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juanmirocks

209 karma · joined May 11, 2016

Senior Developer / PhD in Computer Science and Text Mining

Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanmirocks

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juanmirocks··on Worth buying a car anymore?
Certainly, I understand countryside or city peripherals are a completely different story. May I ask in which state or nearby-city you live?
juanmirocks··on Worth buying a car anymore?
Thank you for giving your input! Yes, I totally understand you. You are a car enthusiast who wants to own the whole experience. I appreciate you giving that hobby/love side to my question.
juanmirocks··on iOS 11 bugs are so common they now appear in Apple ads
Me personally, I've had less issues with iOS 11 than with previous iterations and I'm happy overall with wit iOS 11.

Is the data (say, normalized number of issued bugs) really showing a decrease in reliability of iOS over time or rather the contrary?

Not an Apple evangelist here, but it would be good to be fair.

Let's please remember that often a few loud voices are just that, loud, but few.

juanmirocks··on China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
Black Mirror Nosedive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive) social-status-like castes, only than in a real bluntly open dictatorship. Bad times.
juanmirocks··on Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election
I am positive about this first step. Looking forward to seeing more of this in for example (or rather specifically) Switzerland.
juanmirocks··on Debian 9.4 released
Yes, I did like you before. But once I got used to Alpine, apk (its package manager), and ash (its shell), I feel myself at home. Furthermore, in most occasions I find newer updated software on Alpine vs. Debian.

Also besides disk space, I really have no idea how docker manages memory, but my assumption (naive?) is that smaller images will consume less RAM memory. I didn’t benchmark this though.

juanmirocks··on The antidepressant effect of sleep deprivation
Besides experimenting with polyphasic sleep and such, I could never think that sleep deprivation could become a therapy.

Regardless of the validity of these claims, I welcome this new idea into my brain.

juanmirocks··on Debian 9.4 released
Interesting, I didn't know about Debian slim.

For comparison, I just found this blog post [1], claiming the following:

> According to the docker images command, the debian:jessie-slim container clocks in at 88MB, compared to the full-fat debian:jessie container at 123MB. For reference, the ubuntu:xenial and centos:7 base containers are 130MB and 193MB respectively, where as the alpine base container is only 4MB, as mentioned in my post about the alpine base container.

[1] https://elegantinfrastructure.com/containers/cotw-debian-jes...

juanmirocks··on Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch (2017)
Nowadays there a meditators, sports people, musicians... all in Twitch.

Twitch is gathering a large passionate community that is worth to reckon with. If I did streaming, I guess I would A/B test whether YouTuBe or Twitch gave me better results in terms of number of viewers and overall “impact”. Are there studies on this ?

juanmirocks··on Debian 9.4 released
I use for nearly all my docker containers the distro Alpine Linux.

It is much lighter. I commonly find that Alpine images use at least 300MB less disk than Debian ones.

juanmirocks··on On its 100th anniversary, the madness of Daylight Saving Time endures
I can understand that.
juanmirocks··on On its 100th anniversary, the madness of Daylight Saving Time endures
This is a good question and I guess there are pros and cons. This would certainly simplify schedules and meetings between different time zones. On the other hand, it would totally screw up our understanding of when things are supposed to happen, specially when traveling. Like as in: it is 3am, is it time for lunch now ?

My biggest question anyway is how we will manage time once we become a multi planet species.

juanmirocks··on On its 100th anniversary, the madness of Daylight Saving Time endures
I must ask: I do not have children. Do young fellas go crazy over a change in 1 hour or what?
juanmirocks··on On its 100th anniversary, the madness of Daylight Saving Time endures
Never had this issue. And again, at least in Central Europe they do the change from Saturday to Sunday when it’s understood that most people have less constraints with tight times and alarms.
juanmirocks··on On its 100th anniversary, the madness of Daylight Saving Time endures
I understand the very first time(s) may feel weird, but I bet you will get used to it
juanmirocks··on On its 100th anniversary, the madness of Daylight Saving Time endures
Moreover if you are used to changing timezones due to travel, this makes absolutely no difference.
juanmirocks··on How exercise in old age prevents the immune system from declining
I hear often that strength training is more beneficial as, supposedly, increments your growth hormone levels.

I'm also interested in a listing of publications comparing different physical activities for their fitness related to improving health overall and anti-aging concretely. ?

juanmirocks··on On its 100th anniversary, the madness of Daylight Saving Time endures
I'm in central Europe.

I sincerely do not understand the problem people have with changing a single hour in a single day during a weekend in the year.

juanmirocks··on A Career Cold Start Algorithm
Excellent approach! Moreover, this approach helps you quickly build a relationship with each individual person in the team and immediately gain their respect. Everybody likes to be consulted as an expert.
juanmirocks··on All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate
I feel more understandable with Oculus in this one... Recently I also left an certificate, expire...

However, this affected only one single customer of ours and we had a fix within a couple of hours. -- I certainly learn from this mistake.

juanmirocks··on Robots can now solve Rubik’s Cubes in under HALF a SECOND
The likely upcoming super intelligences and their powers will look like magic to us. In this case, the human eye can barely see anything but a sudden transition from "undone" to "done".
juanmirocks··on ‘Blockchain’ is meaningless
To me that's the key for sth to be called blockchain: it has to be decentralized. In a way that the truth is not mandated by a dictator or oligarchy, but by the own rules written in the blockchain and accepted by all.
juanmirocks··on Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
With probably hundreds of photographers at pretty crowded/famous spots (say sports, famous buildings, or nature places) and using long shutter speeds, should not these improbable coincidences be not so improbable?
juanmirocks··on The Role of Luck in Life Success
And you are right, often in hustle mode we go fast and work hard, but don't work intelligently.

I'm trying myself to incorporate forced "retreats or slow-downs" to better assess my progress.

juanmirocks··on The Role of Luck in Life Success
Well, I think your scenario applies to another idea: most often we avoid doing that thing that really is the most important, because we emotionally fear it somehow. It can be just calling a client, or changing a career, or even translates for asking a partner out.

For this, you are right, it is vital to stop from time to time, assess the situation, identify the most important thing, and regardless of how difficult it is, do it.

juanmirocks··on First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale
Regardless of whether this is greenwashing or not, I congratulate Lego for being always on top of innovation. They now hop on the train of environment-friendly and win good publicity with it. They are constantly reinventing themselves.
juanmirocks··on The Role of Luck in Life Success
And then the problem is that we are biased to believe that the winners did almost everything right, and the losers did almost everything wrong. Often is chance.

Having said that, those who persevere, by definition are more likely to succeed. They have more changes.

"The harder I work, the luckier I get".

juanmirocks··on Understanding word vectors
Love the practicality of this simple practical tutorial. The only pity is that it's in Python 2
juanmirocks··on Governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education
My story. I've even done a PhD myself. I'd barely recommend doing a degree anymore to most people. The pace of change is huge and universities are barely keeping up. The most needed is practical skills, which you can take on the go and use online learning courses.
juanmirocks··on Ask HN: What do you think of performance appraisal at your workplace?
What about good-old just "you did awesome in last project, I want you to know this. Let's have a dinner/walk next time".

Simple warm human communication beats all? systems

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