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by gperkins978 10mo ago
It is worth a try. I have had really good luck with the US Postal Service. People do not get much mail, so if you send it, someone might actually see it. That will never happen with email or any electronic tools.
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by gperkins978 10mo ago
I used to buy laptops, and the external quality peaked at different times for different brands (the Asus all aluminum was wonderful, but Sony made some nice stuff twenty years ago as well), but for the actual guts-PCB, power supply, ..., th
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by gperkins978 2y ago
If you want to get REALLY angry, go to school in poor neighborhoods and watch teachers "teach" children how to search the web. Computers in schools was a mistake. If there were to be computers, they should all be Unix or Linux or
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by gperkins978 2y ago
For many business-type courses they like you to be able to quickly get an IRR or NPV value. One could solve that by hand, but the exams would be long and require manual grading. According to my older colleagues when I started my career, the
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by gperkins978 2y ago
My thought exactly, or Maple, if you are one of THOSE people.
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by gperkins978 2y ago
That rabbit hole will make you angry, then sad, then hopeless. I live in Chicago, on the South Side. The number of foolish fads in education have been forced on poor children for decades. It is shameful. Children should not be experimented
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by gperkins978 2y ago
I used the TI-85 back when dinosaurs walked the earth. I still have that and the TI-92, the best FAT calculator ever. This thing will tie your shoes and help fight off depression. I strongly recommend the TI-92. It is not allowed on any sta
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by gperkins978 2y ago
I can assure you that no one writing such comments on the internet is winning anything.
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by gperkins978 2y ago
As a lover and admirer of all things porcine, I am deeply offended by that comment. Although pigs do enjoy a good wrestle, they are a fine animal with a great spirit and refined wisdom. If you think I am joking, I am wearing a solid gold pi
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by gperkins978 2y ago
This is what happens when people are anonymous. I assume these are all 12-year-old victims of bullying with a lot of pain and no where to get it out. They spit venom wherever they go. I assume they grow out of it. Frankly, I would recommend
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by gperkins978 2y ago
I think the easiest distinction is the high part. I assume you have never crushed up Ritalin and/or Adderall to snort (I have). The guys taking it non-medicinally get a clear high, and tolerance demands higher doses. The best/wors
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by gperkins978 2y ago
I take provigil as well. I was wise enough to stop taking Adderall and Dexedrine when I ended my schooling. I never had a prescription, but these were easy enough to find. Provigil is not an every day tool for me, only once and a while, but
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by gperkins978 2y ago
What are you doing to change this? Are you trying to make the situation better? California has been run into the ground for the last thirty years intentionally. Many residents love having mentally ill people die in the streets. They have cr
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by gperkins978 2y ago
The state of nature has no schools, no water, no sewer and no police. If one is going to live in a civilized nation, he should pay his share of taxes. Capital gains is 15%. That is not an outrageous amount. Everyone should pay because every
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by gperkins978 2y ago
My biggest regret is not staying with my first job out of college. I loved it, and had I stayed my options at the age of 26 would be worth over $10m now. I left that job for a woman. I feel so stupid about it. I am good at math and bad at l
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by gperkins978 2y ago
No, it is simply an idea to live and let live. Sane people escape California or New York where one must be insanely wealthy to live a decent life. In most of the US, you can do your thing and no one will bother you. Most hellishly expensive
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by gperkins978 2y ago
In the US, most municipalities will publish each employee's compensation every year. You can literally look them up by name.
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by gperkins978 2y ago
Public servants do not make enough money to be useful targets. The meaningful threat comes from large compensation tied to other asset information (tying an online person to that income, not difficult). You can buy lists of these already ti
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by gperkins978 2y ago
This is also why certain homes get hit in high-end burglary crews. There are multiple crews hitting those who purchase precious metals with physical delivery (like gold American Eagle coins). It is not all positive. Considering how few vict
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by gperkins978 2y ago
If you are affiliated with a university, you should have a way to read articles through there, or some service (LexisNexis, Factiva,...).
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by gperkins978 2y ago
I used to subscribe to many publication, but then I kept rage quitting them. The only one I have left is the Economist. The New York Times was painful. I used to love reading it, but it just became a rag. I never managed to find anything to
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by gperkins978 2y ago
Has no one used the word enshittification yet? Google, Stack Overflow, Amazon, ..., it is like every useful website twenty years ago is now literally a steaming pile of excrement. I find myself using books again to look things up because it
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by gperkins978 2y ago
I was going to recommend an A100, but they are not available cheaply anymore. I set someone up with two of them I managed to score from Amazon for like $400 each, but used. They had 40gb RAM, but it was HBM and super fast. There were mining
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by gperkins978 2y ago
A100's are cheap. Are those bad now?
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by gperkins978 2y ago
I know a welder. He had to quit after 15 years do to physical ailments. If you get a job like that, you must be into fitness. It is easy to work a desk at 55, but being a welder is hard. Personally, I would live modestly for a few years and
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by gperkins978 2y ago
So, there is an existing market of guys who know linode. If you have room in your payroll, you can hire a linode guy and have him manage it, but I would make sure that guy has a junior guy learning from him. I say this because the rest of t
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by gperkins978 2y ago
I hate to be the one to ask, but I must. Why on earth would you voluntarily go to Iceland? There is nothing there. There are a few attractive ladies, but the place is so dreary that it makes Scotland look like Hawaii. Go get a visa to Malta
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by gperkins978 3y ago
I tried to use a Google Coral. I have no idea how to make it work. I could follow a tutorial using tensorflow. I could not figure out how to use for anything else. Is there some way to run CUDA stuff on it? I always assumed it required some
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by gperkins978 3y ago
I once had a long argument with a colleague who did not realize that MacOS had terminal. I brought my macbook in and showed him. Many young people are often surprised at even the Windows command line. They must be taught that only Linux has
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by gperkins978 3y ago
Yes, the best institutions will last, but not all of them. The region of the Roman Empire where the Vandals settled down did not have a university again for over a Millennium.

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