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hackandtrip

243 karma · joined October 4, 2017

Backend Python/C++, occasionally devops with Terraform
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hackandtrip··on Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure
But" Why We Sleep" is not intended for an academic context, right?

I mean, obviously it wouldn't pass a "peer-review" analysis, but that is exactly what happens every time in science pop readings. Either we eliminate every science reading that is not strictly papers, or we accept some misinformation here and there.

hackandtrip··on Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0
Any difference in the CPU usage?
hackandtrip··on Yale Students Demand Automatic 'Pass' Due to Covid-19
I asked as a complete ignorant on American grade practices, and your answer differs completely from my (EU) experience - especially because we give reviews before exam sessions.
hackandtrip··on Yale Students Demand Automatic 'Pass' Due to Covid-19
How can you be tested and kept accountable for what you are learning using YouTube?

How accurate is the information that non-expert can fetch?

hackandtrip··on Ask HN: Should WFH Be a Mandated Option for All Remote-Capable Jobs?
Sorry, I misread the context; sadly no, it's not in normal times, but it's surely growing in different companies.

Thanks for the clarification.

hackandtrip··on Yale Students Demand Automatic 'Pass' Due to Covid-19
A lot of Italian universities took a week to rearrange their complete offering with online courses, allowing full theory + practice + projects lesson in virtual mode - exams solutions are being studied and pass/fail is out of the discussion.

If low-funded Italian universities can do it, I wonder what's stopping the best universities like Yale with enormous quantity of money to do the same.

hackandtrip··on Yale Students Demand Automatic 'Pass' Due to Covid-19
Why would that be true? (Asking as a non-American)
hackandtrip··on Ask HN: Should WFH Be a Mandated Option for All Remote-Capable Jobs?
It's already a mandated option in Italy; there are a large number of jobs that can be done with a little adjustment from home.

On the other hand, some jobs (e.g: lawyer reviewing some documents together?) require some tech that it's not there since there was not a necessity. I wonder if some startups targeting specific niches like that will rise.

hackandtrip··on Ask HN: What are you learning?
Looking at some llvm code, in particular the clang's OpenMP implementation

Getting familiar with OpenMP - MPI (are those used in real life?)

hackandtrip··on Data Analysis Shows That US Is Significantly Outpacing Italy
Italy did test a lot during the first days over 100 cases; after, since the number were so high, it limited testing to people with symptoms. I think most countries are straight out testing a small fraction of people with symptoms.
hackandtrip··on Ask HN: Have you been laid off?
International media is probably not talking too much about it, but we are really trying to do our best! Universities are helping with the production of hand sanitizer and mask production, startup companies are building systems to manage the after-outbreak with the government and the entire education domain is being really productive with online lessons! And, lot of (tech) companies are still hiring!
hackandtrip··on Ask HN: Have you been laid off?
Just got my first job offer and excited to start! (In Italy!)
hackandtrip··on Ask HN: Are there good self-hosted video conference tools?
The CPU usage of their web client is a pity, everything else is perfect.
hackandtrip··on “I'm not sure there is an acceptable solution to the problem we are facing”
In 5-10 days we'll see if the first EU country to adopt police-state measures will be added to that list. Spain and France are on the right track too, other than Italy.
hackandtrip··on Corona Simulator
The comparison between social distancing and quarantine has 0 sense. In Italy, we tried distancing, but without strict measures, people won't listen and the virus kept spreading. You can't enforce something like that without police action
hackandtrip··on Corona Simulator
We'll need to wait 10 days to see if it was effective in Italy too, but other countries should start implementing it ASAP.

Lot of EU countries / USA are already late with respect to our timeline, aka they may have it worst if they don't act fast.

hackandtrip··on Corona – Norway is now on 3.place by population (Tot cases/1M pop)
There are detailed stats in wordmeter for tests, here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/

You can see how some places like US are not treating this like a threat. We Italians have a high number of cases because of the number of tests, same thing for South Korea for example.

hackandtrip··on Where Sci-Hub Is
Same in Italy
hackandtrip··on Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?
Isn't it 5 persons per can?
hackandtrip··on Why tennis balls are yellow or green
It's the first time I heard this and I'm really surprised. Do you have any link related for those press releases?

A simple Google search doesn't seem to give any good results and ITF's site is not the most user friendly for searching.

hackandtrip··on C++ 20: The Core Language
Why would someone avoid Boost?
hackandtrip··on Harvard Student Says He Was Barred From U.S. Over Friends’ Social Media Posts
At least the last time I did the ESTA VISA for the US, they asked (optionally) for multiple social network, github too!
hackandtrip··on DEF CON and Stack Overflow: What Our Traffic Says About Cybersecurity
Speaking about the CCC, I'd say the MacBook remains in the top-2, but the Thinkpads are clearly prominent.
hackandtrip··on C++20 Is Feature Complete; Here’s What Changes Are Coming
I got had to fight with template metaprogramming lately, and I can't be happier than reading about this. Do you have any sources when one can learn in a non-confusing way about this new stuff, especially Concepts?
hackandtrip··on Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps
I find it not fair to compare VSCode to JetBrains' product: one of them is an IDE, the other one is an editor, different features and different targets!
hackandtrip··on Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own design review
I think it's unlikely that it was a 737-MAX, Norwegian should have just 18 737-MAX and more than 110 737-800. Source: https://media.uk.norwegian.com/pressreleases/update-on-the-t...
hackandtrip··on Boeing may be now well and truly fucked
We all will avoid the 373 MAX luckily, because it's blocked by every Airline right now.
hackandtrip··on 2,400 MOOCs Starting in April
It's updated! My university (Politecnico di Milano) has an increasing number of MOOCs but still quite small, and all the new ones on FPGA design are on the platform.

Also, classcentral.com has an amazing list of reviews that are really useful in seeing the difficulty of MOOCs.

hackandtrip··on Ask HN: How do you control your diet while working at a tech company?
The 16/8 technique that he is referring to is normally called Intermittent Fasting, and is probably nowadays the most popular way of fasting
hackandtrip··on Alzheimer’s Drug Failure Leaves Scientists Seeking New Direction
(I'm not an expert) Isn't this evidence correlated to the presence of beta-amyloid in the brain and the increased time required to clean them with herpes? As far as I read it, the evidence that beta-amyloid are a cause and not the consequence of Alz is not there. Also, I think that making such a statement for institutions needs solids theory, because it could effect a major part of population
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