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by jimmies 9y ago
>Of course, it is possible that you will learn from the professor, but that you would learn _more_ by doing other things with four years of your life. University has no monopoly on knowledge. Lao-tzu said that you don't know what yo
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by jimmies 9y ago
Compilers is definitely my #1 favorite course. Data structures and algorithms is my #2. I kinda have a love-hate relationship with data structures later on because I never feel I am good enough to say I love it. With compilers, I found only
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by jimmies 9y ago
As a former-dropout myself [1]: You might some of the courses utterly stupid now, and you might have many doubts about the usefulness of a degree, but I think ultimately a degree is very very much worth it, both intellectually and for logis
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I was a washed up, bitter ex-musician who used to have a future(medium.com)
1 points by jimmies 9y ago|0 comments
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by jimmies 9y ago
If you plan to use it for your personal traditional storage HDD, you have to keep in mind that it will render most (if not all) data recovery tools naught. Tools such as PhotoRec rely on the file headers to determine the file type to recove
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by jimmies 9y ago
I think the problem here is that you want to have your cake and eat it, too. The short answer is: You can't have both. Either you do what you need to do, or you fear for various bad consequences that might or might not happen in life a
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by jimmies 9y ago
Seems like so. From Phoronix: "I began the weekend work with trying out a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an Intel Core i7 5600U processor... It's a mature Broadwell platform that has been working well under Linux for years. But no
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by jimmies 9y ago
Do you know what is the other thing that 4.17 also does? Optimizing idle loops so your laptop can run cooler for longer. Phoronix's initial testing seems to suggest a 10-20% less power usage while idle which is a fantastic news for tho
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by jimmies 9y ago
I bet every relatively complex program that ever tried to display Vietnamese chacters had to do something wonky at some point. There might have been more amazing engineering stories. They just don't get told very often because of the s
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by jimmies 9y ago
Was it? Smooth scrolling like what in Commander Keen was hard. Janky scrolling by one line at a time like a text editor probably wasn't that bad if I recall correctly. I guess I really just meant tedious when I mentioned that kind of
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by jimmies 9y ago
A text editor that renders text the hard way... Cool! Talking about editors that do crazy stuff, I have a story about the de-facto text editor in Vietnam in the 80s-90s called BKED. That editor runs on MS-DOS and looks just like edit.com [1
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by jimmies 9y ago
"Bufferbloat from the plumber's point of view." I haven't found a better explanation of the problem. Because of the way it is explained, the idea to solve it becomes obvious. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by jimmies 9y ago
Yep. Here: http://www.tnhh.net/posts/wireguard-router-firewalled-comput...
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by jimmies 9y ago
try nomachine. coupled with wireguard for vpn to a middleman broker computer, it works very well for me.
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by jimmies 9y ago
wireguard: so good, so fast, and everything a vpn software should be openwrt: works on many devices and so impressively stable xbmc/kodi: although I don't use it daily, it is a complex yet very functional piece of software winamp:
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by jimmies 9y ago
There is nothing super contradictory about Zuck that way... Zuckerberg isn't rich and famous because he is good at programming. He is because he created a successful social network called Facebook. He doesn't make money because he
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by jimmies 9y ago
People in general hate programming. Most IRL friends I have are absolutely terrified of programming and don't dare to even try or found it very tedious, boring, and hard, then very quickly gave up. I have friends who can't program
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by jimmies 9y ago
My rule of thumb is any job that has any "star" the general public knows and cheer for, don't bet your life's happiness on it. The more glamorous you see the star, the worse off the average person is/the more improb
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by jimmies 9y ago
I used to have a community that was on facebook before. What a terrible mistake it was. Besides many bad things, it is what you described. There was no way to search for anything. Reddit isn't perfect, but it's much less intrusive
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by jimmies 9y ago
Could it be that the submitter or whoever gave the submitter that link wanted to probe how many people on HN clicked on that link and where?
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by jimmies 9y ago
Make the cigarette buds reusable then (and ban those one-time use buds, if possible).
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by jimmies 9y ago
People's expectation of what is considered "fluent" is very different and many different approaches can work. Regardless of where you are, there are things that you can do. I am Vietnamese and studied English as a second lang
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List of hackable consumer electronic products(github.com)
3 points by jimmies 9y ago|0 comments
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by jimmies 9y ago
Thanks, I will remember to add to the list :) FP2 is a respectable piece of hardware, by the way. I just never had it because I am too poor.
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by jimmies 9y ago
To add to that, "early SLI" stands for Scan-Line Interleave, not Scalable Link Interface like it is now. CRT was some crazy shit to deal with. I'm glad I never had to deal with it. If you ever wondered why some old Youtube vi
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by jimmies 9y ago
She could be also a liar -- but I think that's a separate mental problem from being a shooter. There are several things that suggested to me that she was telling the truth. First, she was complaining about not getting views - If she co
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by jimmies 9y ago
I actually have it on the list, but it was lower on the list because I thought it was just not as spectacular of a hack ("unintentional") as ESP8266 was. When they created the ESP32, they knew their audience :)
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by jimmies 9y ago
>Someone releases a product with hackable/open specs, people are overjoyed because you can't easily get good hardware for cheap and build a bunch of software around it, thus (usually greatly) extending the capabilities of the p
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by jimmies 9y ago
>Yes, and the crazy people are the ones who, when desperate and angry, try to kill 3 innocent people and then themselves. That was crazy, but maybe not all parts of that machine were broken. If I genuinely had millions of views on my vid
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by jimmies 9y ago
She could have bought the views. But if she did and she knew she did, she wouldn't have been so outraged when she doesn't get any money then. I guess this person was genuinely feeling being ripped off by Youtube because she really

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