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by pugio 6y ago
I've been doing 100+ a year for several years now. It's not for everyone, and I don't know if I actually recommend it, but here's how: - Audiobooks at 2-3x speed. I listen while doing chores, while walking my baby in a s
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by pugio 6y ago
While Mistborn is an excellent choice, I sometimes start people on some of his YA (as a lower commitment): - Rithmatist is my favorite, but is only one book. - Steelheart is a very fun fresh take on super powers. - Skyward is like Dragon&#x
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Thank HN: All of you, this place, gives me hope
168 points by pugio 6y ago|37 comments
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by pugio 6y ago
Thank you, that's very helpful for desktop, but I'm primarily interested in having this on my phone. There are many nice extensions for desktop browsers, but the only way to get dark mode on my phone (currently) is to use a 3rd pa
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by pugio 6y ago
This seems like the right place to ask: I remember some months ago there being a discussion about a dark mode for HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966 . It seemed at the time like dang was amenable to adding i
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by pugio 6y ago
I was just talking with my wife about this super cool communication. I learned about it from the Magic School Bus show many years ago - to this day I still have all sorts of interesting science facts I can attribute directly to that show. I
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by pugio 6y ago
I work in ed-tech – currently building an intro to data science course – you have by no means missed the boat. The field will only continue to grow, rapidly, for quite some time. On top of that, you have something incredibly valuable to a b
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by pugio 6y ago
There's a lot of negativity in these comments, but I'm excited because I'm working on exactly the same thing. I have a raspberry pi 4 hooked up to a PS3 eye camera/mic, and have been tweaking it to only forward audio whe
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by pugio 6y ago
That's actually exactly the kind of skill I'd look for in a new hire. I don't care which crunchy items you list on your resume so much as your ability to learn and integrate new technical information quickly (as well as a hos
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by pugio 6y ago
The most compelling thing about TTS (for me), is this heavily scriptable (with Lua) 3d physics-enabled environment. I started playing Twilight Imperium 4 on TTS, and then got sucked in when I realized I could right click on any piece and st
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by pugio 6y ago
Does anyone know of any good sites, podcasts, books, which have a good analysis of the current economic situation, and an idea of what may happen next? It's hard for me to follow every "big" story about all the crazy things h
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by pugio 6y ago
It's good for a soft introduction to the space, in that it informs you of many things you might not have ever heard about... after which you would need to go track down the references and expand on any particular sub-topic which seems
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by pugio 6y ago
> Toning down my outrage? We are talking about human lives I would be great very grateful to other HNers if someone could point me towards a book or resource for how to effectively communicate with people who are in this mental groove. I
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by pugio 6y ago
He specifically says "less damaging" ... "on human capital", implying a workforce/economic perspective. I would suggest you consider toning down your outrage. It's important and necessary to be able to compare
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by pugio 6y ago
For those interested in going deeper into the incredible world of breathing techniques I recommend "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art" [0]. Part personal account, part research summary, the book covers a lot of the world'
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Jellysync: Real-time web code push(jellysync.com)
1 points by pugio 6y ago|0 comments
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by pugio 6y ago
Forgive the slight tangent but I'd like to talk about Rails in general: Just last night I was migrating an app from Rails 4 to 6.1 - I have been using rails since 0.9, but I think my long relationship is coming to an end. What I loved
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by pugio 6y ago
This reminds me of the truly excellent (as they all are) short story by Ted Chiang - The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling [0]. We've gotten pretty good at recording everything, but recalling it at the appropriate time and context is
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by pugio 6y ago
I'm an American living in Melbourne right now (and, I guess, for the foreseeable future) and I've been very impressed with the way the government here has been handling restrictions. They're really doing everything they can t
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by pugio 6y ago
I have been looking for years for something to replace a custom rendered excel-like table I have. The table has a complex layout: - One fixed top row (date), two or three fixed columns on the left. - Data are rendered horizontally; the numb
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by pugio 6y ago
The notion of a "camerata" (organized serendipitous space of people working towards a similar idea) is especially relevant right now, when everyone is contemplating how to work effectively in an online environment. I've alway
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Camerata: The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming (2018)(blog.atomist.com)
1 points by pugio 6y ago|1 comments
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by pugio 6y ago
I use Polar Bookshelf (getpolarized.io). It has nice, exportable, annotations as well as incremental reading and spaced repetition (via Anki) support. It's still a bit rough around the edges, but it has a very active pace of developmen
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by pugio 6y ago
Sure, but as of today 2020, it would probably be GPT-2 (or -3) filling in for the voice actors, which would create students extremely well educated in knowledge which is 60% real. Maybe that's not so different...
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by pugio 6y ago
Wow it's been a while since I've read about PLATO. Thank you for the reminder. Another example of how so much that's cool in computing has its roots in systems of the past (the mother of all demos, neural nets, LOGO (Mindstor
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by pugio 6y ago
(Disclaimer: Most of what I say here has caveats and qualifications – hard to capture full nuance in a comment's space.) One of the distinguishing features of computers is easy simulation. Humans learn well by direct, tight, interactio
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by pugio 6y ago
I took a semester of courses from UofP. It had a wonderful diversity of ages, genders, and nationalities. Interacting with those people through peer assignments was interesting, and I applaud what they're trying to do. Ultimately, howe
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by pugio 6y ago
I have been programming professionally for 15+ years, working in web and app development, system administration, designing custom language extensions, image processing, protein folding, and sundry other tasks. I can count on one hand the nu
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by pugio 6y ago
For those who have read Worm (and those considering reading it) I can't recommend the podcast "We've Got Worm" highly enough. The hosts discuss each chapter / section of Worm week by week, breaking down the writing,
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by pugio 6y ago
Lately I've been developing with a JS workflow that's finally made me think "hey this is fun!" again: Chrome target, native ESM modules, VS Code with JSDoc annotations for types. All libraries (chosen preferentially from

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