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by sireat 7y ago
A student of mine led me to an interesting note taking application: Cherry Tree https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/ It was quite impressive on the variety of notes and document types it was able to organize. Also seeme
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by sireat 7y ago
I am not trying to be defeatist when I say that adults have a harder time acquiring new skills. Maybe the factor is not that large as previously thought, but there is still a difficulty factor that increases as you get older. EDIT: Well the
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by sireat 7y ago
So the question is what is the ratio of kids picking up chess vs adults. If ratio is 100:1 one would expect to see some strong adult starters emerging. There are many people who pick up chess in adulthood and devote considerable time and ge
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by sireat 7y ago
Your is a good positive example of starting relatively late and achieving proficiency by immersion and hard study. However, I know of counter examples of hard working friends who are totally immersed in the foreign language and working in t
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by sireat 7y ago
Well it is all about how high one wants to set the bar. Those examples are from 100+ years ago. Chigorin is a promising counterexample but there are a few caveats. He learned the moves at 16, late by modern standards and supposedly only got
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by sireat 7y ago
The optimism in this thread is nice, but where are the success stories which would support your hypothesis? To overturn "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" proverb you need to show that a 30 year old can achieve similar l
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by sireat 7y ago
How about using ninite.com for managing popular Windows downloads? Ninite has decent corporate adoption by now. You could even push them towards Ninite Pro.
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by sireat 7y ago
How are Chromebooks designed to preserve data? They are basically modern version of a dumb/dumbed down network terminal. Chromebook experience is tailored for doing everything in the browser. For fsck's sake you have to print th
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by sireat 7y ago
I was considering using Lab as an alternative to freecodecamp for my students but looks like a pass so far because it is not beginner friendly. Once you get past the ickiness of Lab asking to be installed on ALL your repos there is still th
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by sireat 8y ago
Why wouldn't they do it? Coast Guard (of various nations) board ships all the time for various reasons. As soon as these seasteaders are deemed a threat/annoyance to the state they are goners. Maybe they did not pay tax on their c
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by sireat 8y ago
The problem is that most machine learning model choices are humanly indecipherable. You can understand how the model works and the math behind it but you will be hard pressed to understand the exact path behind a particular choice. Decision
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by sireat 8y ago
About 10 years ago Steve seemed really on the level of someone like Joel regarding software development and general life advice. Now it seems Steve is all crazy stuff. For example this is Timecube level thinking: https://www.stev
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by sireat 8y ago
Maybe for some but this explains her motivation. Communism as a pure ideology is just as appealing to some as pure Libertarianism is to some others. Arguably this is better motivation than that of one Kim Dotcom and on par with Aaron Schwar
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by sireat 8y ago
That seems uncharacteristic of Doctorow. He used(still does?) publish his books free of DRM and free to download under CC license. https://craphound.com/overclocked/download/ It would be strange for an author of
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by sireat 8y ago
The automated response systems will eventually end up like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue
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by sireat 8y ago
I am still amazed that there is no easy builtin way to sort your repositories by date on Github. Also, how do I filter all my repositories to be the ones I created from scratch not the ones I forked? EDIT: This one is easy just use Sources
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by sireat 8y ago
One could make an argument that Tether is one big experiment in free banking. Only question is when it will end.
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by sireat 8y ago
"I had a network locally that I knew I could sell to" I suspect this is the key to success in most smaller startups. Instead of focusing on getting 0.01% of a global market go for 10% of very local/focused market. A prepopula
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by sireat 8y ago
I've been using Google for nearly 20 years and anecdotally it HAS gotten worse precisely because it has become harder and harder to make precise queries.
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by sireat 8y ago
Those findings while interesting need more work: The clusters were from back-tested stock data. Ie we knew ahead of the time that there were profits to be made. Was this akin to p-hacking? That is where there more stocks selected with some
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by sireat 8y ago
This worked better than I expected. For a quick project this is better than going to fiverr. I made an ACME logo using mountain as a tag and got a nice mixture of logos with various mountains. So obviously a nice royalty free(I hope) collec
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by sireat 8y ago
Not alien but just a highly undesirable outcome. In the 90s while mass AOL CD mailings were going out there was fear that "AOLization" of the internet would happen. The same incentives for AOL curated and walled garden are present
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by sireat 8y ago
Sadly the only use of Chromium among regular non-tech people is in spyware/malware installations. There is a quite a bit of adware which uses unsigned Chromium to push their wares. That is the malware installs a modified Chromium with
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by sireat 8y ago
Regarding 1) thing I could do in my sleep and still amaze people. It is a bit dangerous to be unconsciously good (ie in my sleep) at something and think that you can make money with it. Let's take something like chess. Unless you are a
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by sireat 8y ago
Shitcoin is not going to drop to zero immediately (as in 24hours) giving attackers plenty of time to to cash out.
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by sireat 8y ago
With React I feel like I am writing Javascript in a nice functional style and I get to use all the cool new JS features. with Vue I am writing ..Vue which does not feel right coming from a heavy Javascript background. My bias is that I&#x27
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by sireat 8y ago
Similarly, a friend of mine recorded waves crashing at a sea and it got flagged by Content ID. Some music video (by Sony subsidiary) contained a small sample of waves crashing from a completely different sea. I told him to appeal and appeal
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by sireat 8y ago
Hilariously 50 shades of Gray started as Twilight fan-fiction.
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by sireat 8y ago
A bit outdated it as Latvia and Lithuania are in the Eurozone. Probably other changes too.
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by sireat 8y ago
Kind of funny but I remember 3% rate being kind of normal for a checking account in the early 90s. Of course inflation and Fed was higher back then too. What I don't understand is those people who willingly park their money in CDs at

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