blastbeat

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by blastbeat 7y ago
My first thought reading the headline was 'great, yet another "The Onion" article'. Anyway, it seems that some German delegates pushed the wrong button too: https://twitter.com/woelken/status/11
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by blastbeat 7y ago
> I enjoy getting my work done, so then I can work on my other projects or look for new jobs. When my required work is done, then I don't feel bad about doing other things... Do you work remote, or does your employer allow to go ear
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by blastbeat 7y ago
I would finish the master thesis first. Publishing a half finished app doesn't make sense for me. The whole thing rather sounds like some kind of procrastination. Successfully finishing university with a good degree on the other hand i
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by blastbeat 7y ago
> May I ask you what gave you the confidence to say you "would not have a problem getting a quant position"? A lot of contacts , some of them I could activate at any time. For instance, one of the first students of my advisor o
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by blastbeat 7y ago
I agree, doing a PhD can still be worthwhile. It's just a considerable gamble in my opinion. > I don't agree. I work at a large industry research lab, and every position basically requires a doctorate. I should have been more
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by blastbeat 7y ago
Assuming you run a legit SSH server on port A and an SSH tarpit on port B. What hinders an attacker to connect to port A an B at the same time? What is the advantage having an attacker connected for weeks on port B?
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by blastbeat 7y ago
Earning a PhD is though, and can be very hard, depending on your advisor. But even if you've managed to finish it, you face a relentless fight for permanent positions, which according to the statistics, you're going to loose. Once
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by blastbeat 7y ago
> Vikernes himself, who has never shown any remorse for the murder, has called the film “slanderous garbage”, objected to his portrayal (“I have never participated in a threesome in my life”) and – since he is a virulent antisemite – tak
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by blastbeat 7y ago
> By turning sleep into a life goal, we’ve paradoxically made it harder to simply fall asleep. This is not my experience. My sleep improved tremendous since I started optimizing for it. Sleep hygiene tips should not be seen as todo lists
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by blastbeat 7y ago
Same trend here in Germany.
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by blastbeat 7y ago
> Clinicians should be conscious about the choices they make in relation to their app use and, when recommending apps to consumers, explain the potential for loss of personal privacy as part of informed consent. That's for me the mo
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by blastbeat 7y ago
Depends on your definition of "safe" and "social media". I would certainly not post pictures of myself to Facebook/Instagram, let alone flaunting my kids.
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by blastbeat 7y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19450689
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by blastbeat 7y ago
> The hard truth is that most things in your life – good and bad – are your fault. I find the premise of the article a bit simplistic. I'm all for an active mindset and ownership. But the hard truth is, that most things in our lifes
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by blastbeat 7y ago
> Instead the study suggests pro-social religions appeared after complex societies had already emerged. This completely makes sense. I've always seen monotheistic religions in particular to be cunning policy strokes, which violently
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by blastbeat 7y ago
How I read the article it's due to a sense of entitlement and sanctity, accompanied by the fear of status loss.
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by blastbeat 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19440652
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Do you talk about math lectures? Because during my university time I seldom met people, who understood a math lecture during that math lecture. Especially in advanced topics like category theory, algebraic theory, fractal geometry etc. Usu
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by blastbeat 8y ago
One could argue that one has to be weird to try drugs. I know one guy for sure how went straight to psychiatry right after first time mushroom usage. I don't know whether he was beforehand that weird, but he needed a long time to recov
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by blastbeat 8y ago
> But how about creating the LaTex notes after class as a method to help retain the information? I recommend solving exercises instead (with pen and paper), and creating flash cards for memorizing. Golden rule: Use LaTeX only, if you rea
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by blastbeat 8y ago
In my math classes there was one guy who took notes with LaTex. He was quite fast due to his tweaked Emacs environment. He also uploaded his notes and the sources to some public SCM server. What sounds like a good idea turned out to be non
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Where I grew up, basically every youngster did drugs to escape the boredom of the 90s, as being trapped in their smallish german home towns. People did mostly cheap drugs like cannabis, binge drinking, magic mushrooms and crystal. Many of
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by blastbeat 8y ago
No TV consumption, no social media like Reddit, Twitter or Facebook. I don't buy newspapers and seldom magazines. My smartphone is only for traveling and snapshots, I leave it at home most of the time (it has no SIM card). For phone ca
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Lesson of the article: Professional poker is surprisingly hard and people regularly get broke because they don't factor in their expenses. Now, if one replaces "professional poker" by "life", than this article mayb
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by blastbeat 8y ago
That's pure clickbait. Here one can find the original speech of Maas: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/newsroom/maas-konferenz-2... He actually said, he "dares to predict the next war will be fought no
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The telephone operator to run your smartphone [video](youtube.com)
4 points by blastbeat 8y ago|0 comments
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by blastbeat 8y ago
If you're studying math, that's what you usually do in the first year: constructing and proving the obvious via axioms. It's an exhausting and tedious exercise, spread across different topics like analysis, linear algebra, pr
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The ADC Protocol(adc.sourceforge.io)
2 points by blastbeat 8y ago|0 comments
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Ok so the author inherited a project (in R!) as an intern, and successfully finished it in 3 months. He delivered, that's good, not bad. After that, he wished to reinvent the system to make it better. That's not per se bad, but th
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I haven't been in the situation you describe, but in my experience there are times in life were you simply cannot find internal peace easily. Changes needs to be initiated first. But it's difficult to reason about what in your sit

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