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   by sasaf5 6y ago

   Another reason why nerd groups are ostracized is envy. In the ocean of boredom that is high school, one group manages to create an island of fantasy and computer programming. While everyone is marred by memorization and popularity contests,
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   by sasaf5 6y ago

   Also works for human languages!
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   by sasaf5 6y ago

   > watching a slow race is a big ask. Above non-ridiculously low speed wouldn't the relative speed among cars be more important for entertainment?
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   by sasaf5 6y ago

   Undoing the clickbait: > many judges seem to believe that a fall from grace is punishment enough, especially since white-collar defendants (often older white men) pose little danger to society, at least with respect to committing violent
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   by sasaf5 6y ago

   Now that the corona virus has given us a marker of the places where respiratory diseases spread, I wonder if (or hope that) there will be a restructuring of those places, resulting in an overall reduction in all respiratory diseases after t
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   by sasaf5 6y ago

   Also people should be free to decide what code runs in their property.
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   by sasaf5 6y ago

   This article had been submitted 5 times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=digitalnk.com
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   by sasaf5 6y ago

   There had been purely asynchronous CPUs before [0]. Then automated clock gate insertion made it possible to approach the gains of asynchronous, but still designing in a synchronous paradigm. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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   by sasaf5 6y ago

   For someone competent at coding, a good way to get into the chip industry is as an embedded programmer, writing firmware. These are usually in high demand in the industry. If you do want to go straight on, FPGAs are a good and fun option.
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    10. RTL designer - uses the gates made by #1 to implement digital circuits that go through the tests of #4 and is placed in the chip by #3. Does a similar job as #5, but not limited to CPUs. To join the band, get a degree in EE or CS and pr
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    This article reminded me of true atomic wristwatches [0]. If precision gets good enough one day, you could get a synced pair and give one to a friend and compare after the years who has relativistically aged faster :) [0] https:/&#x2F
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    Sorry if I sounded obvious. For me at that time it was very curious that, after solving complex control problems to move those robotic arms, something so mundane such as grasping an object would still be unsolved. Turns out that it's a
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    While I worked with robotic manipulators back in 2006 this was called the grasping problem (apparently still unsolved).
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    > Writing a blog post just takes energy in a way that writing on forums simply does not. The key here is the interlocutor. Trying to write an interesting post for a general reader is a dauting task hence the energy. Try to materialize th
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    Don't buy a TV, buy a screen and connect it to your own media source. Preferably offline media. You can be a lot more deliberate about the content you consume and there won't be tracking (though there might still be ads in the med
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    Two 60% keyboards side-by-side, no gap between them. My forearms stay parallel and my wrists straight. It is also good to confuse people into thinking you have the especialy hability of typing in two keyboards, when it is not much different
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    I wish it had a longer interconnecting wire. One issue with normal keyboards is that it forces your shoulders to round forwards. I currently use two normal keyboards side by side, which allows me to type with my chest open.
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    My favorite definition: Math is the language of the simplest definitions. My second favorite (and controversial): Math is the language of the most useful definitions.
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    Makes sense, they also do that before sleeping.
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    This reminds me of another fascinating trafficking gone-wrong story, in Azores, when a drifting yacht loaded with half a ton of cocaine washed ashore at the island changing life there for many years [0]. [0] https://www.theguardi
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    Ah~~ so that's why dogs walk many tight circles before defecating? They are finding north? :)
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    Not just one secret sauce, but as it is usually the case, a mixture of many things: concentrated long term investment, available talent and infrastructure, geopolitics, hability to make strong business networks, etc... If you force me to pi
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    I wanted to get rid of my phone, but the leverage given by my portable emacs machine + instant Wikipedia lookup was just too much to give away. Without much success I have tried for a long time to quit the most addictive things on my phone
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    This idea seems to strike many different people at different times. One my favorites is the ANS synthesizer [0], made with optical tone wheels. There's an android app simulating it [1] (my only relation with it is "user"). Th
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    Yes that's the general idea. Lasers are used because of their temporal coherence (i.e. they shine in a single, stable, frequency).
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    On laser cooling: > Very basically what they did was use a specially tuned array of lasers to bombard the atoms with photons from all angles. These photons are like pingpong balls compared to the bowling-ball-like atoms, but if you have
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    For an Android client I just run it directly in a terminal emulator (Termux). Works well enough with the software keyboard (but a bluetooth keyboard brings real glory).
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    Are you me? :) I use a very similar org table to calculate my nutrition, only with separate columns for macronutrients. I don't have an update function like yours, though. | -1 | req. | 100 | 100 | 50 | | 3 | mil
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    Also, it can be quite pleasant. After a while it almost feels like drawing pixel art.
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    by sasaf5 6y ago

    This reminds me of the way Donald Knuth prioritizes his tasks. He wakes up in the morning and tackles his TODO list starting from the "Ugh"iest task.