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by hothead334 3y ago
The Hacker News consensus is that no one is doing anything. I used to believe this and despair. But that is _just not true_. I've subscribed to the Harvard C Change newsletter and it's really changed my perspective - past issues h
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by hothead334 4y ago
Fantastic, the fundamentals of electrical engineering is exactly what I've been looking for.
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by hothead334 4y ago
You might enjoy Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane if you enjoyed the Isaacson biography. Fantastic writing and a very very interesting man as well as incredible artist.
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by hothead334 4y ago
One of my favourites of all time. The singing Cockney hedgehog is such a gem.
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by hothead334 4y ago
>> The main trick I use to avoid feeling overwhelmed is for each technology that feels important in some way, do the minimal work required to learn the following questions: These two simple questions seem like a great approach and one
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by hothead334 4y ago
One thing I try to remember is that HN is a place where a lot of people from the same broad area hang out. There are math Phds here who know nothing about Bash, veteran sys admins who don't know anything about the Node event loop, regu
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by hothead334 4y ago
Could replace S3 with a self hosted Minio instance?
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by hothead334 4y ago
Just amazing. I wonder how he got that concrete mixed up for the lion's head, how he did all of this without once mentioning it to anyone.
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by hothead334 4y ago
Very very cool. I'm writing this on a second-hand MacBook that was given to me by the very wealthy family I used to work for- it had stopped working completely and they said I should take it and see if I could get it fixed. I did, and
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by hothead334 4y ago
It was probably that in zsh, arrays start at 1.
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by hothead334 4y ago
Addictive. I'm been going for about 3 hours!