quietplatypus

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by quietplatypus 9y ago
Fidget spinners are genuinely useful though---arguably even more useful than the other items on the list, for their ADHD/anxiety-reducing properties plus portability. The only way you can do noticeably better is direct, hands-free brai
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
With depreciation and older m5 models, you could definitely fit the initial and maintenance costs of a m5 into a middle class budget.
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
The name is quite misleading for those not familiar with previous work. How's this different from TCP Vegas and FAST TCP which also use delay to infer the bottleneck bandwidth?
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
Even 'catharsis' as a Western idea isn't actually that helpful in practice. For example, taking out your anger and feeling 'cathartic' is known to make your emotional problems worse, not better, because you've
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
I'm all for this. Especially in Bay Area traffic. It looks like about 95% of the time I get some tailgater because I leave enough room in front of my car to brake. If I dont' want to get tailgated, I end up tailgating. I seriously
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
Yeah back when I made 3D models of star trek spaceships (trekkie in your name significant?) that was one of the go-to methods for making the shuttles, smaller craft, borg (obviously), but stuff like Voyager and the Enterprise-E you would of
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
I think I know what you're talking about when you mention Authoritarian Followers---something like abused kids who only know how to deal with situations in which they are abused, even when they grow up. The worse part is they want to h
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
Yep. And, philosophy's pretty much the playground for having cross-disciplinary insights. It's sad to see that the conventional wisdom is to deemphasize these fields, as if humans ran on nothing but purely rational logic lol.
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
Yeah that comment jumped out at me as sketchy the second I saw that... "15 years" in operations and isn't even aware of this basic fact.
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
The idea of looking up particular sequences of documents to demonstrate actual behaviors is very compelling. Too often, documentation follows a precise but necessarily boring and unintuitive format. Having traces through documentation for c
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
Would this include stuff like printing to stderr being slower on Windows? If they get to write kernel drivers, there could be a chance that they could replicate the file handling behaviors of Linux.
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
I guess the line is a bit blurry, especially when you factor in fast virtualization techniques that involve running emulated instructions directly :)
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation! Which would you say was harder, Wine or this? It seems like Wine should have been harder since the NT kernel was designed with multiple userspaces in mind...
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
Great article! I'm not too familiar with OS as a subject, but is the separation between user and kernel mode similar to high-level language versus assembly; i.e., the approach they took was to emulate the Linux kernel, which is sort of
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
That's an excellent point. I had heard of the Ben Franklin effect, but not this. Yeah when I try to give my help to most people, they get resentful. Am I special/broken in that if someone does a favor for me with the implication I
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
Yeah pretty much this. Even though it seems OK from an "objective" standpoint to lend your aid when it seems obvious that you can do it and it is not too much cost to you, this doesn't really work in the making friends dept.
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
I would not be surprised if most friendships resulted from pressure to fit in. It's healthy to let those types of people go.
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by quietplatypus 10y ago
That may be true, but I've found that I grew up making mostly the wrong friends, each of whom was more irritating, status obsessed, narcissitic, etc as life went on. Only like 2 people made it through the filter, and I'm making he
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Obviously you're expectd to be a hardcore motorsport enthusiast who has a honed instinct for the current kph :p
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Bravo. Saving this comment. For substance: Consider how this is all part of the effort by management to make programmers feel as interchangeable and insignificant as possible. And it's not even in the name of quality. Plenty of softwar
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
I'm not even poor, and I still do my research on a workstation from 2009. It's fast enough for what I'm doing, and why waste new hardware on bloated software?
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
How is this different from defunctionalizing and converting to smt backend or prolog engine without higher-order capabilities?
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
they are also often bullshit deadlines that users dont care about but gets a few brownie points for management.
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Pretty much this.
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Problem: One person remaining on island, 2 people left. Optimal solution: Kill yourself. Sub-optimal solution: Both live.
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Ah, got it. So it's able to take into account outside factors that more efficiently get you to the target temperature. Okay, I see the value now. Thanks for the explanation!
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
I guess I never will understand the reason for buying any tech gadget when the current solution is operating within parameters.
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
No one here has yet really considered the real elephant in the room: Why does anyone need an "intelligent" thermostat, especially something as overhyped and over-engineered as Nest is? I never even remotely bought into the Nest hy
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
So you only work on things purely under threats and external pressure? Let's hope no one ever has to work with you. Granted, no one really does anything without considering the possibility of that thing causing them to go six feet unde
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Yeah, I'm an engineer now and if we were post-money I honestly would still be an engineer, because I take pleasure from finding out how things work and making new things that work. I think there are a lot of us like this. No one really

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