myth2018

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by myth2018 4y ago
1) look for some psychotherapy. Really. You'll read a lot of advice everywhere, people in very good-faith sharing what worked to them, but you'll spend a lot of time experimenting to check what works best to you. A good therapist
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by myth2018 5y ago
I can relate. I spent some time using a simple feature phone. It was impressive how quickly and effectively I could slow down. I felt more present, read more, my thinking become clearer. But there were annoyances: my country is in a similar
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by myth2018 5y ago
It's refreshing to read that. There is this whole lot of widely accepted, undeniable truths among entrepreneurs, investors and many others in the ecosystem, and it's really good to meet successful companies which dared to do what
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by myth2018 5y ago
I'm assuming this is not an April Fools' joke, and my comments are targeted at the discussion it sparked here anyway. A flat branching model simplify things, and the strategy they describe surely enables them to ship features to
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by myth2018 5y ago
Thanks for the references. As I suspected. You take an antenna cut for a band, try to use it on others and find its limits -- nothing abnormal there. Still, maybe something you could circumvent with additional devices to transform the imped
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by myth2018 5y ago
> But random wires end up with impedances that vary considerably from crazy high to crazy low across relatively small changes in frequency, and this in turn sucks. Could you send a link with a practical case? I'm not implying I don&
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by myth2018 5y ago
> Yes, kind of. But if the impedance is really really high or really really low, then your receive efficiency will be really bad I must strongly disagree. A "really really high" or "really really low" impedance won&#x
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by myth2018 5y ago
> I was taught the same in my Electrical Engineering degree! That's true. I'm not implying at all that in Engineering they do stuff the same way ham radios do, but sometimes we see Engineering building successfully upon certain
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by myth2018 5y ago
> The main issue with "way longer than that" is that the impedance varies a whole lot with small changes in frequency It could be, but I'm not sure. Beverages (receive-only), and travelling-wave antennas in general, I&#x27
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by myth2018 5y ago
One extremely important factor is that the physical length affects the radiation pattern. Roughly speaking: as the EM waves go back and forth through the antenna wire, the electrical current will reach different peak values in different par
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by myth2018 5y ago
Indeed, this is one of the factors. This is represented as the velocity factor and depends on the metal used to build the antenna, and maybe other factors I'm not aware of.
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by myth2018 5y ago
> The length of antenna you need to receive a radio signal is proportional to the signal’s wavelength, typically 1/2 or 1/4 of the wavelength Without wanting to be too pedantic, but this particular piece of misunderstanding is
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by myth2018 5y ago
> Same would apply in the case of a major environmental catastrophe I used to believe in that. After COVID-19, not anymore.
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by myth2018 5y ago
I don't understand where you see complexity here. That was a fairly simple setup actually. About the use cases and motivations, some of the drivers were commercial -- e.g. clients with content they considered too sensitive to be hosted
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by myth2018 5y ago
Apart from robust anti-download protections, I could do pretty much everything I needed using ffmpeg (compiled with a customized configuration), video.js running a handful of custom plugins and some other pieces of open source software. Sim
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by myth2018 5y ago
Yes, we get used to it, not unpleasant for me, at all. But it changes the way you live. Compared with lives of friends from Europe, I notice that theirs has a bit more of a "structure" and predictability. E.g., hang out more in th
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by myth2018 5y ago
Glad to know about those new standards. I'm talking specifically about Brazil, though. I'm not aware of such standards over here. Maybe they exist but aren't being followed, or maybe they are deficient.
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by myth2018 5y ago
Indeed. Speaking about hot and sunny cities like mine, besides strategic placement of windows I would also mention barriers to direct sunlight over the walls. Simple barriers can improve inner temperatures sensibily and costs no energy, but
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by myth2018 5y ago
Our air masses are probably cooler than yours because of the sea, I'm not sure. There seems to be more factors in operation.
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by myth2018 5y ago
> These are two separate problems I've learned a lot about US climates and their notion of ventilation, here at the comments I got. I hope you guys also have found interesting that, in some other parts of the globe, ventilation and
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by myth2018 5y ago
We are near to the equator here. Seasons don't work the same. Here they call the 3 rainy months "winter", and the rest of the year is summer. And the temperature gradient I've mentioned is correct. No noticeable changes
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by myth2018 5y ago
Interestingly, the articles I find about ventilation are indeed concerned about air quality. However, in my country, at least in the cities I've lived on, the idea of ventilation is mostly associated to cooling indoors (with air qualit
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by myth2018 5y ago
How, that's a huge temperature gradient. I live in Fortaleza, Brazil. Temperatures here are very stable along the whole year (78F - 90F, it rarely falls out of this interval). I'm not advocating this no-AC model as a general solut
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by myth2018 5y ago
Uhm.. for me it helps, and A LOT. Surely there are more factors involved, which I'm not aware of. I'm talking from Fortaleza, Brazil. Maybe the sea is bringing cooler air. I really don't know, I only have these pieces of empi
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by myth2018 5y ago
I've been thinking about the inverse problem. I live in a very warm city. Air conditioning (cooling spaces) is the norm, but tons of money are spent with installations, maintenance and the monthly electricity bill. The new houses are d
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by myth2018 5y ago
It is, more than EVER, time to return to SIMPLICITY. As it's been said, most applications aren't that special and shouldn't demand overly specialized developers. Much like it used to be during back in the day, the old times o
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by myth2018 5y ago
I'm in Brazil and also read the message both in english and french
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Ask HN: Where to find opportunities to practice z/OS CICS development?
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by myth2018 5y ago
During pandemics, I got really suspicious about adwords. My ads were working reasonabilly well considering the low investment I was making, with a fair amount of prospects filling my contact form on a low but steady rate. I was satisfied wi
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by myth2018 5y ago
I don't judge, and I recur to this solution as well, more often than I'd like to. But it doesn't only sounds bad.. it is bad indeed, for a number of reasons. For instance, work usually expands to spend all the time available.

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