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by unoti 6y ago
> Not sure if Excel is the best environment for this That's part of what makes it wonderful! The impracticality of it, plus it helps to dispel some of the "magic" around assembly. Looking at things like this help you unde
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> ...servers in orbit would lower latency since you wouldn’t have to bounce back to Earth... A CDN would work I think, provided you could power the hard drives. But doing it all solid state with RAM + SSD could totally make sense, especi
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The key thing I disagree about in the article is this: > What about interfaces/abstract base classes? Just try writing without them, I promise it's going to be OK. You could write the code without formal interfaces, but I hope
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by unoti 6y ago
> How does one programmatically detect a flamewar? :) An NLP/Machine learning model would be a great way! Probably also taking in other features as input such as the number of comments per second, and how deeply nested those comment
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Agreed! If the information in this article is even slightly interesting to you, then you owe it to yourself to spend some time with Digital Combat Simulator. In there you can get first-hand experience with the Harrier and the F/A 18
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by unoti 6y ago
Yep! That's the one. Start today!
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1. Book: Nonviolent Communication, by Marhsall Rosenberg PhD. Great things are built by teams. The more senior I become, the greatest challenges involve teamwork, and the programming is the easy part. I've read countless leadership
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by unoti 6y ago
I immediately thought of Hari Seldon when I read the opening sentences of the original article. And this quote from the blog post is so awesome > But no, I don’t think of myself as a Hari Seldon... And then goes on to explain why he&#x2
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1. Make multiple versions of your resume tailored to different kinds of positions 2. Sharpen your skills in detail areas of specialization before interviews 3. Make a list of the coolest things you’ve done 4. Practice stories related to tho
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I started experimenting with WebAssembly a while back, and started writing Asteroids in C, hosted in a web page via webassembly. It's not done yet, but it's a real fun way to experiment both with asteroids and with C, and with web
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> I think if you don't break into major SV companies early in your career it becomes extremely hard to do so later on because people start assuming you must have already tried and failed so aren't at the right standard. All the
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> ...whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I'm 40 and I still absolutely suck at those)... at my age it's time to accept that the window has closed on some things :) If you want to learn and are willing
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A great resource to get you thinking along the right lines: the book Spin Selling [1]. This book is about doing selling involving long sales cycles, where it could take you a good amount of time to close the deal. This is often the case
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I find I often procrastinate when I haven’t done adequate planning. It’s easier to proceed when the next step is clear. So this was the most interesting part of the article to me: > There were times when I felt an urge to stop and do any
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> Is anomaly detection not a timeseries classification, which they do implement It can be a time series classification if and only if you have labels that say a given sample is an anomaly. But then what if it runs for a while and a
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> why does it take longer to take off in hot places? When the air is cold the air is more dense. This has an impact both on how much lift is generated per amount of speed over the wings, and also impacts how much power the engine/c
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> Are there any good videos like this where the dogfights are many-on-many instead of just one-on-one? Tons, yes, here's one to get your started: Superior Dogfight: 4 x Navy F-18 vs 4 x Air Force F-15 https://www.youtube.
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> I didn't expect to have to do this kind of debugging right off the bat. Stick with it, and consider setting up your own machine instead of trying to use Colab. I say this because literally the hardest part about the previous cour
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> If we are parsing S-expressions... why not embed Scheme already? I agree. I just thought the goal of the author was to produce a game, not to parse S expressions. It’s possible that parsing S expressions is the most direct route to g
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by unoti 6y ago
This is fun and interesting, and I'm not sure what to think of it. There's an old saying in game dev, which is often good advice for business as well: "Build the game, not a library"[1]. Or as applied to this case, that
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[min, num, max].sort()[1] I really love this! I’m not sure whether to laugh, cry, or applaud, but I love how it makes me feel all those emotions at the same time.
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> Are there any resources this comprehensive for any other field of study? ... I was specifically interested in biotech I recommend the FastAI course on deep learning. Several of their lectures relate to things their students have done
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Key reasons I use steam: 1. My payment information is there 2. Updates happen automatically in the background 3. I can stream games from my pc to laptops 4. I can uninstall and reinstall later without having to try to figure out where to re
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I did something sort of similar, but really most similar to the "manual tagging" you described... I wrote an "Excuse Generator" that takes the form of "I wanted to do ___ but didn't because __ and I feel terrib
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This post is a tremendous resource, worth it for the Spectre intro section alone. The most chilling part of the article to me: > A dirty secret that the industry doesn't like to admit: no one has "fixed" Spectre. Not even
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Hey here's Kenton's promised blog post! I hope it gets separate attention on HN! https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-spectre-and-other-sec... HN Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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by unoti 6y ago
This is interesting. If data confidentiality requires process isolation, then how can CloudFlare workers be safe?
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Agreed; or like saying "You don't need a map; you can clearly see where this road leads if you follow it far enough."
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> ...the emacs install base is fraction of vi/vim. > What are you basing it on? ... it looks like emacs.stackexchange.com is twice as active as vi.stackexchange.com A couple of things about this. For myself and many others, the
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I recommend getting all 3 ham radio licenses: technician, General, and extra class. In the process you’ll learn all kinds of things and have a lot of the concepts down. You’ll learn about many different aspects of electronics, antenna des

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