jlangemeier

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by jlangemeier 7y ago
This is doubly/triply/quadrupley difficult for those of us with ADHD; I've spent years working on meditation, and I only get glimpses of silence; and that's only on the best of days. To take a medical condition such as
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Take the sadomasochism one step further; do FPGA programming, learn the joys of properly enumerated case statements (or the hell of finding what one is blowing up your flip-flop/latch diagram).
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
As someone that's gotten their degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering I can whole-heartedly agree that this extends to even most engineering degrees; it's why we have EIT & PE grades, and the PE needs to sign off on
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Every time I see "Deep Impact" in the context of NASA I end up thinking of the Climate Orbiter; where, due to an issue with unit conversion between metric and SI they turned it into the most expensive lawn dart to ever leave the s
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Nope you haven't missed anything, their user manual for it is very sparse (to put it nicely). At least it comes with a pinout? Another user was saying ~25 second refresh rates.
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
I came to complain about the graphs... Their 38%s don't line up; like at all. Also, they don't go into what they mean by "unlabeled" in either the current methodology or their previously linked North Korea methodology ei
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
I know this may sound callous; but if they're too young to go to the park unsupervised, are they actually in your yard unsupervised; especially if you're concerned about local crime? I'm not pushing one way or another honest
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
One bio-ethical route (at least for many of us in the Mid/Mountain-West US) is to use a deer or pigs blood dilute. It isn't harmful for edible plants (you should be at least rinsing your produce anyway) and it keeps most foragers
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
You also were too verbose... OP Q: Books worth it? Answer: Nah. Or maybe we can remove all the vowels and connecting verbs and extraneous adjectives and still get your point across... "Ans shld b obv frm SvN. Shldv a
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
I think you're viewing books and online content as entirely equivalent media forms; which would be much the same as treating movies and theater as equivalent content - they're adjacent, and provide similar material, but don't
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
I'm really interested in what's considered "a bit behind the curve" as I'm pretty skeptical that slow monoliths like traditional banking, education, healthcare, and hard engineering (civil, electrical, mechanical, e
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Yup mine too, but that rules out a lot of FAANG adjacent companies and start-ups which isn't tenable for some peoples' interests. I gave up on that chase for stability, weekends and holidays actually off, no on call schedule, and
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
CS is already in the realm of unsustainable hours: crunch times that last for months; "free time projects" to get hired; everyone encouraged to have side hustle start ups, freelancing, or consulting work. And this is all doubly s
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
I can't find the article now, but that was actually a suggestion I really liked; don't learn CS in college, learn History, learn Math, learn anything else, because someone who can program are about a dime a dozen; but a historian
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
I mean - honestly - most people that work in computers don't work for FAANG, or even a FAANG adjacent corporation. I like job stability (and with my health issues, job stability and good health benefits are always at the top of my pri
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Ummmmmm... not sure if this is hyperbole or not, darn Poe's law. I've seen a civil engineer push the limits of excel for complex stress-strian models, a finance comproller quickly build out elegant reporting models, and an environ
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Best laugh I've had all day; I hadn't thought about it, but I'm sure it's no coincidence. Random trivia that the wiki article leaves off... The Anaconda Company essentially single-handedly helped get rid of state legisla
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Montana and Wyoming are a treasure trove of the ills of both government and business ran amok. Our high school history classes were always super interesting due to this.
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
I'm at a bit of a loss on the premise of this; as the main focus is on social networks, search, and ad space - which I'm pretty sure aren't the only companies effected by things like GDPR. I work in high ed. and previously wo
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
My only problem with Obduction is the loading; oh my god the loading. I know they wanted to keep the original Myst on Windows 98 feel, but a 30 second to 2 minute load between scenes is killer and why I haven't finished it.
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Actually talked with my therapist about this exact thing; apparently we're in a weird industry where your side projects matter more than your actual work that you're paid to produce. The look on their face as I'm explaining h
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
I mean, compared to Lord of the Rings, yeah.
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
This is my default python design pattern for quick projects. Just treat everything like a dictionary, EVERYTHING.
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
I'm surprised Snowcrasher is on there, but Cryptonomicon isn't; I'd put the latter as more hard Comp-fi than the prior even.
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Best for what? PostGreSQL is a great DB language, but you're probably not trying to write machine learning algorithms in it.
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
This kind of learning bias has already been shown to be eeked out. The 'criminal' classifier that was used in one of the US states (kentucky or tennessee i believe) for sentencing and parole decisions, was shown to carry forward
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
That was the next semester - and further down the rabbit hole after that - if you can find a university with a clean room; is actual microchip design, even getting a PNP transistor built from silicon is a damned miracle - out of a class of
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Introduction to Logic Circuits and Logic Design with VHDL: (ISBN: 3319341944) I'm sure each person here is talking about a slightly different assignment, course, and book; but for me (from an EE side of the coin) the person that wrote
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Piggybacking that: "What's your least favorite feature of <language X> and why?" Where <language X> is obviously part of the tech stack that you're hiring for. You can tool the depth you're looking for
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by jlangemeier 7y ago
Well aren't you lucky! And in my experience with this question, there's a big difference between "felt fireable" and "is fireable", which also gives insight. I have my own go-to example that I'll use if th

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