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by milesvp 6y ago
That said, I still regret not realizing how useful matlab would have been in undergrad, for avoiding wasting time on answers that looked wrong but were not actually meant to cancel out perfectly. Or helping me track down a stray sign change
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by milesvp 6y ago
This. There was a great video posted on HN a couple years ago, by one of the few guys around who tunes up these old radiator systems. Apparently a lot of them were quite genius in design, but years of neglect make them not work very well. W
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by milesvp 6y ago
My suspicion from diabetic research I did both prior and during my wife’s gestational diabetes, is that the increase in obesity that may have occurred in the last 60 years is due to bad dieting advice for T1 diabetics. The fundamental heal
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by milesvp 6y ago
Most people have a blind spot in poker. They think they won simply because they took the pot, when in reality they lost because the pot odds were too low to give them a positive expected value. The problem extends to analyzing hands after t
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by milesvp 6y ago
You’d want to do some research on getting data out of glacier. I’ve read some nightmare stories about the bill from trying to get a small amount of data out of glacier. I can’t remember the details, and some of the large cost was people sor
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by milesvp 6y ago
It can get worse than that in a region too. Even if they adjust those tables for inflation, they’re likely not adjusting them for regional cost of living changes which are harder to determine. Cost of living in seattle has gone up considera
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by milesvp 6y ago
It's a fairly common thread in game development circles. Usually game development is one of the few places with big enough constraints that it's worth doing your own memory management in languages that have garbage collectors. Oth
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by milesvp 6y ago
I clicked on the link wondering if it was the battleship minigame. I hated this minigame so much, I too ended up writing code to help me figure out optimal moves just get past the dumb thing, and I wasn’t even trying to speed run the damn t
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by milesvp 6y ago
Yeah, you may be right about the republican talking point with farmers. I have no direct anecdotes with farmers, and with the one friend I have in the agriculture world, the topic never came up. The main anecdotes I have are with people who
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by milesvp 6y ago
Yeah, that one confused me too. There’s a checkbox when you setup wordpress the first time that says something about search engines, maybe that’s what he’s referring to? Could be a number of plugins that help with some aspects of SEO that g
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by milesvp 6y ago
The bigger problem with estate taxes (and btw estate taxes often imply death taxes in US law) that you may not see is how they effect smaller players. One of the things fueling corporate consolidation is asset liquidation upon death. If I s
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by milesvp 6y ago
Well actually... guns tend to have an amazing return on investment. Every time a gun law passes, my buddy's gun collection goes up in value. But to be more serious. I hadn't really thought about it before, but the majority things
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by milesvp 6y ago
I suspect a lot of it has to do with cost. Iterating hardware is expensive. On top of that tactile buttons are more expensive than you'd think, and Bill Of Materials can trump a lot of other decisions in hardware. Some of it is also pe
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by milesvp 6y ago
It's not just discipline. It's also partly how associative memories work (aka how the brain accesses memories). I have an office in my house that I can work from. It's a privilege to have this much space. But because I don&#x
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by milesvp 6y ago
I've been watching RISC-V for the last year, and for me it represents a coming tipping point that I've seen in other tech areas in the past. Having an open standard that people are rallying around is a game changer. I don't k
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by milesvp 6y ago
When I left my previous job, I was starting to think it might be a good idea to start using docker containers for dev. We were using chef kitchen to maintain virtual machines, but we had just enough production systems, that depending on wha
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by milesvp 6y ago
I just specced a chip from digikey. going from 1 to 500 units halved the price. going from 500 to 3000 halved the price again. These kinds of price reductions are not uncommon for certain types of manufactured goods. Keeping factories runni
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by milesvp 6y ago
I read an article last year talking about reboot cities/regions. They mentioned places like hong kong, shenzhen, silicon valley, dubai and similar places throughout history where they are given a status that allows for more freedom tha
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by milesvp 6y ago
Just wanted to point out screen readers and other disability tools are a very important reason to read and modify another application memory. My understanding is this was a primary motivator for the detours library. Though I can't seem
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by milesvp 6y ago
I did some windows hooking/hijacking years ago when I was working on a poker bot, and found that I couldn't get access to some text output of the poker client. Fun fact. The C++ hooking library I found, Detours, which at the time
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by milesvp 6y ago
I think the parent post also may be making an assumption that C++ code takes little more effort/time to write than python. My experience is that this couldn't be further from the truth. I recently did some DSP work, and prototypin
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by milesvp 6y ago
SimEarth really taught me the importance of critical mass. You could peter out if you didn’t marshal your resources to reach the next stage of the game. Oxygen Not Included is my simulation game of choice atm. It really punishes you if you
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by milesvp 6y ago
Seriously. The experiments with oxygen deprivation are very telling on this front. There's literally a button to press before you black out to give you oxygen, and people don't press it. Simple tasks, like identifying playing card
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by milesvp 6y ago
From the research I’ve seen regarding output at given weekly hours, you cannot sustain productivity beyond 40hrs/wk for more than a month. At some point productivity lowers such that, at best, productivity matches what previously only
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by milesvp 6y ago
I almost knee jerk downvoted you, then decided to give you the benefit of the doubt. You should know, that if a wiki article makes it to the front page on HN, then it is almost guaranteed to be interesting. My experience is that more often
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by milesvp 6y ago
This is a fundamental problem on the internet. Ram is so cheap that every device has too big buffers that don’t allow for proper TCP back pressure. Eric Raymond gave a talk on this a few years ago. He was going to distribute a lot of small
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by milesvp 6y ago
My personal experience with these types of camera is based on a conversation I had with a friend who’s a public defender in washington state. She said it can be nearly impossible to figure out who owns or put up all the random cameras you s
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by milesvp 6y ago
You lost me at poker. Poker is not against the house, and a rake simply changes various betting expected values. Poker is very much a game with varying levels of skill. A good player will consistently outplay a bad player. It is, however a
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by milesvp 6y ago
I was lucky at one point to work with product owners who understood that latency translated to lost revenue and so they helped champion the idea that engineering excellence was actually valuable, and that squeezing out performance was itsel
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by milesvp 6y ago
I wish I could turn to the same genre of music to increase my performance. Like you lyrics are out with exceptions (for some reason I can sort of tune out vocal trance), but some programming I find lend itself well to something like bossa n

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