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by minhmeoke 4y ago
You can use webhooks to post notifications from external applications (eg: a batch process running from your commandline or a pipeline which finished running) to a shared chat space: - https://developers.google.com/chat&#x2F
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Just look at what stuff we were using in the 1990s and early 2000s and still use now, then extrapolate: Command line tools and libraries: these are the building blocks which everyone uses (maybe indirectly) but nobody appreciates. - bash, z
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
On a related note, a friend created some frequency-domain visualizations of interesting sounds using the Welch power spectral density estimation algorithm and Fast Fourier Transform, the same algorithm described in this blog post. A few exa
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
I took the Functional Programming Principles in Scala class on Coursera and it was excellent! It's taught by Martin Odersky who is the creator of the language, and had lots of very effective short exercises which let you apply the conc
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Check if your computer is running any disruptive background processes, or if there is some kind of I/O bottleneck (for example, if you fill up a hard disk or SSD, write performance will suffer). On Linux you can do this by installing h
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Signal desktop ( https://signal.org/ ) supports screen sharing and does not have a time limit for calls: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007060492-Vo... It's also open sour
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Profile your server and figure out what the bottleneck in your app is: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/simple-profiling/ Also, consider building the ElasticSearch index on another server than the one s
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
If you want specific names, look them up on LinkedIn. Alternatively, for geographic locations: get a list of zip codes and query the Yelp API for the top vets in each of them? https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentati
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Start by determining what absolutely needs to be included in a minimum viable product, and prioritize ruthlessly. Amazon does this using "press-release-driven development." Create a simple proof-of-concept prototype, maybe of just
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
If the robot has the ability to fly or move, then perhaps just hop (up or over) out of arm's reach when someone comes too close? Real-time audio and video might be very bandwidth (and therefore battery) intensive to transmit over a cel
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
1. Find a good deck online on either AnkiWeb ( https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/ ), Reddit, or via a web search. For example, https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/7mjmjc&#
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Perhaps you could use either http://libsound.io/ which provides low-level APIs to access operating-system sound systems like Alsa, PulseAudio, PipeWire, and CoreAudio. Or https://python-sounddevice.readthedocs.io
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
The easiest approach is probably to avoid or reduce obviously harmful habits and behaviors that result in chronic diseases (eg: cardiovascular disease, diabetes) - Avoid smoking and hard drugs - Avoid excessive alcohol consumption - Avoid f
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Another thing people have been consuming for millennia are fermented foods (eg: yoghurt/kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, kimchi without preservatives). Perhaps a healthy gut biome is the secret to avoiding obesity by increasing gut microbi
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Someone from this thread recently started a discourse group which you might be interested in joining: https://discord.gg/WyRBDGgeCG
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Great suggestion! Someone actually just created a discourse group right in this thread: https://discord.gg/WyRBDGgeCG
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Other than PhD students at universities (undergrads are often just there for the degree), I'd recommend https://www.lesswrong.com/ , certain subreddits, MOOC platforms like Coursera or EdX, and here on Hacker News (thi
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
I've been trying out a bullet journaling (basically an enhanced TODO list system), I think it helps with organization, clarity/prioritization, and building habits: https://archive.ph/cTOzT (the video doesn't
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
If possible, I'd recommend getting an OpenWRT wireless router where the GPIO (general purpose input/output) and UART pins are broken out. You can use that to control a relay and turn devices on/off from just the shell (eg: de
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Consciousness is one of the great unsolved problems/questions of philosophy and cognitive science. For a quick introduction, I would recommend the following: > 0. My favorite theory of consciousness so far (and perhaps the eureka mo
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
You might be able to use an integration test framework to generate screenshots automatically based on a series of steps that walk through the user journey. For web: https://docs.cypress.io/guides/guides/screenshots
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
I happened to be looking for a similar portable music player / conference call headset recently. My process was to first identify a close-enough product using a search engine like Google or Amazon, and identify the relevant search term
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
How about pandoc? Examples: https://pandoc.org/demos.html You can style the output using the --css flag: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--css
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
Learn something new (a language? geography? history? match coworkers' faces to names?) using flashcard apps: - https://apps.ankiweb.net/ works offline, supports pictures, sound, and other media. You can find shared dec
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
How low-level do you want to go? Jack Ganssle's The Embedded Muse is excellent if you are interested in embedded systems and microcontrollers: http://www.ganssle.com/tem-back.htm I also like Hackaday for hardware hacks
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
+1 for RAFT, Paxos is quite complex and easy to mess up. If you're lazy, you can just throw Zookeeper at the problem (this is what many Big Data systems like Spark and Kafka often use for synchronization and consensus): - https:/
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
If you're getting friendzoned, then you need to be more assertive. By the 2nd or 3rd date, you should be escalating to physical touch (try accidentally brushing your hand against her side, touching her wrist, etc but if the girl jolts
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
One idea is to repeatedly expose yourself to rejection and turn it into a game, to the point where you become desensitized to it: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/16/3772390... Assu
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by minhmeoke 4y ago
+1 for Rockbox. The Sandisk Fuze and Fuze+, Clip, Clip+ and Clip Zip all have physical buttons and great sound quality for around $40 [1]. Note that newer iterations like Clip Sport Go use different hardware and are incompatible with Rockbo
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A similar idea I saw earlier was to collect and recycle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29760422 It would be great if someone could solve this problem and reduce the amount of microplas

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