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by mwest217 4y ago
My favorite example of this is the Glenn Gould recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations. He has 2 famous recordings - one recorded in 1955, another in 1981. They are very different in tone.
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by mwest217 4y ago
The origin adds additional color here - hagiography is writing about the lives of saints. So the adjectival form just means that it's portraying someone as (perhaps excessively) saintly.
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by mwest217 4y ago
Lots of resources on the subject from Strong Towns[1], Not Just Bikes[2], and various consulting firms like Urban3[3] [1] https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by mwest217 4y ago
I don't think that's been true for over a decade. Google has a pretty sophisticated internal payments system that handles terms customers, invoicing, payment initiation, and lots more. I understand that Cloud specifically is switc
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by mwest217 4y ago
The timing is actually based on seafloor cores, and finding 41 earthquakes in the last 10,000 years.
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by mwest217 4y ago
It's always fun to see one of these articles pop up about someone I know - I knew Jared from the ultimate frisbee team at Dartmouth!
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by mwest217 4y ago
OiNK was succeeded by What.CD, which was succeeded by Redacted.ch. The highly refined catalog of music is still there on the right place.
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by mwest217 4y ago
What was the podcast?
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by mwest217 5y ago
As a young person without children, I much prefer the office - I intentionally live close enough to the office that my commute is a 20 minute walk or a <10 minute bike ride, so my commute is actually pleasant, and not having the forcing
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by mwest217 5y ago
Pemberton (where this home is located) is much wetter than Kelowna, so I think it's less of an issue. It's similar to the difference in Washington between the west slope of the North Cascades (such as Mt Baker, which holds the w
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by mwest217 5y ago
As of a few months ago they could have an aggregate spending limit, I used it in June.
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by mwest217 5y ago
I used to live around 30 minutes north of Lytton, and fire seasons were always pretty substantial. It’s still shocking to see the town being burned.
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by mwest217 5y ago
That’s strictly accurate but kinda misleading. It doesn’t have multiple optimization passes it does just for hot code paths, it fully compiled per function. They call it Just Ahead Of Time compiled.
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by mwest217 5y ago
I implemented Conway’s game of life in VHDL to run on a Xilinx FPGA board in my digital electronics class in college - interestingly, I think the hardest part was actually the HDMI driving.
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by mwest217 6y ago
There is something similar - it's under the About section: > CodeMirror is open source (MIT or GPL3). It is being developed on GitHub. Contributions are welcome. > If you are using CodeMirror commercially, there is a social expec
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by mwest217 6y ago
Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Utah all have 100% mail voting. I’ve lived in Colorado and Washington, and had a very easy time voting in both.
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by mwest217 6y ago
He's referring to the fact that most commerce on the App Store is for physical goods and services (Airbnb, Amazon, Uber, food delivery, etc). Apple doesn't take a cut of those transactions.
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by mwest217 6y ago
That's actually (sneakily) not the case. Gboard does have voice transcription, but it's triggered by pressing the microphone button at the upper right corner of the keyboard. Apple's voice transcription is still triggered fro
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by mwest217 6y ago
The CDC has a page about it [here]( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm ).
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by mwest217 6y ago
Exactly. I'd pay more for a small phone than for the current monstrous flagships.
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by mwest217 7y ago
Maybe some people do that - I didn't do a single interview question prepping for a Google interview; just read through the topics they suggested reviewing, looked up the concepts I hadn't seen before, and did the interviews.
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by mwest217 7y ago
Not at all. I've been at Google for a bit over two years, and my experience has been at the far other end of the spectrum: a lot of autonomy, gathering requirements, designing & implementing. Also I have a fair amount of agency to
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by mwest217 7y ago
OP used “complement” correctly - as in, ease of use complements (goes well with) scihub being free.
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by mwest217 7y ago
I feel like the biggest losers here are open consensus-based cryptocurrencies like [Stellar]( https://stellar.org ) and [Ripple]( https://ripple.com ). Libra seems to have the same niche: a consensus-based blockchain pro
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by mwest217 7y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a Googler, but don't work on anything related. This seems like probably a good thing for casual users. Safari adblockers have shown that declarative lists can work well enough. The people who will suffer, I fear, a