calebm

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   by calebm 11y ago

   I have been wanting one of these for years! Last time I looked into building my own robot, the lack of a low-cost LIDAR is the thing that held me back. Last time I looked, it was like $10k for similar functionality. This is a total game-cha
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   by calebm 11y ago

   Anyone know how this tax sheltering works? The article mentioned "One leaked memorandum from a partner of Mossack Fonseca said: 'Ninety-five per cent of our work coincidentally consists in selling vehicles to avoid taxes.'&qu
3. 573.▲
   by calebm 11y ago

   By an order of magnitude!
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   by calebm 11y ago

   I love plain text, and like the idea of having notes in one place, but I use tons of pictures when taking notes (like taking screenshots of online class whiteboards). Evernote is awesome for this kind of note taking. Is there an easy way to
5. 575.▲
   by calebm 11y ago

   I can typically just add print statements and figure out the problem in less time than it would take to setup and attach a debugger. But occasionally, I will use the PyCharm debugger with Python. And even more occasionally, I'll use an
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   by calebm 11y ago

   As a Christian, I disagree with the lifestyles many lead, and I have seen those lifestyles lead to much suffering. But just because I think I know better doesn't mean I want to push my views on them. God gave us free will; I advocate f
7. 577.▲
   by calebm 11y ago

   Exactly what I came to say. I'm not a gambler, but the idea of making gambling illegal seems insane to me in "the land of the free".
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   by calebm 11y ago

   I bought a counterfeit Macbook charger a few years ago, and indeed, it did damage my computer (I think it damaged some internal power system in the Macbook. The effect was I could no longer run on battery power).
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   by calebm 11y ago

   "The Speed of Dark" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_Dark ) addresses this topic.
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    by calebm 11y ago

    This reminds me of the best article I've ever read on caffeine: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-berardi-phd/coffee-health... . TL;DR: There is an enzyme called CPY1A2 which determines if caffeine is bad or good
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    by calebm 11y ago

    I came across this scenario while interviewing at a HFT firm about a year ago - caught me off guard :)
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    by calebm 11y ago

    The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Oscar Wilde) is just so beautifully written. It was Oscar Wilde's only novel (he only needed one). It also has the absolute best preface of any book I've read: https://www.gutenberg.org&#x
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    by calebm 11y ago

    What differentiates it from Firebase?
14. 584.▲
    by calebm 11y ago

    UPDATE: This DID work for me on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013). Nicely done @fulldecent!
15. 585.▲
    by calebm 11y ago

    Just tested on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) and it didn't work. (Although I see in the README it says to run it on an Apple MacBook Air 13-inch, Early 2015). Anyone else get it to work?
16. 586.▲
    by calebm 11y ago

    Wow, if this works, that is awesome!
17. 587.▲
    by calebm 11y ago

    The next logical step is stackoverflow-powered code generation :)
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    by calebm 11y ago

    True, it does seem like a contradictory sentence. Here, I'll fix it: "English is the common language of the world." :)
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    by calebm 11y ago

    Very pretty. Looks useful too!
20. 590.▲
    by calebm 11y ago

    "CoeLux currently costs £40,000 (~$61,000) to buy and up to £5,000 (~$7,600) for installation."
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    by calebm 11y ago

    My wife and I are reading this book called "Move Your DNA" (by Katy Bowman). She has an interesting thesis: modern exercise is "junk movement" (like "junk" food). The idea is that humans were meant to move more
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    by calebm 11y ago

    I have a friend who is a pharmacist, and she warned strongly against statins. Among other drawbacks, statins kill sex drive.
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    by calebm 11y ago

    I've got some friends who do medical research, and from what they say, "translational research" (getting the latest research into the hands of the doctors actually practicing medicine) is a HUGE problem. I have been advised t
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    by calebm 11y ago

    Good example of a probabilistic algorithm/data structure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_list
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    by calebm 11y ago

    "Boutin’s team looked inside the hands of 40 people, ranging from those who never cracked their knuckles to those who had done it 20 times a day for 40 years. When hand injury experts examined them before and after cracking, they found
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    by calebm 11y ago

    "The precise reasons that people see profundity in vague buzzwords or syntactic but completely random sentences are unknown." Here is my guess: people probably find that understanding profound sayings does tend to involve more thi
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    by calebm 11y ago

    I was in an open office at my last company, and loved it. I'm just one data point, but I vastly prefer it to cubicles.
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    by calebm 11y ago

    They were blocking ICMP on United last time I checked (4 days ago). If I pinged a website, the ip would come back, but the pings would timeout.
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    by calebm 11y ago

    Yes.
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    by calebm 11y ago

    If they don't offer free wifi, just use DNS tunneling ;)