milesvp

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by milesvp 6y ago
A friend and I took a day trip to Morocco many years ago while backpacking through Spain and experienced this. A local guide approached us who came across as pretty legit and had a driver. We had a good time being shown around to different
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by milesvp 6y ago
Seems like a hard problem. You could keep track of IP addresses that the user plays from, and allow resets from that IP. You'd only want to do this for very low risk types of accounts. Sadly, game sites tend to be high target for accou
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by milesvp 6y ago
I have a sort of similar problem with stuttering. I tell people I stutter, and no one really believes me because it I don’t stutter in most common situations. But I get stuck on certain combinations of sounds when my brain is sort of workin
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by milesvp 6y ago
By definition a bounce takes time to detect. And you will get multiple bounces over a time period, so there is a tradeoff between latency and false positives and false negatives. As such, there must be a measurable latency in all debouncing
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by milesvp 6y ago
Something that people don’t realize is that standard deviation in framerate trumps frame rate in perception of smoothness of animation. It’s something that NaughtyDog has blogged about, and something really well known in the Amiga demo scen
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by milesvp 6y ago
I got sucked into watching a bunch of videos on youtube from drop shippers, and no one talks about profit, only about revenue. The more I watched the more convinced that the only reason these people are wasting their time posting these vide
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by milesvp 6y ago
I suspect the downvotes are related to the comment to report. HN tends to lean anti authoritarian, so the idea of reporting someone doesn’t tend to sit well here. I’m on the fence with something like this. Covid-19 isn’t turning out to be n
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by milesvp 6y ago
Not sure about this particular instance, but I can tell you about a project I’m working on in C++ that compiles down to wasm. I was working on some prototype code that would eventually run on an embedded device, so C++ was the obvious choic
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by milesvp 6y ago
I’ve been wanting this for years! Ever since I saw an econ paper that estimated the majority of copyrights wouldn’t be renewed if they even cost $1. It’s such an elegant solution. It can still be gamed, but at least it provides some price f
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by milesvp 6y ago
This is something I currently speculate too. Hotter states really benefited from AC allowing people to live there comfortably. I think it might show us what’s coming as people move indoors in colder months elsewhere. It’s getting harder and
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by milesvp 6y ago
Very much this. New hires must always be tasked to improve onboarding documentation. At a previous place I worked, I went from expecting it to take a new hire several months to be productive to less than a couple weeks and a big reason was
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by milesvp 6y ago
Years ago, when I worked as a hall tech. I'd mark certain parts that had intermittent errors, whenever I RMA'd them, so that when I got them back later, I would immediately know. Because it was SOP to replace parts until the PC wo
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by milesvp 6y ago
Oh, man, I did some firmware writing to an sd card this year. I can’t tell you just how important that 4096 boundary is for sd card performance. Tuning the buffer size to the right multiple of 4096 was important too (especially with only 48
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by milesvp 6y ago
This talk had a profound effect on how I think about complexity, and taught me not to conflate easy and simple, 2 words in english that are often treated as synonyms. It really opened my eyes to how much tooling we use as devs (particularly
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by milesvp 6y ago
I was recently talking with someone who manages seismic data, and using fiber optics to collect seismic data is really taking off. The amount of data you get is orders of magnitude more than a traditional station. They had a problem, as cus
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by milesvp 6y ago
Interesting you mention 80’s style image processing techniques. Please take care with these kinds of biases. Often older techniques are superior than ones that are merely fashionable today. I’ve also been around long enough to see pendulums
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by milesvp 6y ago
I can sympathize with the author. I think they are probably correct in the general, that this tendency to try to treat normal psychological responses as something fixable with pharmaceuticals is a problem. That said I have some very real an
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by milesvp 6y ago
Let me ask you another question. How do you identify the additive employees from the multiplicative employees? You probably don’t want all multiplicative employees on a team, but you surely want some of them. How do you create metrics that
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by milesvp 6y ago
One of the threads I read maybe a decade ago about Argentina’s financial collapse at the time, was that in hind sight they’d wished they’d bought gold and made adulterated rings out of it. There was a lot of bartering, and most gold jewelry
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by milesvp 6y ago
It’s porentially even harder than this. Not only do we have two ears, our ears are shaped to help determine where sounds are coming from, and we make constant movements to further help process audio. I remember years ago I played an FPS cap
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by milesvp 6y ago
Just so you know, switches in something as complicated as a laptop have a good chance at being connected to a processor , with firmware being the thing that determines what the switch does. So you still need trust, even with a physical swit
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by milesvp 6y ago
What I find interesting about dynamism, is that every templating library I’ve ever used has a tendency to become php over time. Even templating libs in php! It’s fascinating to watch, since each new feature really makes sense because certai
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by milesvp 6y ago
Oh, and sorry about stack ranking. It can be the beginning of the end. Job market is bad right now. But it might be wise to look at postings, and see what techs you want to brush up on. I’ve seen stack ranking destroy orgs, especially since
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by milesvp 6y ago
Yeah, this has a tendency to happen, it's sort of the constant fight. You can really only fight it with metrics, you can sort of start to show that 3tiny+1med tends to be equivalent to 1 large tends to be equivalent to 5small, or whate
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by milesvp 6y ago
To add to this, using numbers is a common mistake for agile estimation. Better to use things like t-shirt sizes. The problem is estimates aren’t associative, but making them numbers geatly increases the odds that someone will try to add the
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by milesvp 6y ago
You should look at the work of Richard Hamming. Socializing is very important in staying relavant in a field. Similarly there’s a belief that the social dinners of the academics in cape cod post WWII had an overwhemling effect on that regio
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by milesvp 6y ago
I recently did an embedded job where we essentially used a mkrzero as our dev board. It saved us a ton of time on writing the firmware, since we didn’t need to wait for and debug prototypes. And the final schematic took way less time as wel
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by milesvp 6y ago
Yeah, no kidding. If you’re not going to pay an hourly rate for a homework assignment, you are not getting particularly good applicants. No quality engineer will spend more than a couple hours at a chance to maybe have someone look at their
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by milesvp 6y ago
Very much this. Decades ago, when I couldn’t justify the cost of software, I generally knew what places I could trust, and what places might be more sketchy, and what places were guaranteed to infect my system. The cracking scene was very c
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by milesvp 6y ago
Having worked on firmware writing to SD cards, I can tell you that the big problem comes from allocating space for writes. That’s when the card disappears on you, as it looks for space it will potentially shuffle data around behind the scen

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