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by mrtb 3mo ago
I've been DM'ing randos on LinkedIn for lightweight consults and found that offering to pay up front and asking strangers to price their own time can help to show seriousness and often results in free interactions or buy-me-a-coff
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Wave Field LLM – O(nlogn) Transformer Alternative(github.com)
2 points by mrtb 7mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How did you fund your early stage hardware startup?
4 points by mrtb 1y ago|3 comments
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by mrtb 2y ago
I'm new to embedded systems programming and looked into ROS recently, without using it, while figuring out a minimal software stack for a UAV project (px4 over ArduPilot for the flight controller, but what to run on a "companion&q
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by mrtb 2y ago
I read this at a poetry evening recently, to much laughter. From Titus Plautus, a comic playwright, we have an early example of a rant about disruptive technology or - possibly - a satire about technophobia!
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Hacked-Up Days (C. 195 BC – Rome)(laphamsquarterly.org)
1 points by mrtb 2y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How do you know if leaving your 1st software job will make you happier?
29 points by mrtb 4y ago|59 comments
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by mrtb 5y ago
I think the alternative to having a social life "dictated by a machine" (a machine which, in this case, encodes the intentions of its programmer) is to have a social life dictated by chance and by other's intentions - coincid
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Ask HN: How did you become a software engineer?
58 points by mrtb 5y ago|75 comments
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by mrtb 6y ago
I was on a gap year after an MEng in Computing when covid lockdown v1 hit the UK. Unsure what to do with my life I watched Downton Abbey with my parents and baked lots of banana bread. I'd picked up ukulele to de-stress during exam sea
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by mrtb 6y ago
> If you like doing it, you do it. This attitude seems to overlook that there can be a tension between present and future fulfilment. There are things you can do (or avoid doing) now that will make your life a lot less enjoyable later on
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by mrtb 7y ago
Which MAA book are you referring to?