nateberkopec

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by nateberkopec 8d ago
I, for one, like it when CEOs let loose a bit and show some personality. It's better than everyone walking around talking like a media trained robot.
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Designing AI for Strategy Games Through Modding(anbeeld.com)
3 points by nateberkopec 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nateberkopec 5mo ago
For secrets management, I basically just use fnox everywhere ( https://fnox.jdx.dev/ ). It's a frontend to tons more options than sops, although `age` is still included. I also think the DX is better but to each their ow
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by nateberkopec 8mo ago
You're thinking of Phase II E911 in the US. That's true, but you can always be triangulated down a couple hundred meters by figuring out which towers you're connected to.
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by nateberkopec 8mo ago
I spent ~5 years volunteering for a search and rescue team in New Mexico. We definitely got the cellphone tower triangulation data. I never once saw GNSS data provided by a carrier. We used FindMeSAR https://findmesar.com/ ,
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by nateberkopec 8mo ago
Good thing expectations are perfectly constant!
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by nateberkopec 8mo ago
>assuming you have formalized the statement correctly That's a pretty big assumption, though, isn't it? As we saw the Navier-Stokes psychosis episode over the New Year holiday, formalizing correctly really isn't guaranteed
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by nateberkopec 2y ago
Is there an option for an NFC reader that doesn’t require 3d printing or soldering?
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by nateberkopec 2y ago
You don’t need a watch. You can estimate VO2 max yourself by doing a max effort 1.5 mile run and applying a regression equation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795745/ That’s all the watches ar
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
Sam publicly asking for a 10x bigger power grid and 7 trillion dollars is a pretty clear sign that they're out of short to medium-term ideas other than "MOAR PARAMETERS".
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
GiveWell can point you to various charities in 3rd world countries where you can be reasonably certain you can save a life for about $5000-7000. https://www.givewell.org/ Save 1 life in the USA, or take the same 7.5 million
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
I volunteered in SAR for five years, and the topic of W3W would occasionally come up. For me, it’s just already damn hard to make sure you can hear numbers correctly over the radio. In marginal conditions, it’s a hell of a lot easier to use
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
If what you care about is climate change, you should be in favor of cramming people into the smallest possible spaces in urban areas, not putting them in rural areas where they have to drive 20 minutes to get to the grocery store. The carbo
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
All your points about 25-year-old safety standards is perfectly valid. However, re: "crumple zones": The streets of the USA are basically an arms race. Bigger and bigger and bigger because "it's safer". Safer for yo
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
That may be true. My unit didn't have a thermal camera setup. However, we're not always looking for live subjects that will give off a thermal signature, and thermal cameras don't help with spotting inanimate objects. I would
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
I volunteered for a SAR team in the US southwest for 5 years, the last half of that or so we had an active drone unit. Drones are good at covering terrain that's difficult to traverse on foot. Canyons, cliff walls, the like. As some of
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
What language/stack?
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
Generally players like this target specific games for specific reasons, so I agree that there might be something to the table surface that makes it easier to slide dice.
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
It’s partly electronic. Players still throw real dice, there is no computer RNG.
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
I did the same with Streets of SimCity.
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
The bit about Sacramento not having water meters is particularly mad. Driving through the Imperial Valley was a big wake up call for me as to the dire state of the water situation in California. We are transporting water hundreds of miles t
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Ruby JIT Challenge(github.com)
3 points by nateberkopec 3y ago|0 comments
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
Woof. Postgres 11+ also has some nice speed improvements with each version as well.
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by nateberkopec 3y ago
There’s “USB condoms” available everywhere. Fundamentally it’s just a USB-> USB connector with only the charging pin. Not a complicated device.
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by nateberkopec 4y ago
If you buy a residential property only to rent it out, it is not housing for you, it is solely an investment.
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by nateberkopec 4y ago
Overcast already does this for podcasts, and I really like it. I turn it on 100% of the time.
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by nateberkopec 4y ago
It passes most (maybe all?) of the Rails test suite. But it can't run a randomly-selected production Rails application. This was based on my conversations with Chris Seaton before his passing, about 6 months ago.
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by nateberkopec 4y ago
TruffleRuby can’t run production Rails traffic today, and YJIT can.
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by nateberkopec 4y ago
> Market makers that redeem billions of USDT for cash with Tether/Bitfinex Have people actually seen the receipts for this? I'm skeptical that this actually occurs.
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by nateberkopec 4y ago
It's pretty much always been like this. It doesn't resemble at all what tops the Trending charts in America. I've been checking Twitter Trends here in Japan for the last ~3 months, prior to the Musk acquisition, and I've

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