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by milesvp 5y ago
I have to respectfully disagree that this isn't innovation. I would very strongly argue that innovation is doing something that the established players believe to be impossible. From the article: >>The financial industry thought
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by milesvp 5y ago
I met a guy some years back who specialized in rewriting accounting software user interfaces. He was a former accountant, so he knew all the things that accountants needed to do with software and the order things tended to need to happen. H
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by milesvp 5y ago
I'm reminded of Valve talking about supporting Linux for their half-life2 engine. Their experience was that they were able to find some fabulous engine speed up improvements that they then backported to the windows version. The common
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by milesvp 5y ago
I didn’t really make many friends until junior year, and the majority of my “friends from college” I didn’t actually meet until after I graduated. So don’t let that deter you. I lived at home and went to the local state university, so I mis
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by milesvp 5y ago
I understand this is a fairly well studied phenomenon in retail, that empty shelves reduce customer spending. Years ago when I worked at a big box home store, it was common policy for department heads to fill empty shelf space due to missin
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by milesvp 5y ago
You know it when you see it... I worked in the newspaper industry on the web side for many years. Remnant ads are the worst. These are the ad networks that you use to fill up the last of your ad spots that you weren't able to sell dire
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by milesvp 5y ago
Low end analyzers are good for slow signals. 24Mhz is a common sampling rate for less than $30. Just remember that your bus needs to be less than half that speed, and even then the analyzer may lie to you if your bus speed is anywhere near
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by milesvp 5y ago
Word of warning. I lost several days of debugging what looked like a working serial bus using a logic analyzer. I was about to give up when a friend asked what it looked like under the scope. The problem jumped right out at me. Certain bit
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by milesvp 5y ago
You need about $3k worth of equipment to start to effectively do basic hardware from home, but can maybe start for less than $1k. A scope and logic analyzer are a must, for dealing with misbehaving peripherals, so there’s around $900 just t
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by milesvp 5y ago
> Every team needs a therapist, it would seem. I have really come to appreciate the need for regular retros on a team. That a team needs a very safe space to explore failures and difficulties. It helps to have someone who can facilitate,
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by milesvp 5y ago
If you’re interested in this topic of leveling up as a freelance creative, I recently came across Chris Do who has a lot of youtube content on this topic. There’s a lot of good stuff, and his delivery is much better than most other of the s
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by milesvp 5y ago
I mean, who are you cheering for here? If Scarlett Johanson managed to bankrupt Disney, I would say the world was a better place. You might be right that A-list actors are somehow shrinking the pot for the rank and file, but my understandin
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by milesvp 5y ago
Oh, yeah, good call. I guess I would be surprised to see significant DSP related asm in any 8 bit processor.
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by milesvp 5y ago
This is not strictly true. Many AVR chips can handle more computation than their clockspeed would suggest due to some really nice assembly codes that allow for common DSP calculations. I ported an AVR code base to a cortex M4 last year, and
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by milesvp 5y ago
Absolutely. Apologies for poor paraphrasing. I think it was something like instead of students suing to be heard, they were suing to exclude. Mediation should really be neutral, but the organization is dedicated to free speech. It’s very po
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by milesvp 5y ago
Apologies, I don’t think I can easily find the talk. I did some cursory looking based on what I could remember of the talk before posting. I like to link to things when I can. Worse, is the topic is a current lightning rod for alt-right, so
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by milesvp 5y ago
I’m not sure you’re correct that nothing is different. I saw a lecture recently by someone whose organization does mediation between student groups and universities with regards to free speech. He was saying that a few years ago for the fir
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by milesvp 5y ago
Well, I've been looking, and mostly what I've been able to find is references to papers that show strong correlation with Buddhist monks and exceptional gamma waves. The paper I'm thinking of may have not been reproducible, a
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by milesvp 5y ago
What’s interesting is you can see the seperate patterns on an fmri. It’s also known that people advanced in certain kinds of meditation are very likely to show dual gamma waves. I think it’s suspected that it’s something that can be trained
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by milesvp 5y ago
I can tell you that for me personally, it’s a way to get a small bump of caffeine. I’ve learned to drink more tea in the last few years, but having strong bitter receptors make coffee a flat out no.
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by milesvp 5y ago
Yeah, my experience with company culture, is that you can exude a positive aura. You can make the people around you less miserable. You can put gentle pressure on other parts of the org to be just a little better. This all helps. A lot. But
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by milesvp 5y ago
So what do you call electrical engineers who design consumer level non mains voltage hardware? Looks like they fail the second bullet point. Sort of an honest question, since most of what you’d likely learn in an EE degree would probably no
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by milesvp 5y ago
So, you may be right about scalpers providing nothing to society. But you are absolutely wrong about middle men in general. At a super high level, they have to provide value else they would be short circuited. Very often this value is in kn
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by milesvp 5y ago
Some games will have issues due largely to drivers. But I stopped booting to my win7 partition at least a year and a half ago, and gaming on steam has only gotten better. Just know that games with anti cheat tend to not work. Lucky for me t
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by milesvp 5y ago
I would strongly disagree. This type of information is the most valuable information google can collect on an individual. The cost of maintaining this data is so small compared to its value that there is should be little pressure to do anyt
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by milesvp 5y ago
This sort of illustrates why I dislike talking about salary. This person went from super happy with his life to unhappy, and nothing is any different in his life. I understand that this unhappiness is part of what drives income equality, so
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by milesvp 5y ago
People greatly mis understand this point. Renting really is cheaper in the short term than buyng, especially if you can get a multi year lease. I’ve rented many single family houses in my life, and always, without fail, the rent was less th
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by milesvp 5y ago
I wish I could find the talk by a professor who gave a lecture on this topic. It really helped drive home the need to break tasks down into bite sized chunks. He basically found that if his grad students weren’t making progress on their the
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by milesvp 5y ago
Another option is if you can alternate every other friday and monday you'll get 4 day weekends every other weekend. This can really be refreshing too.
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I can appreciate if this is too much money for you, but I recently bought a 2014 macmini i7 16GB and 512SSD on ebay for $440 shipped to my door. I needed something that could handle bigsur for some app development, and that was the best $&#

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