mcnnowak

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by mcnnowak 5mo ago
Try playing Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder (or any number of other systems.) Pathfinder is super deep and complex. There's also an entire community of people who play Table Top Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs) solo and use the outcome
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by mcnnowak 7mo ago
Wealth tax will just create an industry around hiding wealth for the rich
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by mcnnowak 10mo ago
I'm really disappointed that the new controller takes AA batteries though.
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by mcnnowak 1y ago
What's to stop someone putting some Terms of Service clause on their site, or creating a license which guarantees the site owners ownership of any content generated by scraping their site? Like some sort of legal honeypot trap.
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by mcnnowak 3y ago
Any tips or "get your foot in the door" advice on how someone currently in a CS career, but interested in biology could make this career transition? As a simple CS-minded person, I don't see any LeetCode for synthetic biology
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by mcnnowak 3y ago
> Prices assume ... est. gas savings of $3,600 over 3 years. Seems shady
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by mcnnowak 3y ago
As someone with limited counter space, cleaning while you cook is essential for saving time while cooking.
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by mcnnowak 3y ago
You can slap the buttons hard to get the table to wobble a bit, you can tap the cabinet with your wrists, you can grab the table tightly and move a leg or a hip in the opposite direction while keeping your body rigid, you can even slide the
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by mcnnowak 3y ago
I've always wondered if we could get a "good enough" general model, then add plugins for shortcomings. E.g., Can this model solve math problems? ~%50 of the time. Can this model identify math problems? ~99.9% of the time. Ok,
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by mcnnowak 4y ago
Generally my advice when people ask me is as follows: 1. In the beginning, going to the gym is the hardest part. Incentive: if you go to the gym consistently for a while you are rewarded with no more post workout muscle soreness, and easy n
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by mcnnowak 4y ago
The Apache ecosystem is fairly Java-heavy, Android, etc..
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by mcnnowak 4y ago
A VR game where you take a snapshot or ghost of yourself performing some movement or throwing an item, which then repeats itself in the world. Then you can make more snapshots and string them together to create a Factorio-like game which us
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by mcnnowak 4y ago
I'm also interested in this topic, but can't find anything other than "Top 10 things you should STOP doing as a data engineer" etc. content-mill, clickbait on Medium and other sites.
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by mcnnowak 5y ago
Managing a product line or group of products and being able to record the specifications or different attributes for each SKU or product. Pretty much a record of origin for compare/contrast/historical data/being able to link
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Ask HN: How does your company do Project and Portfolio Management?
4 points by mcnnowak 5y ago|2 comments
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by mcnnowak 5y ago
"We want to keep old games available so we can keep making money off them."
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by mcnnowak 7y ago
Sounds pretty dismissive. AI and Big Data are buzzwords that shouldn't be used very often. Data Science is about creating solutions that are right for the size of your data, and the questions being asked of it. A C++ program with a cou
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by mcnnowak 8y ago
Why is everyone so concerned with $20/mo? If you're running a business, this should be the least of your concerns. Building on AWS means easy scaling for the future. Who wants to redesign their entire project if it takes off?
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by mcnnowak 8y ago
Question: What is the meaning of life? Aristo's Answer: As of now, no other life in universe other than earth. Confidence: 52.29%
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by mcnnowak 9y ago
Note: The default donation split gives most of the money to O'Reilly and Humble Bundle, not Code for America.
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by mcnnowak 9y ago
Maybe sneak an Amazon Affiliate link to some book that isn't on your site.
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by mcnnowak 11y ago
This would be a lot more powerful if they posted an 'after' picture as well. Good to see all that data though.
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by mcnnowak 11y ago
How has no one mentioned the Joe Rogan Experience yet? Edit: ... because it isn't a tech podcast. It's too early to read carefully. But seriously sometimes he has scientists and stuff on. The Aubrey de Grey one is pretty good.