jonathanhd | 3 years ago | on: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
The bigger issue is that he is likely now without a work visa and has to scramble to avoid deportation.
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jonathanhd | 4 years ago | on: The House That Vanished
In this article from 2017 an islander claims that there are 60-70 mostly broken down old cars on Tory island https://donegalnews.com/2017/05/tory-islands-car-graveyard-c...
jonathanhd | 4 years ago | on: The House That Vanished
For those looking for closure, this case was litigated to the Supreme Court https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/supreme...
To my reading the house was destroyed in “mysterious” fire, and then demolished for use as a car park by the adjacent hotel. The court ruled that the hotel owner must pay replacement cost for the house.
jonathanhd | 6 years ago | on: Boeing MQ-25 Stingray
I feel that you're really overselling the vulnerability of what is fundamentally a spec on a featureless ocean that can move at 50 km/h in any direction indefinitely. There's a pretty comprehensive summary of anti-carrier strategies in this series https://www.navalgazing.net/Carrier-Doom-Part-1
jonathanhd | 6 years ago | on: Stadia Founder's Edition
Above all the Xbox had Halo, google doesn't seem to have anything unique up their sleeve.
jonathanhd | 6 years ago | on: Stadia Founder's Edition
This is astoundingly cheap. In fact its too cheap, €10/month works out to €360 + €130 over a 3 year hardware cycle which is barely enough for a not-really-capable 4k GPU as it is, without costing all the additional services/hardware. And to put it bluntly, these games are second-rate titles from the last year. From this announcement I guess that this is mostly just another data farming play that will never generate a profit on its own and has a very high chance of being shutdown within 3 years.
jonathanhd | 6 years ago | on: Federated Learning
I'm genuinely still unsure if this is a parody or not. The first half of the comic just describes Google's business model and the second seems to be trying to outsource the cost of G/TPUs to the end user. Then at the end they go bankrupt and (presumably) sell their control over the data to a vulture fund.
None of this addresses the fundamental problem of advertising companies, once people learn what they're doing they just want them to feck off and leave them alone, without any regard for future promises.
jonathanhd | 6 years ago | on: Facebook: Breaking Up Facebook Is Not the Answer
I will accept vaporizing it in one piece.
jonathanhd | 6 years ago | on: Classic Minecraft now free online
Most games can use loading screens to hide their "chunk lag", minecraft doesn't have that option.
jonathanhd | 7 years ago | on: How to Train Your OpenAI Five
I’m intrigued by their “5k” with 25 hero mention. Are the bots worse because they have less proportional training time or because the extra hero abilities are making it more difficult to rely on their deathball strat? Considering how every public performance of openAI has shown nothing but relentless aggression Id speculate that it’s the latter.
jonathanhd | 7 years ago | on: Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris
It's directly beside a river.
jonathanhd | 7 years ago | on: Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in U.S. Subscribers
No-one, not Spotify or the end user, has ever chosen to use the app store. Apple's vertical integration has banned all competition for iOS distribution and forced people to pay a 30% tariff top run code on their own machine.
jonathanhd | 7 years ago | on: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
I strongly recommend that you read the linked paper also.
jonathanhd | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to stop recruiters reformatting my resume?
The only solution is to never use third party recruiters, apply directly to the company.
jonathanhd | 7 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas
Selling something poorly and for free is still selling it.
jonathanhd | 7 years ago | on: Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language
If you think this is horrifying you should see what people-who-aren't-Whitney write when they're copying his style, or adding to his codebase.
jonathanhd | 7 years ago | on: Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language
Whitney follows the enlightened solution to the NL=\n|\r\n debate, just don't end your lines ever.
jonathanhd | 7 years ago | on: Google is reportedly shutting down its in-house VR film studio
To put VR’s scale into perspective, steam has as about many Linux gamers as VR gamers, ~0.8% of all users.
jonathanhd | 7 years ago | on: Google as a search engine is becoming useless
My anecdata: I recently made a vim config, put it on GitHub, made a blog post, and posted it on Reddit. Googling the project description puts the reddit post on top with no mention of either of the others. DDG & Bing have the github on top followed immediately by the blog and reddit posts
jonathanhd | 7 years ago | on: I Didn’t Hate the English – Until Now (2018)
Allowing everyone born in Northern Ireland, and everyone with an Irish grandparent anywhere, to claim an Irish passport is already standard policy and has been since partition.
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