milesvp

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by milesvp 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4327908 This is one of the threads I remember reading about this. The blog seems to be offline, but you might find some luck with the wayback machine. https://web.archive.org&
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by milesvp 3y ago
It would also be weird to me for them to not have linux ports of their engines after blogging about the performance and bug squashing benefits of doing so for previous game engines.
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by milesvp 3y ago
I’d be curious how much of this can be directly attributed to logging roads. Not the logging that they enable, but the actual path the roads allow water to take. I’ve seen mention of the fractal patterns of roads developed to log the amazon
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by milesvp 3y ago
A video came across my feed recently talking about this in tech. Was talking about how the advice for getting into tech that worked really well 1+ years ago isn't as effective today. Basically, the idea was that tech was hiring so vora
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by milesvp 3y ago
Averages aren’t really useful here. For a lot of people food and housing represent a significant proportion of their take home. In my region both of these are up significantly higher than 3.7 in the last twelve months. Worse is certain bran
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by milesvp 3y ago
Common reasons for posting bogus listings include posting very specific requirements in order to “look for cadidates” other than a very specific person, or to claim there are no local candidates in order to hire cheaper H1-B visas. Another
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by milesvp 3y ago
Maybe. I never got the impression Jim Henson needed psychedelics though. It was certainly in the zeitgeist of the time if you were counter culture which I think sesame street was certainly trying to be at the time.
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by milesvp 3y ago
For the record. I get like this when I'm really geeking out over something. I also know that I can be exhausting to listen to when I'm like this, and try to tone it down depending on my audience. Though, if I was a youtube persona
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by milesvp 3y ago
you’d be surprised. I was just talking with a former coworker said that their team has essentially shipped nothing for 9 months due to changing priorities. Code was written, and merge requests were merged, but feature flags meant that no on
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by milesvp 3y ago
South Africa used to have some of the cheapest power in the world. I have a friend who grew up there and he said it had never even occurred to him to calculate the cost of running a 100W bulb before he moved to the US. Further, at one point
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by milesvp 3y ago
thank you for this term. I’ve been struggling lately with this topic because collusion has some fairly well defined regulatory meaning, and I’ve had to quote the term collusion to avoid some argumentative pushback. I think the rise of compu
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by milesvp 3y ago
How many of these burger joints own the building they operate in? This is a very shallow look at economic forces. And ignores some of the bigger squeezes happening. The number of landlords continues to decline as real estate is consolidated
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by milesvp 3y ago
Fun story. I worked with a guy who had a habit of killing any project he was on. Guy was fantastic at certain feel good maneuvers that had a tendency to suck all forward momentum and enthusiasm. He was a nice guy, and it was clear he had po
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by milesvp 3y ago
I know a guy like this. He was once employed to wander around talking with other engineers of different specialties. He has a habit of looking at things from first principles. And talking to him would invariably get you unstuck on some prob
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by milesvp 3y ago
Without a doubt monetary policy has fueled inflation, but do not ignore the policies of allowing corporate mergers for the last 40 years. Lack of competition reduces price elasticity, and the end game of every monopoly is to raise prices. W
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by milesvp 3y ago
I’m not sure saying credit cards should be harder to get is the correct stance. I saw a paper talking about the rise of payday loans came at the cost of pawn shops. Basically there is a lot of demand for short term loans, I would argue that
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by milesvp 3y ago
I remember when I was young getting a game from my older sister's college boyfriend. Gave me the game on disks, and also a photocopied manual just for this same purpose. Used to be super common for games to use these kinds of checks fo
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by milesvp 3y ago
Oh interesting! I’m curious how they deal with FCC compliance. I’ve worked with espressif chips, and the way they stay compliant is to insert binary blobs in the final binary so that you can’t access the radio except through their API. With
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by milesvp 3y ago
Second this. Just adding fats and protien to a meal effect the meal’s glycemic index (even though it does nothing to glycemic load). I did a lot of research both times my wife was gestational diebetic, and while I already knew that fats hel
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by milesvp 3y ago
fun fact, all arrays in php are also associative. I once worked on code that managed to delete one of the array index keys. That was fun to debug
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by milesvp 3y ago
I’ve been following the poverty finance subreddit recently. One thing that stood out to me recently was how often people who know they’re poor “waste money” on things that I would never spend money on. And the threads around it all seem to
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by milesvp 3y ago
You are not wrong. Part of why I’m a huge fan of immigration, is that the numbers show that every major wave of immigration the US has encountered led to massive GDP growth. Immigrants tend to be net savers. But, I believe it’s important to
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by milesvp 3y ago
Being able to tell a client when you can get back to them will go a very long way towards mitigating their needs. For them it may be urgent, but knowing when it will get someone’s full attention, I’ve found is often enough. It’s basically s
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by milesvp 3y ago
I suspect yes. You may not see it in your industry, but I see it a lot in the creative space. Anecdotally, I know there’s an expectation when working for a video production company that you are constantly available to react to clients. And
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by milesvp 3y ago
I’ve been watching a youtube psychiatrist who seems to be abreast of the latest research on some of this stuff. He had an interesting insight around learning and journaling. His take seems to be that journaling is something you do to help p
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by milesvp 3y ago
feynman wrote about this. He famously, already having figured out the first 2 digits of a locked filing cabinet over the course of months, sat down and read a magazine for a length if time before “cracking” the lock when someone lost the ke
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by milesvp 3y ago
Adding bluetooth to a flashlight probably adds at least 2 dollars to the BOM, cpu upgrade and bluetooth module (for reference one of the cheapest might be an espressif chip in the $1.5 range, but they don’t do low energy very well when blue
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by milesvp 3y ago
Yeah, maybe. I’ve seen big clive play with a joule thief. He certainly thought it was sort of nifty. Might not be a bad idea for certain electronics. My experience with nimh, is that while they have a lower starting voltage, their discharge
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by milesvp 3y ago
This anecdote doesn’t surprise me, there was a study done some years ago that looked at paper citations and there was a strong correlation with diversity of the team and citations. What I remember of the excerpt was that they didn’t just lo
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by milesvp 3y ago
While I agree with using rechargables, this may make it worse. Most rechargables will have a voltage of 1.2 instead of alkaline battery 1.5. depending on the level set for a low battery, this may trigger the warnings much sooner. Really it’

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