sammorrowdrums

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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
The fear of the effects of not sleeping, which I believe are significantly overstated in the book, actually provoke some including myself into having a sleep interrupting fear of not sleeping. The link above has a section on the possible ne
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I really wanted to love this book, and I was if anything biased heavily towards believing it. I read it cover to cover in less than a week. Sadly, I found that book made my sleep worse. (A quick Google will show I'm not alone). Also th
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
I'd say most people hear divergence from their local accent, and consider theirs to be (at least subconsciously) a normal accent. This results in English people hearing my accent as a bit Irish, and Irish people hearing the English par
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
The risks are significant, but it doesn't logically follow that by removing a barrier you are only helping the people that were already OK with getting over the barrier. I think the issue is that there are still a lot of hurdles that r
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
Well /remind works in exactly the same way and you can tell it to remind people or channels etc. The fact that it shows as a reminder, not a message as if you just typed does matter in some contexts, but I certainly make heavy use of s
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
I use ProtonMail and sign up to everything with <service>@<custom-domain> so I can track what they do with my email. It's not cheap from PM, and there are loads of hosting providers that will provide catch-all email for fre
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
They're currently in court arguing about how they make users safer by curating the available software. Issues like this don't reflect well on that argument.
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
Could you configure a user setting for max file size? I have clicked very large files by accident plenty of times and it makes ST hang.
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
100% agreed, and I shared the above only partly to provide an answer, but mostly to flag some major caveats. Another great example: "The U.S. incarceration rate is 693 per 100,000 residents —compared to 76 per 100,000 in Germany, and 6
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
Germany is about 35% reincarceration rate after 3 years, and US is about 29%, Although there are strong caveats, and like for like data doesn't exist. After 5 years US rate goes up a lot, my link doesn't have that for Germany. &gt
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
Well, punitive generally means make them suffer, which likely counteracts progress towards rehabilitation. If you can accept "comprehending and accepting your crimes and their consequences, and having a genuine desire to return to soci
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
It depends on the manager. It can be a good opportunity for feedback to go up the chain / get additional context / nuance, discuss strategy, is it time to ask for a pay rise, are there any minor issues like not writing thoughtful
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
I actually made the same transition about 8 years ago. Coursera filmed this interview about my story (obviously cut down to mostly quotes praising them): https://youtu.be/Z1lqnyEp38o Anyway, awkward videos aside, if you wan
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
Multiple yubikeys has been the best option I've found. You can scan the TOTP QR codes into more than one key when you set up 2fa. (Ones with proper key support are even easier to do). The reason I prefer it is that I don't want to
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
I was doing a Hacker Rank puzzle yesterday in Python and after I optimised it, it still timed out on one input. Looked at the chat, and saw a comment "just run it with PyPy" and naturally it then passed all parts. It's easy t
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
Location: Amsterdam, NL Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: After a period working remotely Technologies: JS/TS/React/Node, Rust, SQL, Golang, Python/Django, K8s, AWS Résumé/CV: https://sam-morrow.com&
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
I would be willing to listen to that line of argument, but having seen the Amazon manager training videos, the doitwithoutdues.com site, the countless other articles, evidence and anecdotes about Amazon's particularly aggressive forms
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
Those were so fun! I loved my little VM as it progressed and played pong, and commanded robots and rendered the output etc. It's a really great fun way to learn the key concepts.
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
I was a pro drummer for years. There is a general balance of factors: - history, drum set evolved kind of organically bringing marching band percussion, orchestral percussion and other drums into the theater / concert halls / danc
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Adding for people who want sources: There are quite a few places especially technical ones. However, many major pulishers don't offer them, so you then have the choice of DRM stripping, searching for illegitimate copies or giving up&#x
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
I went to a talk by a couple of defectors, one of which was an embassy employee and they explained that they were always tasked with earning money through means like selling illegal alcohol etc. sanctions obviously make legal trade impossib
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
a) reminds me so much of this classic https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect “Tell us what you did to JDSL,” one of the VP’s asked. “I don’t think I did anything,” Jake answered. “I’ve only been here tw
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
I have been using Smlar for a while for cosine similarity. Might this project provide a viable alternative? Smlar can be quite slow https://github.com/jirutka/smlar
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> In the field of particle physics, the concept is known as Hinchliffe's Rule, after physicist Ian Hinchliffe, who stated that if a research paper's title is in the form of a yes–no question, the answer to that question will be
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The question mark in the title says it all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline... While "we don't know" is not "no" I have found subjectively that Betteridge's La
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
True, however as you are no doubt aware, one more digit or one less would double / half the karma requirement which is somewhat extreme, and it would no longer be representable by two hex digits. The CSS colours are specifically 3 octe
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I once downloaded Python docs as an iPad app and a small Python IDE - I was working on a cruise ship and so offline documentation really helped. It taught me to get better at reading the Python docs, but more importantly to cope better with
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
Admittedly it's merely another anecdote but this post on GitHub changing master -> main comes to mind. Inflammatory title, subject matter related to diversity, and yet huge karma and plenty of substantive conversation. https:/
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
From a web UX perspective it's true, but green is a common metaphor for new in English. https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-word-green-become-synonymo...
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by sammorrowdrums 5y ago
> If a user has 251 Karma, they can set the color of the top bar in their profile settings. The default is #ff6600. Here's the complete set of colors users have set. It's so close, why isn't the required karma 256?

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