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Re:If AI Achieves True Randomness, Is It Still AI? on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:24AM (#43523997)
Nothing is random.
Re:Embedding Python in Elixir, It's Fine on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @02:20AM (#43181480)
I'm using Python script in my Phoenix app (not Livebook). I hoped Pythonx would solve all the issues associated with System.cmd, but as you can imagine, I have more than one user.
Re:Embedding Python in Elixir, It's Fine on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @03:55PM (#43177285)
I was super excited until I read:

"...if you are using this library to integrate with Python, make sure it happens in a single Elixir process..."

Re:Polish city is using mussels to monitor water quality on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:00AM (#42917327)
I believe mussels are now (2025) protecting more cities.

What is cool about Warsaw is the TAWARA-RTM (TAp WAter RAdioactivity Real Time Monitor.

"Warsaw as the first city in the world is protected by a comprehensive system that is capable to monitor in real-time radioactivity of municipal water and by an innovative spectroscopy system capable to identify any detected contaminants"

https://www.ncbj.gov.pl/en/aktualnosci/state-art-system-moni...

Re:LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool on Thursday September 19, 2024 @01:56AM (#41588961)
If your location is set to EU, you are not auto-opted in.
Re:Why Not Comments on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @03:51AM (#41509078)
When I feel the need to add a comment, I convert that piece of content into the named function.
I asked who the killer was, and I got the name. Case solved.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024) on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @06:22AM (#40296311)
Why do you keep mediocre programmers at the office?
Re:Self-Hosted Is Awesome on Saturday April 13, 2024 @08:51AM (#40022824)
Once upon a time...

...an engineer self-hosted stuff on his iMac.

Months have gone by...

...before LinkedIn realized their lost millions of user data records.

Re:Why I use Firefox on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @09:05AM (#39538064)
Funny enough on my machine, Chrome is the slowest on https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.1/

401 - Chrome

446 - Firefox

546 - Safari

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2014) on Monday December 01, 2014 @06:19PM (#8684696)
SEEKING WORK - Remote. I can work in any time zone if required. I'm located in Europe and I provide an invoice.

I'm software engineer with over 8 years' expert experience of client-side technologies.

Contact me - http://bit.ly/Emberjs

ECMAScript/JavaScript, Ember.js, Node.js. I'm also interested in Ruby, RoR, Sinatra, MongoDB or Swift however I have no working experience in these areas.