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by chipuni 5y ago
That sounds a lot like what https://www.random.org/ does to create random numbers.
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by chipuni 5y ago
I just use the XKCD random number generator: https://xkcd.com/221/
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by chipuni 5y ago
I'm not the original poster, but I have more than 23k cards in Anki. I would emphatically not want to publish my flashcards publicly. Many of them are internal to where I work, and simply aren't interesting outside my workspace.
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by chipuni 5y ago
I'm not the original poster, but I have 19,324 cards in my computer science deck and 3,632 in my Spanish deck... so our numbers are similar. I use my decks to keep topics in mind for years until I choose to forget them. But these cards
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by chipuni 5y ago
Easy. Tell people that everything from when they were young is "right" and that everything new in the last n years is "wrong". You won't even need to do much research. Hand around people of the age that you're
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by chipuni 5y ago
Please, try playing your harmonic ideas with real sounds. Here's some things to try: - How bad or good do two synthesized violins sound together at 800 and 900 hertz? Think about them as overtones: Does adding a tone at 100 hertz resol
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by chipuni 5y ago
Bitcoin, and other alt-currencies, are mostly owned by a very small number of people: https://blog.dshr.org/2018/10/gini-coefficients-of-cryptocur... On paper, they are very, very rich. In reality, they can very
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by chipuni 6y ago
People lie on their resumes. There's a huge surplus of people claiming skills they don't have. You'd be shocked at how many people who claim to be strong data scientists don't know SQL. When I last hired for a technical
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by chipuni 6y ago
Of course, gutenberg.org is a great resource for those forgotten books. One of the most popular books from the 19th century was "Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum" http://www.gu
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by chipuni 6y ago
According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ , among US closed cases, 8% of people who test positive for Covid-19 die. (BIG CLUE: Use closed cases for estimating mortality of an illness.
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by chipuni 6y ago
Mu. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Goya-Goya-Nectar-9-6-oz/142388990
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by chipuni 6y ago
Yes, I use Anki every day. When I was working from an office, I used the commute time (I take the train) to practice Anki. Now, it's the evenings.
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by chipuni 6y ago
I put new facts into Anki ( https://apps.ankiweb.net/ ) and then they get reviewed daily, with a steady, slow addition of new facts. It's a very effective way to keep everything in long-term memory. (It's also ver
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by chipuni 6y ago
I just exposed myself to radiation from the largest fusion reactor in the solar system! Should I panic? ....errr.... Wait. I have just been slipped a note that the first sentence I wrote means "I just went for a walk in sunshine."
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by chipuni 6y ago
I don't have the authority to do so, but could someone change the title of this to "Git Is Freaking Awesome", so that it matches the article?
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by chipuni 7y ago
It happens. Where I work, the manager of programmers is from Nigeria.
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by chipuni 7y ago
I've used Anki for about ten years, and I'm going to tell you a huge secret... There's absolutely no need to "reset". Ever. If you have only ten minutes to devote to Anki, then only spend ten minutes. If at some lat
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by chipuni 7y ago
I... guess? ... that you're supposed to check off pomodoros as you do a task, and I... guess?!?... that once you've checked off all the pomodoros in your printed calendar, the task is supposed to be done...?... Is that what you&#x
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by chipuni 7y ago
I picked up some extra, long-term food from CostCo. Stuff that won't go bad within a few months. Pasta, rice, almonds, some canned goods. Stuff that we'll eat off of for the next few months, regardless of what happens with COVID-1
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by chipuni 7y ago
Food that you like. Medicines. Imagine that you'll be stuck in your home for three weeks. What would you need?
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by chipuni 7y ago
You mean: Someone who used to be with the organization knows, but they were let go three generations ago when the management fired the developers to move development to India, then fired that outsourcing organization to move development to
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by chipuni 7y ago
@gwbas1c is missing the OTHER half of the equation... Though everyone in the Bay Area needs (access to) a car, driving in the Bay Area is No Fun. There's stop and stop traffic on every major highway. Parking in San Francisco is very ex
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by chipuni 7y ago
The biggest difference between NYC and San Francisco is transportation. Pick three tech companies at random: one large, one medium, and one small. Make sure that at least two of them are on the Peninsula (say, San Mateo or Mountain View.) F
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by chipuni 7y ago
Edmodo | ONSITE | San Mateo, CA | Data Lead | Full-Time Our mission is to connect all learners to the people and resources needed to achieve their full potential. We are the world's leading global education network that provides commun
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by chipuni 7y ago
Hi virgil -- There's a big difference between scrutinizing code and putting down the programmer. It sounds like the people you showed your code to didn't know the difference. Scrutinizing your code should be talking about the code
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by chipuni 7y ago
The tricks that companies have used to dilute engineers' equity and to have different classes of stock are coming back to bite those companies.
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by chipuni 7y ago
It really depends on the software professional. I do, but I have a terrible memory. I use flashcards to remember names of technologies that are important but that I don't use daily. I create flashcards when I make a mistake in programm
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by chipuni 7y ago
OKRs only work when they're updated as business needs change. In one job I've held with explicit OKRs, they worked well because the job remained pretty much the same. In another job, my OKRs created at the beginning of the year, m
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by chipuni 7y ago
I'm enthusiastic about Anki, and use it for an hour per day for the material I'm learning. I shared the Java portion of my deck at https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/647806244
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by chipuni 7y ago
It looks like this: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

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