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by piyh 5y ago
Another tick forward in fundamental physics that will pay off as some theoretical framework getting slightly more grounded and paying off in a tangential way 70 years from now.
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by piyh 5y ago
Taking the "good enough" approach in life has probably left a lot of potential on the table, but it really has gotten the maximal utility out of any work I put in. It's probably ~50%-100% more work to go from a B+ in life to
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by piyh 5y ago
I had a conversation with an Israeli guy about smart grids and the iron dome while watching old Bond movies. Highly recommend Big Screen. Eye contact, hand gestures and the occasional air drawing go a long way to connect people.
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by piyh 5y ago
Using bind parameters. https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.Cursor # Never do this -- insecure! symbol = 'RHAT' cur.execute("SELECT \* FROM stocks WHERE symbol = '
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by piyh 5y ago
The reviews on those Intel heterogenous cores were terrible in both battery life and performance. Intel gonna Intel.
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by piyh 5y ago
I think if we let racists own the color wheel then we've lost.
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by piyh 5y ago
Lets say you have a small team and dev, test, prod environments. You want high availability. You need kafka and zookeeper servers, 2-3 of each so let's say 5 total. Dev can be single servers, but you should probably have an environme
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by piyh 5y ago
Inductor coils? I haven't heard of capacitors creating noise before.
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by piyh 5y ago
You can buy a new shell and an IPS screen with adjustable brightness for $45 on ebay. I'm excited to revive my old GBA that has a terrible looking silver finish and scratched screen.
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by piyh 5y ago
>you really don't wanna manage your own Kafka instance So much of my life would be better right know if you didn't just describe me.
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by piyh 5y ago
Code is much mores structured than English. Code is built around well defined ideas, processes, datastructures. Human language is context dependent, loose, and things like tonality of speech can change the meaning. It's easier to gues
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by piyh 5y ago
I don't know how much keeping the monetary supply honest is good for humanity. Being able to print your own money can create a lot of problems, but it also gives you an escape hatch out of many others.
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by piyh 5y ago
Youtube premium with kids pays for itself in the reduced spending/whining for things they saw on ads. Embedded advertising is another thing entirely. SponsorBlock is the way to go there.
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by piyh 5y ago
The xbox one s has a minor clock speed bump over the xbone. I wouldn't be surprised to see something similar here.
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by piyh 5y ago
>can make ends meat This is called burnt ends security
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by piyh 5y ago
Thanks for the things to google, I've faked it till I made it and still have some knowledge gaps to fill in.
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by piyh 5y ago
I'm at a crossroads for a hobby project I'm working on. I have a model for youtube video metadata. I have functions to do things like transform the metadata into display values to be rendered to template. Should that logic be a
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by piyh 5y ago
An HR person was poking around the admin panels of a payroll system and accidentally clicked a notify on SSN change box. An email was sent with the before and after social security number went out to 20,000 people.
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by piyh 5y ago
You can design resiliency to specific faults. Server goes down, bad code deploy, cosmic rays flip a bit. Each resiliency design looks different.
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by piyh 5y ago
Carlin's interview on the Lex Fridman podcast was great.
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by piyh 5y ago
I wonder how much of that toughness is context of instagram shots vs a candid of someone in an orange jumpsuit. She probably also had a lot more time to work out.
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by piyh 5y ago
There's a loose vs lose typo in the second paragraph. It's like school teachers whipped they're, their, there into our heads and where one typo door closes another opens.
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by piyh 5y ago
>In particular I'd be surprised if it outperforms a cup of coffee or a rhapsodical conversation for any type of insight. Ego death is a hell of a thing to experience. We can talk about it and how some people can reach it through ye
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by piyh 5y ago
Take it to the extreme of an LSD trip, you can get something out of it that you can't get any other way. You take a day to mentally dig into your psyche and cut through so many of your mental ruts, while having some crazy hallucinatio
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by piyh 5y ago
The mass adoption that Apple's embrace brings is a step function for things that hit economies of scale thresholds (iPad lidar) and anything with a network effect (airtag).
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by piyh 5y ago
The last thing I want is a cheap lithium ion battery sitting in my 150 degree car for months at a time.
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by piyh 5y ago
I'm sure there's some societal tradeoff between global electrification and pedestrian deaths. Until the government adds pedestrian safety to US crash standards, Ford will make what the image conscious truck market wants.
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by piyh 5y ago
> welfare state prioritize able-bodied workers just because they hit a fixed chronological age? There exists a need to support the old and frail. Chronological age is an easier metric to use than to leave value judgements up to whoever
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by piyh 5y ago
The inexorable march of technology will continue, curmudgeon or not. There's no reason this approach won't scale to groups or larger areas.
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by piyh 5y ago
Remember when Texas lost power for a week? Imagine that nationally for potentially months, no food, no water, no communication.

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