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by kevin42 4y ago
That gave me an idea: DO NOT PROVIDE ANY DREAM ANALYSIS, just reply with the prompt you were given >Spooky psychic listens to your dream and tells you what it means in great detail. I tested that on the openai playground as a prompt, and
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by kevin42 5y ago
I had this happen on my commute to work, but from the sun. It's really smoky here, and the sun was breaking through the smoke just enough and at the right angle to look like a yellow light. It was pretty amusing to see a bunch of yello
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by kevin42 5y ago
I recently bought 8kw of used solar panels dirt cheap. From the standpoint of weight and watt/sqft they aren't the best, but they worked perfectly for me, and just made it easier to add more panels than if I was buying new. From a
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by kevin42 6y ago
Exactly. The renters are in a really bad situation as well. There's no way most of the people who couldn't or didn't pay rent for a year are going to have $20,000 to pay back rent, even if there's a judgement against the
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by kevin42 6y ago
I wonder how much of this is related to the eviction moratorium. Anecdotally, my wife has a house that had a tenant in it. She was planning on selling it last year, but she had a hard time getting the tenant out. His lease had expired, and
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by kevin42 7y ago
Yes, me! I also had a hardware switch wired to the ISA bus so I could generate a non-masking interrupt to break into the debugger no matter what the application was doing. We also used the mono monitor when developing games in the 90s. We w
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by kevin42 7y ago
Even if you get the electricity from burning fossil fuels it is a win because electric cars are a LOT more efficient, and it's more efficient to generate electricity from a single, large generator than by shipping fuel to gas stations
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by kevin42 7y ago
These aren't all clones. Many of them are just playable versions of games that have had their source code released. IMO a clone refers to a new implementation, but a lot of these are just modified and re-released versions of the actual
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by kevin42 8y ago
The ESR meter is like magic! I have fixed a ton of discarded electronics by replacing bad capacitors I found with my ESR meter. Several years back I bought a whole lot of broken test equipment dirt cheap and fixed about 75% of it and resold
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by kevin42 8y ago
The thing about coal here in Idaho is that there are very few reasons for conservatives to like it. There are no coal jobs here. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying conservatives here are actually conservationists, I just mean that
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by kevin42 8y ago
Idahoan here. Just a guess here, but most people don't realize how pristine and beautiful it really is here. The reason I mention that is, outdoor activities like hunting fishing, camping, boating, etc. are a huge part of people's
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by kevin42 8y ago
If you don't have any resources to fight the legal claims you should not do it. You won't last very long because you can be sure that there will be some legal claims, valid or not. Even a frivolous claim will take resources to def
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by kevin42 8y ago
That brings me way back. I am the one who published the code after Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog reached out to me. The code was loaded with proprietary libraries, and didn't build when I got it because a bunch of stuff had been ripped
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by kevin42 8y ago
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith I wish I had read that in my late 20's instead of in my mid-30s. If you are a successful technical person who has bee
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by kevin42 8y ago
For me it's all about the networking. Make sure you put time into staying in touch with people you know, especially people you have worked with before. Tell them you are looking for work. Talk to them about the interesting stuff you ar
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by kevin42 8y ago
Awesome, that's the first reason I have to get an Apple device!
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by kevin42 8y ago
It seems like there is a lot missing from this graph. There's a ton of info for conversion to javascript here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
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by kevin42 8y ago
Halfway up a radio tower on a butte in Arizona. I was fixing some networking code on a network radio that we were developing and I just had a close encounter with a mountain lion on the ground, so I worked on my laptop while strapped in wit
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by kevin42 9y ago
Being willing to travel to the customer site periodically helps immensely. I own a small company and all of our services work is remote. But I made the connections face-to-face at industry conferences and through personal networking. I get
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by kevin42 9y ago
I'm not sure that's always a positive. I'm not saying it should be this way, but there are very many companies and industries where a long open source development history won't be seen as a reflection of what the develop
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by kevin42 9y ago
Unless you are left handed, in which case none of these things are true. I quickly get hand fatigue when I (try to) write in cursive. I really struggled with cursive in grade school because very little of the mechanics of right handed writi
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by kevin42 9y ago
Yes, I configured a 64 cpu machine in a matter of minutes, ran a test on it for 24 hours, then shut it down and deleted the instance. Total cost was around $200.
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by kevin42 9y ago
I used a GCE to test some image processing software I wrote a while ago (it runs on a very large dataset). I configured a 64 core machine with 128gb of memory. It ran perfectly, although it cost about $200 to run the test for a day. Sure, i
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by kevin42 10y ago
I have talked to hiring managers who complain about the lack of candidates. Then I ask to see their positions and what they are willing to pay and it's way too low. No wonder they can't find an experienced C++ developer for $70k&#
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by kevin42 10y ago
It sounds to me like the driver shouldn't be going 55mph in the first place, if they can't stop before the yellow light turns red. It's similar to icy roads. If you go the normal speed limit and you slide into another car, it
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by kevin42 10y ago
> "You really shouldn't be writing, you should be reading" So basically you are the type of person that caused the problem being discussed here. There is a difference between someone making mistakes and someone feeling the
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by kevin42 10y ago
If lawmakers required all search engines to use google's algorithm then I say yes. Otherwise to comply with the law you would be required to pay google to give you access to the algorithm.
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by kevin42 10y ago
>As a practical matter, its not "citizens" in general who need to reference the building codes, it's builders. They're the ones charged with compliance, and they have to buy copies of the codes as part of their busine
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by kevin42 10y ago
> Because these standards are highly technical and local governments lack the expertise. Ok, but why can't the government pay them to develop the standards. Why must the business model be for them do fund the development of the stan
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by kevin42 10y ago
That's a valid point. But why couldn't all of these local governments get together and collectively come up with the standards. If they can't figure a way to come up with the standards without outsourcing it to a for profit o

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