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cs02rm0··on Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch
I really have a soft spot for engineering that improves health management or outcomes, it never feels to me as though it gets the investment it warrants. Kudos, hope you get the funding.
cs02rm0··on Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch
I don't see any issues with it as an additional measure, such as when playing sport as mentioned.
cs02rm0··on Why Canada Should Join the EU
Wacky idea. The EU is an awful lot of legislation to sign up to, not the most popular it's even been either. If it's just about trading space and resources for people I'd imagine a more bespoke arrangement would be preferable for both sides.
cs02rm0··on Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?
Likewise. I hit 40, which I didn't think was that old, dropped out of contracting and found employed work has gone from being easy to, well, IME impossible to turn up.
cs02rm0··on I automated my job application process
I've been looking for a few months. I've got 20 years of professional dev experience, including in an eye-catching domain and haven't used LLMs in the process either.

Since university I have never not been offered the first job I've applied for. For 10 years now I could ring any of the firms working in the niche I've been in and more or less set my rate. I still could, but I'm trying to get out of that niche into the wider world. I've put hundreds of tailored applications in and basically had nothing (literally a few interviews with Canonical, which is a complete car crash of a process and an HR screening call for a role on half my previous income where she said they were struggling with the number of applications, that I didn't hear back from).

It's an absolute bloodbath out there. I regret I don't have any answers, but good luck with your search.

cs02rm0··on Flappy Bird in 1000 lines of C
FWIW I had to install some extra dependencies on macos before the build instructions worked.

$ brew install libxmp fluid-synth wavpack

cs02rm0··on Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
How many under 16s read newspapers or watch news anyway?

That's exactly why there's a suggestion legacy media are driving this.

cs02rm0··on NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover: Never used, one previous owner
How many moons must a moon rover rove over before you can call it a rover? Over.
cs02rm0··on German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames
Don't mention the war.
cs02rm0··on Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones in mice
Steroids have a lot to answer for when it comes to perceptions around exercise in general.
cs02rm0··on Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide
My favourite bit of AK47-helmet interface knowledge is that a French Jaguar pilot took an AK47 round to the helmet in the Gulf War. While flying.

(He survived, it's not really relevant here as it didn't stop the bullet - there was an exit hole too).

cs02rm0··on How to make a great government website
Clearly. :)
cs02rm0··on AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
Yeah, I like the concept, not a fan of the implementation.
cs02rm0··on AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
It won't help you discern speech, but it'll stop your ears ringing.
cs02rm0··on How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
Although Lyme Regis gets its name from the river Lim.

(But yes, Lyme disease).

cs02rm0··on Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects
My behaviour is similar.

But that doesn't mean it couldn't change if something different were available that gave some (unspecified) advantage.

cs02rm0··on End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity
I think Dubai has from oil production, at least on the surface. Much of its economy is in retail, tourism, construction, transport, IT and financial services, etc. Yes the initial capital came from oil, the bigger issues for them now are perhaps how much comes from debt and how much comes from neighbouring states if their oil economies collapse.

Saudi is at the mercy of it's leader and little else. The culture isn't generally medieval but the Al Saud certainly can be.

cs02rm0··on What I think about when I edit (2019)
Also a non-American (Brit). Just means something unusual.

According to the 2007 Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, the phrase came from baseball terminology, referring to a play in which the ball is thrown from the area covered by the left fielder to either home plate or first base, surprising the runner. Variations include "out in left field" and simply "left field"

cs02rm0··on End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity
No great surprise, they have form here.

The Saudis announced six megaprojects in 2005. King Abdullah Economic City was the only one that went anywhere. I believe it was supposed to have 2 million people and reached about 7 thousand.

They've kicked people out of the area, killed at least one person, trashed the area with initial construction efforts (I've driven past) and now the inevitable seems to be coming to pass already.

They still have time but they need to do something to diversify from oil in the way Dubai has eventually. Building a new Dubai, with a different legal framework (only rumoured for Neom AFAIK), doesn't seem like the worst idea to me, but starting with an overly ambitious design probably isn't the way to get traction. The Middle East do love a pissing contest though so starting small isn't what they're into.

cs02rm0··on What I think about when I edit (2019)
Is there a service for this? (Standard developer question).

I found myself writing a book recently, completely left field to my normal technical work. I'm intending on approaching a literary agent but I need it reviewed first and I'm looking for dispassionate, distanced, but informed opinions.

cs02rm0··on Show HN: Not sure you're talking to a human? Create a human check
c'mon man
cs02rm0··on Show HN: Not sure you're talking to a human? Create a human check
I tried this, it told me I was successfully verified as a human and when I went to the admin URL it had one verification result which said "no"?
cs02rm0··on Show HN: Not sure you're talking to a human? Create a human check
That's hilarious, but I suppose they'll ruin that one day.
cs02rm0··on .well-known/avatar
Wouldn't they just check for the default avatar then?
cs02rm0··on Do It Now (2005)
I feel like I could do that for a UK undergraduate course without issue but they'd block you doing it because they want the tuition fees for every year.
cs02rm0··on Simplicity of IRC (2022)
I did similar perhaps a touch later with some of the messenger protocols, MSN I think primarily. So long ago it's difficult to remember.

Not sure it'll ever be the same for my kids. Which is a shame, whatever the gains and there are some, I think we've lost something.

cs02rm0··on Lie-to-children
I'd be tempted to argue simplifications can be lies. If you simplify the colour palette of the world to greyscale then the lie is that there is no red.

But, not having looked at all of them, some of them can also be what were historically our closest understandings of the way things actually worked. In which case I'm not sure it is even a lie through simplification rather than just teaching children the evolution of our own understanding.

cs02rm0··on Serverless Horrors
Is that new (relative to some previous point in time)? They don't have my card details.
cs02rm0··on Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
If this comes to pass, does it affect Brave?
cs02rm0··on I think I need to go lie down
Disagree, it's a very conscious choice from having been burned repeatedly by being asked to do something leftfield.
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