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by guidoism 7y ago
Yeah, low light. Definitely. It's not something I shoot much anymore. There was a period where phone photos looked bad even when viewed on phones, then for a long period of time they looked great on the phone but when viewed on a monit
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by guidoism 7y ago
I completely agree. But there was a period of several years, maybe 2010-2016 when they didn't. And especially at the beginning of that time, oh, I remember cringing when I saw friends' baby pictures they took at the time with thei
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by guidoism 7y ago
It's funny but I've recently been thinking of him as "The Git guy" rather than "The Linux Guy". I honestly think that Git has the potential to be relevant a lot longer than Linux.
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by guidoism 7y ago
If I had something like Xavion to help with the approach I would probably choose the dead stick approach but really, how often have any of us ever really dead sticked it? I haven't. We pull the power to idle, but that's not the
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by guidoism 7y ago
I'm not sure 20mph is correct. The POH says it's the equivalent of being dropped from 10 feet. It's not something I want to experience but it doesn't really sound that bad.
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by guidoism 7y ago
The insurance companies apparently want pilots to pull the CAPS rather than try to dead stick it. That’s what I was told when I got checked out in the SR22 by the flight school. They drilled it into me. What happens when blah blah blah? Pul
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by guidoism 7y ago
I think that Intel’s cpu complexity (and arm and for that matter RISC v CPUs) is that they are designed to speed up existing software. Software that was written 50 years ago on simpler machines. Starting from scratch is not as complex as yo
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by guidoism 7y ago
I'm not sure. I did some analysis comparing the cost of basic grocery items in the early 20th century to now and they aren't that different. I used the price of gold at the time vs now and the average daily wage to try to get a be
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by guidoism 7y ago
There's probably some limits to the cheapness. I think hard drives are going to be always at least $35 no matter how small the storage space is just because of the parts and manufacturing. I wonder what those parts are for a laptop.
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by guidoism 7y ago
Yeah I would be happy to discuss. I'm @guidoism on twitter if you want to move conversation there.
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by guidoism 7y ago
I love projects like these. One that has me fascinated is the idea of building a computer than can last centuries. Can it be done? - Will the ICs last that long, can they? - How will it get electricity if the sockets and voltage standards c
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by guidoism 7y ago
If this was medicine, or tampons, or something people really needed, then yes. But extremely high-end mechanical keyboards? Not really evil. It's a Veblen good.
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by guidoism 7y ago
I too love the large trackpads. I use an Apple Magic Trackpad 2 in front of my Planck 47-key ortholinear keyboard.
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by guidoism 7y ago
I actually really liked Simple DB as a place for configuration.
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by guidoism 7y ago
(Another former Amazonian from the same team) ozgune is correct as far as I remember. The beginnings of AWS, though, were for the retail site. We exposed search and browse and item metadata via an API first for a deal with AOL to provide th
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by guidoism 7y ago
Indeed. There's a reason for that: Most modern non-fiction books are the result of a publisher giving a book deal to an author to expand an article they wrote and people who are going to spend $20 on a book want to feel like they are g
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by guidoism 7y ago
It's useful to disambiguate between the book "format", that is, an amount of text of a certain size that has been edited put together in a clear manner, and the physical book, that is, a codex of dead trees with ink on it. IM
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by guidoism 7y ago
Oh man I totally agree. It's a fetish for dead tree books. And to be perfectly honest I have the fetish, but I recognize that it's just a fetish. It irks me to no end that the whole education system keeps on pounding this idea int
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by guidoism 7y ago
Somebody wrote "Not to sound rude, but how can one judge what idea one needs to see as 'important' while skimming through the book if they have no clue of what the book is about?" and then deleted it. I'd still like
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by guidoism 7y ago
I personally like the Baron Fig, it's exactly the same size as the iPad mini, so portable, but not pocketable. I actually keep two: one for scribbly notes and the other for my more thoughtful notes. Took me a while to get over making m
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by guidoism 7y ago
I'm curious about what it is about the format that you don't like. Or are you really just saying that you don't like the type of books that people give you? I love consuming other types of media but they all have their plac
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by guidoism 7y ago
The opposite. Non-fiction books should be read in multiple passes, like a video encoder. - First pass: Understand the structure, important words (from index), some interesting passages. - Second pass: Read it all the way through, don't
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by guidoism 7y ago
I do the forgetting what I just read thing too. I've now gotten to the point where I know it's time to put the book down if that starts happening. It's crazy how our brain and read words but not actually do anything with th
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by guidoism 7y ago
Great question! In my fourth decade of life I’m finally figuring out the optimal way to do this myself. I’ve forgotten so so many books over the years that I supposedly read. Read How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Readin
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by guidoism 7y ago
Thank you for the less -> fewer correction. OMG, I am horrible at grammar but for some reason this one drives me crazy and I hear it all the time in our industry.
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by guidoism 7y ago
I'm a python guy myself and I love the APL languages. In my mind I put python and APL in the same category of: I spend more of my time thinking about what to write and less time actually banging out text in the editor.
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by guidoism 7y ago
I've been playing around with this idea myself. My solution is to isolate the "stack of shit" that is still useful into VMs or separate processors entirely. The USB stack is already implemented on microcontrollers. If you onl
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by guidoism 7y ago
I realize that this is the current trend in both Europe and the US, but I wonder if this is the best (realpolitik) strategy. Not to mention the moral issues surrounding letting tens of millions suffer and die because we don't want to h
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by guidoism 7y ago
If you work for a company that provides a popular chat service and your team is one of the main dependencies then you use IRC while working on finding and fixing the cause of the outage. It’s not sexy but when everything else fails it does
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by guidoism 7y ago
Also these series of blog posts describe what's going on in the Visual ARM1 simulator and they are both really really well written: - http://www.righto.com/2015/12/reverse-engineering-arm1-ances... - http:&#

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