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NZ_Matt

Re:Talk Like Claude Day on Sunday August 23, 2026 @03:39PM (#49411801)
In my organization this is already everyday
Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:54AM (#36255116)
That's not how ownership works
Re:AI teaches itself to use an API on Friday March 03, 2023 @07:50PM (#35016990)
I wouldn't say so. The 'Learning by mistakes' step in the demo shows that the AI can work through these issues, presumably this can be done more efficiently than a human.
Re:Last Year You Said Next Year – Linear on Friday February 03, 2023 @06:38PM (#34649436)
Was this written by chatgpt?
Re:ChatGPT Sensitive Areas on Friday December 23, 2022 @04:11AM (#34103790)
Yea I tried to ask how many beers per day is unhealthy and it refused to give me an answer
Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon on Saturday November 05, 2022 @04:37AM (#33479264)
One could argue the accessibility team wasn't doing a very good job if Mastodon have done it better without a dedicated team.

An application can and should have good accessibility by default without a dedicated team

Re:Apple.com Is Down on Thursday September 15, 2022 @12:08AM (#32846912)
There's an error showing on the page [an error occurred while processing this directive] which I'm pretty sure I've seen before with WordPress but I'm guessing it's not using that.

But now I'm curious does anyone know what stack or cms they're using? All built and managed in house?

Re:Glassdoor not so anonymous on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:08AM (#32149933)
Re:On the Origin of the iPhone on Saturday February 26, 2022 @07:18PM (#30483736)
Interestingly chrome on my android prompted me to view the page with 'simplified mode'. Never seen that feature prompted before
Re:All Xero services facing major outage on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:28AM (#27971144)
3 hours down so far and no notification on the login page, no explanation in the status to say they have diagnosed the issue and no eta for a fix is very very poor for a service of this type. Particularly annoying as I have an invoice to create.
Re:All Xero services facing major outage on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:14AM (#27971055)
One of the first global accounting saas providers. Forced Intuit to rapidly improve their cloud services but have failed to gain significant market share in the US.
Used an event queue for sending emails and stupidly set to continuously retry when the event failed. The events were failing but only after successfully sending the email, so hundreds of customers received 20 of the same email before I realised what was up.

To be expected tho when you hire a junior and give them no senior oversight

Was he also a a programmer?
Re:Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:15AM (#22768035)
Fascinating data, the US generally showing a less than 50% change while other countries with national lock downs are >90%.

It'd be very interesting to see this data overlayed against cases of covid, you maysee them both follow a similar downward trend with a week or two delay. Possibly also determine what change in mobility is required to prevent exponential growth

Re:Ask HN: Why do people love Slack? on Friday March 06, 2020 @06:43PM (#22508454)
I get this, but often it results in 10+ messages back and forward when really what I want is one nice succinct email with only what's important and no pressure for me drop everything and reply immediately.

I haven't looked, but is it possible to change your online status on a room by room basis?

Re:Ask HN: Have your weekends evolved into “workends”? on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:52PM (#20791063)
No I intentionally only work the 37.5hours I'm contracted to and no more, hoping to get it down to 30hours this year. I'd only ever make an exception to that if I was working for myself.
Re:7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California on Saturday July 06, 2019 @12:07AM (#20367753)
Thankfully the epicenter appears to not be in a densely populated area. Hopefully those in Ridgecrest are all ok.
Guh, I'm done with the internet for today. No one has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for this and they won't be, the lack of informed people participating in these discussions kills me.
Re:Nepal earthquake, magnitude 7.3, strikes near Everest on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @05:34AM (#9530458)
The richter scale in general is not a good indicator of the destructiveness of an earthquake. You need to consider the location of the epicenter and the depth of the quake before coming to any sort of conclusion.

I experienced this first hand here in Christchurch, NZ. We had a 7.1M quake and then a 6.3M aftershock 6 months later. Despite being almost an entire magnitude smaller the 6.3M aftershock was 10x more destructive. This was primarily because the epicenter of the 6.3M quake was 40km closer to the city and some unusually high verticle accelerations caused by the strike slip motion of the fault and the local geography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbury_earthquake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake

The Mercalli Intensity Scale was developed to give a better indicator of the actual effect to people on the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercalli_intensity_scale

Re:Microsoft Surface Hub on Friday May 08, 2015 @07:48PM (#9514787)
I think that was onenote which has real time syncing.
Agreed. Earthquakes are extremly unpredictable, the best we have is the USGS models and even then they provide very little information.

In Christchurch, New Zealand the M6.3 aftershock in February 2011 was far more destructive than the initial M7.2 event that occured 5 months earlier. This was because the epicenter of the February aftershock was significantly closer to the city and populated areas.

Looking at the Nepal aftershock sequence map [1] it is a concern that many of the aftershocks are located closer to the populated areas. I really hope that Nepal has had the worst of it but it would be a mistake to rule out the possibility of another major event.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/visuals/graphics/la-fg-g-nepal-map-qu...

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