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Solutions Architect in the earth observation and GIS industries.
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scanny··on Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018)
What exactly is that? Is it for moving savings from a non-eu country into Germany ?
scanny··on Show HN: Software Developer salaries in Germany by technology and city
As a migrant S.E. working in Munich these numbers seem about right, albiet on the lower side by 5-10k.
scanny··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)
Role: Software Engineer (Web Development w/ Front-End Focus)

Industry: Satellite Imaging

Location: Germany, Munich (ONSITE/HYBRID)

Brief: Join a small team with a flat hierarchy to develop an API and GUI for selling high resolution satellite imagery!

Posting: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/frontend-software-enginee...

Limitation: Nationality limited to EU member country, NATO member country, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Switzerland. We can help with the VISA.

scanny··on Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health
Couldn't one just do a study in communities like the Amish, or perhaps overseas? That could be a decent stand-in group.
scanny··on Arianespace CEO: Europe won't have reusable rockets for another decade
Why is that? Also isn’t Rocketlab a US owned company ?
scanny··on Germany to switch off last remaining nuclear power plants
Just a note ‚ the decision was made around 2011 and now they were faced with getting new fuel rods (decades of use) or running with the legislated phase-out. There isn’t an in between option it seems
scanny··on Why are weather apps still so terrible these days?
But you have to pay for forecasts from a government run app? On their app homepage it’s due to a court ruling??
scanny··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
There is a presence of street beggars that doesn't exist back in Australia / New Zealand that are quite noticable here (although less than in other european cities). Knowing how die Bayerische Polizei operate I am surprised they aren't surpressed as well. I just wonder why that is?
scanny··on List of rivers by discharge
Last valid Web Archive capture was on August 5th 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20110805041437/http://home.comca...

"Page created 2003-08-23 and last revised 2005-07-31."

Page also has no sources of its own.

scanny··on Civilization II
Civ III had this feature as well, starting with the throne then out to the palace architecture and the wider palace complex
scanny··on Anime dating sim that also does your taxes
The delisting from steam and the developer response has been covered in an article here https://www.pcgamer.com/anime-dating-sim-that-can-prepare-yo...
scanny··on GPT-4
Out of curiosity would a config file that acts as a prompt at the beginning of each conversation solve that issue?

It primes the model with a list of known words/grammar and the A1/2 B1/2 C1/2 level of language ability.

I’d presume after each message you could get the model to dump to the config.

I haven’t work in this sector at all and am curious as to the limits of hacking it / working around the long term memory issues!

scanny··on LinkedIn feels like the wrong way to find a job
I have used it to find all the jobs I have worked as a SE (3), including some that shifted me internationally. Many more interviews for other jobs were started through it too.

I have a nook in the geospatial field that helps narrow the competition but for the most part it’s been great.

I can see that mileage may vary depending on circumstance through.

scanny··on Tell HN: LinkedIn is giving out my phone number without consent (?)
This happened to me and led to a targeted work phishing scam where the scammer posed as our CEO and emailed my personal gmail.

Would have been a closer call if the CEO hadn’t died the year before…

scanny··on Ask HN: How can I find a German family by their crest?
First step is to post a link to an image of the supposed crest.
scanny··on Education in the Soviet Union – emphasis on science (1958)
I think the change of mind could be attributed leadership trying to recover population growth after a series of demographic collapses of varying scales (ww2, famine, Brezhnevian Stagnation) which really hit birth rates.
scanny··on FOSS accused of “abuse” by Telefonica because 1998 signed code with corp email
Link is down, archive.org copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20230109174817/https://github.co...
scanny··on ‘That girl is going to get herself killed’ (2022)
Sounds like you encountered a "rip" [0]; usually letting it take you out and then swimming after the current eases is the safest thing to do. At school (Oceania) we get taught this as part of water safety, but I suppose it would be a foreign concept to many people, particularly those not living near the coast.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_current

scanny··on New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content
Not much in terms of descriptions, e.g. for the video game „Postal 2“ you can see it has been banned but there is no reason provided.

https://register.classificationoffice.govt.nz/Pages/Screens/...

Albeit most of the entires under banned when searching without a filter are self explanatory.

scanny··on Protect me from what I want
Do you have a link to the creator?
scanny··on Ask HN: Where are the simple Git GUIs?
I use git graph (VS Code Extension). It is very visual and you can interact with git functionality through the tree visualisation itself.

It shows the git tree and includes a diff mechanism. Used it since 2019 after moving from TortoiseHg.

Demo Gif: https://github.com/mhutchie/vscode-git-graph/raw/master/reso...

Extension Page: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mhutchie...

scanny··on Bourdain's World Map
Can’t close the modal, refresh the list, or consistently click on map points when using a mobile browser.
scanny··on Low Earth Orbit Visualization
Im on my phone but you could probably look in the network requests panel of your browsers developer tools to see if any request is sent to space-track.org.

Side note: does anyone know of a good tool / app for looking at things like that on iOS ?

scanny··on President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia
It’s hard to see where this ends; should things move toward weakening of the Russian government will he go without attempting to escalate his way out of domestic danger?

I think mobilisation and moving toward declaring the special operation a war (more mobilisation) could be the beginnings of that slippery slope.

scanny··on What it takes to make a game by yourself
Consider modding! Using an existing engine that is malleable (or even has the assets you want) can be a great way to prototype or even achieve it without doing the really gritty stuff first.
scanny··on MyNoise – Background Noise Generators
Long time listener and patron, love your work Stephane! You’re work is a blessing
scanny··on Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died
I have thought about this for a while too, I think this has pushed me over the line to sit down with him over whatsapp and do it before it's too late. Thank you for sharing
scanny··on FlightRadar24 crashes due to surge in users tracking SPAR19
Nancy Pelosi is about to land in Taiwan on that flight, China has been threatening some sort of action (military/economic/angry words) if it were to happen.
scanny··on Stop Interviewing with Leet Code
fair points, is there a way we could make this fairer to people in terms of their time? Scrapping it or just making it expected and defining it?
scanny··on Stop Interviewing with Leet Code
Been an interviewer and interviewee recently, so being on both sides of the track has given me some perspective.

This is the current process that I think is fair and holistic:

1. meeting with the candidate, our manager, and some devs talking about their past exp., our company, our team, and their wants

2. Take home coding task based on our day to day work: This is linear with direct instructions for inputs and outputs; there is an optional part at the end for testing more tricky concepts. They are instructed to write clean and clear, no stress if they don’t finish, take their time with a week to do it (it’s a few hours work).

3. Interview with them walking through their code on their machine and describing their thought process, field questions from them if any are left.

Then we decide by a team discussion afterwards.

Gives them their space to think, reduced pressure for candidates who are socially pressured.

Thoughts?

I personally detest leet code as a recruiting tool.

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