Re:Ask HN: Are there any good poverty simulator games? on Sunday May 08, 2022 @03:13PM (#31307201)
Something like games these by Jane McGonigal

https://janemcgonigal.com/play-me/

> I make alternate reality games: games that are designed to improve real lives or solve real problems. I’ve been making ARGs since 2001 — and you can watch trailers for a dozen of my favorite ARGs below.

> Many of my games challenge players to tackle real-world problems at a planetary-scale: hunger, poverty, climate change, or global peace, for example (see: EVOKE, World Without Oil, Superstruct)

I do not believe S3 is written in Erlang... do you have a source for this?
Re:The weight of the clipboard on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:57PM (#29812473)
Assume you are in Oz and they are in US so be aware that laws are different, as well as scooe of any marks granted (doubt they have an internatonal mark), as daid by others marks also cme wth limitayions on them - so see what mark they have.

check your registration rules, and reach out to them to explain what is happening, stop any end run on your registra.

Re:Cloudflare's Disruption on Thursday September 30, 2021 @03:28PM (#28710288)
and Windows NT and Digital Vax

WNT<-VMS

Never really understood how they fed them on Hoth either.
Re:Warmest June on Record for Contiguous U.S. on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:43PM (#27787723)
https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-americ...

it wad made 150 times more likely due to cc so far, hence the 1/1000. so we can expect those odds to get more likely - even if we stopped emitting today, those odds look bad.

4th... agi, mice, dolphins, humans
love it!

is there a Sunset Commission for the Sunset Commission? :-)

Re:TDD from the Factorio Team on Friday June 18, 2021 @02:06PM (#27553111)
this could be many different concepts. fault tolerance is the most obvious, and self-healing and auto-rollback

a good read is ROC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery-oriented_computing

Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @03:18PM (#27281199)
the phrase maybe, but the gdpr article itself provides more "Article 20

Right to data portability

1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:" https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#d1e2753-1-1

Re:Common data model mistakes made by startups on Saturday May 22, 2021 @06:07PM (#27250703)
"NULL out all identifying information" is anonymization, not deleting the information.
Re:Common data model mistakes made by startups on Saturday May 22, 2021 @05:53PM (#27250603)
INAL, but... you might want to revisit that code. article 17, right to erasure is about erasure of personal data, not about making non-indentifiable. of course they dont define erase or delete :-)

(edit: typo)

Re:An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs on Saturday May 22, 2021 @05:39PM (#27250494)
yes, you can always map most structures into tables, or even excel.

but it think "good fit" is a stretch. when designing systems you generally want to look at data access patterns, and pick a data exec approach that aligns to that.

in tech, unfortunately, RDBMS are the "hammer" in "if your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail."

Design forces are very weak...

btw anyone saying that gravity is weak should try getting of this planet...

probably a reference to the curse of dimensionality
and so i type me home postcode every time i do a route - and it reminds me its' my data and not google'$.

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