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by milesvp 5y ago
DOSbox is great for games, and other Non real-time uses. I'm not sure that you get the same timing precision and variance in DOSBox as you do with DOS on hardware. I'd be curious if older CNC machines have had luck replacing their
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by milesvp 5y ago
You may also be missing the fact that many other countries weren’t designed around needing a car. Chances are, if you can’t afford a fine in the first place, losing access to driving will guarantee that you cannot work, making it less likel
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by milesvp 5y ago
Like driving while poor. It’s very very common for someone to get a fine that they can not pay, then lose their drivers license for failure to pay. Then get stopped and have to deal with driving without a license, which can include jail tim
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by milesvp 5y ago
I’m surprised by this comment. Fewer moving parts is great, but having managed a news site, where peak traffic can dwarf typical traffic, I’ve just come to accept the necessary evil of a CDN. How are you managing the spikes?
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by milesvp 5y ago
I think this is sort of a false dichotomy, and potentially a defeatist take. There is an increasing body of evidence that any work done above 40hrs/wk for thought work is only beneficial for a few weeks at a time. After which overtime
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by milesvp 5y ago
Depending on the machine this might cost you more in electricity than a VPS. 100watts continuous costs something like $7/mo in a fairly low electricity cost region of the US.
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by milesvp 5y ago
You joke, but some years ago I read a blog post by someone doing some chat research, and he was talking about how hard it was to convince people he wasn’t a bot. Like he had to deal with sort of an anti turing test, and it was almost an imp
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by milesvp 5y ago
I second this. I had a dualboot system for a long time. Between steam proton, and lutris, I havn’t needed to boot into windows for a game in over 2 years. That said, I’m super flexible, and if a game doesn’t work and I can’t find an accepta
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by milesvp 5y ago
I was also hoping for more talk about why the author thought behavioral economics was fundamentally flawed as a concept, rather than just having flaws in some of it’s methodologies. I can only barely remember a time before economists actual
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by milesvp 5y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. I’ve seen stuff built by different departments that weren’t core developers. They definitely needed help making sure they had something that could be sustained by the company going forward. Similarly, I’ve
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by milesvp 5y ago
Oh man. I just did a board bring-up recently and didn't notice that the flash chip I was having trouble with was a previous version than the one we specified. I only just barely managed to get those boards working, and best as I can te
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by milesvp 5y ago
A word of warning. I started looking a little into motor assist bike mods a few years ago, and very quickly you find that the biggest mistake people make in this area is not altering any of the other systems of the bike. That is, they'
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by milesvp 5y ago
To expand just a little on the short paragraph talking about embedded and games. For those interested in these spaces, looking into Immediate Mode GUIs would make for good reading. Rendering the current state of the UI tends to be simpler w
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by milesvp 5y ago
I thought that board looked interesting. Looks like a $50 cellular board, includes 500MB of data over 10 years (though with missing fineprint according the the HN thread). Might not be a terrible board to design around. Though adding it to
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by milesvp 5y ago
I just don’t understand how anyone could have less than 14 tabs open at any time. Just using a search engine requires at least 4 at a time, and I’ve often got four or five searches going at any time. And then there’s at least a half dozen c
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by milesvp 5y ago
If I understand you correctly, the main difference is to stop thinking in terms of bits and bytes and think more in terms of amorphous data. Like, for x in X: is really more appropriately expressed as for value in values: Values is just a c
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by milesvp 5y ago
I totally understand. Having recently transitioned to embedded C/C++, I can tell you that the way I think about memory and memory access in this world is very different than my thinking about it in python for over a decade. I really
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by milesvp 5y ago
This may be a controversial or unpopular opinion, but if you are expected to work more because a coworker is unavailable you are bad at managing expectations and controlling your career. When a coworker is suddenly unavailable, you may need
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by milesvp 5y ago
Two economists are walking down the street and pass by a hundred dollar bill without picking it up. A little while later one turns to the other and asks “was that a hundred dollar bill on the ground?” To which the other replies “nope, if it
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by milesvp 5y ago
I have found similar results in my time tracking. At best 2 flow hours before lunch. 2 flow hours after lunch. Sometimes bonus 1.5 flow hours after ‘tea time’ (not sustainable). Sometimes bonus 1 flow hour after dinner (completely unsustain
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by milesvp 5y ago
I read an interesting article about problems upsacaling, I think it was, babalon5. One of the issues they had was that while the original film/video was ahead of it’s time, and could be extended to letterbox relatively easily, but all
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by milesvp 5y ago
This may not be the forum for saying this, but in case you need encouragement, I always follow your links when they make it to the front page of HN, and I’m always happy when I see your name in the comments. I’m a sample size of one, but I
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by milesvp 5y ago
dadgum is a treasure of insight. I think I’ve read every blog post on the site (and was sad when he stopped posting). I highly recommend you read the article, he’s talking about software development and the types of headaches you’ll find at
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by milesvp 5y ago
Please be generous with your comments. You don’t have to be crass to ‘ruin a place’. I’ve seen it happen just from sheer numbers. Even if the influx measurably improves the signal to noise ratio, just having more signal can make a place exh
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by milesvp 5y ago
As someone with a family history of depression, one of the things that I've learned, is that chasing happiness is often a mistake. Better to look for contentment. I know it may not mean much from a random internet stranger, but some of
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by milesvp 5y ago
You may want to read up on fuzzy set theory. Most certainly there is a set of 1 that when added to itself results in the set of 3, 4 or really any arbitrary set to varying degrees. Bivalant sets is only a special case subset of fuzzy sets w
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by milesvp 5y ago
I know this is sort of a low quality joke post, but I don’t think I’d ever thought about a directed taxi-cab distance before. I’m not yet convinced it’s a useful model outside GIS, but I may spend considerable time today thinking about it.
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by milesvp 5y ago
Yeah, maybe agency. I don't know. It helps that I'm fairly social for an introverted engineer. One of the biggest systems change I ever made was related to a legacy url that the main page had to use. It seems like the type of thin
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by milesvp 5y ago
I personally really like maintenance programming, but I wonder if I've been lucky. All the systems I've ever inherited, I've been able to make impactful changes to them such that they stopped being that one system that causes
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by milesvp 5y ago
I will give you the benefit of the doubt here, and give an answer to what appears to be rhetoric. Choice of vaccine is a single binary choice that essentially creates a step function. Food, on the other hand is a continuous function with a

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