comrade1234

There’s been sites that do this for years.

The chief of Montreal police smells like cheese!

He makes a pretty attractive black woman. Talk about confusing...

My plan was to always "retire" to a comfy university job but I no longer feel that way - I still really enjoy what I do.

Isn't NSMutableArray a subclass of NSArray in a few languages?

Before Covid I got my German B1 certificate. I was diligently going to German-speaking meetup twice a week.

One of the meetups had a bunch of googlers in it regularly. One of them was a loud gregarious Italian from the north. He was telling me a story about cleaning fish and chopping their heads off with a machete and how he cut the end of his finger off and had it reattached. He seemed nice but a little inept and lacking caution.

Covid was starting. In the newspapers it was reported that Zurich had its first case of Covid. They were cautious to not say who it was - no clues at all in the paper. But a friend at Google forwarded me an internal email that said no one at Google had it yet other than someone in the Zurich office who had just been in northern Italy.

I stopped going to the meetups. I really should start again but not sure what's going to happen next.

It used to be Chinese panels were the worse quality with short lifespans. Now they're everywhere.

It's just a bunch of drama from two American companies trying to lock in their lead via government regulation. Meanwhile I'll just keep using open-weight models.

Don't you normally have about a kilo (or 500g?) excess as backup energy stored in your muscles and liver(?)? Why would taking a few dozen grams help?

My wife and I have used electric toothbrushes (sonicare) for years. I used to shop for the best deal and the lifetimes on the brushes was not great - the battery would hold less and less charge to the point you had to charge it daily or sometines the body would crack and the brush just fail completely.

During the pandemic I decided to try a different approach by buying the model with the largest battery. This is of course their most expensive model and has a bunch of features you'll never use (WiFi, rfid, etc). They are still going strong after six years. I would have had to replace a cheaper model at least once in this timeframe - even two.

Yesterday I saw a full-sized 100% electric Volvo semi-truck here in Zurich. It was owned by Aldi and making a delivery to one of their stores. It was a bit louder than I expected but nevertheless impressive.

https://www.aldi-suisse.ch/de/ueber-aldi-suisse/unternehmen/...

Why is all this drama coming only from the American companies?

Every now and then I look through the cables and take out the ones I no longer have hardware for. We have a cargo-tram every couple of months where you can bring things for disposal that don't go to normal garbage or recycling. Supposedly they recycle the cables but I suspect that means incinerating them (to generate electricity) and collecting the metal after.

I never heard of muse the band. I never heard of meta's muse either.

Im so cool that the only social network I use is hacker News and I don't even use that - I use hckrnews.com!

Does it really? Or is it that they're all pretty much good enough and so you just go with what's cheapest or what you're used to?

For example, in IntelliJ I can switch between maybe a dozen models with a drop-down but the only time I do it is when whatever model I'm currently using has an outage.

Another example, our product has some ai features (not coding related). I use spring-ai and so I can change models just in the config file. But I stick with deepseek because it's more than good enough and is super cheap.

There are two fields. The second very weak field is acquired over centuries, I assume when the piece is not moved. The primary stronger field is created when it's first formed. I think what you're talking about would orientate the primary field, not the weak field.

One thing I've learned listening to Monocle podcasts is that non-fiction writers have to hustle a lot to be successful. Many of their regular guests are non-fiction writers and they are constantly talking about what conference they just came back from, what workshops they've been running, etc. And part of this hustling is appearing in Monocle podcasts and news programs.

There's a very cool project wrapping up here in Zurich where they built a relief tunnel from the sihl river underground downhill to lake Zurich to handle 500-years floods.

One weekend they let people walk the length of the tunnel from the river to the lake. It was a pretty steep slope and about 3/4 down the walls of the tunnel changed from smooth to rough. They had calculated how fast the water would be moving when it hits the rough part and then how much that would slow it down.

Then at the bottom instead of emptying directly into the lake it comes flying out of the tunnel and smashes into a giant cement wall then flows under a roadway into the lake.

Cost was $200 million. A 500-year flood would flood downtown Zurich.

https://www.zh.ch/de/planen-bauen/wasserbau/wasserbauprojekt...

Technically that's 60L for flushing.

I'm in Switzerland and hadn't ever experienced a power outage in the 13 years I had been here but when Russia invaded Ukraine there was talk of intermittent rolling blackouts. They never happened but just in case I bought an ups for my home Ubuntu server and to my great surprise we had a blackout! There was a problem with a high-voltage power line coming from the mountains to my part of Zurich.

I happened to be in the cellar where I keep my server when it happened. The lights went out and I was in complete darkness other than the lights on the server and drives. I got my phone flashlight working and looked at the screen on the ups. It was working perfectly - the server was running and the amount of minutes remaining was dropping until there was five minutes left and my server initiated shutdown. Later that day when the power came back on the server booted back up.

So I'm a prepper too.

I never liked the idea that programming is an art. When there's a problem that you're trying to solve there's usually only one or two good ways to solve it and hopefully you know one of those approaches. When you start getting creative is when you start running into long-term problems, especially maintenance.

It's like chess. When you're an amateur you think your moves out, strategize, think that you're a genius for seeing three moves ahead for a few pieces. When you're a professional you view the whole board and know the standard strategy that works best for the situation. After all, chess is a solved game.

When I work with other programmers or on an old code base I want it to be boring and standard. I don't want to have to trace through six files just to figure out what's going on in one simple method call.

How's the presentation? Just imagining it, it would seem that the meet would have a weird color.

It looks just like a computer a friend of mine had in the 80s.

I think there's probably more going on than that one chemical. For example, if I don't go jogging for a week and then go for a run my shirt later after it dries smells like urine. I looked up why and it's because urea builds up in your skin and is excreted with sweat. Maybe this fact just made me paranoid but I swear that I can smell a urea smell on my skin when I don't exercise regularly.

I imagine elderly people aren't out sweating regularly.

Why would you have matlab on an external server? People don't even have a compiler on the server in this situation. Crazy.

Do you have to have matlab running on your rails server for this to happen?

First, bonito is not tuna. Second, the reason there is a season for bonito is because of the parasites.

The example I know of like that is in Zermatt. The children go to school in Visp. They take the train down by themselves and live at school for the week and come back home on the weekend.

I think around twenty years ago or so I was getting contacted by recruiters so much - like daily - that I decided to hide my LinkedIn account. I logged in but there was no option to make me invisible. So I decided to just delete the account but at that time there was no option to delete your account. I tried to contact them to be deleted but no response.

So I changed all of my content. I said I worked at a hot dog stand named hot hot hot and my speciality was hot dogs and a bunch of other bs.

For years after I would go to parties in sf and someone would ask me for my LinkedIn contact and I'd explain the situation. Some people would exclaim 'you're the hot hot hot guy?!'

I changed the email address on the account to something fake so I was never able to recover it but I think it's finally gone.

I later had a xing account and they refused to delete it when I asked them to, so I just changed all of the content to me complaining about xing not deleting my account. They deleted not long after.

I guess I don't do well with resume sites.