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901.
by wenc 3y ago
Funny you should say that. I used to collect old machines (owned a SPARCstation, Mac SE, etc.) and at one point I inherited an IBM RS/6000 with no user manual. I was AIX-curious but I never figured out how to get it to boot. (I didn&#x
902.
by wenc 3y ago
SGI hardware was beautiful -- the boxes were just colorful molded plastic (and rubber?) yes, but they had a transcendence about them. You knew upon looking that they weren't normal PCs but "workstations", a cut above what us
903.
by wenc 3y ago
Conda uses a SAT solver. It is still very slow on degenerate cases and I’m not sure if work to replace it with Microsoft’s SAT solver has started. https://www.anaconda.com/blog/understanding-and-improving-co...
904.
by wenc 3y ago
That’s what chefs were taught too. The reasoning behind it is that less flipping equals good browning. The idea is that carryover heat and resting will cook the insides adequately. But I think ATK or someone else debunked this as the best p
905.
by wenc 3y ago
I went from sous vide > reverse sear (faster than sous vide) > oil-free pan-sear, in the decreasing order of time of it takes. I find the pan-sear delivers almost the same results in much less time (of course, you won't get the u
906.
by wenc 3y ago
Toasting spices can flavor your oil, but the Mailard reaction really only happens when amino acids react with reducing sugars, so nothing to do with spices at all.
907.
by wenc 3y ago
You can cook steaks without adding any oil at all -- in fact, this is how to cook steak in an apartment without getting it all smokey. According to America's Test Kitchen, do this: Pat dry. Start cold in nonstick/cast iron — no pr
908.
by wenc 3y ago
I had the same problem but my instructor told me: a book devoid of scribbles is a book that hasn’t been engaged with deeply. If you have to, buy two copies of a book — one for display and another to scribble in, knowing that you’ll truly ow
909.
by wenc 3y ago
It’s not worth summarizing every book. I took a course at UChicago on how to read a book based on Mortimer Adler’s book of the same name, and the takeaway is that the first reading of a book should be a quick one (table of contents, skimmin
910.
by wenc 3y ago
You mean this one? DuckDB Spatial Extension https://duckdb.org/2023/04/28/spatial.html
911.
by wenc 3y ago
> DuckDB has some very cool features, but I with the community were less abrasive. I’m on the Discord and the community in my experience has been anything but “abrasive”. I’m just a random guy and yet I’ve received stellar and patient he
912.
by wenc 3y ago
I work in this field. Derivatives (and in fact second derivatives or a Hessian matrix), when they are reliable and when you have them, makes your search faster. Unfortunately for many problems, they are either unavailable or expensive to co
913.
by wenc 3y ago
Good point. If we use the non-peak rate of $50/MWh, then we're looking at a payback period of 7.9 years, which is not as appealing.
914.
by wenc 3y ago
> You drive as fast as your visibility allows for stopping distance. This assumption does not hold true in many places, especially in the Seattle area. Highways here seem to be engineered for a presumption of competency that does not ho
915.
by wenc 3y ago
Would you say not lighting a highway correlates with either though?
916.
by wenc 3y ago
In WA state we do have parts of the freeway that are not illuminated. It’s obviously up to code but whenever I drive at night it feels super dangerous especially on a rainy day where visibility is low. This is unlike expressways in Chicago
917.
by wenc 3y ago
Many older stairwells in Europe (Italy/Spain/Portugal) are like this. They're pitch dark, but you turn on the first switch which gives you enough light to reach the landing (and they are timed), and then you have to turn on a
918.
by wenc 3y ago
The article claims that they save 2.1 MWh per week (109 MWh per year) with a payback period of 4.5 years in Norway. It doesn't say how much it costs, but Norwegian electricity prices are around 83 EUR/MWh, so we can estimate that
919.
by wenc 3y ago
Chicago is a great city. Cold climate, warm people, actual downtown with actual transit, great food, great diversity, affordable, actual amenities and great intellectual life. The cold climate isn’t too different from Toronto (and no it’s r
920.
by wenc 3y ago
For keeping track of time-sensitive stuff, just my Apple iCal synced to Google Calendar so it's on all my devices. For work notes, a Markdown file in VS Code. I have my to-do list in Markdown format like this: Jun 2 * [~] Task A * [x]
921.
by wenc 4y ago
They're not even a funnel. Meetups aren't the right channel for #2 and #3 -- they almost never happen based on (even pre-COVID) experience with Meetups (I went to 2-3 meetups a week for over 3 years, and despite being outgoing, I
922.
by wenc 4y ago
As someone who used to go to 2-3 Meetups in Chicago a week, I can say that Meetups are not a good way to build connections because you almost never see the same person twice. Friendship requires 3 elements (which were easy when you're
923.
by wenc 4y ago
This is me too. Learning by doing means making mistakes in real life rather than things remaining in the realm of intellectual exercise where everything is neat and tidy. Some people have a linear happy path to learning — they seem to be ab
924.
by wenc 4y ago
Traveled to Japan recently (time zone change, long transpacific flight). No problem. I charged the Watch when I got to the hotel and it still had quite a bit of charge left. Then I just charged it whenever I showered and that worked for me.
925.
by wenc 4y ago
I tried using Groebner bases in grad school to solve implicit polynomial equations (part of an optimization problem) but found quickly that it didn’t scale. I ran into trouble with a system of about 300 polynomials and this was with Maple w
926.
by wenc 4y ago
Battery life is actually 1.5 days for Series 7, and whatever routine one has with smartphone charging, one can implement the same with Watch. I tend to shower daily but I know a lot of Northern Europeans have different ideas about that so
927.
by wenc 4y ago
I can’t speak to 1 but for 2 the routine is auth first, tap later. Double click, hold up to face, then hold to reader. Also two things: if you’re willing to accept a less secure Face ID you can turn off attention (1). And if you’re paying f
928.
by wenc 4y ago
Simple. To "run out" means to drop to a 0% battery level. That has never happened to my Watch since I've unboxed it.
929.
by wenc 4y ago
I wonder if the friction comes from holding the phone too far away when you're doing the Face ID scan. I double-tap and Face ID scan right in front of me first, then I hold it out and tap on the reader. It always works and there's
930.
by wenc 4y ago
I have the opposite experience. Touch ID doesn't work well in regions that experience cold dry winters -- when my fingers are dry, Touch ID doesn't read. (I have 5 fingerprints from different angles stored -- no dice). Not to ment

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