milesvp

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by milesvp 4y ago
Poker is actually not that much different than what you describe. My father played a lot of poker in card rooms. He talked a lot about losing strategically to the fish, to keep them coming back. Without the fish, there generally is no poker
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by milesvp 4y ago
Big Clive suggests using nimh batteries for expensive electronics since they won’t leak. Also they are much better than they used to be, and there are many slow self-discharge brands that you can actually buy pre charged.
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by milesvp 5y ago
My understanding with adrenaline, is that it will open your capillaries to increase blood flow to your extremities. This may be why you didn't get frostbite. The flip side of this, is that it means your body is transferring internal te
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by milesvp 5y ago
I will tell you a good reason to trust password managers. I know a lawyer who does estate planning. When you start talking about "what happens when I die", passwords are a class of problem that has only gotten worse in the last 2
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by milesvp 5y ago
Right, but we already know slower music is more soothing, so it’s a confounding effect.
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by milesvp 5y ago
Writing a business plan saved me from wasting precious years chasing a dog idea. I once had a meeting with an investor years ago. I had a dream of starting an internet cafe back when broadband was hard to come by. So I spent a couple weeks
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by milesvp 5y ago
The need to rebrand is unfortunate. High framerate is not nearly as important as low standard deviation in the framerate. Naughty dog has blogged on the topic, but it was well known decades earlier in the demo scene. Getting smooth animatio
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by milesvp 5y ago
Yeah, I haven't been able to figure this part in, especially since a lot of what I like to do in my spare time looks a lot like what I do for work. I know that the brain has limited reservoirs of chemicals, and limited ability to purge
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by milesvp 5y ago
I took some pretty meticulous notes in the last couple of years working for myself. I found that 2x2hour chunks of active mental effort 5 days a week is very sustainable. Add another 1 hour a day and burnout starts to become a statistical r
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by milesvp 5y ago
Tennis balls. I get a lot of shoulder and neck pain and I don’t know how I managed before I discovered tennis balls for working out knots in my upper back. I lay on one, and move it around until I find the knots causing muscle strain in my
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by milesvp 5y ago
Yeah, I saw those flat roofs, and talk of whistler, and thought what a nightmare. Peaked roofs exist for a reason. I wonder what their snow strategy is? Because one day of rain on top of several feet of snow causes severe structural strain
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by milesvp 5y ago
I worked at a company that started to go through the "you can't improve what you don't measure" phase. In general it was good for the org I was in, but I used to have to remind management that there's a corollary to
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by milesvp 5y ago
A hot standby is not a read replica. It's a set of servers running in a different Availability zone mirroring current prod, that is configured to automatically fail over to if the primary is offline. It's been a few years since I
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by milesvp 5y ago
>Brainstorming has become a heuristic, an attempted shortcut, a lossy substitution for psychological safety. I'm glad this was where the author ended up. As I read this, I kept thinking that I know how to get better ideas out of peo
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by milesvp 5y ago
You may not know this, but custom orders slow down service sometimes by an order of magnitude. I worked at a takeout teriyaki joint in college, and it was as fast a food as you could find. There were 5 menu items, and I could really get in
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by milesvp 5y ago
My understanding as someone who works with embedded RF, is that if you use a SoC that is already FCC certified you don’t need additional certification, as long as you don’t do anything stupid like modifying chip registers that effect signal
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by milesvp 5y ago
slows down may be the wrong way to think about it. Myelination is a very real thing though. By 24 the majority of the brain is grey matter, as opposed to pink matter. Grey matter is super fast at signal speed due to myelin sheaths around hi
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by milesvp 5y ago
Salman Khan talks about this a little. He said one of the things they learned from the Khan Academy is that you can sort of group everyone into either "convex" or "concave" learners and they all basically get to the same
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by milesvp 5y ago
I also forgot to mention, but high quality images help a lot. I have experience as a framer, and frames can be particularly hard to showcase online.
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by milesvp 5y ago
For what you describe Etsy is a fine starting place. It’s low effort, and you can actually sell there. But you may want to tailor your expectations. Selling art is hard, and art online doesn’t feel the same as art in person. There’s sort of
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by milesvp 5y ago
I didn't mean to imply that you can't get into flow with even day long feedback loops. But the flow is definitely more likely to break while you're waiting for the feedback loop. I'm not sure you can really be in flow st
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by milesvp 5y ago
You perhaps have never worked in a system where compile times are measured in minutes. There is a point where the feedback loop is so long it’s very hard to keep in your head what exactly you were trying to accomplish with the last change.
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by milesvp 5y ago
First off. Give yourself space to fail. It is ok to fail. It is ok to be a failure. Some days it will be hard to get out of bed. That is ok. Get out of bed anyways. There will be days where doing one 15 minute task will take you 8 hours. Th
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by milesvp 5y ago
In the US this is a fire code issue. Doors need to swing inward to avoid people getting trapped inside from outside obstructions. edit: I seem to be misinformed about firecode. I may also be over extrapolating from what I know about bedroom
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by milesvp 5y ago
My best sleep period is 5am to noon. Always has been. I only need ~7 hours if I can sleep during this period regularly. I have kids and 9-5 job, so that’s not really viable for the next 5-10 years. The way I deal with this problem, is first
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by milesvp 5y ago
You may not realize that in a given field, the same variable that represents the same basic thing may be negated depending on the part of the world the paper is published from. This can be fine, if it’s your subfield, you happen to know to
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by milesvp 5y ago
The single most popular hobby use case may be the Mister project for near perfect, super low latency retro gaming emulation. Another common use case is real time video stream manipulation. There is a demo by Bunnie Huang who uses an fpga to
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by milesvp 5y ago
I have several thoughts. Was gilligan a genius? So many attempts to get off the island were completely hare brained, maybe only he could see it. Lovable sabotage can be an effective tool to help save an org from itself. But the more importa
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by milesvp 5y ago
I saw an RPG maker who’s been making games for over 20 years on GDC recently. He talks about steam’s 30% cut. His basic takeaway, is that he used to need to employ an entire fulltime employee to handle all the things that steam now does for
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by milesvp 5y ago
I too wrote code to help with picking baby names with each of my children. Popular but not too popular was a hard requirement when bisecting the SSN data base. One hard thing was not realizing how many variants there were of the name we pic

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