michaelrpeskin

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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
That’s what they always say Miata Is Always The Answer Though, if I could afford an old air cooled 911, that’s what I’d do.
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
Yeah, you're right. This is the non-technical part of being a leader that I really struggle with. I'm much more comfortable "leading by example" and modelling behaviors and much less comfortable with how to frame a dis
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
You're preaching to the choir here. Programming and climbing are very anterior dominant and you get easily get the forward neck/shoulder issue. Most of my weightlifting is heavy kettlebell and posterior-dominant barbell work - lo
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
Yeah, for learning that's good. But for novel research, not so much. I do a lot of what I always call "fast math on a computer" because that was a by product of me writing my own tools to solve problems in grad school. I d
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
I was just talking about this idea with my wife. We're both now senior enough in our jobs that we're team/project leads (not managers, just technical leaders of stuff). One of the projects I'm leading is a small R&D
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
a bit off topic, but I've spent a LONG time in front of a computer (going on 41 years of programming) and my wife is a compulsive knitter... I'm not sure that we know the full story on RSI. It think that repetitive motion is nece
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
also part of paying attention to other talks...I always make a reference to one or two talks that just happened or one that I know will be coming up. It's one more point of context for the audience, and people always love it when other
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
It's supposed to be CNS (central nervous system), but I made the same fat finger typo on my phone :)
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
Yeah, in my 20's I was more aligned with the "Bulgarian method" of PR every day (on a different lift). In my 30's I focused on longer waves - a month of 8's, a month of 5's, a month of 3's and then heavy
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
Ha! Yeah, he’s not wrong. But you do need to keep in mind that his main audience is 18 year old boys with tons of T running through their veins. Us old guys need to make adjustments to his plans.
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
Yes. That is totally true. You can feel the CNR stimulation deep in your soul. I feel great on a DL cycle and my proportions make me relatively much better at deads than squats so I tend to do them more. But I also recognize that for gener
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
Squats. If you were only ever allowed to do one exercise, I would say the squats is the best. It hits the big muscles. Forces you to learn balance through the range of motion. And improves flexibility. The hormone release from training big
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
My daily driver is an ‘89 4Runner that gets about the same milage. That sounds bad in this climate, but for 35 years and nearly 300,000 miles I have not had to spend the energy/resources/carbon to build another vehicle and dispose
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
It's the ambient temperature sensor, not the engine temperature sensor. My guess is that the head unit either contains the sensor or is responsible for broadcasting it. The head unit talks to the dashboard to redisplay nav instructio
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
Slightly off topic, but you you mentioned fuse pulls in a Jeep...I'm a glutton for punishment and I've always driven a Jeep (though I do have a 4Runner for my reliable car) - learned to drive on a CJ. Anyway, the head unit in my J
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by michaelrpeskin 2y ago
This is the first I heard of it! I love the idea, I keep looking for an easy-to-use editor for technical reports. I've been using Typora for now, but chapter management would be nice. I was able to try it out on my personal computer
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
Another thing I just thought of...how many times does a power company need to communicate to first responders about shutting down power? It goes the other way a lot - first responders asking for power to be cut because of a fire or an acci
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
I hope this isn't getting too local and for HN, but... "which substations were shut down" - I used to work for a company that did a prototype for image recognition to identify maintenance issues for the power company (vegetat
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
My power wasn't turned off - I did get the "we might have to turn your power off" warning though. I live in probably one of the worst areas for wind, and had gusts to 100 that Saturday night - didn't get any sleep! I had
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
Yes, you're right. I've done that in high-performance code where I couldn't afford the double function call of a virtual function. I forgot about that.
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
> what is the point of creating a language where everything is an object? I think that's the ultimate culprit in everyone hating inheritance. If it weren't for Java, I think we'd all have a healthier view of OO in general
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
I tend towards being more Libertarian, but the one place that I think governments should be involved in is infrastructure - the stuff where competition would be wasteful (who wants a bunch of competing private roads?). I think it makes sens
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
Because water is densest at 4 degrees, the bottom of every (big enough) lake is that temperature. If they pumped warm water in at the bottom, it would rise because it’s less dense. Regardless that lake is so huge, it would have negligible i
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
> Could ASD be helped by reducing salt? or increasing salt? Personal story here (N=1, not claiming anything other than that). My dad is clearly ASD, and has battled high blood pressure for as long as I can remember. He's now suffe
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
I'll use an example outside my field. I have a friend who's a mechanical engineer. He's smart and pretty talented, and is a real hard worker. But the reason he's a mechanical engineer is that he wasn't good at th
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
I'm not sure how to tell the difference. As an interviewer, I'm decent at picking up subtle negative signals and there are people that I voted against that the rest of the team said yes to. And I have a 100% record of them quitt
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
I’d rather have people who are internally motivated to do good work. I don’t look for people who get good grades for the sake of getting good grades. But people who have good grades as a byproduct of just wanting to do well. I think it’s a
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
That’s how a “studied” physical chemistry. Before the test, I’d flip through the book and review the equations. My brain encoded it as location on the page. Then at the beginning of the test, I’d scribble down all of the relevant equations
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
> I'm not saying the current situation is good or optimal. But it's not obvious what the right result should be. Yes, it's not obvious what the first result returned should be. Maybe a safe bet is to use the current ratio
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by michaelrpeskin 3y ago
> I noticed this looking at a satellite photo of Nebraska recently — the towns lit up following a major East/West interstate across the state. At least for the midwest - specifically west of Chicago, the way I always heard it was th

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