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by ahelwer 6y ago
At least it'll give you some info about whether you're likely to make it when a really bad pandemic comes along. I thought I was being fairly careful - extremely diligent with masks, surgical-prep-style handwashing, disinfecting
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If you're in the USA, Red Cross is giving free coronavirus antibody tests when you go donate blood so they can get more convalescent plasma donors. I was very mildly ill a couple weeks back (wasn't worth getting tested at the time
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Anyone have experience using OCaml on Windows? I do some development for a cross-platform project where researchers wrote one of the components in OCaml. Installing this particular component on Windows is a giant pain requiring the user to
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Many people find the "pozzy vibes only" philosophy much more annoying than relentless cynicism, which can at least be refuted by just ignoring it & building stuff.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
For upwork you also have the option to pay per deliverable. Unfortunately this opens you up to the risk of your time estimates being off by a lot, thus lowering hourly pay.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I recently made the transition from full-time software engineer at bigco to independent consultant, so maybe I can help explain. There's a fairly large mentality shift between salary work and contract work. When you're salaried, y
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Large parts of this article read as though they were lazily & uncritically copied straight out of a press release.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The parent offered rural areas as an example of where it might not be profitable to deliver. Not a be-all-end-all analysis carving up profitable and non-profitable areas.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It struggles on longer documents for me. You'll scroll and things will be blurry for a second or two before popping in. Personally I'm a big fan of Drawboard PDF on Windows.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I've certainly made the jump to a fully-thought-out home office[0], but masks are conspicuously absent from this article - facial recognition? Good luck when I continue wearing my nice face covering in public long after this specific v
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by ahelwer 6y ago
As the other commenter said, the big appeal of this approach is the ability to improvise dialogue or even actions.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Oh yeah, these are all great points for sure. (2) could probably be solved with game design (like how Mass Effect hides loading screens behind elevator rides and such). Actors are quite good at improv, but regardless they can restrict their
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Sadly my specialty is in formal methods and distributed systems and I don't think I have any domain expertise: * No knowledge of acting or actors; never even been to LA * Never worked with mocap technology * Never worked with video gam
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by ahelwer 6y ago
One idea I've had (heavily influenced by The Diamond Age, I must admit) - a premium video game experience where NPCs you meet are sometimes voiced/acted by actors hired real-time on-demand with face or even body mocap. The NPCs re
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Senseless. Money governs access to political power in this country. You would take away nearly the only alternative tool regular working people have to make their voices heard with impact and call it "deeply corrupt" - how do yo
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Not ironic at all. Police are the agents of capital and their union is thus in service of capital, not labor. They are conspicuously the only union which isn't protested very much by the powers that be. The union protects police from r
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The whole thesis of VC funds is to invest in many companies and have a few home runs drive returns. VC-backed companies failing is just the cost of doing business in a random extremistan world. For programmers it's as you say - either
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Good luck investing in private companies with $100k. The only way us serfs can get access to those opportunities is to chain our futures to the company and go work for them. Also means we can't diversify our portfolio like the VCs can.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If you start doing these sorts of comparisons between publicly-funded science and industry this isn't even in the same ballpark, or even league, of the most depressing comparisons you could make.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Look I'm sure you mean well but this feigned-ignorance-leading-question schtick is literally thousands of years old and is basically just annoying. Try making an argument instead of baiting someone else into a bad one. Anyone past age
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Imagine trying to explain to people how your cheap hat from a meme scam festival that nobody will remember in five years is a piece of art. They would - at most - nod tolerantly as you bring up Duchamp, their eyes presumably then drifting o
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Jog on, Socrates. Prices in the art world are presently distorted because of astonishing levels of wealth concentration. But basically yes, reproductions are perfectly fine - although an actual high-fidelity reproduction will set you back q
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I think you misread my post.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
You can't just throw art in the mix there. One can absolutely see collectibles as ridiculous while placing great value on art. One can also understand why people value collectibles, and also think it ridiculous. They're empty.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
For me HN and twitter are only useful for learning of things, not learning the things themselves. It's easy to get caught in the perpetual 101-level trap. All my actual valuable knowledge has come from reading textbooks & documen
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The Economist is basically the flag-bearer of pro-capitalist policy, so yes their views would largely be supported by the entire US political establishment.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
FOMO was probably the hardest thing to overcome before quitting twitter, after fear of losing my meagre number of followers. There are a few ways to look at this. First, consider the things you are happy to have not missed out on. Can you n
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I envy those who can engage with twitter in a healthy way, but the list of people whom I envy for this is very short. Everything about it designed to draw you outside of your narrow field of interest and thus increase the time spent on it.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Eyerollingly boring advice, but quitting (and deleting!) reddit, twitter, facebook, instagram, and maybe even HN. Anything designed with the explicit goal of occupying your attention. Maybe you've noticed that you haven't managed

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