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by lukego 4y ago
Maybe the Neil deGrasse Tyson remake of Cosmos has a different tone to Carl Sagan's work. I'd imagined it would very faithful but it completely lacks this tone of humility. Seems it's not just me who reacted this way: https:
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by lukego 4y ago
Lovely. That's the kind of sentiment I was hoping to inspire in the kids. That's not what I found in _Cosmos_ though. The tale of Giordano Bruno seemed more like a celebration of blind faith and trust in posthumous vindication and
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by lukego 4y ago
I have always held Carl Sagan in high esteem without actually having read his books. I was taken aback to watch some Cosmos with my kids last week though, the Neil deGrasse Tyson edition. It came across as overt quasi-religious indoctrinati
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by lukego 4y ago
I learned this behaviour for a while when living with a microwave that made an annoyingly loud beep when it finished or was stopped. Workaround: slightly ajar as default idle state for silent operation and intercept immediately before compl
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by lukego 4y ago
Metcal e.g. MX500 is built like a tank and often available cheap on eBay. I picked up a bargain priced unit on a whim and it's been great. Used it to get the controller out of an ebike battery yesterday :D
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by lukego 4y ago
My $0.02 is to choose name-brand solder wire (e.g. Kester/Multicore/ChipQuik) with "RA" or "RMA" flux core. That will flow well and be gentle on your tips. The "not right" flux is often a nasty no-cle
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by lukego 4y ago
Great work and great choice of flux-cored solder wire!
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by lukego 4y ago
see also whitequark's soldering mistakes troubleshooting guide: - beginner: not using flux - intermediate: not using enough flux - advanced: not using the right flux and visually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfIwHuG
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by lukego 4y ago
I benchmarked an "embarrassingly parallel" simulation on Hetzner machines this week. I saw 50% more performance per dollar on the Ampere-based RX170 than the Ryzen-based AX101. That impressed me a lot.
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by lukego 4y ago
I'm getting whiplash from the pace of change: I think of pixel art rapidly rendered from 3D models as the disruptive new technology that's devaluing traditional drawing skills!
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by lukego 4y ago
Surely most Lisp hackers /are/ just writing Lisp code behind closed doors. Those 10 highly visible people are the rare exceptions. I'm happy to hear more thoughts and notes like this from the silent majority.
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by lukego 4y ago
Videographers would recommend using the full dynamic range that is available, right? That way you are providing maximum detail and letting other systems (e.g. screen, room light, human visual system) scale as appropriate. Even if your scene
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by lukego 4y ago
I find it really painless to put bits of R into production using the Nix support: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#r The same framework can provide an identical-to-production R or RStudio environment
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by lukego 4y ago
I'm programming in Julia today and really enjoying it. Julia is the language that spares me from reaching for Python. I appreciate that. It doesn't replace all the other languages in my quiver but nor does it have to. (If I compar
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by lukego 4y ago
I was contacted for the Swiss labor market survey and ignored that because I was very busy with other things (business, baby, etc.) It required multiple extended phone interviews. They followed up and emphasised that they take the experimen
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by lukego 4y ago
FreeBSD was held back by limited TCP options around when packet mobile internet (GPRS) came along. That was around 2003 too. I remember noticing Yahoo properties being almost unusable in GPRS because they did packet loss detective and recov
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by lukego 4y ago
I used to do this but reciprocality meant that everyone started giving me back baked goods in return, usually really sweet stuff that I don't want in my diet. I enjoy baking sourdough loaves to return favors though e.g. if s neighbour
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by lukego 4y ago
This could be a country-specific problem here in Sweden. I am on the other side of it today: I travelled abroad last week and bought a last-minute gift for the family on the way home: a box of sugary sweets. But nobody in the family wants t
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by lukego 4y ago
(I post these comments mostly to be able to laugh at how lame I am becoming as I grow up :))
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by lukego 4y ago
Or just issues with sugar. In a country with ~40% obesity there will be plenty of people who are happy to get a box of chocolates, eat it with great joy, and then spend a few hours in self-loathing because they really shouldn't have. S
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by lukego 4y ago
Generally I'd hesitate to buy people sugar, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, video games, dvd collections, etc. It might upset the balance of their relationship with those things. A lot of people struggle with that stuff. So if you give me a b
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by lukego 4y ago
Any time someone gives me chocolate as a gift I say a polite thank-you and then discretely throw it in the trash. Maybe I'm an outlier, or maybe not...
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by lukego 4y ago
Yeah true dat. Still, if you have 5-50 samples from an unknown distribution I think the KS test can be a very valuable protection against false-positive i.e. seeing patterns in random noise. Even more so if you are making multiple compariso
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by lukego 4y ago
Not with outliers, no, I think it handles them particularly well (conservatively.) But yes to small consistent differences (e.g. uniform 1%) that affect the relative order of results but not by an very important amount. So have to consider
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by lukego 4y ago
This test seems really underrated. It's my go-to for comparing computer system performance (e.g. between versions on CI) since they often have very peculiar distributions and are relatively cheap to produce enough samples from.
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by lukego 4y ago
I like the way you say "just" :) My experience is that a high-end device like MixPre II is fine with a dynamic mic. Focusrite or Tascam US needs a cloudlifter to get enough (clean) gain. Random stuff like BlueYeti is hopeless with
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by lukego 4y ago
Mine too.
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by lukego 4y ago
I've seen much the same problems when trying to programatically construct a large number of objects using the (low-level) Python API. If this kind of optimization improves throughput of those APIs that would be a major enabler for work
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by lukego 4y ago
I migrated from Lisp to Julia for the ecosystem. It hasn't been worth it from my point of view. I'll migrate back to Lisp eventually. So I can easily imagine packages like this becoming widely adopted /within/ the Lisp c
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by lukego 4y ago
These days I debug by doing "data science" on print statements.

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