helsinkiandrew

Half baked and complex are hardly descriptions that endorse their process: > It’s not perfect. We ship too many features, many half-baked. The product is complex, with many blind alleys. It’s hard …

> .. but why has so much manufacturing been offshored to places with cheaper manual labor? We know how to build highly automated factories. Western consumers have been voting with their wallets fo…

> A data scientist could use Swift in much the same way as they use Python Is this really true? Many data scientists don't come from a development background. Low level swift code (what'…

Monzo is rapidly growing and has only going for 4-5 years. The real test will be when they have to retire or alter services or face product/compliance changes that effect many services.

It's not just bad for the solderer. It will contaminate areas around your solder area (do your kids ever do a project on your workbench?) And at end of life, lead is a problem in land fill sites …

As useful background, here's the UK's Medicines Agency "Specification for Rapidly Manufactured Ventilator System (RMVS)" that need to be followed before any hospital would use one …

Agreed, It would make seem to make more sense for people to think about how to make people stay further apart, or designing and creating face masks or other 'gadgets' that stopped the spread…

As many have said it seems everyone is creating designs for ventilators, but few are producing large numbers that are being used. But I'd guess that 99% of the effort required to create a ventila…

Presumably the 500 beds have equipment and staff. When they talk about hospital ICU beds it means a bed with staff and equipment for its task. Also I wonder how much economy of scale of staff you get…

‘Defence sources added that “more than one” emergency hospital would be built around the UK, although London is first because the rate of coronavirus infections is considered to be running 1.5 to 2.5 …

But the point is that Facebook is showing you ads based on your surfing behaviour outside Facebook - not the content you view on Facebook. If you use facebook purely for posting and viewing family bab…

But there aren't sites/publications that are niche enough. Female runners over 50? Interested in Italian food in Denver? Targeted ads are a response to the poor results from site/conte…

A few years ago I created an online business for serious cyclists and runners. Targeted Facebook ads enabled me to find customers for a few pennies each - I don't think I could have found custom…

Online, without personalization it's the other way around Local and niche businesses can only advertise on Facebook/Google Ads because their clientele can be defined and targeted. Without ta…

> At least with eBay you know the product you’re getting is actually from the seller you bought it from. This is a great video showing how stolen credit cards are laundered through eBay “Nina Kolla…

For under 50’s 2% chance of hospitalisation, then 4% of mortality. From the following summary, presumably mostly based on Chinese data which may not be applicable. https://assets.publishin…

Yes, and after a few months the "were all in this together" mentality will have worn off and it will get worse. I think that is some of the reasoning behind delaying some measures until they…

This does give me some relief that Boris is taking little or no part in the important decision making and just rubber stamping what experts agree on.

They assigned their patents to JP Morgan Chase last year presumably as collateral for a loan which they'll get back if they or the buyer pays back the loan: https://www.theregister.co.…

His exorcism scene in The Exorcist is one of the most powerful and terrifying scenes of all time: https://youtu.be/bWyi3ShHxzM …

But 4.5g/km implies 225kg after 50000 km which doesn’t seem possible. Something definitely smells fishy.

Presumably they meant 5.8 milligrams/km rather than grams - thats 290 grams over 50,000km. The following literature review(2014) mentions an estimate of 0.1-10% tyre wear becoming airborne - beca…

The best way to carry 8 gallons of milk across a muddy field in a leather bag is to leave it in the cow. I never assumed that the 10x programmer was actually writing 10x the amount of code in the same…

I didn't realise how ambitious HS2 is: If you stood by the track, a train could pass you at 360km/h (224mph) every 3 1/2 minutes - the kind of safety and control systems to make that po…

I'd suggest investing in a few months of iOS dev in your spare time to get a feel if you like it before making any commitments. Understanding the tools and basic architectures and APIs will be us…

Off topic, but that headline instantly reminded me of the "In a world without fences who needs Gates" t-shirts popular at JavaOne in about 1997