kevstev

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by kevstev 3y ago
Didn't most AOL keywords redirect to AOLs content only hosted on AOL? I don't remember what their "sites" were called, but I used to use keywords to navigate to those areas. I don't really remember using them at all
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by kevstev 3y ago
Look into better touch tool for window management. I agree that was a pain and hard to get used to.
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by kevstev 3y ago
What specifically makes your productivity drop? I find having a terminal running bash on my mac is more or less same/same as being in linux. Occasionally the utils will not support a cli argument I am used to, but that's more of a
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by kevstev 3y ago
This might be very subjective, but NES games were actually enjoyable. 2600 era games, while they were enjoyable for the time , were instantly obsoleted IMHO once the NES came around and you had games with stories, no matter how thin, and e
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by kevstev 3y ago
If you were paying attention, postgres always the better option, based on my experience starting around 2002 or so. MySQL had the better marketing in its name and was arguably a bit easier to get going from the start, but postgres was alway
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by kevstev 3y ago
I feel that way about string theory. I am merely an airmchair physicist, though I did have a physics minor in college, but it just feels... wrong. Ever more layers of complexity to explain away holes, and no real predictive power. But at le
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by kevstev 3y ago
Last year I read The Double Helix and The Code Breaker within a few months of each other, and what really stood out to me is that while we celebrate the first person who discovers something, in reality there were several teams all racing to
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by kevstev 3y ago
The internet was still new enough that pretty much all major news sites reverted to a stripped down static page that day as they could not keep up with the load. It looks like archive.org was not archiving during the "peak" of tha
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by kevstev 3y ago
When I was doing C++, one of my interview questions was an open ended one: "std::cout << "Hello world!" << endl;" What exactly is this doing, lets dive in to how it works. You touch on kind of a lot here, and
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by kevstev 3y ago
A lot of the increase was driven by the "arms race" to attract the best students by building ever more facilities to make their ever glossier brochures more attractive. My school when I was leaving in the early 2000s was on a $200
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by kevstev 3y ago
I tried this a bunch of years back, though across the river in Jersey City. I moved to a building that was an enclave of sorts that had zero street parking. You could of course pay for the garage to the tune of ~150 a month at the time. I h
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by kevstev 3y ago
Not everything has to be super fast. I was using quantopian to trade based mostly off fundamentals data on a monthly rebalance basis successfully. At least enough to beat the sp500 for a few years- I stopped because I went to a hedge fund
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by kevstev 3y ago
Tbh, this paper is a bit much, unless you have a lot of time on your hands for it, and also the necessary understanding of CPU architecture to really grok it. I think there are better blog posts out there that explain the concepts. "Ca
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by kevstev 3y ago
I think the key point here is that there is "networking" as in making friends with people you spend meaningful time with vs "Networking" in the sense of going to parties or meetups in hopes of shaking hands with and BSin
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by kevstev 3y ago
They are- at least the c6- I actually just had it arrive on my doorstep this morning. I get more is better, but even the c3 and c6, are really incredible overkill for most applications. Maybe another way to put it is that there is tremendou
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by kevstev 3y ago
Appreciate this! I did see some plastic ones around this price range, I guess it was just a bit more than I expected to pay. I noticed that this one just has leads- did you wire it into a plug yourself? Any concerns around doing that in a w
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by kevstev 3y ago
I think you could make the same claim about TV broadcasts, but pro sports seems to be doing just fine, some claim that live sports is what is keeping cable alive these days. Live sports and being at the event is always going to be a special
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by kevstev 3y ago
Its fine (well to be more specific- legal) to have fake users/content on your privately owned website, but it will be fraud if they include those users and posts in their metrics provided to investors. In the US anyway.
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by kevstev 3y ago
Do you know which solenoid you used? I am not sure if our definitions of cheap are different, but I looked at this about a month ago and the options I found were fairly pricey, but would hopefully be more robust than the rainbird system I h
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by kevstev 3y ago
Graphics have stopped making any meaningful difference in the total experience since the PS2 era. The move to HD and 4k is nice, and things look a bit more realistic, but they don't make games any more fun, and they hardly even make th
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by kevstev 3y ago
Yeah, I mean its one thing to take a seat in a rocketship and go along for the ride, but its quite another from a challenge and career perspective to turn the rocket thats falling to earth around and pointing it in the right direction. Gene
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by kevstev 3y ago
Agree. Worked in the first group as well and it paid well and legit valued it's employees. The hours became a bit abusive at the end so I followed one of my bosses there to a firm he went to. But that's how I made the jump to 4x.
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by kevstev 3y ago
I worked in Algo trading at a bank. Banks do not pay SWEs that work in algo trading well. I left finance to work in tech and got a 50% bump right off the bat. And I was well paid on my team- the h1s and kids out of school were not breaking
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by kevstev 3y ago
It seems reasonable that most gas stations will add fast charging stations no? And then maybe add a coffee shop or quick food place that you can spend money at and be the real source of revenue for these locations. Its not going to be a che
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by kevstev 3y ago
This list doesn't include dropcam, though I guess its a bit different in scope. Last week I received a notice that my dropcams will just be bricked in April 2024- they will just stop working because they are "too hard to support.&
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by kevstev 3y ago
From what I understand, rural rates of violence are much higher than cities per capita: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/gun-violence-in-rur... The list of counties with the highest rates of violence listed on
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by kevstev 4y ago
Heh yeah even in the mid 2000s I at one point lived directly across the street from the office. I would get calls sometimes on the weekend to the tune of "hey man can you just run in real quick and check something for me?" because
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by kevstev 4y ago
I'm in NJ just west of Manhattan and I could not make the numbers work at all. I have averaged about $1.05 a therm for gas and my heat bills are very low even in Jan/Feb. On the other hand I pay 16.5 cents /kwh for electric.
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by kevstev 4y ago
Yeah I had forgotten until after I submitted that earth was an entirely separate project. There was a lot of other cool stuff. I remembered and tried to use linux.google.com a few weeks ago and found out it's no longer a thing. Also Go
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by kevstev 4y ago
I disagree. Google's search engine was orders of magnitude ahead of everyone else's when it came out. Like it actually worked vs all the others that did some mediocre keyword matching and could be moderately useful if you were goo

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