poooogles (u/poooogles)

poooogles commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

tracebit · a year ago

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poooogles · a year ago

>We think 9am-6pm will bring a great cadence to work

Any reason why you think this given that studies show knowledge workers can't be productive over that long a period?

poooogles commented on Taking Risk tomblomfield.com/post/750... · Posted by u/gatesn

oblio · a year ago

> Your future employer

How will they know and why would they care, if we're talking about regular job postings?

poooogles · a year ago

You'd be ruled out of many FCA (financial conduct authority) regulated jobs for at minimum 6 years after.

poooogles commented on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs gpudeploy.com... · Posted by u/nicowaltz

qeternity · a year ago

You should be able to get 40-50 cents/hour.

poooogles · a year ago

About half of that will go to electricity here in the UK (23.72p per kWh). After costs that's roughly $145 a month profit. Might be more worth it if you have rooftop solar and have free electricity during the day.

poooogles commented on Is This 'Magic' Roundabout Made of 5 Mini-Roundabouts? snopes.com/fact-check/mag... · Posted by u/sp8

swarnie · a year ago

Swindon on HN; never thought I'd see it.

Back in the 2000s most driving test routes did cross this roundabout at least once, sometimes multiple times so most people growing up there don't understand the internets confusion by it all.

Look right, drive forwards, stop at the give way lines.

(If you couldn't figure this out you admitted you probably shouldn't be driving and booked your test in Cirencester instead)

poooogles · a year ago

>Cirencester instead

Hey. Some of us chose Chippenham instead.

I honestly don't really understand what the fuss is with it, just keep looking right and drive forward when you're free to. It makes so much more sense than multiple stop signs where each side takes it in turn.

poooogles commented on SQL looks like English is a well intentioned error github.com/SPLWare/esProc... · Posted by u/Judyrabbit

tarl0s · a year ago

Lately I've been experimenting the usage of LLMs for the explainability of SQL stored procedures with exceptionally good results - think about identifying important fields, linking them to existing glossaries, expanding said glossaries, etc. I wonder how much SQL looking like natural language helped for my use case.

poooogles · a year ago

> Lately I've been experimenting the usage of LLMs for the explainability of SQL stored procedures with exceptionally good results

Heavily agree here. LLMs have significantly shortened the time it takes me to write complex queries.

poooogles commented on BT Tower is to be turned into a hotel ianvisits.co.uk/articles/... · Posted by u/beardyw

jonatron · 2 years ago

To me it's surprising they didn't keep them for backup / resiliency. There's a lot of rats and mice in London, and they can and do chew through fibre.

poooogles · 2 years ago

From memory at the time there was corrosion on the fixings and it would've been exceedingly expensive to repair/replace.

poooogles commented on Rolling Airframe Missile navalgazing.net/RAM... · Posted by u/cwillu

metadat · 2 years ago

So many great articles on this site. This rainy Sunday is in serious jeopardy of falling off the cliff and being sucked into the gravity well wormhole that is navalgazing.net.

https://www.navalgazing.net/Phalanx

I've always wondered how the Battleship guns with the white dome cylinder chamber above the gattling gun worked, but the background story is way more interesting than I expected. Apparently it's called a Phalanx, and no, a person doesn't sit in the white cylinder chamber*.

* Despite Battlefield 2 leading me to believe a person occupied the cylinder, anyone remember Wake Island with the USMC carrier, F-35B, and J-10? haha, good times.

poooogles · 2 years ago

>...only a handful of cases in which ships equipped with Phalanx have been the subject of missile fire, and none that have actually seen the system tested.

Worth noting that this line is now out of date. Allegedly they've been tested in Yemen recently [1].

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/houthi-missile-close-us-wars...

poooogles commented on 95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa twitter.com/typesfast/sta... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist

cs702 · 2 years ago

What are the implications for shipping costs and times?

poooogles · 2 years ago

From China to the EU it adds roughly 1/3rd to the time, which is a decent proxy for cost. There are savings in not having to pay Suez fees but these don't seem to make a huge affect to shipping costs.

It's probably worth adding that going round the cape doesn't add just more cost to fuel and time, insurance for cargo down there isn't cheap either as the weather is very changeable.

poooogles commented on Mechanical Watch (2022) ciechanow.ski/mechanical-... · Posted by u/Akcium

epcoa · 2 years ago

"It's also the only timekeeping device that will still work after three days away from an electric plug"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock

Lasting years on a battery is easy.

poooogles · 2 years ago

Why not both?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Drive

Advertised at +-15 seconds a month, but in reality it's much better than that.

poooogles commented on Think Python 2e greenteapress.com/wp/thin... · Posted by u/ibobev

poooogles · 2 years ago

I can't be the only person that read this as Python5.43(...) before realising that 2e is second edition.