ZainRiz

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Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020)(dynomight.net)
409 points by ZainRiz 5y ago|267 comments
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by ZainRiz 5y ago
I suspect that those places need to verify your identity if they want to pay you money (e.g. you're accepting tips on clubhouse). There are a ton of legal requirements around you having to verify a person's identify before sending
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by ZainRiz 5y ago
The number is a bit misleading since it mixes in child mortalities. If you look at the life expectancy for someone who's already reached age 45, since 1880 to now the US has gone from ~70yrs -> ~81 years. A much less significant cha
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
The first few stories about getting the call & dental issues sound more like overfitting the data to a lesson, but once Dave starts talking about his actual experiences working, it became a fun read!
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Bumper-Sticker API Design (2008)(infoq.com)
1 points by ZainRiz 6y ago|0 comments
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6 ways woodworking is like software engineering(zainrizvi.io)
3 points by ZainRiz 6y ago|0 comments
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
If you think that's bad, there are three distinct time zones which each go by CST. And even Central Standard Time is ambiguous https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe...
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
A good heuristic: If it has a ton of windows, it aint a school
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
It's certainly tricky. I personally found pairing to be pretty helpful when I joined a new company during covid. There's an app called Tuple which made pairing online pretty easy (if only it didn't ask permission to install u
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
This is great advice. A single memorable event you went though tends to highlight many different skills, so having a few stories down well will let you answer most of those questions And what if it doesn't answer the interviewer's
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Interview advice that got me offers(zainrizvi.io)
642 points by ZainRiz 6y ago|359 comments
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SolarWinds hacked recursively breached other companies, including Microsoft(arstechnica.com)
5 points by ZainRiz 6y ago|0 comments
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Exactly this. I used to use qtips regularly, then stopped using it for a couple weeks. The next time I tried using one suddenly couldn't hear in one year. Two days of using ear wax drops later, a giant ear wax plug slid out of my ear c
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
This reminds me of the guy who built a vending machine for crows, and trained wild crows to actually deposit money to buy peanuts. He gave a TED talk about it back in 2008: https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_a_thoug
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
> In most languages, "religion" will imply an ordered belief in a supernatural entity and set of accompanying practices. Rather, in modern, western English we consider "religion" to mean that. Islam for examples uses
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Using a Genetic algorithm to train a Neural Network – Car learns navigation(youtube.com)
2 points by ZainRiz 6y ago|0 comments
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
It also requires the recipient to know they're coming from a sincere person with good intentions. If that perception isn't their, it comes across as a very different message ("I'm sorry you don't have a thick enough
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Seems like hard drives aren't getting cheaper by that much of a margin nowadays [0] Combine this with growing usage, this might make their projected costs much higher than expected [0] https://www.backblaze.com/blog&#x2
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
The conversations happening on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jggx3l/falseho...
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I get what you’re saying, but the main complain I have is that Chase gave no indication that the funds were not guaranteed once the check appeared to have cleared The law only forces them to make the funds available, not to pretend that tha
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I completely agree that checks are inherently insecure. That said, getting rid of checks completely is a much harder social challenge than updating the UX to show the right status. UX updates are a practical recommendation that a few engine
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
This exactly. I get that banks have to release the funds by law, but they should show the status of the checks to their customers in a way that shows the potential risk those customers are taking on
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Banks help scammers with their bad UI(zainrizvi.io)
96 points by ZainRiz 6y ago|76 comments
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Venmo fraud is even worse. My sister got scammed out of thousands of dollars recently and her bank just said "pay up" I wrote about the story here: https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/how-banks-help-scammers-with-t.
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Farnam Street has a great blog post supporting what you just said: That most people only express things to people that they thing would be accepting of what they said. Even if they might not agree with it, they'll at least accept that
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
> I can't believe that 2020 is making Windows look like a respectful steward of open platforms. Damn it, read that right as I was taking a sip of coffee. Side note: TIL my key board is water proof
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Area 120 is not "real" google. It's Google's startup incubator, kind of like an internal YCombinator. Most Area 120 projects get killed by design if they don't show enough success early on. Using an Area 120 produ
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I hadn't heard of L-Theanin and Cacao before, but their blog post [1] describes why they matter: ====L-theanine==== L-theanine is a calming amino acid found in green tea. It activates alpha waves in your brain, which are present when y
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
This suggests a fun exercise: Once a week, maybe right after each person says what they did, everyone gets randomly assigned a person and they have to explain what that person did last week. The goal of this exercise: Make people actually
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
This is a great tool. The one thing I need before I would start regularly using it: Hot keys Hot keys to: P0. Submit the notes (and start notes at a new timestamp) P0. Start taking a new note P2. Pause/play the video

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