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by mcshicks 7y ago
We also have a fun one in San Diego. You can find your local one here (or how to start your own!) https://diyrobocars.com/local-meetup-groups/
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by mcshicks 7y ago
I think it really depends on what kind of development you are doing. I worked at an IC company, and among other things we developed (and tested) USB drivers for our devices. We installed them on literally hundreds of windows machines for
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by mcshicks 7y ago
For email I like mu4e. I set it up to use Imap it is a bit slow to load up. I had the same fears about losing email, I just created an additional gmail account and forwarded, played around with it till I wasn't concerned anymore. For
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by mcshicks 7y ago
I was surprised to find out that they were backed by venture capital. When he says that "I’m committed to keeping the print magazine going and the Maker Faire licensing program.” I'm assuming that is for the various other maker a
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by mcshicks 7y ago
I have a rigol MSO1104 (1 ghz sampling, 100 mhz analog bandwidth, logic analyzer) I bought after I retired for doing some work out of my house. I remember it being about $1000. It's very nice, I would highly recommend it for a home l
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by mcshicks 7y ago
I didn't look up the Cal State LA, but UCLA does require it. https://www.immunizationrequirement.ucla.edu/ I went to UCLA, one of my kids did, and the other went to UCI. As far as I remember it's always been req
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by mcshicks 8y ago
Some guy took off his clothes and started wandering around the outside grounds
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by mcshicks 8y ago
I've been doing 2 to 3 week long meditation retreats every year for the past 10 years or so. I don't disagree with anything your are saying in particular. However I do think there is value in them (otherwise I wouldn't keep
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by mcshicks 8y ago
Titles are primarily a method to put a cap on someone's salary. For many company a title means your pay range is from x to y dollars (or whatever currency you like) per year. The reason people promote people is because they want to
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by mcshicks 8y ago
You can bring a friend (or two) and they can buy one also. I'm in San Diego and last time I drove back from Northern California I just stopped by (it's in Tustin) with my wife and picked up 2. If you need many then of course i
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by mcshicks 8y ago
I use a variation on this guys setup http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html I just started adding part of his setup to my .emacs file. I use it to implement a GTD type of setup.
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by mcshicks 8y ago
Find a meditation group that meets regularly (i.e. once a week) at a time you can make. It's easier for most people to meditate a bit longer in a group, and you might find it motivates you to practice more during the rest of the week.
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by mcshicks 8y ago
I've been a zen student for maybe 12 years now, my meditation practice is not 100% consistent, but conservatively I average 30 minutes a day, which wolfram alpha tells me is a little more than 2000 hours. Pretty far from Olympic level
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by mcshicks 8y ago
I am old enough to remember it. I guess I would have been 13. It was a very big deal at the time. Not like 911, but like the Oklahoma city bombing. I think the comparison at the time was really to like Manson. Same kind of crazy person
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by mcshicks 8y ago
So are you gonna play ships or rocks?
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by mcshicks 8y ago
I haven't been to one but (there was one yesterday close to where I live) but fixitclinic another option if there is no repair cafe close to you. I can't remember how I found it, but I was planning on try and check one out. It s
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by mcshicks 8y ago
Yeah I think if you are a downhill skater (I'm not) then maybe you it's not a problem, but seriously if you are not a good skater I really would not recommend going any faster than you can run on one of those things (or even a reg
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by mcshicks 9y ago
Pretty much. I would say low fee index funds. This is a pretty good short book with some more details and recommend reading but says basically the same thing. https ://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf
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by mcshicks 9y ago
It would be more compelling to me if they could also dock it into a laptop shell with USB and Ethernet ports. If I'm going someplace for more than a day I'm going to bring my laptop, I don't want to lug around a monitor. It
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by mcshicks 9y ago
Seems like its in here https://www.tctmagazine.com/3d-printing-news/university-nott...
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by mcshicks 9y ago
I've tried many systems over the years for implementing GTD (Palm Pilot, MS Outlook, Evernote, One Note, paper) adding scripts and tools like autohotkey. For me by far the best system is org-mode in emacs, but getting proficient in em
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by mcshicks 9y ago
Several years ago I went to a James Turrell exhibit at the LA County Museum of Art. He had this one piece called "dark spaces" that is kind of like the experiment where you go sit an a dark (i.e. lightproof) room for like 10 or 1
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by mcshicks 9y ago
I think you have to not only look at your net worth, but your annual salary. There is no stock answer here, but in general if you could not stop working for several years, and your equity is several multiples of you annual salary maybe you
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by mcshicks 9y ago
If you like arduino, check out the teensy. It has a really good audio library and lots of example projects related to Audio. Like you can probably do an equalizer in software with it. It use the Arduino IDE and library so it should be p
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by mcshicks 9y ago
Yes that's true, but there's actually even more like packaging, testing, etc. I took a free online course from Stanford called "nanomanufacturing" but it really was mostly about about chip manufacturing, packaging etc.
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by mcshicks 9y ago
I think that pretty much is exactly how I felt about it at the time. One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that this "remedy" was actually a requirement imposed (at least in California) on the credit agencies by the
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by mcshicks 9y ago
You get a unique long pin code when you freeze the account. You need that to unfreeze it. There is some "recovery" procedure, I think you need a notary or something
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by mcshicks 9y ago
I can't agree with this more. I was the victim of identity theft many years ago. I my case the data leaked from an employee at my company's payroll dept! There was nothing I could have done to prevent it. Anyway I did this many
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by mcshicks 9y ago
I also took the course, and I more or less agree with your assessment. However as someone who went to school a pretty long time ago and frankly never really learned how to study it was helpful. It reminded of one of those books you read w
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by mcshicks 9y ago
I really think this has more to do with the size of a pull up resistor on chip than anything else. I'm not an IC designer, but I do know that the way you make a resistor on chip for an analog circuit is a snake like structure in silic

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