jwatte

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by jwatte 10y ago
Research shows that listening to music engages the creativity part of the brain so it's not used for the work you do at the same time. Headphones are NOT an adequate substitute for a writer office for a creative knowledge worker.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Open offices don't look modern. The steno pool from a '50s enterprise was open office. Open office allows companies to save dozens of dollars per employee in rent per month, which is visible and measurable. Creativity and producti
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by jwatte 10y ago
Yes, the "small group office" is my favorite! I had that in 2006 and it was great for teamwork. If I can't have that, I'll take a small private office with a door that closes. Although the least time I had that was, I th
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by jwatte 10y ago
It's easier to just rent what you own. Surer way to make a profit, and you keep what you own no matter what. Hence, why the term "rentier class" is actually meaningful, even though it's from a disreputable economic tradi
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by jwatte 10y ago
And it's even worse in the 1% of the 1% circles, which are the real "aristocracy" that can tell politicians what to do. (Note: there are 30,000 people who are top 1% of top 1% in the US!)
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by jwatte 10y ago
Square root of color sounds like gamma encoding. He had a linear color, and wants to store it as sRGB; raising it to 1/2.2 is "correct" but sqrt is close enough. (Or it's just for tone mapping.)
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by jwatte 10y ago
We used to have a sign in the office: "Absolutely no chrome spheres over checkerboard planes." (First day it went up, I wrote a ray tracer from scratch in C in two hours :-)
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by jwatte 10y ago
I'm more of a recording engineer than a guitarist (member of the AES for many years.) Shitty digital pedals from 20 years ago sound shitty, I agree! Well modelled digital effects, however, can these days give you anything an analog ped
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by jwatte 10y ago
Buy a Teensy 3.x and a pedal adapter kit.
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by jwatte 10y ago
ADC, MCU, DAC, done. Cheaper, too -- I think 50 cent ARMs can do that these days. Any pedal that isn't digital today is just nostalgia (like tube headphone amps and the like.) Digital is the clear better choice even for sound shaping.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Although I really wish there was a better alternative to the BS170 in the same TO package, because BS170, too, is old tech and has high Rdson.
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by jwatte 10y ago
200 miles "only"? How many days of the year do you actually drive more than 100 miles? If it's many, then electric is not yet for you yet, unless your destinations are near the Supercharger network.
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by jwatte 10y ago
"by 2020 there will be $ 190 per kWh and $ 20 per kWh less than $ 100 per kWh." Wat? Anyway, we already know this. I'm hoping for third party battery packs by the time I need a fresh set for my 2011 Leaf. (Still years away)
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by jwatte 10y ago
To be fair, my hash table implementations always keep a nth-key iterator cache, to make the default case of 0..n fast. If the standard library doesn't do this, I'd call that a miss in implementation.
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by jwatte 10y ago
If a check in breaks the build or breaks production on deployment, it should be rolled back within minutes. Trunk and production must always be healthy, and if you commit poorly tested code, you are doing nobody any favors.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Trunk only goes well with continuous deployment. If each increment in deployment is small enough, then you know exactly when things break and rollbacks are easy. The 3-2-1 system where you develop for 3 months, then merge for 2 months, then
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by jwatte 10y ago
More likely an ARG entry, or just some techno-libertarians fun experiment.
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by jwatte 10y ago
It is basically impossible to hide yourself if you want to take part of society. Just standing there, you send out information about yourself body posture, dandruff, IR signature, ...) Therefore, it is much more important to make sure we ha
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by jwatte 10y ago
Global temperature will rise enough to disrupt the global food supply somewhere between 20 and 50 years from now. The catastrophe will be seen in famine and war over resources, not in higher flood insurance cost and taxes to pay for levees.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Program what? 4 GB is a little low these days, unless you're an Unix text editor and makefile person. Also, the rigidity of the keyboard and connection to it will be super important. Most detachable keyboards will cause trouble (especi
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by jwatte 10y ago
I was sad when old Pix was deprecated, and the visual arising built in tools didn't always live up to being a replacement. In really glad to see it gets a second chance to shine!
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by jwatte 10y ago
Google and others could easily look for domain names on the certificate transparency list and immediately add anything containing "PayPal" or "baidu" or whatever to the block list, until it can be checked manually. In fa
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by jwatte 10y ago
A fuse won't protect against over-charging or over-discharging. (PTC resettable fuses are great to break continuous overcurren, though!)
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by jwatte 10y ago
I think the comment was a sly way of insinuating that the original blog post may or may not be 100% authentic.
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by jwatte 10y ago
You actually read cold sales emails, and believe promises by sales people like "customer service" or "solving your problem?" That well was poisoned by "hustlers" (in the derogatory meaning) a long time ago. Unl
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by jwatte 10y ago
When I'm in a mall, google just puts the map in my android phone notification area without me asking. You may call it creepy; I call it convenient!
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by jwatte 10y ago
Meanwhile, an ESP 8266 is a couple of bucks and has fine I/O for most "smart" hair brushes and toilet seats. Once you get to fridge scale, a low cost tablet tacked on the front gives me better UI, more security updates, and e
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by jwatte 10y ago
Creating music and writing. Things I did as a youth but didn't pay the bills like computers!
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by jwatte 10y ago
You should never, ever, create one thread per socket. The choice is between select, polled IO, or events. Sadly, UNIX doesn't have a good unified asynchronous IO model, like OVERLAPPED and IOCP on NT.
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by jwatte 10y ago
The 2FA apps on the phone (like authify and google authenticator) use a shared secret between the server and phone, plus the time, to generate the code. (This is the alphanumeric or qr code you set up with) If someone can remotely root your

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