tomkat0789

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by tomkat0789 5y ago
I just did a ctrl+f for Yunohost and only got one hit! Have more people tried it? What was your experience like? Hosting my own email will be a 2022 project of mine. My current plan is to get like a linode/personal server (my first tes
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
Your day job is OK with this? I forgot what I signed, but I believe my contract has a clause that says they own all the technical output of my brain. Did you tell your manager you have a side hustle? I've been thinking of something sim
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
Just implemented this! Thanks for posting! For those who don't click, he suggests some uBlock Origin filters to remove the suggestion lists from YouTube. For example, currently I'm watching a video and all I see is THE VIDEO - no
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
That was always my intro to vi: I was (for example) doing a merge or something from git bash, then suddenly it dropped me into vi. I've made a few tries to learn vi, but I just don't edit text frequently enough to remember everyth
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
I'm not an expert on Faraday cages, would the effects stack if you wrapped your phone in aluminum foil, then put it in a cookie tin?
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
You should be OK since you have experience. Just make sure your interviewing skills are dusted off, review the STAR method, etc. My anecdata as a PhD engineer: my first job out of college came from putting my info into a faceless corporate
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
I really turned a corner when I read Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" and Zinn's "People's History of the United States".
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
I think that's another dimension of the control. It'd be controversial to make a law saying "we're restricting how you repair your air condition", but if you instead said, "for your safety, you need to have a s
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
Me too! I think the average American thinks "increase supply" means skyscrapers with apartments, rather than lower impact multiunit, mixed-use apartments/street shops that are more common in Europe. Another issue with increas
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
Slashdot had a post about this topic a few years ago that I thought was colorful enough to save for posterity: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/03/14/1428242/deman... The top comment seemed
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Boeing Starliner launch delayed again – returns to factory for troubleshooting(theverge.com)
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
Even stranger is the abandoned Motorola complex built way out among the farmlands in Harvard, Illinois. Motorola has fallen far! When I started a job at a big company in a Chicago suburb, they actually asked for a show of hands "who&#x
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
Possible reason from my own anecdata: I joined a new company in a new industry in the middle of the pandemic. I definitely prefer working remotely (I'm just past 30), but as a new hire I felt some disadvantages. Mainly: my co-workers w
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
+1. I sometimes regret subscribing to Financial Times, but their bias is pretty easy to identify and accept/reject once you understand it. I counterbalance it with Jacobian (far-left/communist - choose your adjective - news). Ther
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
Here's an article about it: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8v9m/bing-censors-tank-man Makes me wonder what other pitfalls there are to using DDG.
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
Scrolling around the comments, I'm not seeing much discussion about funding. Are billionaire friends a requirement to set up an independent research organization? Asking as an engineering PhD doing what feels like gopher work for big c
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
What are the areas of research that need CS people and how would a grumpy CS/engineering MS/PhD make the switch? Um, asking for a friend! As an undergraduate I actually first got into computing through a biology-computational proj
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
Reading this reminded me of a humorous Onion video titled "Report: 95% Of Grandfathers Got Job By Walking Right Up And Just Asking" [0]. Scrolling around the comments, I'm not seeing any stories newer than the 90's. Give
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
You're not wrong. There was a legendary librarian named Jeffrey Beall who cataloged a whole little industry of predatory scientific publishing. Here's a quick article that mentions his work: https://publons.com/blo
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
I think you're right. At American universities I've been around, lots of alumni with grey hair seem to remember a bunch of fun sounding singalong songs for football games, including (in Louisiana) some weird Cajun? lyrics. It&#x27
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
Bah, Caltech can top that. Why bother with a lens? How about an optical phased array? :) https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ultra-thin-camera-creates...
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
I switched to a new company during the pandemic. I must admit that I haven't made any new friends at my new company - nobody that'd I'd "have a beer with"! Luckily I've had my wife to keep me company. I might f
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
Some nice responses to this, but I'd be interested in hearing about the trade off between a big company spinning its own IT department vs hiring an IBM et al. Attached to articles about ERP and government contracts failing and going ov
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
Just made a little page for my campaign! Thanks for this! This reminds me of Obsidian Portal that a DM I briefly followed used: https://www.obsidianportal.com/ Some thoughts: -Looking at Obsidian Portal for the first time i
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
Regular old engineering - modeling, controls, signal processing. My background in AI and ML helped me develop some great transferable skills (technical programming, mainly Python) and added some very attractive buzzwords to my resume! 4 yea
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
+1 to this from someone who learned the math behind ML in a PhD and was looking forward to being a gatekeeper :) My favorite academic paper ever [0] was a comparison against a bunch of dimensionality reduction algorithms and 100 year old PC
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Big Oil Invests in Geothermal Energy Breakthrough(oilprice.com)
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
I've personally be satisfied with what I'll call "informed" common sense. An example from health is the documentary "In Defense of Food" where the journalist uses a little science and history to create the heur
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
Interesting link! It adds up to much less than 100%. What are the missing brands?
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by tomkat0789 6y ago
In 2020 I managed to leave my megacorp job for a smaller situation (new and fun subsidiary of a megacorp that feels really small). My experiences agreed with most/all of the article. Pros and cons of the new situation: Pros: I feel muc

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