soldeace

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by soldeace 4mo ago
I'm definitely going to use a variation of it for learning new programming languages.
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by soldeace 4mo ago
Not everyone feels comfortable running third-party opaque code in their computers.
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by soldeace 8mo ago
Honest question, as I've just recently started fiddling with Meshtastic: could it be that the mesh is not set up correctly for a dense environment? (e.g. using LongFast rather than MediumFast, or not having more nodes configured as cli
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by soldeace 9mo ago
You forgot to mention https://smolweb.org/
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by soldeace 10mo ago
My wife and I tried to use Briar to communicate after we had been reallocated two seat rows apart in a flight. It didn't work at all. Messages arrived hours later, when they arrived.
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by soldeace 11mo ago
In a recent project I was asked to create a user story classifier to identify whether stories were "new development" or "maintenance of existing features". I tried both approaches, embeddings + cosine distance vs. direct
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by soldeace 1y ago
Despite being theoretically possible, much of the signal directed at the Moon would be absorbed in the upper atmosphere at this wavelength. On the other hand, the 10-40m bands are fantastic for long-range "earthly" communication (
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by soldeace 2y ago
I used that website everyday when I was prepping for my ham license upgrade and got reasonably good after a while, being 25 WPM my most comfortable speed. But then I learned that the CW exam in Brazil was carried out at 5 WPM. When I tried
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by soldeace 3y ago
Only after I've got my ham radio license that I learned how these USB switches are annoying sources of RFI, even the more expensive ones. KVM switches are fine though.
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by soldeace 3y ago
For the best part of my life I use a controlled set of tags[1] rather than hierarchical categories. This is mostly due to the fact that stuff can be a lot of things at the same time. That said, one of the best use cases for Johnny's sy
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by soldeace 3y ago
> Anyone who has ever used IRC knows that there is nothing even remotely complicated about using it, but the terminology and the steps required to use one are ostensibly terrifying enough to reliably keep the technically illiterate at ba
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by soldeace 3y ago
At least for this particular case it was not a matter of teaching journalists statistics or anything STEM-related. If it weren't for the leaked messages, we'd never hear about it. Epistemic sincerity and a good notion of statistic
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by soldeace 3y ago
I understand that learning English may have not been that hard for you, and given that you come from a Scandinavian country, most likely you speak near-perfect English (I've been to Norway once, it's amazing how even the old lady
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by soldeace 3y ago
I really like the typeface, but for some reason it looks "blurred" in comparison to all other mono fonts I have installed. Anyone noticed the same?
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by soldeace 3y ago
One of the most useful features on Twitter for me was the option to mute retweets. After doing this, my feed's signal-to-noise ratio skyrocketed.
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Show HN: Findlike – TF-IDF as a CLI Tool(brunoarine.com)
2 points by soldeace 3y ago|0 comments
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How to Use Tags (2022)(karl-voit.at)
3 points by soldeace 3y ago|0 comments
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by soldeace 4y ago
Unsurprised to see Paul Graham's home page among the top 10 most similar websites to news.ycombinator.com, but a bit surprised about xkcd: https://explore2.marginalia.nu/search?domain=news.ycombinato...
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by soldeace 4y ago
For the record, I'm now interested in your note-taking system and would love to read more about it.
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by soldeace 4y ago
David Chapman, hands down. The kind of insights I get reading his pieces can't be found anywhere else on the internet: https://meaningness.com
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by soldeace 4y ago
What a pleasant piece by the way. I really enjoyed his style.
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by soldeace 4y ago
As others said, the fact is that scumbags exist everywhere, and Brazil is certainly not exempted from this. Another fact is that Brazil is obscenely huge. The country is almost the size of Europe, and the number of online Brazilians nowaday
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by soldeace 5y ago
Once I had an argument with a PhD biologist at my university because she was doing a Fisher's exact test in the most insane way I had ever seen: taking floating point ratios instead of integers, and because the stats program she used d
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by soldeace 5y ago
I have a blast being a senior data scientist, and I've recently turned down a manager role precisely because of the points you raised, despite the better pay. Your comment made me glad of my decision.
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by soldeace 5y ago
The investigative work in that piece reminds me of this old case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAI8S2houW4
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by soldeace 5y ago
Which is not always feasible. Some companies enforce a no-WebRTC policy, so that installing the app winds up being the only possible solution.
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by soldeace 5y ago
Are those mods? Cool, didn't know that! I'll definitely have to check it out. I remember that Death Rally had very cool mod tracks too (by Purple Motion if I'm not mistaken).
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by soldeace 5y ago
The first digital music files I'd had contact with were mods downloaded from a BBS. (Or did they come in those computer magazines? Can't remember now.) Space Debris was among them. Listening to it now immediately brings me flashba
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by soldeace 5y ago
This project is AMAZING. Earlier this week I had the exact same idea of a project while disentangling a bowl of spagetthi code. I'm glad I've seen it here today so I didn't have to reinvent the wheel. Also, I'm impressed
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by soldeace 5y ago
I've always thought that personal files, photos, or any other kind of just needed more connections between them to improve my information retrieval experience. That's how I had become a Zettelkasten evangelist. I believed it would

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