mirrorlake

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by mirrorlake 4y ago
The number of electric devices added to the grid is likely a predictable percent increase every day/month/year, and likewise, the acceleration of that change is probably somewhat predictable, too. This is not to say we shouldn&#x2
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by mirrorlake 4y ago
I proactively hide YouTube videos (mark them 'Not Interested', etc). If I'm intending to find a good 15-30 minute video, I actually do a pass where I add the good recommendations to my Watchlist and hide bad/clickbait&#x
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by mirrorlake 4y ago
Customer satisfaction often translates into more dollars, though, because it means they won't cancel their service. I've had the same thought: if only this multi-billion dollar company could figure out that I want to continue watc
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by mirrorlake 4y ago
My criticism is that nearly the whole page is the comment section. The article itself is very short--pasted into an editor, ~200 words excluding titles. Perhaps putting every sentence on its own line also inflates an author's sense of
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by mirrorlake 4y ago
My armchair hypothesis is that using your phone, internet, or TV lacks sensory novelty--you frequently sit in the same place, doing the same thing. It's a repeated stimuli, which causes your brain to filter a lot of it and discard it,
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by mirrorlake 4y ago
Frequent phone notifications, social media aside, must have some negative impact on quality of life. In the worst cases, I've worked with people who had notifications go off every 2-3 minutes. I can't help but assume this destroys
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by mirrorlake 4y ago
Speaking only for myself: bad vision. Even though I'm capable of reading small text with my glasses, small text still makes me feel as if I have to squint which leads to headaches. I permanently switched to larger fonts / larger z
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by mirrorlake 4y ago
I personally have no desire to use it, but I appreciate that it's a significantly more efficient way of providing more info compared to a thumbnail. This is one of the few places on the web where I'm not utterly overwhelmed by vis
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by mirrorlake 5y ago
I've been wondering this for a while: In the future, code-writing AI could be tasked with generating the most reliable and/or optimized code to pass your unit tests. Human programmers will decide what we want the software to do, m
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by mirrorlake 5y ago
Turning off adblocker is required. Red flag.
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by mirrorlake 5y ago
For me, this is a lesson in the power of semantics. If one re-writes the if statement and switches the order, if A[j] > A[i] then I find the correctness of the algorithm to be significantly more obvious. It is true that i >= j
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by mirrorlake 5y ago
I've been dying for a browser mode that works more like Sublime's Distraction Free Mode (Shift+F11). The main thing I want is the browser to remain full screen, but render webpages as if the browser is about half-width. Blank colu
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by mirrorlake 5y ago
I want to see genuine competition between businesses to try and make their offices better. People got off the treadmill long enough to realize that their workplace sucks. But many issues are completely fixable. Make workplaces better. Ask p
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by mirrorlake 5y ago
This exact thing has happened to me, and it was both a surreal and wonderful experience to realize that I had helped myself across a huge gap of time (3+ years). It provides an even better motivation to help others with technical problems o
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by mirrorlake 5y ago
The demand for battery materials could eventually exceed the pace that we can mine them, so the world's grids will need significantly more types of non-battery energy storage like pumped hydro and flywheels. This will ensure that the m
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by mirrorlake 6y ago
This decade is the time to engage in a public discourse about what we want from our devices. Really sit back and think about what makes us happy. Hardware and software design can begin to nudge us toward some healthier, happier ideals. One
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by mirrorlake 6y ago
When I graduated college, I e-mailed him a thank you note for all the help his site gave me. It truly is a great resource.
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by mirrorlake 6y ago
That sounds like a nightmare for parents who don't have highly adaptable work schedules.
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by mirrorlake 6y ago
Two big things he seems to miss. Correctly identifying (and quarantining) just a few newly infected people in the early stages of an epidemic is a huge win. It's the same as compound interest. Early investment pays handsomely. Secondly
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by mirrorlake 7y ago
Preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed with this disease is like rapidly accumulating compound interest, and the dividends are people's lives. Early investment is monumentally better than late investment.
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by mirrorlake 7y ago
Can anyone vouch for the legitimacy of the names on this list? Is this authentic? I've been running my own numbers, and it does not seem far fetched at all. Governments need to be taking this extremely seriously.
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by mirrorlake 7y ago
Read any other good books in your time in school? I'm always looking for a good CS book to add to my reading list.
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by mirrorlake 7y ago
I like this analogy better than comparing it to a bunch of light switches. Gotta keep this in my back pocket.
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by mirrorlake 7y ago
Grubhub's value to me is that they send out surveys to most (or all?) customers who order from restaurants, so the star ratings are actually useful to me. A lower rating is a huge red flag when I'm checking out new places, at leas
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by mirrorlake 7y ago
I like to get higher bitrate stuff from Bleep and Bandcamp.
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by mirrorlake 7y ago
I had a similar experience last winter when I popped a CD into my desktop. Probably the first time I had heard music with a bitrate higher than Spotify’s 320kbps in a few years. Within a day I was off buying my favorite albums on FLAC and m
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by mirrorlake 7y ago
Think about an extreme case: a hypothetical person who was born an autistic savant who is a musical genius. They sold out concert halls at age 9-10, playing the hardest classical music ever written. To what degree did they “earn” their skil
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by mirrorlake 8y ago
I’m saddened by this aspect of YouTube whereby you’re afraid to explore the site without tanking your recommendations. I wish there was a site that focused on finding YouTube videos in a more focused way rather than some rogue ML algorithm
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by mirrorlake 8y ago
There is an interview with a few of the engineers on ScienceFriday's YouTube channel. Definitely worth checking out if you've read the book recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wq3ucqnaSk