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by otras 3mo ago
Big fan of Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces and the accompanying lectures ( https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/537/Spring2018/Disc... ). Free, high quality learning materials like this are an a
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by otras 4mo ago
I frequently find myself coming back to this quote from the first lecture: And that is that computer science, in some sense, isn't real. You see, when an engineer is designing a physical system, that's made out of real parts. The
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by otras 5mo ago
I would absolutely watch The Real Penguinwives of Sumida , and I bet a lot of other people would too!
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by otras 5mo ago
Love the story of the Rad Lab and radar before and during WW2. Two relevant books I've read recently(ish) that I'd recommend to anyone interested in learning more would be 1) The Invention That Changed the World by Robert Buderi
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Player Piano (Novel)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by otras 6mo ago
The foreman had pointed out his best man - what was his name? - and, joking with the puzzled machinist, the three bright young men had hooked up the recording apparatus to the lathe controls. Hertz! That had been the machinist's name
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by otras 6mo ago
As a mentor, I like to set explicit expectations for how much time someone should spend digging before asking for help, and I encourage others to do the same. For an intern or new grad whose information gathering skills likely have gaps the
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by otras 10mo ago
On a much less optimistic dark humor note, this is the same argument in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies about a superintelligent AI emerging and being a threat to humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Anyone_Bui
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by otras 11mo ago
I remember learning about the complex pumping machines running some of the reservoir pumps in Boston ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Waterworks_Museum ), where they made such distinct noises when working (an
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by otras 1y ago
Reminds me of the purported Ralph Waldo Emerson quote which rings true for myself as well: “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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by otras 1y ago
Sounds like the same energy as fan death in South Korea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
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by otras 1y ago
That's a great call-out, and it (along with the change itself) underlines the importance of not letting fun get in the way of actual engineering improvements. Defunnification as a side effect, if you will.
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by otras 1y ago
I remember seeing this in React's __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED, and I've always enjoyed similar lighthearted and unwieldingly-long names. Unfortunately I see it too has fallen victim to defunnification: http
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by otras 1y ago
I always enjoyed the cover of Jeff Erickson‘s Algorithms book, which is al-Khwarizmi in this style. https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Kh
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by otras 1y ago
Great, thanks for the pointer! I see it was published in 1999, so I imagine it’ll be a good time-capsule read too, even if it predates the dot com bubble burst and the eventual Oracle acquisition, though maybe that’s where the “Larry Elliso
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by otras 1y ago
I enjoy historical books about the rise, fall, and everything in between for companies in the industry — things like The Idea Factory about Bell Labs, Dealers of Lightning about Xerox PARC, and Soul of a New Machine about Data General
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Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) [pdf](nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov)
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by otras 1y ago
That's a good question, and I could easily see the camera settings (and the light) being a source of error here. Naively, I used the default iPhone camera with the same exposure for each one, then ended up manually removing some of the
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by otras 1y ago
Taking another look, I think you're right! Particularly since the first orange is pretty orange already. I think the first example would have been better served with a yellower, less ripe orange to highlight the difference and the pull
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How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?(alexanderell.is)
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Visualizing my strengths and areas for growth with RPG radar charts(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 1y ago
Change we can see is better than change behind the scenes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juiced_ball_theory , https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/juiced-baseballs
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by otras 1y ago
For years, I've been good heartedly losing the blog SEO ranking fight to a great developer and writer who has the same name as me. A football player eclipses us both if you just google our shared name, but if you add any sort of "
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by otras 2y ago
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, " says Wernher von Braun. Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
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by otras 2y ago
> It was in this context that the city decided to demolish the neighborhood known as Scollay Square and build in its place what would come to be called Government Center. It’s interesting (and sad) to imagine what Boston could have been
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by otras 2y ago
A fun evolution would be to format it into a newspaper format, complete with headlines, front page, and "continue reading on page N", then print it out on large paper, fold it, and mail it to you. There's probably no money in
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by otras 2y ago
This definitely puts it into context — it has been ten years since this list came out, and at that time, it had been ten years since the MapReduce paper came out.
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by otras 2y ago
Reminds me of the HN outage where two SSDs both failed after 40k hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031243
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by otras 2y ago
I’m loosely reminded of that Roger Sterling quote from Mad Men : ”I'll tell you what brilliance in advertising is: 99 cents. Somebody thought of that."
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by otras 2y ago
Have you ever tried rock climbing? It’s like mindful muscle balance ballet and requires a great deal of mental presence and focus.

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