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by nanidin 5y ago
I also want to add that I took some time off earlier in my career as well. During that time off I spent a year traveling around Asia, then I tried to create a startup. I was hungrier at the time due to being a lot less established and due t
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by nanidin 5y ago
I left my job in February 2021 due to being overstressed and eventually burning out. I was in a role where I was essentially on call 24/7, with the only calls actually coming in at early AM hours on holidays. This made it impossible fo
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by nanidin 5y ago
> State driver license in USA In which states? The only thing I have been fingerprinted for is in the US is The Global Entry program.
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by nanidin 5y ago
I whip out my phone, pull up Sky Guide, then point it at the star in question. Around here depending on the time of the year it's typically Jupiter, Mars, Venus, or Sirius.
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by nanidin 5y ago
My former company enacted a paternal leave policy around the time MSFT required suppliers/partners to offer them in order to continue doing business with MSFT. Shortly after I became the manager of my team, one of my reports informed m
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by nanidin 5y ago
16 year old me bypassed this and all other monitoring by running a patch cable from the cable modem directly to my machine when up to shenanigans.
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by nanidin 5y ago
My $0.02, but it seems like the moderation team (dang in particular) has been less active over the last 24 hours. Usually there are reminders in large threads to click the "more" button to see all comments, but there was no such c
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by nanidin 5y ago
I have also found Siri’s voice recognition for shopping list items lackluster, especially compared to Alexa. I’m guessing it has to do with Amazon having a better model of actual subjects/products due to having a storefront with said i
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by nanidin 5y ago
I don’t use gmail, but I have also been getting some obvious spam through my filters as well - usually nothing makes it to my actual inbox, but lately there have been 5-6 per day. I use a Bayesian filter trained on old spam (I haven’t retra
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by nanidin 5y ago
Yep - it seems we're getting deep into "73.6% of statistics are made up on the spot" territory no matter which source we choose :) Which then raises the question - why did the author of the tweet choose 10 million?
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by nanidin 5y ago
> There is precisely zero actual use for it beyond that I was staying in a hotel in Nepal around 10 years ago. I was sharing a room with someone I met. I paid the hotel, and my roommate paid me in bitcoin. It was pretty convenient consid
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by nanidin 5y ago
Agreed! Also consider that the first result is only meant to represent bitcoin owners in a country that makes up 4.6% of the world population.
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by nanidin 5y ago
I'm not saying either way (as this wasn't specified in the tweet either) - just pointing out the huge discrepancy between easily accessible statistics and the story the author of the tweet is trying to tell. There is a huge assump
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by nanidin 5y ago
The tweet makes an assumption that there are 10 million people holding bitcoin, and the tweet goes on to imply that this is actually an overestimate. The first google result for "how many people hold bitcoins" says that an estimat
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by nanidin 5y ago
> You put years in effort and then someone steals a significant part of your revenue This seems a bit disingenuous. A more accurate take might be that you sign up for the Apple developer program, and in doing so agree to the terms of ser
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by nanidin 5y ago
Another downside to wearing at night and charging during the day - automatic updates don't happen automatically.
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> Also, the watch presumably can't tell how fast the ball is served, which depends on the racquet speed and whether you make good contact with the ball. I think I disagree here. It should be possible to build a model that infers thi
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by nanidin 5y ago
It is worth noting that the linked $8500 repair anecdote took place over 5 years ago. Are there more recent examples, or did the situation improve?
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> Also, you can't work for the feds if you ever touch the ganja, which is ridiculous I believe it is possible to get security clearance after cessation of drugs for multiple years, even drugs like Heroin. I found the full rules[0] w
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by nanidin 5y ago
My understanding of Mean World Syndrome was that it is related to what gets shown in the news. The news media get more eyeballs and engagement when they focus on bad things happening in a community. This can lead people to believe that only
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by nanidin 5y ago
Google Authenticator has a feature to allow export of all saved codes into one QR code for re-import into Google Authenticator running on another device. I printed a copy of my export QR code for use in case my device is lost or stolen.
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by nanidin 5y ago
Proof of stake changes the game and raises the bar for entry. It essentially creates a "rich get richer" scenario where the only way to increase the amount of coin you have is to either already have enough to participate in proof
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by nanidin 5y ago
> Estimates on Bitcoin energy usage put it at over 1TW now. I believe it was comparable to the energy consumption of Argentina. I'm not sure this factoid is germane to GPU shortages, since no one is using GPU's to mine bitcoin
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by nanidin 5y ago
I'm suggesting them as a way to give people longer breaks from work than can be afforded on 3-5 weeks of annual PTO, as a way for a business to retain talent that would otherwise leave. Offering sabbaticals and maintaining good work li
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by nanidin 5y ago
Have you tried talking about this with your manager? Jumping straight to FMLA is making a lot of assumptions about the company and what they might be willing to do to retain you. As an example: my SO was dealing with a lot of stress due to
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by nanidin 5y ago
Well, one purpose of defragging a drive was to put data from the same file in one place in order to reduce random seeks while reading sequential data. One would defrag in order to increase performance in this regard. On an SSD, the random s
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by nanidin 5y ago
Wasn’t defragmentation more important in general on spinning media to reduce random seeks? And now most performance oriented things are happening on SSD?
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by nanidin 5y ago
Aha, so the contiguity of the actual memory pages must not be what is used for prefetching by the MMU, instead it is the contiguity of the virtual address space? I was thrown for a bit of a loop working through virtual vs actual memory addr
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by nanidin 5y ago
Is there any benefit to using virtual_vec as opposed to a std::deque then? It guarantees constant time pushes to the back and constant time random element access via operator[][0]. I think the case for std::vector::reserve() is when you kno
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std::vector::push_back() has a documented complexity issue that occurs if a reallocation must occur as a result of the push (in order to grow the memory backing the vector). To benchmark this virtual_vec fairly against std::vector, you woul

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