iamthepieman

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by iamthepieman 3y ago
I was seriously in the market for a heat pump system for the upper floor of my home. The current oil fired furnace system works but oil is expensive and the heat from our pellet stove doesn't reach up to the second level very well. The
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
They're specifically marketing to car manufacturers in the press release video. Which is unfortunate because I don't need more non-haptic buggy interfaces in my car. The technology itself is amazing even though the holo-cam appear
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
I've done the admittedly rough cost benefit analysis and for me it doesn't work out. There's hidden edge cases in each of these and other cases. I did optimize in other ways to make up for the inefficient choices though. I ha
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
"LOLWUT should remember ourselves that the work we do, programming, did not start just in order to produce something useful. Initially it was mainly a matter of exploring possibilities." This really resonates with me. It's wh
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Is there an option to pay and to self host? Recently my boss asked me for things to spend money on to use up some budget at the end of the year. We can't use hosting services but would pay for support or an "enterprise" editi
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
yes that was it. It really is an example of fantastic documentation. I had tried to run a linux distro that I had bought when I was 16 or 17 (in a box from a store!) but failed to see the appeal. The throw you right in the deep end with ple
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Gentoo was the first distro that I grokked. The way they walked you through the build system (honestly can't remember if it was official docs, community forum or what) was just the right balance of teetering on the edge of everything c
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
"Another possibility is that developer efficiency improves so much that the code written 10 years ago is easier to completely rewrite today, than it is to maintain and extend." This seems completely false to me and I'm curiou
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Doesn't have to have anything to do with probability. If fewer resources are spent repairing and re-building and the last hurricane event is out of people's minds then I would expect there to be more building resulting in more dam
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Skiing - I live in a cold climate. there's 4 months were it's dark before I quit work. If I don't do stuff outdoors in the sunlight, I go crazy Woodworking - My first in between high school and college was at a fine furniture
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Yes, it's all in my mind. I don't actively hallucinate. But I can put the image in my mind I to the real world. I still don't see it but I can "put it there" and trace the outline, add or remove elements and see how
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
I don't have aphantasia, quite the opposite, I see things constantly in my head and have to work hard on my environment and myself to be able to focus on the present moment or what's in front of me. I also learned about it from so
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
My limited anecdata does not support this. The kids who are the best on my children's sport teams are the ones who play club sports in addition to the regular season, who go to sport camps and are on multiple teams. It's clear why
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Strongly disagree with this. If a class (at any level) is strictly teaching "the subject" then that is a very good issue to raise by a student or anyone else. Great teachers don't just teach the subject though, they teach the
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Not really a side project as I was trying to get traction on my ideas at my former employer. I do contract work for a pretty niche industry and after you've done a couple big implementation projects, you've seen 80-90% of all user
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
I agree that it's a good rule. Of course the people responsible for staffing aren't usually the people building services.
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Did you get this rule of thumb somewhere or make it up? If the latter, can you please share a source?
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
I've done PM work, lead dev work, analyst work, internal training and documentation, market research, product development, engineering manager and QA. I suck at all of them. The only thing I good at is communication and laziness. Being
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
I just got hired on for a greenfield project. It's a little different since it's in the contracting space. I contacted some colleagues from a previous company who were all working at the same company, told them what I wanted to d
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
I just started a new job 3 weeks ago via a referral. I messaged a former coworker through LinkedIn, hopped on a call with the hiring manager a week later and was hired. The actual process was something like this 1. LinkedIn message to forme
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Sounds like a really interesting system but the devil's in the details. I really don't see how you solve this without some combination of layer 3 filtering and individual kernel level apps for all supported devices.
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Been so frustrated by the plethora of controls, their various inability to do what I want and the constant need to check the settings to make sure they didn't fail open or that I just forgot to lock something back down because my child
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Agreed. I probably won't catch a bug that the tests wouldn't also catch unless it's obvious. I'm looking for things like: -Is this duplicating something else? -Should this be part of this object? -if I c
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
My brother worked as a landscaper and spilled concentrated roundup all over his back and down his legs about two years ago when a backpack tank sprung a leak. About a year ago, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 2 months ag
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
I have Emily's translation of the Iliad and it's wonderful. I love reading excerpts aloud in the ancient history class I'm teaching.
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Isn't this a "I don't have to be fast, just faster than you" scenario when a bear is chasing you and all your peers? There's always going to be a curve and if anyone on the front side of the bell curve is below the
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
My dad is an agent. He works with foreclosed homes, estate sales and other complex sales. He gets a lot of business referrals from lawyers. Just talked with him about an estate sale where he had to get 17 signatures from various heirs to se
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
I don't buy it. The laws of supply and demand are an effect for affiliate links just like they are for the makers of the product. Sure, they might make more money per click. But there might very well be many more clicks if they recomme
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Used to organize LAN parties at my college as a fundraiser for the newly minutes ACM chapter I helped run. Learned more from running the LANs than I did from my networking, leadership and general computing classes.
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by iamthepieman 3y ago
Are commercial vehicles the same as consumer vehicles? I know there's not really a great distinction, at least in the U.S. but if I buy a cargo van and add some seats to it, is there some distinction between that and the latest super-c

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