NZ_Matt | 2 years ago | on: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark
That's not how ownership works
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NZ_Matt | 3 years ago | on: AI teaches itself to use an API
I wouldn't say so. The 'Learning by mistakes' step in the demo shows that the AI can work through these issues, presumably this can be done more efficiently than a human.
NZ_Matt | 3 years ago | on: Last Year You Said Next Year
Was this written by chatgpt?
NZ_Matt | 3 years ago | on: ChatGPT Sensitive Areas
Yea I tried to ask how many beers per day is unhealthy and it refused to give me an answer
NZ_Matt | 3 years ago | on: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon
One could argue the accessibility team wasn't doing a very good job if Mastodon have done it better without a dedicated team.
An application can and should have good accessibility by default without a dedicated team
NZ_Matt | 3 years ago | on: Apple.com Is Down
There's an error showing on the page [an error occurred while processing this directive] which I'm pretty sure I've seen before with WordPress but I'm guessing it's not using that.
But now I'm curious does anyone know what stack or cms they're using? All built and managed in house?
NZ_Matt | 3 years ago | on: Glassdoor not so anonymous
The original review can be read here https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/w2lvgp/zuru_gla...
NZ_Matt | 4 years ago | on: On the Origin of the iPhone
Interestingly chrome on my android prompted me to view the page with 'simplified mode'. Never seen that feature prompted before
NZ_Matt | 4 years ago | on: All Xero services facing major outage
3 hours down so far and no notification on the login page, no explanation in the status to say they have diagnosed the issue and no eta for a fix is very very poor for a service of this type. Particularly annoying as I have an invoice to create.
NZ_Matt | 4 years ago | on: All Xero services facing major outage
One of the first global accounting saas providers. Forced Intuit to rapidly improve their cloud services but have failed to gain significant market share in the US.
NZ_Matt | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your silliest and costliest (time or money) programming mistake?
Used an event queue for sending emails and stupidly set to continuously retry when the event failed. The events were failing but only after successfully sending the email, so hundreds of customers received 20 of the same email before I realised what was up.
To be expected tho when you hire a junior and give them no senior oversight
NZ_Matt | 5 years ago | on: Chadwick Boseman, star of ‘Black Panther’, dies of cancer at 43
Was he also a a programmer?
NZ_Matt | 6 years ago | on: Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports
Fascinating data, the US generally showing a less than 50% change while other countries with national lock downs are >90%.
It'd be very interesting to see this data overlayed against cases of covid, you maysee them both follow a similar downward trend with a week or two delay. Possibly also determine what change in mobility is required to prevent exponential growth
NZ_Matt | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?
I get this, but often it results in 10+ messages back and forward when really what I want is one nice succinct email with only what's important and no pressure for me drop everything and reply immediately.
I haven't looked, but is it possible to change your online status on a room by room basis?
NZ_Matt | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have your weekends evolved into “workends”?
No I intentionally only work the 37.5hours I'm contracted to and no more, hoping to get it down to 30hours this year. I'd only ever make an exception to that if I was working for myself.
NZ_Matt | 6 years ago | on: 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California
Thankfully the epicenter appears to not be in a densely populated area. Hopefully those in Ridgecrest are all ok.
NZ_Matt | 7 years ago | on: ISPs in AU and NZ start censoring the internet without legal precedent
Guh, I'm done with the internet for today. No one has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for this and they won't be, the lack of informed people participating in these discussions kills me.
NZ_Matt | 11 years ago | on: Nepal earthquake, magnitude 7.3, strikes near Everest
The richter scale in general is not a good indicator of the destructiveness of an earthquake. You need to consider the location of the epicenter and the depth of the quake before coming to any sort of conclusion.
I experienced this first hand here in Christchurch, NZ. We had a 7.1M quake and then a 6.3M aftershock 6 months later. Despite being almost an entire magnitude smaller the 6.3M aftershock was 10x more destructive. This was primarily because the epicenter of the 6.3M quake was 40km closer to the city and some unusually high verticle accelerations caused by the strike slip motion of the fault and the local geography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbury_earthquake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake
The Mercalli Intensity Scale was developed to give a better indicator of the actual effect to people on the ground.
NZ_Matt | 11 years ago | on: Microsoft Surface Hub
I think that was onenote which has real time syncing.
NZ_Matt | 11 years ago | on: Last 48 hours in Kathmandu – a Mathematician's analysis of the earthquakes
Agreed. Earthquakes are extremly unpredictable, the best we have is the USGS models and even then they provide very little information.
In Christchurch, New Zealand the M6.3 aftershock in February 2011 was far more destructive than the initial M7.2 event that occured 5 months earlier. This was because the epicenter of the February aftershock was significantly closer to the city and populated areas.
Looking at the Nepal aftershock sequence map [1] it is a concern that many of the aftershocks are located closer to the populated areas. I really hope that Nepal has had the worst of it but it would be a mistake to rule out the possibility of another major event.
[1] http://www.latimes.com/visuals/graphics/la-fg-g-nepal-map-qu...
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