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by cbanek 7y ago
First off, congrats! I think self driving trucks have a lot of promise and would really change the American economy. I'm curious as to the ways that the self driving problems in trucks might be different to the problems of self drivin
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by cbanek 7y ago
Just to chime in I've only had great experiences with Olimex!
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by cbanek 7y ago
Well rare earth elements are heavy metals, and so it's about their atoms that is important. It's not something you can make via chemical processes, you'd need some kind of nuclear process, like how new atoms are made (kind o
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Starlink satellites passing over Leiden, the Netherlands [video](twitter.com)
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by cbanek 7y ago
Sure, you could look at that, but just because you carry a $6,500 balance isn't too terrible as long as you are paying it off. If you're just paying the minimum payments and not charging anything new, it could take many years to
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by cbanek 7y ago
"American have an average of $6,506 in credit card debt, according to a new Experian report out this week." Although credit reporting agencies have a funny way of calculating debt, which is used for your credit score as well. It&
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by cbanek 7y ago
While I agree that the article does a good job of describing the current state of things, I don't think it has always been this way. Let's go with the opening paragraph: "Consider how one should respond to a simple case of d
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by cbanek 7y ago
Well if you don't have the money to pay it off right away, and it's on your credit card, then how are you supposed to find even more money to pay that off? What if another surprise bill came at that time? You'd be going dow
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by cbanek 7y ago
Same thing for one of our computer engineering courses at UIUC. Great course, and while it took a long time to do it, it was a great experience (other than the fact that we had to do it in Mentor Graphics, which would randomly crash and ea
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by cbanek 7y ago
Exactly. In that in one of them, your landlord isn't likely to cover you, and is likely to kick you out, but your parents probably would cover the shortfall if they are able (at least for a couple of months). And if they aren't,
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by cbanek 7y ago
Pretty disappointed in PG's response: "I would ordinarily just let your bullshit go, but this myth that you have to be a rich kid to start a startup is terribly dangerous, because it discourages people who aren't from trying
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by cbanek 7y ago
I agree with the occasional scare gets you going. People are built to deal with that scare in an evolutionary sense. The change in brain chemistry to get you into flight or fight can really alter your perspective (where perspective is pre
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by cbanek 7y ago
Looking at the data in the graph of medallion prices is very interesting. They do chart the main line and the 60 day moving average, but it looks like there's an interesting secondary trend in the data, where there's another line
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by cbanek 7y ago
Well, congress can pass a law (as long as it's constitutional)! The law that governs mushrooms is the Controlled Substances Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act This handles all sorts of co
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by cbanek 7y ago
This seems like the current SV spin on losing ("failure = pre-greatness"). It seems like he's specifically saying that losing helps you win, or losing will inspire you to win, or whatever. But really, it seems like the key
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by cbanek 8y ago
Okay, first off, being a sysadmin or an ops person is important! You are the first line of defense, and many times, companies just need eyes on systems (all the time). It's your ability to analyze a problem that makes you useful. Th
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by cbanek 8y ago
I have sidewalk rage. But it's not really about having people walk slower. What gets me is when people have no situational awareness (on their phones, mostly), and are walking very slowly because of that. Then they tend to clump in
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by cbanek 8y ago
Overall, I think designing a system that prevents people from being harmed is very hard, and has to be a design level concept that is in everyone's minds as they start, and every day through development. Even your example "the wor
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by cbanek 8y ago
I go on youtube and try out some of the "epic music mixes," which have a lot of soundtrack type music on them. Also, I have to give a tip of my hat to Ambient Worlds, who have made some great long "rainy mood" mixes tha
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by cbanek 8y ago
I seriously worry about this with Kindle books I get on Amazon. I hope Amazon never goes away, though I guess it could at any time.
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by cbanek 8y ago
I love the VLA. There is a neat little visitor center that you can go to with decorative tiles in the bathroom. Apparently these were popular so people started stealing them, so I heard they sell them in the gift shop. Other than that the
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by cbanek 8y ago
Once, in an open office / bullpen space, someone was getting fired. I guess they thought it was going to be bad, so most of the managers were notified up front. Our lead said "let's go get some ice cream." I replied: &q
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by cbanek 8y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I think this is almost true for everyone. There are so many "basic things" that it's hard to keep them all in memory. I'd have to look up all these things you're talking about (oth
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by cbanek 8y ago
With the stories about how hard it is to contact Google support, I wonder how they plan to moderate an entire online community? Online games especially are pretty hard to moderate well.
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by cbanek 8y ago
> I don't feel a sense of camaraderie. Especially when I work as a remote contractor. This seems to generally be a hurdle of remote work. It's hard to feel that sense of camaraderie when you are far away. There's a lot o
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by cbanek 8y ago
I totally agree - I love the ability in python to print out the stack trace, I use it all the time! I would love if that also had variables as well (although, this is tricky, because you have to worry about cycles between the variables if
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by cbanek 8y ago
I'm talking about race and timing conditions between multiple machines. It's a lot easier to just log the various points to find the ordering of things for these kinds of conditions. As long as your clocks are closely sync'
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by cbanek 8y ago
I never knew that Linus didn't like debuggers, but I completely agree, though for slightly different reasons. I haven't stepped through something in a debugger in probably 10 years. I don't do kernel development, most of my
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by cbanek 8y ago
Well I think the difference is insider knowledge. If you run a public company, and know everything that is happening, that can give you a significant advantage in trading that stock. While I agree what the President is saying can move mark
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by cbanek 8y ago
Or the fact that just because she did it doesn't mean that anyone can do it? I guess if you haven't, you just need to "want it more."

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