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by jh00ker 3y ago
There's another benefit of an encyclopedia set of books over Wikipedia: in the physical process of looking up a desired topic in a book, you can stumble upon COMPLETELY unrelated topics as you flip through the pages. This serendipitou
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by jh00ker 3y ago
Full disclosure, they're from the 80s so they're out of date on some topics (space, aircraft, etc.) and there's some occasional insensitive language, e.g. "stupid".
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by jh00ker 3y ago
I have a similar story about a set of books from the 80s that weren't as much as inspiration for me and the future, but instead became a major source of forming my own broad general knowledge on core topics: Charlie Brown's '
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by jh00ker 3y ago
Wow, if you exclude lines changed in the commit due to indenting changing, there are only five new lines of code for this change!
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by jh00ker 3y ago
One application of (EV) cars is the robotaxi. Once this solution reaches critical mass, car ownership as we see it today will drop off. If I can send my car out to be a robotaxi while I'm at work and/or :^) asleep, then how much
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by jh00ker 3y ago
I like the random facts in the payload! That's fun! [0] [0]: https://github.com/NalinPlad/OuterFlightTracker/blob/main/tr...
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by jh00ker 3y ago
+1 to "turn on the lights" mode
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by jh00ker 3y ago
>So, there was great interest in developing a timekeeping mechanism that didn't rely on gravity. "Great interest" is an understatement! The full story can be found in "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who S
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by jh00ker 3y ago
I've seen a GMC SUV with a popup that says not to take your eyes off the road. It may come on while in Park, but it remains once in Drive, preventing any use of the screen until you ... take your eyes off the road to tap OK on the touc
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by jh00ker 3y ago
You are correct, regarding "Can I take..." but the queries used "How can I take..." which is not ambiguous.
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by jh00ker 3y ago
I see what you did there!
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by jh00ker 3y ago
>better water resistance/proofing/reduced engineering cost This is a myth. Look at the Samsung Galaxy S5 (IP67) & Sony XP10 (IP68). (Yeah, I'm a big Louis Rossmann fan; I learned this from his videos.) Even if it were
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by jh00ker 3y ago
"found about 700 spherules of diameter 0.05-1.3 millimeters" ... "0.26 km2 of seafloor was sampled" ... "seafloor depths ranging between 1.5-2.2 km" I'm imagining fine, dusty sand, falling from the atmosph
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by jh00ker 3y ago
This book by David Burns [1] taught me that ACTION comes first, AND THEN motivation arrives. If you lay there and wait to be motivated, it will never happen. Specifically: 1. Action 2. Results 3. Motivation 4. Repeat! Anti-pattern: 1. Mot
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by jh00ker 3y ago
In Nov 2018, during the Camp Fire, I was in the Bay Area and was thrilled to have an air quality tracker from Wynd [1]. It is small, but seemingly accurate (when comparing outdoor readings with PurpleAir[2] readings). It allowed me to ide
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by jh00ker 3y ago
If college campuses routinely have their own "police department" surely, Apple HQ Security could expand to have a law enforcement agency?
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by jh00ker 3y ago
You forgot to say "transcribes audio to text IN WHATSAPP AND TELEGRAM!" This is really cool! Instead of forwarding the messages for transcription, can I add the bot to a group conversation and have it automatically transcribe eac
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by jh00ker 3y ago
I think of front-line managers (of ICs) as part of "middle management" (anything "in the middle" between ICs and executives) but I can see how some might think of middle management as managers of managers. Anyway, that&
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by jh00ker 3y ago
Correct, specifically front-line EM roles. I added clarification.
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by jh00ker 3y ago
I have at least one LinkedIn connection at nearly every company for which I'd like to work / for which I've been tracking open roles. In the past, getting a referral would almost guarantee a recruiter screen (vs just applyin
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by jh00ker 3y ago
Surveys - need to baseline, first, though
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by jh00ker 3y ago
Before the pandemic, I feel like the norm was to leave your home at whatever time was necessary for you personally to get into the office at the time that meetings are generally happening (at my company this was 10am, usually for standup).
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by jh00ker 3y ago
Premium audio isn't a software-disabled feature. You can buy a wiring harness on Amazon to enable the disabled, yet installed, speakers: https://amzn.to/3rVBrel
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by jh00ker 3y ago
If I check a suitcase full of money on my flight, or if I pass it through TSA security, I must consent to being searched (without a warrant) in order to fly. It's not like I have a suitcase of money in my trunk and I've been pulle
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by jh00ker 3y ago
Who here clicked the YouTube link at the top of the README.md file and DIDN'T watch it all the way through? I admire your resolve!
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by jh00ker 3y ago
The guy in the first video is NOT Douglas Engelbart... right?
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by jh00ker 3y ago
TIL about SMS Delivery Reports and I Googled to learn how to enable them in the native SMS messaging app on my mobile device! I didn't have time to read the whole doc. Did it say how many SMS Delivery Reports were needed to create the
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by jh00ker 3y ago
His point was that lava density could have high-variability.
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by jh00ker 3y ago
Phishing how? The URL links directly to the page without redirection. The page is owned by Google. It's an existing learning platform...
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by jh00ker 3y ago
Right? Looking at you, Apple...

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