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by typhonic 6y ago
>> Having an advocate >There aren’t enough upvotes in the world to highlight this! My experience exactly, and repeatedly. I am old enough now to have spent many hours in the hospital next to family members. I don't say this to
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by typhonic 6y ago
In the 1980s I was impressed with LapLink software which I used to move files between computers. The copy I bought came with cables to connect the computers, both serial and parallel cables. The serial cable had 25 pin and 9 pin connectors
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by typhonic 6y ago
I used to get testy when people rinsed the dishes before loading the dishwasher. Then one day I had to take it apart and dig out rice, plastic, beans, and other things that were stopping it up.
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Ask HN How to handle sporadic project information flow?
1 points by typhonic 6y ago|0 comments
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by typhonic 6y ago
It wasn't always that way. The sugar industry in the Americas was heavily tied to slave trade.
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by typhonic 6y ago
I can't say I agree with you 100%, but I see your point. That is part of the reason I don't stop at the top comment. There's usually a lot of good information further down as well.
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by typhonic 7y ago
You are absolutely correct, but we are not near that point with amateur radio. If you haven't seen what's going on with amateur radio in a while, you might be pleasantly surprised. The hobby has not stagnated or gone away due to t
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by typhonic 7y ago
About 30 years ago I was being asked by some guy I barely knew to do something over the weekend. I didn't know how to tell him that I would rather just be at home with my family. Eventually and without thinking it through, I just said
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by typhonic 7y ago
The book Apollo by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox shows a similar concept. In the investigation after the fire in Apollo 1, they found many possible near misses. But when each of those items did not lead to a failure, they became acce
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Pentagon and Ethical Use of AI [pdf](admin.govexec.com)
1 points by typhonic 7y ago|0 comments
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by typhonic 7y ago
I agree with the exercise. For me it was Aikido. The addition of someone telling me me that I was improving really helped me. I have had bosses and potential employers who could see through my insecurity. That helped too.
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by typhonic 8y ago
She still has a bit of fear and uncertainty, which I have learned to accept, but I do not believe she is worried that I will ever leave.
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by typhonic 8y ago
I convinced my wife to marry me. She was very pessimistic, thinking that I would leave her. It took six months to get a positive response to my proposal and another year of reassurance before we married. We have been married 41 years. The c
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by typhonic 9y ago
I wouldn't call the python page a cheat sheet. It's more of a concise index into the official docs.
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by typhonic 9y ago
At my company I find the culture mildly frustrating because we do so little to educate the new hires. Our method is to hire experience. So we now have a group of 25 design/engineer level people with a variety of project methods and a r
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by typhonic 9y ago
Wow, finding ( http://zty.pe ) was serendipitous. Please don't include that world in the early levels, I'm not a good typist.
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by typhonic 10y ago
Invitation to Love by Fr Thomas Keating. While teaching about contemplative prayer, Fr Keating describes clearly the emotional programs for happiness (security, esteem, control) which we develop before maturity and which distract us as adul
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by typhonic 10y ago
I've always been amazed by how widely the Stanford Prison Experiment results are accepted when a) the experiment has not been repeated and b) the experiment didn't even get completed. It was stopped when the researchers had made u
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by typhonic 11y ago
A couple of years ago, right before my 58th birthday, I saw this posted on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640430 It says more than I can, but I will add one thing. At about that same time my company hired an en
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by typhonic 11y ago
"In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." This seems like a good chance to acknowledge the author, Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
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by typhonic 12y ago
Thanks, everyone for the help. I'll be talking to Dave and working on some of the other suggestions, too.
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by typhonic 12y ago
I worry that you are right. This is my fifth job in 34 years and the best place I have ever worked. So I was hoping to make an improvement from where I sit instead of looking for a better environment.
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by typhonic 12y ago
I am an engineer and I heard that from other engineers. I have gotten a little bit closer to management than average, not because I do superior work, but because I am not afraid of losing my job. So some other people here will tell me thin
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Ask HN: How to keep marginal employees
18 points by typhonic 12y ago|11 comments
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by typhonic 12y ago
I am compelled to echo the the first statements by quarterwave and kjs3. I was personally saved from a morning of mindlessness, and I will be soon opening up an IC or two to see for myself. You said I could do it. Thanks kens.
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by typhonic 12y ago
That is a good idea, too, but different from what I was thinking. If I, or someone else gets this working, it may have other applications.
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by typhonic 12y ago
I was thinking about writing a driver for laptops that have the touchpad in front of the space bar. Sometimes when I am typing, I accidentally move the focus by touching the touchpad, and my text gets entered in the wrong place. I think I c
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by typhonic 13y ago
And how many people would choose to give their money to Larry Page?
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by typhonic 13y ago
I read it and understood it. You are wrong.
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by typhonic 13y ago
I was captivated by your statement. I am strictly middle class, not very accomplished, not well traveled, not a leader. You seem to have the ability to have an impact which will go beyond the ordinary. I think the effect of your future eff

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