mbar84

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by mbar84 6y ago
Sometimes when a persistent noise goes away I will realize that I've been slightly tense the whole time and all of a sudden I feel relief. Depending on what you mean by "switched on the wifi", could it be that there is some s
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by mbar84 6y ago
> It's fine for protecting against profound levels of incompetence but I don't do that and you probably don't either. Everybody starts at a profound level of incompetence. If you want a junior to be able to make a contribu
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by mbar84 6y ago
For especially ... special people, I think the only solution is with hardware. They need a headset that has a physical toggle switch. Not a button where the mute state is an internal state of some device, but instead a switch (or knob) with
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by mbar84 6y ago
I've built my project template around conda, primarilly so that a new user can just do `make install` and have all environments created. The docker portion also works fine, the only issue being that the images are perhaps a bit larger
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by mbar84 6y ago
Are you aware of this: import pudb; pudb.set_trace()
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by mbar84 6y ago
If you're a bit frank and you're dealing with a person you don't particularly care for, you might use the expression "Do you want me to draw you a picture? How dense are you?" The thing is that it's extra effor
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by mbar84 6y ago
A real test would have to - pick participants at random (regardless of employment status) - give money to all the participants - make all participants pay higher taxes to finance For this to be realistic, the participants would not have a
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by mbar84 7y ago
Shameless plug: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
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by mbar84 7y ago
Companies. Don't. Exist. We made these things up because they are a convenient and useful abstraction, but let's not forget that they are a legal fiction. So guess what you call a company that pays taxes? Fiction! Companies can&#x
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by mbar84 7y ago
> Beware the tendency to make this a single-axis "more vs. less" regulation issue. Nobody does this, not even the most outspoken anarchist libertarian. The question is not more or less regulation, the question is who does the
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by mbar84 7y ago
Is the guy on the right not the sycophant of Gavin Belson?
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by mbar84 7y ago
Shameless plug: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
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by mbar84 7y ago
I recently wrote an editor for this: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
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by mbar84 7y ago
Are your reviews more like suggestions of how to do things better, or more like "this sux and here's why"? If any of your criticisms are related to something that a linter or static analyzer could catch, have you tried to get
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by mbar84 7y ago
Rocket Lab is currently working on booster recovery. If they're successful, you can expect that cost to come down significantly. I also wonder if they can do a Kerbal approach and stick 3 of their rockets together to get more payload a
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by mbar84 7y ago
What do you think of Warren Buffet, Bill Gates or Elon Musk? It seems to me, that relative to their wealth they spend a negligible amount on themselves. I don't see them filling garages with luxury cars, building empty palaces, buying
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by mbar84 7y ago
> If that's the hitrate, then so be it Pardon? That's awfully generous you're being with other peoples money. If that's the hit-rate, can you imagine what people could do with the money if it had not been taken from t
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by mbar84 7y ago
> Except, the clothes are knowledge. If only! Most of it is actually just semi useful information rather than knowledge.
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by mbar84 7y ago
I guess this is as good a time as any to pimp my work in this area: https://pypi.org/project/lib3to6/ lib3to6 is a Python compatibility library similar to to BableJS. It translates (most) valid Python 3.7 syntax t
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by mbar84 7y ago
> The goal isn't a beautiful page so much as "no trust destroying indicators" like weird fonts, bad formatting etc. Could you give an example of what kind of a font would be a "trust destroying indicator" ? Maybe
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by mbar84 7y ago
An A4 booklet of the paper, if you're into printing out the interwebs: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/pdfs/blake3_a4_booklet.pdf?dl=1
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by mbar84 7y ago
You might be interested in Svgbob https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob and AsciiGrid: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
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AsciiGrid – A WYSIWYG Editor for ASCII Diagrams(mbarkhau.keybase.pub)
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by mbar84 7y ago
I very vaguely remember a story, (though I can't remember which company, but since it's probably corporate propaganda that's fine anyway). The story goes that you have a company with lots of industrial manufacturing faciliti
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by mbar84 7y ago
Do you believe in copyright law? Maybe you're part of the problem. https://questioncopyright.org/
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by mbar84 7y ago
There are endless debates about curriculum and yet there is one lessen that is never up for debate, and it is thought throughout every day and in every lessen: Sit down, be quiet, do as you're told. I wonder what a society would look l
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by mbar84 7y ago
If I were in such a camp, I imagine I would be very eager to learn Mandarin in an attempt to please the system.
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by mbar84 7y ago
Perhaps you can let them edit their files locally and instead of vim, teach them how to scp/rsync the files onto your server. Hopefully their computers are at least fast enough to run VS-Code.
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by mbar84 7y ago
Haha, I wonder if they assumed you were doing something that's very Japanese, namely having much more humility about your skill level than is actually justified. So they just assumed you're perfectly fluent but you were being very
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by mbar84 7y ago
> So far, there have been no practical, cheap, high-performing phased array that I know of. Do you thing that is more due to technical limitations or more due to relatively small markets for such antenna that perhaps has not led to econo

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