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Wireless networking Ph.D. and USPSA Production GM.

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www.space.com 1y ago

First image of our Milky Way's black hole may be inaccurate, scientists say

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www.analogmuseum.org 3y ago

The Telefunken RA 770 Analog Computer

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eclecticlight.co 4y ago

(macOS) Disk Utility now has full features for managing snapshots

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nypost.com 5y ago

Uber’s self-driving car unit has made little progress despite $2.5B price tag

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finishermag.com 6y ago

Cycling to Redefine Urban Mobility in the Era of Coronavirus

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

NYC to Close 40 Miles of Streets to Cars, Mostly Near Parks

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www.straight.com 6y ago

Stanford University epidemiologist John Ioannidis on media panic over Covid-19

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www.vice.com 6y ago

AT&T Suspends Broadband Data Caps During Coronavirus Crisis

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members.loria.fr 6y ago

Breaking the encryption scheme of the Moscow internet voting system

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dnyuz.com 6y ago

Startups aim to smash Apple and Google’s smartphone duopoly

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www.healthcareitnews.com 7y ago

Bitfury, Longenesis, MDW bring blockchain to radiology marketplace

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uk.reuters.com 7y ago

UAE used cyber super-weapon to spy on iPhones of foes

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tech.allo-media.net 7y ago

From Python to Go to Rust: An Opinionated Journey

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www.anandtech.com 10y ago

Nvidia announces Tesla P100 accelerator for HPC applications

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www.latimes.com 10y ago

Robots are coming for your job

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Self-hosting an environment like Cloud9 or Koding?

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vimeo.com 12y ago

Hour-long talk on Julia focusing on the type system and multiple dispatch

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gregoryszorc.com 12y ago

Why do projects continue to support old Python releases?

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I still haven't forgiven Apple for killing off Aperture.

To date nothing has come close to Aperture's seamless blending of image organizing, editing, and metadata enrichment. I'm not holding my breath that an app that feels like DarkSky will ever come along.

We moved into a new house seven years ago and turned half the basement into a home gym to combine with working from home. During the week, I'll stretch for 5–10 minutes after waking up, do ~20 minutes of light exercise at lunch, and more serious exercise after work (could be a bike ride, kettlebell/bodyweight exercises, running, etc.). After-work exercise varies depending on energy/recovery. Getting a standing desk was also a nice addition. Weekends we'll go for a longer bike ride one day and do something outside but lower intensity the other.

Coming from remote development Emacs TRAMP, vscode + remote-ssh mercifully removed the cognitive load of dealing with Emacs. Not only do you not have to manually install & configure everything, vscode will tell you what you need and give you a working installation automatically.

Do nothing (2020) 5 years ago

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."

—Calvin Coolidge

The value of crypto is the access to the underlying network, which lets the users of that network transfer a known supply of tokens in a manner that's not forgeable, repudiable, confiscable, etc. or reliant on the permission of outside authorities. Final settlement takes an hour. It's worth whatever people will pay for that access.

Crypto isn't a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is form of fraud where funds from recent investors are used to pay (fictitious) profits to earlier investors. Say the ringleader claims a 10% profit. An early investor had deposited $100 and wants their $100. The ringleader had blown that investor's $100 on coke and hookers and gives him $110 from new investors.

Crypto is more accurately a pyramid scheme. But then so are precious metals and fiat currency.

It will stick if people refuse to go back to offices. I started working 100% from home nearly seven years ago and wouldn't take a job that involved commuting unless an astronomical amount of money was delivered up front. Simply no comparison in terms of quality of life.

GNU Octave 6.1.0 6 years ago

A horror show mentally reconciling its one-based indexing with the zero-based indexing you're used to in Python.

The use of a zero is admittedly a relatively new concept, and it may not catch on.

Very possible that the majority of people who truly care about these things "haven't logged on Facebook much in the past couple years". I very much fall into that category. There are so many awful things about it that the UI is the least of my reasons for drastically limiting usage.

A big one as been making it a point to contact everyone on the team regularly, even if there's nothing urgent to discuss. This could be via email or video chat. If there's no programmatic reason to chat, I'll surely have come across some new tidbit of information or insight that's at least tangentially related to work and use that as an excuse. One of the dudes I'm working with is a far better C++ coder than me, so I'm regularly asking him questions, but I'm also mentoring some junior engineers, and I'll reach out to point out things to them.

For colleagues that I'm not directly working with but want to stay in contact with, I'll email them at least every few months with any interesting problems that I solved as well as the approach that are might be of interest to them. On my team, we'll regularly do tech surveys for advancing areas of our project, and the results of them will also get sent out. I also know their interests, and if I come across something they might like, I won't hesitate to send it their way.

It's really easy to buckle down and only address what's in front of your nose. But people get weird when that goes on too long. Better to take a break a couple times a week and check in with everyone else. I find that our morning scrum isn't enough.

Sorry Reid, but I'll never set foot in an office again. Working 100% remote saves me way too much time, not to mention money, and I've long since sorted out staying connected work colleagues (I've been working 100% remote for ~6 years).

Not needing to factor in commuting when choosing where to live is a godsend.

Another big advantage of FPGAs is low latency and the ability to hit precise timing deadlines. When working with radio hardware, you still need an FPGA for automatic gain control calculations and recording/playing out samples. Similarly, you need to do your CRC and other calculations in an FPGA if you need to immediately respond to incoming signals, such as the CTS->RTS->DATA->ACK exchange in 802.11.

Most of the content creators I follow also upload to BitChute (or have been booted from YouTube), so I've moved all my playlists there. I also donate $5/month to BitChute.

Grabbing videos off YouTube with youtube-dl for local viewing is another way to skip ads. Given their censorious policies, I have zero interest in paying YouTube to go ad-free.

The social interaction from working in an office? Not in the least. My work could mostly be categorized as SW development, and I've been doing it 100% remote for ~5 years. My wife has worked freelance editing from home ~15 years.

We don't see much of each other during the day, as we're busy with our jobs. Not commuting frees up time for social stuff like meeting up with neighbors, going for walks or cycling, meetups, practical pistol practice/competition, etc. The stuff involving larger groups is on temporary hiatus, but stuff with another pal or two are still happening.

Several of my friends live in different states and we don't see each other IRL that often. I have a couple one-on-one and group Telegram chats going with them where we discuss a variety of topics, which is a surprisingly good social outlet.

Bingo, we have a winner! Speaking for myself, I'm at a point where I'm making enough money and have been making decisions to increase my free time. Things like working 100% from home so that I don't waste time commuting and turning down job offers that would pay more because they'd cut into leisure time. An extra $50k/year (or whatever) wouldn't be worth an additional hour of work per day to me.