patrickyeon

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by patrickyeon 7y ago
Your manager wants to see this! Do you know what happens if you look good? Your manager gets to look good too. It is in their interest for you to be a stellar employee.
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
> County officers authorized to use stun cuffs are required to go through training and are only allowed to use them “to overcome active resistance” or when “active aggression is an immediate or credible threat to the safety of the deputy
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
1-bit recording is in fact a common thing for very noisy signals. You're actually aggressively over-sampling and using correlations over many samples (in time) to get the signal out from under the noise. I've only glanced over it,
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
You clearly haven't read the rest of the article. It's not even especially far down that it's mentioned that the accumulated error for the orbital calculations has resulted in errors for satellite positions into hundreds or t
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
Real/virtual is maybe not the best dichotomy, but it's explained in the original email. A lunar eclipse as described is the entire Moon in the Earth's shadow. There is no portion of the near side of the moon (the hemisphere t
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
Makes sense. Thanks for the correction.
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
Call the nearest large food bank (as in, the county food bank that serves a city with a population of X00,000+). I suspect they would be happy to share knowledge, there may even be a meta-organization you can join to get help running your o
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
Because it's a term I'm not familiar with, but you used twice, I looked up "twice exceptional". For anybody else wondering, it "refers to gifted children who have some form of disability."
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
Because this isn't a magic fantasy world where you're literally turning cash into bigger cash. When someone says "$5 cash becomes $15 worth of food", they mean "I can spend the $5 to get what would cost you $15 to s
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
If there's a cause you're interested in supporting, you can show up to volunteer or even just a volunteer training. I learnt about how the ACCFB operates at my volunteer training and it was not what I expected.
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
This is extremely wrong-headed. To begin with, you're stating "downsides" which the original article specifically said "hey, people think this and they're wrong". Downthread you bring up worries like "spen
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
Heh, from foone themself: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1066547670477488128.html Not to humblebrag or anything, but my favorite part of getting posted on hackernews or reddit is that EVERY SINGLE TIME there'
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
Pretty near all of this stuff is available from North American distributors, Adafruit/Sparkfun for more hobbyist-minded stuff, Digikey/Mouser/Newark for industry. Adafruit takes bitcoin if you're that paranoid. You'
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
I guess that makes sense, and it's not a particularly new phenomenon. The MOS 6507 (used in the Atari 2600) was mostly the same silicon as the 6502 (as used in Apple II and many other places), but cheaper because it was in a smaller pa
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
"Microcontroller" refers to everything on the chip (usually, we would talk about it having a "core" roughly akin to memory + ALU + such, and "peripherals" which are on-chip dedicated hardware that migh be eg. I
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
They are, the car is pushing "forward and to the outside" of turns. For some chuckles, here's Top Gear demonstrating the fact (over and over) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8 As a sibling comment m
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
I just went to https://web.archive.org/web/news.ycombinator.com (no date in the url) and it sent me to the most recent snapshot.
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
Because I wasn't sure which end of the bell curve this was referring to, "10th to 25th percentile" in this article means students significantly below the median, not above it.
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by patrickyeon 7y ago
The point wasn't that they can't be massive companies; the point was that they are hard to scale. What works to get to one audience, or to build up to one size, doesn't mean you can throw money at it and "just" grow
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by patrickyeon 8y ago
Hey friend, don't take it personally. A layoff indicates a failure (of planning, of budgeting, or whatever) at a much higher level of the organization than you Your position may have been opened before the layoff decision was made, so
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by patrickyeon 8y ago
- Because they didn't read that part so closely. - Because they read it closely but didn't interpret it correctly. - Because they brought it up and their counterpart said "don't worry, that's boilerplate and we&#x27
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by patrickyeon 8y ago
The account posting it belongs to an employee of kubos. Usually that would be tolerated around here, if it's on-topic and they were to add something akin to "full disclosure: I work for this company". You could debate if it&#
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by patrickyeon 8y ago
Oh absolutely you're correct here. > In analog computing, complexity resides in network topology, not in code. Information is processed as continuous functions of values, such as voltage and relative pulse frequency, rather than by
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by patrickyeon 8y ago
That was really enjoyable, and I expect my inspection/soldering microscope would be up to this task if I had a roof to search and a few days to spare. Here's the book shown if anybody else is looking for it: https://www
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by patrickyeon 8y ago
I have a few convenience scripts that access the Gmail API for my own inbox, and only my own account. Does anybody know if there is some kind of "under development" flag I can set so that I don't have to undergo this review?
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by patrickyeon 8y ago
To expand on a sibling comment, the "this actually maker her more confident..." logic goes roughly like this: - Jesse and Kaia had considerable difficulty manufacturing and shipping the products this update is about (a keyboard wi
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by patrickyeon 8y ago
As I understand it, they were talking to someone they believed to be a representative of the factory the whole time. When the story is laid out, after the fact, it's easy to see that someone is being scammed. But the reason scams work
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by patrickyeon 8y ago
That's still misleading, at best, for CenturyLink to claim that the law "requires them" to do it this way. There are easier methods to provide the notice (email or with a bill), and there's nothing that could even be con
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by patrickyeon 8y ago
> First of all, could you give some concrete examples of the kinds of data people using this would be handling? Planet operates imagery satellites, and as far as I know that's the bulk of commercial data _produced_ in orbit that nee
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by patrickyeon 8y ago
Oh, hey Newman, we chatted a couple times while you were at Planet. Sure, the needs between early testing and production are different, but I still argue that this does neither. When we were doing early work on the satellites and ground seg

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