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by Sukotto 8y ago
That reminds me of the short story "Beginner's Luck" By Poi Lass. It is part of a series examining what happens to people that discover they have a minor super-power. It was...possibly the single worst experience of my li
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by Sukotto 8y ago
Ok. What specific steps should we be doing to ensure a home router is configured safely? Please assume a consumer grade router given by the ISP and _maybe_ another one bought off the shelf at a box retailer. Also assume unable or unwilling
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by Sukotto 8y ago
I am not a freelancer so I'm not speaking from experience. So... grain of salt eh? Have you tried charging per week or per project instead of per hour? Maybe clients will respond better to "My rate is 78hundred a week" than t
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by Sukotto 9y ago
I had not heard of it before. Thank you for sharing it. Unfortunately, the login page shows as invite-only; instructs me to contact the workspace admin for access; but doesn't give any obvious way to contact that person. If you are an
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by Sukotto 9y ago
"This video contains content from BandaiChannel, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds" It bothers me that crossing an invisible line in the ground blocks access to stuff that others can see simply by standing on
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by Sukotto 9y ago
My readability bookmarklet doesn't remove the vertigo-inducing animated background. So I'm going to have to pass on reading this one. Will someone please post a summary?
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by Sukotto 9y ago
Thank you. That really helped.
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by Sukotto 9y ago
I thought I knew what a vector was, but I have no idea what any of this project means. Would someone please explain in simple language what this is, and why it's cool?
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by Sukotto 9y ago
Interesting to compare/contrast this story with Richard Feynman's first marriage. Here author Ari Diaconis chooses NOT to marry Dunia Rkein due to his illness, uncertain survival prospect, and not wanting to burden her with his lo
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by Sukotto 9y ago
I propose a new term: "Clown Car" security. For situations like this where a fiasco just keeps getting worse, each step its own facepalm. * Asking users to generate private keys on the issuer's server * Storing those priv
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by Sukotto 9y ago
My favorite: "How Differential Gear works" (1930s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JhruinbWc&t=1m50s
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by Sukotto 9y ago
The only info I have to go on is their about page. The second sentence of which is "We fight anti-Semitism and all forms of hate." Perhaps you're thinking of some other organization with the same name? Anyway, the core point
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by Sukotto 9y ago
As an aside. I recently found https://www.caniuse.com/ and find it super helpful as I get back into frontend development. It gives you a clear picture of how well the different browsers support a given piece of web technolo
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by Sukotto 9y ago
>The right to bear arms is a basic civil right, unambiguously encoded in the Bill of Rights "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infrin
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by Sukotto 9y ago
I would love to hear more about how you did that. How would you advise a motivated, but time-limited person who wanted to learn a language to B2?
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by Sukotto 9y ago
Personally I think what OP made is cool and worth sharing. That said, while we're on the topic of Anki did you know the cards can execute javascript? (Since Anki uses webview to display the cards). Python for plugins with css/js i
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by Sukotto 9y ago
You can use their API from your own system. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041 I strongly urge you to paper-trade the live market before risking real money. https://www.interactivebrokers
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by Sukotto 9y ago
> as the big bank one, the one with the keys in it's logo No. We were the other BS across the street.
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by Sukotto 9y ago
Wow, maybe I was just lucky? I worked on two different (energy) trading floors. One was a fairly large venture (30 or so trading desks + mid/back office + dev/ops/DC teams + management). The other was one of the huge banks. B
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by Sukotto 9y ago
You might like the "Hipster PDA" then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_PDA
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by Sukotto 9y ago
Is this a library or something I can download and try training myself (on a small scale)? I'm not in a position to read the paper right now, so my apologies if that's covered in there. I want to ask just in case it's not, whi
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by Sukotto 9y ago
> a gobsmackingly terrible investment decision Speaking only about the "investment" part of home ownership, I found this blog post insightful, and maybe interesting enough to share here: http://jlcollinsnh.co
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by Sukotto 9y ago
A variation on this that I love is Tim Urban's "Your life in weeks" visualization. https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html This is a progress bar, not a countdown clock. Personally, I find it
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by Sukotto 9y ago
I found this "floodsplainer" series of tweets informative about Houston's flood-mitigation infrastructure efforts. https://twitter.com/CorbettMatt/status/901959336850804737
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by Sukotto 9y ago
Whenever this sort of analysis shows on the homepage, I like to put a link to my favorite movie statistical-ranking site: http://www.phi-phenomenon.org/ I like it a lot and have found it valuable in figuring which movies to
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by Sukotto 9y ago
Katrina was a "once a hundred year" storm. Likewise Sandy. Now Harvey is a "once in 500". All within 12 years. I think we should stop measuring against data from a different global climate.
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by Sukotto 9y ago
No. I'm saying that how you name things matters.
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by Sukotto 9y ago
You might be swayed by facts. But that makes you one of the minority. A LOT of people make decisions based on emotion. Then they cherry pick the facts (if any) that support the choice, and disregard the facts that oppose.
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by Sukotto 9y ago
I think we're making a serious PR mistake calling these "Thorium Reactors" even though the term is accurate. "Reactor" evokes "Nuclear Reactor". For many people, "nuclear reactor" is a deeply loa
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by Sukotto 9y ago
I sure wish I had treated it (as you say) more like a "real" contract. It would have saved us a ton of trouble to lay out our respective expectations, roles, responsibilities, duties, and penalties for breaking the above. I think

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