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by cranium 5y ago
> In hindsight, it is obvious that the fact a scientist has made an important chance discovery in the past does not mean he or she is more likely to make one in the future. I believe luck is a bigger part of life than we'd like to a
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by cranium 5y ago
I'm in the same place. I optimized the note taking experience and now I have loads of notes/links/snippets in Org files but the organizing part (move, link, update) is still painful. I would love to have a pseudo-smart tool t
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by cranium 5y ago
If you want to start scanning your documents but can only scan one side at a time with your automatic document feeder (ADF), I wrote a small tool to merge the PDFs automatically: https://github.com/RomainGehrig/PDFColla
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by cranium 5y ago
Question for the HN people: how would you bet on house prices going down in a near future ? Let's say you own your house and want to hedge against it losing value, or you are an outsider just interested in taking this side. In the fina
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by cranium 5y ago
What if you experience side effects of amphetamine addition as an adult without having ever exposed to amphetamines ? Yes, ADHD drugs are abused and it leads to complications. But, to quote Alexander Scott, "drug users use a lot of dru
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by cranium 5y ago
It's difficult to convert to real money if you are not using an exchange – and I guess the author is actively avoiding those. I think there are very few anonymous crypto-to-cash conversions due to regulations on money-laundering.
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by cranium 5y ago
I don't disagree with your first point but I think much depends on a person work ethic and what it means to them to do a good job. An engineer worth their salt would understand that success is not only writing the fun bits but also: th
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by cranium 6y ago
I like to see what other people have crafted for their own usage. Sometimes, I find a clever use of monitor real estate that would make my life easier. I adopted most of my tools by looking at other people setups and customizing them to my
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by cranium 6y ago
Problems I see with NFTs: - What prevents anyone from launching a competing chain and re-tokenize the same assets ? - As other chains: if you lose the access to your private key, you're done. - For real world assets (like a house), yo
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by cranium 6y ago
The difference may be due to the version of the HDMI port: HDMI 1.4 can only do 4k@30Hz while HDMI 2.0 can do 4k@60Hz.
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by cranium 6y ago
It's the last thing that keeps me on Nvidia with proprietary Linux drivers. I wouldn't mind ML training on a AMD card to be slower but I need my workload to be at least GPU-accelerated.
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by cranium 6y ago
https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1274808654227619840
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by cranium 6y ago
If you want to eyewitness an even tighter Ponzi scheme loop, look at YouTubers in the trading industry. Boats of them sell a course/book and use YouTube for marketing & ad money. Bonus points if they advertise beating the market.
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by cranium 6y ago
I would argue that the American people evolve in a less that ideal environment for constructive argumentation due to the biparty politics. It nearly seems by construction that if an issue is endorsed by a party, then the other must be aga
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by cranium 6y ago
It's too bad that giving critical feedback in your own name (to show skin in the game) is going to burn you in other jobs. Few want an employee that can bite the feeding hand. Interestingly, I tend to trust more some anonymous answer o
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by cranium 6y ago
Interesting factoid from the footnote: iPhone 12 mini has not been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission. iPhone 12 mini is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased, until
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by cranium 6y ago
Linked to perfectionism, I think the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) plays an deterring role in half-arsing things. By reading a book from cover to cover, you have access to all the information available. By skipping chapters, you risk missing i
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by cranium 6y ago
Location: Nyon, Switzerland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (just moved in) Technologies: Python/Django, TypeScript, Scala, Go, formal methods Résumé: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XMNvAC9yNh0c7eO3l6q9G
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by cranium 6y ago
I think this is due to Facebook stance to disallow these kind of accounts without a real name. They can block your account if they think you aren't using your real name and have you submit an official ID card or driving license to unlo
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by cranium 6y ago
It would actually be a good idea to test whether a headhunter is genuinely interested in having a discussion with you or is just spamming emails hoping to fish something.
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by cranium 6y ago
Don't think about making anything remotely real time as the full display refresh takes around 15s and there is no partial refresh available.
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by cranium 6y ago
One thing I got bitten by was the handling of Fahrenheit/Celsius, because it's a non-linear conversion between the two. When you ask to convert `10 degC` to `degF` you get 18, which is the delta of ºF corresponding to increment of
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by cranium 6y ago
I wish there was a guided path from this playful but limited introduction to computer assisted music to full-fledged products like Ableton Live. https://music-grid.surge.sh/#2-1-2050-260-258-2312-66-2056-3...
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by cranium 6y ago
I think it's a social status quo deadlock. People want to appear flawless because any flaw in one domain will affect how they are seen in other domains. It's a signal that says "Look at this person making mistakes, he/sh
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by cranium 7y ago
I bought it two weeks ago when the delivery delay was only a couple days, and I'm really happy of that purchase. For the price of the webcam I would have bought otherwise, I can enjoy the high quality of my photo gear and have a cool a
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by cranium 7y ago
The conference schedule is available here: https://www.remotecon.org/schedule.html
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RemoteCon 2020: A remote conference on remote work [Live](youtube.com)
2 points by cranium 7y ago|1 comments
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by cranium 7y ago
Pranks are difficult to do right. They easily can be experienced as frustrating, aggressive or plain idiotic by the receiver while the giver thinks it's totally hilarious. It requires a lot of empathy to create a good prank that doesn&
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by cranium 7y ago
A password should be considered a user secret and never be available in readable form by anyone in the company. Here, instead of having a rep reading out loud the password, they should have done a password reset or something with the same e
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Ask HN: How to use developer skills for occasionally making money on the side?
3 points by cranium 7y ago|1 comments

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