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medium.com 8y ago

My Programmer Cold Start Algorithm

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www.physics.princeton.edu 8y ago

Asimov – How can the amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased? [pdf]

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multivax.com 8y ago

Asimov: The Last Question (1956)

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en.wikipedia.org 12y ago

Improve Discourse -- Learn Your Informal Logical Fallacies

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github.com 14y ago

Knife-santoku - a knife replacement that helps you build processes around Chef

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www.mosaik.com 14y ago

Show HN: Rebranding complete - world's largest mobile network coverage catalog

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www.datastax.com 14y ago

DataStax stops distributing Brisk as open source

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: What periodicals do you subscribe to?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask PG: Can we have comment scores back please?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: What has progressed in your field in 2010?

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jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com 15y ago

Scala Pros and Cons

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www.flickr.com 15y ago

1944 Sun-Kraft Radiation Therapy Lamp

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en.wikipedia.org 15y ago

Humans did this to other humans

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postgis.refractions.net 15y ago

PostGIS domain expired

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: What are the most canonical python libs?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Let's talk about Corporate Blogs and Buzz Creation

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www.stat.purdue.edu 15y ago

RHIPE: R and Hadoop Integrated Processing Environment

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: I'm a Linux guy. Tell me about all those BSDs

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Got any tips for profiling and tuning C?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Cassandra, HBase, Hypertable, Voldemort. Lowest read latency?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: What are your favourite geospatial algorithms?

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www.huffingtonpost.com 16y ago

Bush's Glib Waterboarding Admission Sparks Outrage

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Are you still an information addict?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Show me how to perform raw data analysis more effectively

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: What library should be my geospatial "swiss army knife"?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Are you an information addict?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: How should we approach remote code interviews?

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www.rubyinside.com 16y ago

Awesome_print: A New Pretty Printer for your Ruby Objects

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www.dymaxionduo.com 16y ago

What happens when two kids sleep only two hours a day?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: How should I approach buying my ideal domain name?

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I downvoted you due to the way you're communicating in this thread. Be kind, rewind. Review the guidelines here perhaps since your account is only a little over a year old.

I found this article useful and insightful. I don't have a bot problem at present I have an adjacent problem and found this context useful for an ongoing investigation.

Counterpoint: things like the Valve Index for VR simply don't behave well in this environment no matter how much I've worked on getting it there.

I'm not a novice either, $dayjob has me working on the lowest levels of Linux on a daily basis. I did linux from scratch on a Pentium 2 when I was 12. All that to say yes I happen to agree but edge cases are out there. The blanket statement doesn't apply for all use cases

Soulseek is likely the one you're remembering. I remember talking to people with similar collections of music. Hotline was my primary passion for quite some time but soulseek had a longer run of utility in my childhood on the nascent web.

I'm actually glad you posted this because it reminded me of a quote from Wittgenstein's page on Wikipedia [1]

According to Wittgenstein, philosophical problems arise when language is forced from its proper home into a metaphysical environment, where all the familiar and necessary landmarks and contextual clues are removed. He describes this metaphysical environment as like being on frictionless ice: where the conditions are apparently perfect for a philosophically and logically perfect language, all philosophical problems can be solved without the muddying effects of everyday contexts; but where, precisely because of the lack of friction, language can in fact do no work at all.[259] Wittgenstein argues that philosophers must leave the frictionless ice and return to the "rough ground" of ordinary language in use. Much of the Investigations consists of examples of how the first false steps can be avoided, so that philosophical problems are dissolved, rather than solved: "The clarity we are aiming at is indeed complete clarity. But this simply means that the philosophical problems should completely disappear."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

What is logic here against the subjective internal experience you're responding to. Do I have to hold an axiom true to believe the person describing their internal experience is specifically as Chomsky proved in the language of logic?

I try to tell all new programmers that ask me for advice that keeping abreast of the words of tools that are available for use is a big part of the work and shouldn't be left out. If I quit my daily / weekly trawl of what's out there, I'd surely start to atrophy.

Busy Status Bar 2 years ago

Oh. Sounds like you're referring to Agile and Standup with capital letters. In my experience people talk about agile-with-a-capital-A and standup-with-a-capital-S and those two don't really match what actually happens in the real world, at least in my experience.

My Homelab Setup 2 years ago

I disagree, but mostly just in the present. Sometimes I take an active approach to getting unconstructive communication out of where my eyes naturally go. It's rare. It's a feeling in a moment in a context as kind as I can possibly be. This has been net positive, but sure we agree in this context it's just a forum on the internet and I click my share of downvotes like any other.

My Homelab Setup 2 years ago

I guess this is a sort of meta comment rather than a reply. You seem like someone who hasn't had an account for a long time and upon clicking your profile I see that is in fact the case. It seems plausible that you haven't read the site guidelines, so I'll be that guy and point you to them. I like this place largely because of the good moderation. I hope you come to like this place for the same as the years go on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I have an old boss that calls me from time to time. Maybe I'll just call him an old friend at this point. He lives by the philosophy that you put in the work and you debug your thinking by bouncing the context you've built up off of experts. Sometimes he shoots a cool hundred my way thereafter, sometimes he doesn't. Most of the time we're just catching up.

This works for him and tbh it works for me too. I guess my advice is that the important part is not sourcing the expert it's putting in the work to come with enough context to get something out of talking to an expert and to leave them without the feeling like you've wasted their time. Follow people on the socials, read their code, show up at NeurIPS with actual good questions to ask people in person on the hallway track.

Without the _hard work up front to get good questions to ask_ you're in danger of finding a good expert and them deciding you're just another starry eyed kid that doesn't know for just how many years longer you wouldn't even pass the screening call for an interview.

Just my two cents, hope this helps!

An actual expert can fact check me but as far as I'm aware that's due to how magnesium sits within binding site within the NMDA receptor ion channel as a blocking / gating factor. If supplementation actually raises the level of available magnesium beyond the blood brain barrier (when you're perhaps in need of some) then it would affect the way in which that ion channel affects the downstream excitatory effects towards long term potentiation.

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Thanks for posting this. As someone who picked up reading brain anatomy as casually as I might read technical documentation this put a few puzzle pieces together that I found quite satisfying. Good read, interesting topic. Pretty neat.

This is useful but it uses precompiled binaries of chromium that run in a lambda. I didn't find the repo for re-creating them from source. Seems like one of those things that doesn't need a pre-compiled binary it needs instructions for how the binary was built so I don't have to trust some third party chromium distribution.

I use Rectangle on macos for this exact use case. Used to use Yabai but now Rectangle is my daily driver for this sort of thing. I'm going to try this one out but global hotkeys for my windows snapping to the right spots when I plug my laptop in is hard to give up

I agree. I'm not required at the office ever but it's two blocks away on foot. I utilize it, but sometimes when I want to stay in the zone (or just feel like it ngl) I just work from home all week. It's the only situation wherein I'd utilize an in-person office and I feel fortunate to have it.

I left my comment when it was at risk of falling off the front page with no comments. Utilitarian, to hopefully see an insightful discussion from those more informed.

I see where you're coming from and perhaps what I meant is something closer to 'build things up rather than tear them down'. You've got two conflicting opinions. Theirs and mine. Inquire inside the article to see which of us is a worthy recommender of casual content to consume on the internet

The danger of commenting like I did at all is that it's not a universal experience. I found it insightful sitting in an airport killing time. Perhaps consider accentuating the positive ¯\_(ツ)_/¯