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New comment by poooogles in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)"

poooogles — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:05:01 +0000

>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?

New comment by poooogles in "Taking Risk"

poooogles — Tue, 21 May 2024 08:45:47 +0000

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

New comment by poooogles in "Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs"

poooogles — Sun, 05 May 2024 11:12:26 +0000

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.

New comment by poooogles in "Is This 'Magic' Roundabout Made of 5 Mini-Roundabouts?"

poooogles — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:39:00 +0000

>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.

New comment by poooogles in "SQL looks like English is a well intentioned error"

poooogles — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:29:25 +0000

> 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.

New comment by poooogles in "BT Tower is to be turned into a hotel"

poooogles — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:58:26 +0000

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

New comment by poooogles in "Rolling Airframe Missile"

poooogles — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 17:44:52 +0000

>...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Worth noting that this line is now out of date.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...

New comment by poooogles in "95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa"

poooogles — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:19:13 +0000

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.

New comment by poooogles in "Mechanical Watch (2022)"

poooogles — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:29:46 +0000

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.

New comment by poooogles in "Think Python 2e"

poooogles — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:52:52 +0000

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

New comment by poooogles in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)"

poooogles — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 14:05:50 +0000

  Location: UK (London or Bristol preferred)
  Remote: No Preference
  Willing to relocate: Yes pending Visa sponsorship.
  Technologies: Python, Clojure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, GCP, AWS, SRE
  Email: jobs@sampegler.co.uk
  Résumé/CV links: https://sampegler.co.uk/sam_pegler_cv_040620.pdf

Background in SRE and Ops but have been working as a SWE for the past 4 years. Recent work has been spent building named entity extraction models for insurance. Looking for something entertaining, open to both SRE and SWE work. Senior/Principal level roles only please, not looking to move into management.

New comment by poooogles in "EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars"

poooogles — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:35:03 +0000

>I don’t think that EV implies software overkill. I hope that some brands will carve out a niche for simple EVs with real buttons and low “smartness”.

Look to the TV sector, you can't buy a non 'smart' TV any more. I highly doubt it will be profitable for a non 'smart' electric car.

I guess the closest we have right now is the Citroen Ami?

New comment by poooogles in "For the first time, the Fed is losing money"

poooogles — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 07:13:00 +0000

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

New comment by poooogles in "Where has all the Chartreuse gone?"

poooogles — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 09:55:03 +0000

People who drink way too much don't drink £55 a bottle spirits. They drink £20 a bottle spirits.

New comment by poooogles in "Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials"

poooogles — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:20:55 +0000

>Everything the mainstream media says is a lie.

You've lost credibility completely with this sentence. While I'd agree that many news outlets have their biases, some hugely so, saying everything they say is a lie is just categorically wrong.

Many news outlets like Reuters and the PA have business models based around factual reporting for others.

New comment by poooogles in "The Pretty Good House"

poooogles — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 13:33:09 +0000

>kobla vindu - I don't know the English word for it)

In the UK we'd call this secondary glazing if I'm understanding the image correctly.

New comment by poooogles in "1885 Hex Map of London"

poooogles — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:08:04 +0000

I wonder why they defined the centre as St Paul's rather than Charring Cross? Very unusual. I don't think I've ever seen that anywhere else.

New comment by poooogles in "Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad"

poooogles — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:41:59 +0000

I tend to find `site:reddit.com $product` is often worth a shot.

New comment by poooogles in "Regulators OK largest dam demolition in history to restore salmon habitat"

poooogles — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:01:38 +0000

That's not correct. Siemens energy turbines list the start up time as 10 minutes [1]. Pumped storage takes in the realm of 20 seconds [2].

1. https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/offerings/services/... 2. https://www.power-technology.com/analysis/featuredinorwig-a-...

New comment by poooogles in "As last module docks, China completes its space station"

poooogles — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:16:30 +0000

How have you come up with this number?