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by eindiran 6y ago
I have seen that image of the woman wearing the round hat and looking in to the camera in several image processing articles or tutorials now. Is there a story there? Ie is it a/the standard image people use to demonstrate something in
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by eindiran 6y ago
Growing a few acres of something seems like a very cool project. Did you / your dad already have the land before you decided to try it out? Do you think you would have done it again if you had made money? Would you recommend it as a pr
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by eindiran 6y ago
Man, I haven't thought about Myst in a long time. I remember playing the remastered edition on my dad's computer and being transfixed by how beautiful it was, despite being a bit too young to grok all of the puzzles. It seems fitt
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by eindiran 6y ago
Yeah, having the perspective of people outside your bubble definitely helps. Outside of software engineers, I have seen this quite a bit in people I know that became doctors: its the natural thing to compare yourself to your perceived peers
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by eindiran 6y ago
I'm not sure what this is responding to in my comment.
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by eindiran 6y ago
(1) Recognize that getting rid of this mindset is going to be an uphill battle, because humans are wired to compare ourselves to our peer group, as a means of determining our status within it. It is okay that this is a hard thing to deal wi
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by eindiran 6y ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for a FOSS alternative to Fusion 360 that is (1) reasonably popular and (2) has a similar feature set?
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by eindiran 6y ago
FTA: > From tackling pollution to protecting coral reefs, the international community did not fully achieve any of the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets agreed in Japan in 2010 to slow the loss of the natural world. It is the second consecut
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by eindiran 6y ago
A lot of universities end up renaming buildings after later rounds of donors, so even getting your name up on the building isn't a guarantee.
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by eindiran 6y ago
I feel like the Piraha stuff comes up every so often, and I feel obligated each time to link to the famous Nevins and Pesetsky rebuttal: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/94631/Nevins-... Be
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by eindiran 6y ago
That header file is amazing. Thank you for the pointer to that. For anyone wondering, it lets you build programs without a libc: > This file is designed to be used as a libc alternative for minimal programs with very limited requirements
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by eindiran 6y ago
> I did about 20+ technical interviews at Google/Facebook over the last 2 years. That seems like a huge number of interviews. Are you counting each interviewer as a distinct interview? Even then, that seems like a lot for 2 years!
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3Blue1Brown: Hamming Codes [video](youtube.com)
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by eindiran 6y ago
Older Fiesta dinnerware (especially in red) is quite famous for having Uranium in the glaze prior to World War 2, which was then confiscated for the war effort. I believe they then returned to using Uranium in the glaze after the war for a
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by eindiran 6y ago
I think people do it more than you'd guess; especially the case where they have been to the correct Nissan site recently, didn't notice the URL, and then are navigating back quickly. I have done that within the last few years: I w
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by eindiran 6y ago
I have taken to using the current events portal, perhaps once a week: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events The once-per-month approach is an interesting one, which I would imagine removes even more of th
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by eindiran 6y ago
Tufte definitely has something of a soft spot for Minard. He discusses that particular map on page 40 - 41 of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (in the section "Narrative graphics of space and time"), and his site h
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by eindiran 6y ago
Very interesting video (as an aside the title should probably have the [video] tag). The outcome of the toy model for astronaut selection is very interesting: when the competition is stiff, the "luck score", even when weighted muc
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by eindiran 6y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/herb Note the pronunciation given for US and Canadian English, with the optional /h/: /(h)ɝb/ If your dialect pronounces it as /ɝb/ it is perfectly natural t
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by eindiran 6y ago
It has now started as of 2 minutes ago.
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The truly enormous lines that constantly plague the Portland location would indicate otherwise.
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by eindiran 6y ago
I have been to the Portland location, and as amazing as it is the Hyde Park Powell's will always hold a special place in my heart. I spent many a day in college wasting time in the shelves of Powell's and spent a lot more money th
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by eindiran 6y ago
I have always thought the the Culture novels are a bad fit for a TV series. The non-chronological, only-loosely-based-in-the-same-universe style makes the books very thematically and structurally different from one another: the shows that y
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by eindiran 6y ago
Install an adblocker so you can still be rickrolled like old times.
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My mom uses a gardening community app which has users from around the world. According to her, many users across several continents/countries have been experiencing this (North America, Europe, Australia, other parts of Asia). You rece
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by eindiran 6y ago
There was a good thread yesterday that covers some possible reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24265456 One explanation that was offered was that there are a ton of IPOs all the time: https://www.nasda
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by eindiran 6y ago
The seignorialism aspect of feudalism is now absent though: the lord needed peasants to work his lands. This new ruling class doesn't need the labor of the growing unemployed and forgotten class - only their consumption.
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by eindiran 6y ago
Geoffrey Pullum, who came up with the term "eggcorn", also came up with "snowclone" [0]. He has had a lot of very interesting posts on Language Log [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone [
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This is also how the UC system works: the top 9% (IIRC) students are eligible for guaranteed admission, but they are not necessarily admitted to the campus or program of their choice, so you might not get to go to eg Berkeley.
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by eindiran 6y ago
I have noticed that since the protests began there has been a huge influx of my contacts onto Signal and I've gotten a few questions about how to use PGP. I'm glad folks are starting to take privacy in their messengers more seriou

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