TomVDB

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by TomVDB 7y ago
It is a Monoprice 4K 32”: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=27772
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by TomVDB 7y ago
The DVI and HDMI protocols doesn’t need anything specific to support variable refresh rate: nothing prevents one to just extend the vertical front porch time. It’s just a question whether or not the GPU can generate that kind of signal and
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by TomVDB 7y ago
For my aging eyes, 4K 32” is the sweet spot. They’re cheap too (you can get one for $380.) I don’t use the full screen for editing (it’s too wide for that), but the edit window is in the middle and stuff that happens in the background (comp
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Both methods aren't mutually exclusive.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Are you sure about that? What about "non-serious" companies? Various fly-by-night self-driving startups? Fly-by-night self-driving startups will at some point run into issues with the NHTSA. George Hotz self-driving car project
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by TomVDB 7y ago
My intuitive take on it: You train on a subset of the initial data. Even if the data has a certain number of incorrect frames, it should still do a decent job getting a lot of things right. Then you manually loop through all the images of t
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Being smart enough to earn the title of PE and agreeing to being personally responsible for bugs in a large body of code is IMO a contradiction.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
If you don’t want to tell the truth (and why would you not?), tell them you were caring for a sick family member. Nobody’s going to question that!
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by TomVDB 7y ago
There was this British guy who drove from Beijing back home on a Honda C90 moped. His video about Iran is heartwarming. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LEgowbzSc
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by TomVDB 7y ago
These kind of questions where most likely generated by paid question askers who receive a cut of the ad revenue. I have first hand knowledge of somebody who made pretty good money doing exactly that. His rule of thumb was: the dumber the qu
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by TomVDB 7y ago
And yet when I fill in the size of that PCB, JLCPCB quotes $11.90 + shipping for 10 PCBs. Cheapest shipping option is $9. That's far away from $50...
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I just tried "igloo" in photos and it immediately showed the only picture of a snow fortress that I built with my kids 7 years ago. "skiing" also worked fine, as expected, but "Tom skiing" did not. Since the fi
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by TomVDB 7y ago
That's not how I read Microsoft's statement about it: the permissions were incorrectly changed on December 5th and were corrected on December 31st.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
WhatsApp is pretty popular, but Google Photos? The vast majority of people take a picture with the standard camera app and never look at the pictures again. You don’t need a non-native app for that.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
You're in for a very pleasant surprise once you start looking at suppliers such as PCBWay.com and JLC-PCB.com!
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by TomVDB 7y ago
although personally I've always wondered why this is desirable The hustle and bustle at the gate stresses me out. (There's no good reason why and it shouldn't, but it does.) Once I'm sitting in my window seat, I close
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by TomVDB 7y ago
However... Inaccurate, optimistic estimates are often a feature. Many projects that turn out to be very valuable in the end would never have been started if the real time to completion had been communicated right from the start.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Somebody has to pay for a climbing gym that will impress potential student candidates.
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Yup, my bad. So definitely not what's on the W2.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Nobody needs a luxury car. Nobody needs to eat at nice restaurants. Nobody needs vacations in Europe. Nobody needs a $1000 phone. But if I had to choose one thing where I have no problem spending more than what is strictly needed, it's
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I only saw one relevant comment from him and it doesn't address this question? Others have mentioned that it's primarily based on offers, in which case my interpretation stands.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
When I compare the numbers for my level, I see a salary that is more or less in line with mine, and I see RSU compensation that is in line with the number of RSUs that I received in 2019. In other words: it does not take into account stock
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I find it hard to believe that you're reading HN while still being surprised about the cost of living here? By the time you're 35, you'll probably have a family with kids. You don't want a long commute to spend more time
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by TomVDB 7y ago
If I have learned one thing is that's much better to get paid very well for 20 years at a big tech company than it is to be paid median at some smaller outfit hoping to hit the jackpot. Because even when the start-up has a successful e
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Why should you exclude RSUs? Risky or not, you'd be exceedingly dumb to not take RSUs into consideration when accepting a job offer somewhere. Chances are that they'll be a major part of your total compensation come tax filing tim
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by TomVDB 7y ago
The way I understand it, it's the number of RSU that are offered each year, at the time of them being offered. If so, then the movement of the stock price is irrelevant.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Salary (W2 before tax) + bonus + promised RSUs. It's not an unreasonable way to calculate it, and given the way the economy has been going in the past 10 years, it's lowballing the real taxable compensation.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
If you want to know the lay of the land in terms of compensation in the Bay Area, put your house on the market as a rental. You'll get to see the offer letters from Google, Facebook, Apple etc. It was enlightening, and made me go to my
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Same here. My 18 miles commute is 2 miles of sleepy suburban traffic and 16 miles on the SF Bay Trail (IOW: flat dirt track with no cars allowed.) Even if it were all dirt track, I'd still be wearing my helmet.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I hope so too. Just don’t assume that avoiding the parental flaws that you think you’ve identified to be the root is a silver bullet.

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