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bthallplz

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Christian. Skateboarder. Philosopher. Economics grad who's trying to stay scholarly. Works as a research data analyst.

Long-term jollies, short-term follies.

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designtools.fyi 3mo ago

Compare Every Design Tool – Designtools.fyi

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github.com 3mo ago

Excel2r – R package that migrates Excel workbooks to standalone R scripts

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popular.info 5mo ago

The corporate enablers of the ICE crackdown

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twitter.com 6mo ago

Peter Girnus: "Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4k employees."

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scamp.marcevanstein.com 7mo ago

Scamp (Suite for Computer-Assisted Music in Python)

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hackaday.com 1y ago

Personal Reflections on Immutable Linux

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prospect.org 1y ago

Friday Catblogging

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

I Tried Samsung's Secret Android XR Headset

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techcrunch.com 1y ago

The first post-quantum cryptography standards are here

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What did you think of using or demoing a Vision Pro?

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www.techradar.com 2y ago

CitraVR is a much bigger deal than 3DS emulation on your Meta Quest 3

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pico.sh 2y ago

Pgs.sh Now in Public Beta

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blog.pico.sh 2y ago

RFC a Link Aggregator Service

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www.androidauthority.com 2y ago

An extremely pornographic ad is making the rounds on YouTube

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hey.prose.sh 2y ago

Status Update 2023-11-12: New features and services

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ognjenio.gumroad.com 2y ago

Purchase a blank PDF

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

I go to tech conference. [video]

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fortune.com 2y ago

Hybrid work is not the future, says Meta’s former director of remote work

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www.publishersweekly.com 3y ago

AI Is About to Turn Book Publishing Upside-Down

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

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tacticaltypos.net 3y ago

Call for Abstracts – Skateboarding and Philosophy Book

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www.theatlantic.com 4y ago

The Helmet That ‘Resets’ Your Brain

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gizmodo.com 5y ago

Researchers at NIST Put Cloth Face Masks Under a Microscope

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youtube.com 5y ago

Parts in Motion: Skating with Matt Tomasello

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web.archive.org 5y ago

Growth in the AEA's list of Online Seminars between March 29 and October 6

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tacticaltypos.net 5y ago

List of Brave Creators' websites in Brave Rewards and search and analysis

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smartairfilters.com 5y ago

What Time of Day Is Air Pollution (PM 2.5) Lowest?

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tacticaltypos.net 5y ago

Subtlety and Significance

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www.thisiscolossal.com 6y ago

Kinetic Artwork Attempts to Get a ‘Little Piece of Privacy’

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www.cnbc.com 6y ago

How the coronavirus pandemic could forever change the way we work

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I haven't read Kant, but I like this description so much that I how it's indeed a good summary of some of his works. o7 Is this the main idea of Critique of Pure Reason?

Heh. Sometimes when I'm stuck at work and feeling unmotivated/catch myself procrastinating, I'll write out my thoughts in my OneNote notebook that I take all work notes in. I do kinda cringe about the idea of IT reading those notes sometimes, but oh well, and it's helped a lot.

This is connecting to another commenter's idea that AI can be sort of a stand-in for journaling.

Any idea if there's a place where we can request games for decompilation?

I see that one for Burnout Paradise is in the works, but I would love one for Burnout Revenge.

I almost feel like she writes to share things with people she loves, even though she doesn't know them directly.

Thank you for articulating this!

I'm not Julia, but I'd just like to put down here that this is pretty much my philosophy for public speaking/giving presentations, and I have been trying to instill it in some coworkers who struggle with presentations. It's a great privilege to be able to convey to one's peers and loved ones things that you're (likely) a bit more familiar with than they are and which may help them with some matter.

From what I've heard through self-publishing media, nowadays, traditional publishing isn't even particularly disposed towards pushing back on things like these. They might even be all for publishing works based on outright lies if there's an existing customer base with open wallets.

Supposedly traditional publishing has become more and more conservative (not necessarily politically) with the risks they take on things they publish, so they'd be less likely to push back against widely-held ideas that are outright wrong. They'll really only publish authors with an established following or works that have a large base of interested consumers.

Edit: I just wanted to add that since I've heard these things so much, going to a bookstore like Barnes & Noble feels super weird. The books look nice, but they're all expensive and I have no sense that the selection has been curated for genuine quality or informational content. It's just what happens to being published now.

I greatly prefer the experience of going to thrift stores like Goodwill where the selection is chaotic, there's no real expectation of curation aside from maybe broad categories, and the books are gloriously cheap. You can find great stuff there!

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Yeah, Iran (at least) is having its own 9/11 moment, and it's all thanks to Trump.

Kangina 4 months ago

The containers are, however, heavy, unwieldy, and prone to absorbing moisture.

Sounds like they'd only really make sense for surviving in dry environments. But still quite neat!

I've been living in Finland for 10+ years, and this whole story was super surprising for me to learn because the prevailing notion among people here is that Finland is the land of law, and everything is done correctly and legally, always, and we can and should trust the authorities.

I'd pretty much grown up believing that that's how the US worked post-slavery (aside from occasional deviances from the rule). Since the start of the pandemic, I've had quite the awakening.

Calendar 7 months ago

Neat! I think I've done a similar thing in Jujutsu VCS, which enables you to start a new commit and add a message (description) to it well before you make any actual changes. As you described, it's a really useful way of keeping on track.

Just focus this on your personal brand.

You can still relate it to concerns/business requirements or processes that agencies might have, which you considered and factored in when you made design decisions about the code, architecture, or processes. But since this is more of a project that you built on your own and one that you own, it makes more sense to me that you'd present this as "I changed X on Y because 123" and so on.

You could open source it and continue to work on it as a side project and main thing in your portfolio to demonstrate your skills.

And over time you could even offer a hosted/paid SaaS option, if there seems be interest in that and you have more time and resources available to sustain that.

From the perspective that you'd refine this project over time (as you already have), I don't think you should worry too much about how the code and architecture look and are right now or people's reactions to their current state. It'll grow, change, and improve as you do. And others' reactions can help you grow.

I spent the last 6 months rewriting the architecture for multi-tenancy, overhauling the UI/UX, and adding productivity and compliance algorithms.

Separately, I think it could be really good for you and your career to document somewhere online (even just a blog) some of your thinking/decisions regarding these spaces. And it doesn't need to be too formal, just lay out your thinking.

Your post here is pretty great as an example of your communication skills - which I've heard are highly appreciated/valued in CS -, so you've got the skills, and it'd be great for you to have more public proof of that.

I've suspected that, too, while looking at DAWs and how people make music with them. It seems a bit boring to me.

To kinda get away from that or even just experiment, I was interested in the possibility of writing music with code and either inject randomness in places or at least vary the intervals between beats/etc using some other functions (which would again just be layering in patterns, but in a more subtle way).

Just as a simple example, I have a once-in-a-while newsletter+blog on a niche topic, and I could get way more eyeballs if I'd just rephrase things as a Reddit post, but I'm nostalgic about it living its own life on the Free-ish Web. Or, I suppose, this comment right here, which could just as well be on a personal blog with a "backlink" to yours.

I've been thinking lately about still posting things to various places like here and Reddit but compiling them later on and posting them to my website (likely with a link to where I posted them originally). That seems like a good middle ground for me and would enable me to build up a decent resource for myself and others, if I'm up for cleaning up the texts to provide or remove context as necessary.

Much of this idea of mine is from a desire to archive and pull together more of the stuff I've put effort into that's spread all over the web.

May I ask what techniques either you're using or would recommend for similarity clustering? I looked into topic modeling, but it seemed a long way off from reliably bundling together stories like on Techmeme.

(I'm working on basic blog and video aggregators like Planet Python.)

It'd be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things, but for nowhere near the cost. (The place looks super neat, but I'm not paying that much, don't live near there, and need to report to my employer's office twice a week.)

I wonder if there'll be an aggregator of the blog posts written as post of this cohort (and others, if there's more cohorts).