PowerfulWizard

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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
I think it is an example of great preconditions for starting a company, even though it will be very challenging to make it work well. Basically, our technology is advanced enough to do this, but it so complicated that the percentage of peop
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
The best way I know to get highlights from kindle (I only use iPhone) is to click the "My Notebook" icon (looks like a letter paper page), click the export button, and then send to email. There is a notecard option there as well b
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
yeah, I tried to do that or something similar first, IIRC the s3 website setup was handling the index document and error document stuff, but using cloudfront to fetch through the S3 API wasn't doing that so that is how I ended up where
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
I wanted to stay fully AWS, it was for personal projects so it is more about convenience so I didn't even consider other CDNs.
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
Just so the CloudFront logs and monitoring are complete. It won't affect the hosting cost as far as I know, I just use billing alerts on the overall account to keep track of that.
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
I have set up some sites the same way, the only ugly part for me was that I wanted to use the features of S3 web hosting interface, but restrict all traffic to come through CloudFront. This blog post (not mine) describes the problem and the
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
I tried to look this up, info here: https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/Regulations/Technic... (Ch. 3 sec. F, pg. 13) F. SCIF Window Criteria 1. Every effort should be made to minimize or eliminat
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
I'm not sure that it is possible to analyze this, but I'd like to see a breakdown of the >$10 million net worth range based on whether it was earned in America or not. You can change the American tax code all you want, but if i
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
Yeah, my thinking is if you just eliminate the component of salary that is purely dependent on cost of living, and not the part that is due to the extremely high demand for tech skills generally at the globally competitive level -- because
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
It would be interesting to calculate: - cost of living in the SFBA - cost of living somewhere other than SFBA but generally "equivalent" in the sense that living there wouldn't be seen as a negative - a average-ish amount of
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
I like the english language and writing system, it is the most useful thing I know and I can easily read books from 200 years ago. Here is a 150 year old engineering text book that I can read with relative ease: https://archive.o
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
I expect at least to be able to view the sequence of symbols that was emitted by the author. Because the majority of writing is digital, and because of the way it is stored, I think changing the emoji is especially deceptive and malicious,
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
The bad news: - They changed the gun emoji to be a water gun, which has a totally different meaning. This retroactively changes previous writings, changing their meaning. What kind of writing system allows people to change your words after
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
Thank you, it was my false assumption that I had ruled out Yegge writing it that prevented me from finding it.
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
I had read a blog post that I only vaguely remember, that I had thought was written by Yegge, but when I looked for it I was unable to find it. If anyone can recall the title, who wrote it, or where it was written, I'd like to know. As
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by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
I ended up writing very similar code to do the same thing: https://gist.github.com/jhlb/83999422a8d7e8a6e28e EDIT: as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the pv program has a way to watch a PID as well that makes this p
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by PowerfulWizard 9y ago
Semi related, I had occasional trouble sleeping at the designated time (I would sleep an appropriate amount, but but not when I wanted to.) After reading gwern’s page on melatonin I tried it since it is easy and low risk, and now I can fall
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by PowerfulWizard 9y ago
Lets say there was a news program that had no anchors, no reporters, and only broadcasts “primary” sources: surveillance footage, legal documents, firsthand accounts, testimony under oath, etc. There would still be an implicit agenda based
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by PowerfulWizard 9y ago
Consider the command: tosheets --spreadsheet=ABC <myfile.txt In this example, stdin is what goes to the spreadsheet. stdout is (I assume) nothing.
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by PowerfulWizard 9y ago
It's the playbook. They need competition to drive improvement of their local blessed firm. Once they are globally competitive they can compete internationally and monopolize the China market.
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by PowerfulWizard 10y ago
I had been wanting a web app where I could quickly open GPX, KML, and KMZ files to see them on a map. I use it to look at hikes, and some KML files from some experimental mapping tools I've worked with in the past. This is the result:
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by PowerfulWizard 10y ago
Agreed, I've been using it a bit and it is quite good. Especially since if you use --debug-brk and launch the debugger at the beginning, you can enable pause-on-uncaught-exception and then if you crash you can access all state at that