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by garren 4y ago
I get what you’re saying. I didn’t feel overwhelmed by git, but I’d been working with it for a couple of years, so there’s a clear bias. I did run into frustration with other tools, though. Maybe git, in particular, does deserve some specif
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by garren 4y ago
If a student is technically inclined, presumably anyone in a CS program, then the bare minimum of git should be accessible. At least what is necessary for basic collaboration. Re-basing & cherry-picking, bisecting, etc. and the implemen
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by garren 4y ago
It’s odd to me that you’d expect them to. The CS program I was in used github for collaboration on a couple projects, but nothing really covering git tooling. All my classmates were either already familiar with it, or more than capable of
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by garren 4y ago
I do the same. Decaf gets a bad rap - if you like (or crave) the taste of coffee but don’t want the jitters, go decaf.
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by garren 4y ago
Completely agree. I love the taste of coffee, I love the smell of roasted beans, but I really appreciate the ritual. I can function fine without coffee, but the morning just isn’t started until I have fresh grounds and a pot started. Caffei
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by garren 4y ago
I stopped for about 6mos. I didn’t notice any significant effects, it didn’t improve my sleeping, I didn’t feel better or worse. Previously 4-6 cups a day, exclusively morning and afternoon. I also have a nice pro-sumer style espresso machi
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by garren 4y ago
I’ve really enjoyed Network Programming with Go, and would add that I’ve also found Distributed Services with Go[0] to be a good read. Regarding leetcode, I’ve only briefly looked into the platform, is there anything specific you’re using t
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by garren 5y ago
I’ve been looking this the Denver/Boulder area. 15% over asking is pretty much normal at this point, and I’ve seen more than a few places go for 17-20% over. I was approved through a regular lender, but had to find another lender that
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by garren 5y ago
“Clunky” crypto resonates perfectly with me. I spent a couple weekends reading up on bitcoin and ethereum, working through a couple simple blockchains implementations, and getting familiar with building for web3. I found the development exp
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by garren 5y ago
Maybe I’ve missed something, but the eco-friendly blockchains you’re describing are virtually all using some variety of PoS (“PoH” for solana, so-called “Nakamoto” PoS for Tezos.) I’ve yet to encounter anything convincing me that PoS in its
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by garren 5y ago
I’d say that the security matters more when considering transaction costs, no? The article mentions solana as being significantly less resource hungry than bitcoin or ethereum, but solana is using a variation of PoS as far as I can tell. He
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by garren 5y ago
The most recent version targets the beaglebone black and the intel Galileo (now obsolete, although you can still pick them up.) I’ve encountered raspi repos on GitHub as well. I’ve found it to be a great book since it gets you working with
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by garren 5y ago
I was not expecting much, but that’s pretty good! It’s Tetris-simple, but still challenging give the time limit. Great job!
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by garren 5y ago
Related [0] and [1]. [0] https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291... [1] https://adventisthealthstudy.org/studies/AHS-2
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Vegetarian, pescatarian or low meat diets may reduce cancer risk – new research(theconversation.com)
8 points by garren 5y ago|2 comments
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by garren 5y ago
I was going to suggest introducing the kind of heuristic analysis found in antivirus engines. Kind of like your item #2 - don’t run scripts that behave badly (for some heuristically recognizable “bad behavior”.) Basically a browser built-in
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by garren 5y ago
Google’s recommending that people set a A record in their own domain for the server, and change the name of the script. Given this, documenting such proxies and URLs and maintaining that documentation doesn’t seem practical. On the other ha
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by garren 5y ago
A standing desk helps here I think. I don’t find myself standing still at the desk for long (unless I have something to lean on like a perch chair), and about the time my legs start feeling stiff (20-30min), I just step away to grab a drink
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by garren 5y ago
Absolutely agree with the split keyboard. I’ve always worried about something like RSI, but other than the occasional numbness or tingling it never presented an issue. Even so, I was concerned enough that I figured I’d try a split keyboard.
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by garren 5y ago
I used to have horrible neck and shoulder pain, mine was also due to bad posture. The issue was that I was using a knee-chair, thinking that it would be better than a regular chair. It was at first. However, eventually I go into the habit o
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by garren 5y ago
4+ sodas a day seems like a lot. Congrats for kicking that. I stopped drinking soda years ago, and dramatically cut my sugar intake for a while. I was surprised to see how much sugar was in, well, just about everything. Occasionally I’d ind
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by garren 5y ago
I’ve worked with good developers that drank coffee, and others that didn’t. I’ve not seen a trend one way or the other. Personally, I stopped drinking coffee for around 9mos while wrestling with insomnia. The insomnia I knew was stress rela
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by garren 5y ago
Doesn’t “minimiz[ing] wealth concentration by imposing a competitive cost on obtaining coins”, basically translate to “only the wealthy can afford the compute resources needed to mine”? So, not really minimizing wealth concentration as prac
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by garren 5y ago
I’ve inherited a canary someone didn’t want, and I feel very much the same. I’ve considered letting it go, but it’s not a strong flier and the climate where I am isn’t exactly canary friendly. The idea that anyone would /buy/ a bi
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by garren 5y ago
Regarding all cash offers, have you looked at all cash options that are available through lenders like accept, inc [0] or better.com [1]? I’m in the market for a place now and recently lost to an all cash bidder. Turns out they were using [
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by garren 5y ago
Cash closes quicker, ~2wks. Cash also gets rid of the need for an appraisal by the lender, also gets rid of any potential appraisal gap.
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Warren Buffett just invested $1B in a crypto-friendly bank(fortune.com)
9 points by garren 5y ago|3 comments
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by garren 5y ago
Fungible simply means “interchangeable”, legality has nothing to do with it [0] (especially, it seems to me, in regards to a system that doesn’t seem explicitly subject to legal constraints like bitcoin.) One bitcoin is, in theory, intercha
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by garren 5y ago
This is news to me. I’m not super informed regarding cryptocurrencies, but it seems like this would also affect erc-20 “fungible” tokens on Ethereum, wouldn’t it? Do such tokens not also have traceable histories?
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by garren 5y ago
No drugs or alcohol, how about caffeine? I only ask because I stopped caffeine for months hoping it would help me get some sleeping problems under control. I was surprised to find that stopping caffeine, ~cups of coffee a day, didn’t have a

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