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by pnathan 4y ago
My take is that acted video on demand is ripe for collapsing into a few services. The next big streaming target is sports. That will, in my opinion, be the determinant of the streaming success in the next decade.
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by pnathan 4y ago
> Maybe it'll pick up again in a decade or so when I'm not getting summoned to wipe a kid's butt or screamed at because I used the wrong cup or plate but it doesn't really feel like when it's this time of life, t
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by pnathan 4y ago
I do mean debuggers in embedded systems, but slightly above the JTAG level. Think something like an Arduino.
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by pnathan 4y ago
I would be 100% shocked to learn that there are no quiet and private search engines for Fediverse covering the vast majority of posts. I would also expect, given increasing mainstreaming of Mastodon and the well known discovery issues, a co
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by pnathan 4y ago
FWIW, I futzed with Upwork years ago. It became super clear that it wasn't where I could sell my skills (deep backend, sre) effectively and come out with outcomes good for me and the client. I do FTE work but occasionally dream of the
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by pnathan 4y ago
Yes, I mentioned gdb's reversible debugging capability late in my comment. :) My experience was that C++/Java debuggers beat interpreted language debuggers shockingly well. So much so I still don't touch interpreted language
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by pnathan 4y ago
In general, our debugging tools today are just terrifyingly crude. Some improvements have been made since my thesis in the industry state but overall... yuck. To get us to the state of the art debugging research in the 90s: - FOL scripting
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by pnathan 4y ago
yes he did. the level of effort a good video makes is off the charts. and then you're rolling the dice of luck/marketing.
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by pnathan 4y ago
I noticed the same thing when doing my Master's (graduated 2012, work in embedded debuggers), for which I read a heck of a lot of early papers, both the better and the worse (Sturgeon's Law is very real). My SWAG is that a lot of
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by pnathan 4y ago
Some people love video the medium. I tried doing a video of myself talking off the cuff on a topic. Watching myself, it was painful. I obviously needed to write myself a script, do editing, etc. I would rather just write the text, and skip
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by pnathan 4y ago
BEC is one of the best YouTube channels. Not per se because of the legos, but in how the videos assess and iterate. Also, as another HN commentator pointed out, its not "baity", (s?)he doesn't do any of the stupid BS to hyp
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by pnathan 4y ago
long tail bikes fit 2-3 kids. its easier when it's an E-bike. But they were geared for and used before the electric assist became popular.
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by pnathan 4y ago
Yes, that's an interesting choice. I remember when trikes were pulled in the late 80s- very risky. Two wheels up front made a return in the last decade. I'm going to be following this. I think a Trike will be enormously popular be
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by pnathan 4y ago
The holidays are rolling in the US, too, so I expect that getting scheduled for interviews is going to be pure grief until Jan.
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by pnathan 4y ago
I strongly concur that this is a thing. Toxic and senior engineer - particularly in the SRE/sysadmin space - almost were synonymous. Also saw it in QA some. It's so much better to not do this.
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by pnathan 4y ago
months and months ago. Thanks for the heads up. I'll look into that.
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by pnathan 4y ago
reddit mod management is a bit haywire. I am mod at a rather largish subreddit (> 750K subs/readers), and despite the top mod being gone from the subreddit for something like 6? years now and virtually inactive on reddit, I can&#x27
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by pnathan 4y ago
That's a good breakdown of the second age. I would concur with the article's assessment that the Galadriel character is not true to the world.
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by pnathan 4y ago
> . The movies were about heros of impeccable character doing heroic things and there always was a happy ending. I confess, I rather prefer that approach. Really don't like anti-heros and villains as protagonists.
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by pnathan 4y ago
In my teens, I had public school friends who succeeded, some who failed. Some who abused the system. The textbooks were lousy as a rule, stuffed with low-entropy material and images. Teachers varied, wildly. Some bad. Some good. What I lear
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by pnathan 4y ago
I'm keenly aware that some public school districts do really badly. E.g., Albequerque PS has 75% of kids under grade level in math - one reason why we didn't move there! On the policy level, removing the option to legally homescho
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by pnathan 4y ago
> apparently net positive outcome for you and your immediate family My point is I don't think it was net positive. I'd estimate a net negative. I actually think I spent 10 years overcoming serious limits in post-homeschooling a
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by pnathan 4y ago
> I want my children to be honest, thoughtful, compassionate, diligent, respectful, and courageous. These aren't society's values today so I homeschool. The number of people who have good values who don't homeschool demons
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by pnathan 4y ago
I was homeschooled: k-11. I have a graduate degree. My sibling has a similar path. The academics I received as a homeschooler were, frankly, probably 90th percentile, maybe more. Yet, simply going to a good school district with good teache
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by pnathan 4y ago
it also fundamentally incorporates "disagree and commit" as an ethos. there's no need or requirement for consensus for the community to move forward; there's only a need to acknowledge that the community must go one.
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by pnathan 4y ago
I have some half formed thoughts on this. Once, I lived in a small rural college town (land grant - the U of Idaho). I could walk or bike anywhere I needed to go. Cars were required in practice if leaving the city. I used to live in outer r
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by pnathan 4y ago
Back when I was working for a company that was heavily into GIS, I wandered one day into map rendering code, trying to render _something or other_, and man, it was an ed-u-cation. Not in "yeah Mercator is not literally true" (this
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by pnathan 4y ago
> It’s a blind spot in DEI and intersectionality; the idea that an oppressed class can also be an oppressor class, and that it’s not an attribute of the perpetrator’s class at all, but in fact, situational and individual. what's rea
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by pnathan 4y ago
https://ciq.co/ | Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer | Full time | Remote (USA) --- CIQ - Ctrl IQ - is building Fuzzball, a "Cloud 2.0" system, designed for the needs of very interesting HPC workloads on
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by pnathan 4y ago
That's my take as well. Police have carved a lack of accountability for themselves, and so the social system is starting to route around them.

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