maliker

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   by maliker 7y ago

   I want my MTV! Turn it on leave it on! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGZSWdh17l0
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   by maliker 7y ago

   Yeah, the app level statistics are wrong. For the total screentime, it looks about right to me. 8 hours at work, a couple hours of email on either end, entertainment for an hour, then reading on a screen in bed.
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   by maliker 7y ago

   Just wait until they start working. Screentime on macOS is showing me I'm looking at screens over 80% of my waking hours.
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   by maliker 7y ago

   I've always been partial to `gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf *.pdf`. gs is installable via homebrew.
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   by maliker 7y ago

   It makes sense to me economically. There are probably 1000x as many consumers as prolific creators. It would be nice for casual creators on mobile devices to have better tools, and it looks like we're starting to get there with better
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   by maliker 7y ago

   I've standardized on Google Drive, which kind of works. Not good enough version control features for code though, which is why I still need git. Been kicking around the idea of moving to git only, but the learning curve is steep (impos
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   by maliker 7y ago

   I don't understand how people can get work done in the post-file world. Any project I've got that's more complicated than a todo list has text files, images, code, links to websites, emails, and typeset documents. The only t
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   by maliker 7y ago

   The rest of the electric utility industry sees California as a troubled place ever since the days of rolling blackouts from Enron's market manipulation. I'm not sure if it's the regulatory environment or the market or utility
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   by maliker 7y ago

   There's a clever software engineering resume out there in the same style (and also in the style of Leonard da Vinci's resume): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1086527
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    by maliker 7y ago

    Excel does support multiple tables per sheet through the format as table (?!) feature. But yeah, still hard to make those multiple Excel tables look good with sheet-wide column and row sizes.
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    by maliker 7y ago

    Probably a good time to mention this* excellent piece on how they make money. In short: it’s interest on cash deposits. Not payment for order flow. * https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mon
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    by maliker 7y ago

    You put it in an index fund and get back to work?
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    by maliker 7y ago

    Sounds like an automat[1]? Interesting theory in the link that they died off in the 70s because coins were no longer worth enough to buy a decent amount of food and bills couldn't be accepted by machine yet. [1] https://en.w
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    by maliker 7y ago

    Part of the difference is the level of competition with the other students. In math at least, if you want to be in classes with and compete against Putnam winners, there are only 4 or 5 schools you can go to do that.
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    by maliker 7y ago

    I'd guess the energy costs would be similar since it's roughly the same hardware (CPUs, memory, radio transmitters) but minus the display.
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    by maliker 7y ago

    My cellphone (pocket computer) needs 10 Wh to run all day. For the same amount of energy, the lights in my office will run for 6 minutes. I'm not buying this "must decomputerize" pitch.
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    by maliker 7y ago

    The multi-platform support was what got me to jump ship to Sublime. TextMate on MacOS was definitely more polished, though.
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    by maliker 7y ago

    I experienced this "diet" when I was having a tough time at work. Turned out for me that stress eating calories added up to way more than what the insomnia and nervous thinking burned. Your results may vary.
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    by maliker 7y ago

    Pretty much every scene in the movie Margin Call. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhy7JUinlu0
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    ARPA-E Fast Pitches for Future Energy Technology (2019)(arpa-e.energy.gov)

    1 points by maliker 7y ago|0 comments
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    by maliker 7y ago

    Hey! Get back to fixing the MacBook! Just kidding. It's cool to see the Apple design approach applied to a financial product. I'm happy with my current card, but I admit this is a much better designed experience (spend tracking, b
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    by maliker 7y ago

    Makes sense to do it when you can hack together a quick prototype that will teach you more about the problem and will be fun. We needed a sensor data capture platform at work. There were a lot of odd requirements, like consuming data from e
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    by maliker 7y ago

    When I was studying math, I enjoyed the challenge of writing LaTeX. It gave me a break from struggling with (e.g.) a real analysis proof to instead think about typography, struggle with syntax, and tweak my document layout.
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    by maliker 7y ago

    My guess is Siemens is going for it because if you can get the load/generation balancing right, it costs much less than hardening. Might also be more resilient. Only way to fully harden these systems is underground them at 10 (100?) ti
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    by maliker 7y ago

    I don't think anyone has used the LoRa radio signals for triangulating position, but GPS chips are getting really cheap now too. I've been playing around with a $40 GPS module[1] that claims a pretty standard 3 meter accuracy. [1]
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    by maliker 7y ago

    Regarding tracking, I work for rural electric utilities, and we're looking at LoRaWAN for tracking. $30 chip, 15+ mile range in rural environments. Plus it's low power (can run for a year on a battery), and it should meet your low
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    by maliker 7y ago

    I tried the game, and it wasn't my cup of tea--I'm more of a civilization kind of guy. However, reading about how the game is evolving as a social destination is fascinating. Reminds me of MUDs back in the day, except it's wa
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    by maliker 7y ago

    This is probably a dumb question, but what essential products use plastics and for which no other material is an adequate substitute for the plastic components?
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    by maliker 7y ago

    There have been 15 year solar power purchase agreements signed already for $0.025/kWh [1]. Assuming they get to 50% efficiency, that's $1.69/gallon. Sounds crazy low, but I hope it's true. [1] https://www.util
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    by maliker 8y ago

    Seems like he's far from open sourcing it. His team just published a long blog post ( https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op... ) explaining why they're closed source.