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by milesvp 6y ago
I wasn't going to have more than 2 kids, partly for reasons around travel logistics, and car seats play a surprisingly large role in that. Car seats needs to be rear facing until children are big enough, but most cars expect everyone t
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by milesvp 6y ago
Second this. It’s really easy to fragment memory, and for long running embedded systems it’s not uncommon for free() to be a nop. I had to implement malloc just last week to access psram, and after doing a little research decided all I need
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by milesvp 6y ago
To be fair, I truly thought MySQL was dead in the water when Oracle purchased them 12 years ago, but as far as I can tell MySQL continues to be well supported with new features being added. So I no longer know what to think about these kind
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by milesvp 6y ago
Blizzard blogged about this some years ago with regards to their SC2 matchmaking. They found that their matchmaking was too good, and would cause a lot pf stress as people were constantly feeling pressure to play their best since the matche
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by milesvp 6y ago
Oracle really pushed this idea too, because they knew that it would mean more load in the database so you’d need a bigger box with with more cpus. Oracle charged per tiered cpu so their incentives were not aligned with the dev’s. IMHO this
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by milesvp 6y ago
Maybe. This is how I've felt about unions since the grad students tried to unionize at my university, and all the hard science grad students would have lower salaries if the union came to fruition. So it's an effect that I would e
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by milesvp 6y ago
What's crazier is that the process is so well defined, that I have a friend who needed a custom enclosure inside hardware he was designing, and because PCBs come in arbitrary shapes and size by default, it was much cheaper for him to u
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by milesvp 6y ago
I’ve done a certain amount of research around GI due to my wife twice having gestational diabetes, and it was hard to find good numbers in general, but I couldn’t find any numbers related to artificial sweetners. I did find a lot of people
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by milesvp 6y ago
To add to this, unless your model is situated, and can purturb the market, it has no way of knowing what happens when you flex your muscle. I have a friend who did algorithmic trading professionally for a few years, and he said it was amazi
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by milesvp 6y ago
Not sure about Walmart in general, but this is a known thing for big box black friday electronics. These items will typically have different SKUs than their equivalent normal priced electronics and often have at the minimum reduced feature
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by milesvp 6y ago
> the first couple semesters are foundational and if you don't understand something it is like a pyramid I was taking a math/cs hybrid major in college, and the upper level math courses just felt like they were getting harder
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by milesvp 6y ago
Having worked in this space, I can tell you there’s no putting that genie back in that bottle. Classifieds were great for the verticals that made money because it was the best distribution model given the economics pre internet. Now the mar
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by milesvp 6y ago
I find this statement interesting. Historically scientists have a reputation for writing relatively poor code. Code that runs really slowly due to things like unintended nested loops, or striding values (x,y vs y,x). And code that doesn&#x2
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by milesvp 6y ago
Alone was fascinating to binge on netflix. The winner of the season I watched had a whole elk to eat and was still losing dangerous amounts of weight over the course of the season. I would have never guessed that he would have struggled so
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by milesvp 6y ago
My experience with RDS instances that had multi region failover, was that the failovers worked every time we needed them for deployments (I don’t think we ever needed them for RDS failures). The cost though was enormous. Our write db repres
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by milesvp 6y ago
Mostly we enforced it adhoc. It helped that the whole design team was pushing for print standards at the same time. It ended up being a bullet point that needed to be talked about during sprint planning. It helped that designers were part o
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by milesvp 6y ago
On a slight tangent, my team had very good results when we finally brought a style guide online. Our org was big enough that people would be working on pages without context for the bigger design themes (especially related to sales/mar
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by milesvp 6y ago
Yup, also generally same cost by weight. My kids eat a lot of creamcheese sandwiches. Block cream cheese just destroys sliced bread.
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by milesvp 6y ago
That last paragraph was oddly hard for me to parse this morning, possibly because I havn’t thought enough about this aspect of confirmation bias. Be conciencious when dismissing something that’s inconsistent with your world view, seems like
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by milesvp 6y ago
Managing servers was why I started using vim other places. I started to use it for basic text editing and for coding, just so I could practice and not feel dumb when I needed it (far too often) on a production box. I also avoided too much c
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by milesvp 6y ago
Obligatory link to excelint/checkcell threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20491091 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22431500 https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11100 One of
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by milesvp 6y ago
I managed to transition to software dev in my late 20s. I had a few things going for me that made it possible. I'd done a considerable amount of CS in college. (I just didn't think I could be a programmer at the time, so didn&#x27
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by milesvp 6y ago
FYI, Dance can have similar problems. I’m convinced a world reknowned ballet school had a major negative psychological effect on someone I know. Not sure how common that is in lesser schools, but something to be mindful of.
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by milesvp 6y ago
+1 for sql. I once was looking into a slow query and had to know that ordering text field in mysql requires a filesort regardless of how much data was involved. which means touching a disk. Was easy enough to make a schema change to a varch
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by milesvp 6y ago
You are right that a lot of the symptoms can be attributed to other health issues around lockdown. I will say though, that I personally experienced a long period of weird fatigue just prior to lockdown. I’d had weird not quite flu symptoms
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by milesvp 6y ago
This is only true when playing with others attempting to play optimally. If you only play optimal poker it may be difficult to take advantage of sub optimal players without modifying play. A simple example is a rock paper scissors tournamen
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by milesvp 6y ago
Sleep deprevation is no joke. Parents of newborns will see a massive cognitive decline. It took me 6 months to recover from my first child who didn’t sleep through the night until she was 2.
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by milesvp 6y ago
Much of the fourth estate has eroded in the last 15 years as revenues declined for local newspapers. As the fastest shrinking industry for many of those years, they have lost considerable economic leverage to be able to do what we, for the
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by milesvp 6y ago
Oh man. I’ve dealt with so much legacy code I avoid reading comments as long as possible, they lie more than I’d like. Sadly something like bit fields are the one place I feel I have to trust the comments god help you if they’re no longer a
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by milesvp 6y ago
So true. I'd love a miracle material that doesn't require a phosphor coating to get full spectrum lighting. Maybe some meta-material will come out in the next decade... Meanwhile, these guys keep popping up when I search for LED s

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