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by peterb 7mo ago
Same
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by peterb 1y ago
gptel in emacs does this. You can run the same prompt against different models in separate emacs windows (local or via api w/ keys) at the same time to compare outputs. I highly recommended it. https://github.com/karthi
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by peterb 1y ago
From earlier post (2018): https://www.uber.com/en-CA/blog/keplergl/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181879
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by peterb 4y ago
+1. Accessibility is in huge demand right now and setting up a consultancy could be very interesting for you as you get to see issues and patterns across companies. Most, if not all, Fortune 500 companies are interested accessibility.
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by peterb 4y ago
In my experience it is not one or the other. You can experiment first and then document, or vice versa. The point of documentation is "writing is thinking". The act of writing forces you to think through your ideas in ways that ot
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by peterb 4y ago
The Beatles were obsessed with Pet Sounds. Sgt. Pepper was their response to it.
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by peterb 4y ago
This. A big problem with office work is office cube design. I'm old enough to have had a closed door office in the 90s and it was the best. I also worked in large cubes which had moveable partitions as walls where you couldn't se
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by peterb 5y ago
This.
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by peterb 5y ago
That is amazing, thank you for sharing. Given you had experienced sound before your hearing deteriorated, is it possible to describe the difference in sound with a cochlear implant? I always thought with the limited number of electrodes in
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by peterb 5y ago
I really enjoyed the article. Thank you for posting it.
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by peterb 5y ago
Yes. Tim said the notch looks great in dark mode.
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by peterb 5y ago
You forgot the reference video!! :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY&t=5s
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by peterb 5y ago
This is so true and you can buy high quality gear for cheap on Craigslist, Kijiji, VarageSale or your local garage sale.
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by peterb 5y ago
I also have kids, but where I live we have plenty of pine & maple trees and traditional grass doesn't grow well in the shade. But we are lucky and native moss filled in. Moss is great for balls, they bounce & roll better, espe
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by peterb 5y ago
Alfredo Canziani is awesome and did a lot of the heavy lifting for this course. I agree with siddharthb_, it would be great to include his name in the title.
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by peterb 5y ago
Respect!
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AI-powered autocompletion software is Gmail’s Smart Compose for coders(theverge.com)
1 points by peterb 7y ago|0 comments
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California: The Flood That Could Change Everything(features.weather.com)
4 points by peterb 8y ago|1 comments
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by peterb 8y ago
What, no Turbo button??
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by peterb 8y ago
Except he missed one major selling point. Our food/restaurant scene is second to none. If you consider moving here then negotiate a couple of months remote work per year and work from Costa Rica in Jan-Feb.
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by peterb 9y ago
... you forgot luck.
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by peterb 10y ago
Back in the late 90's and early 00's I did the same thing. We had an online record store, homebass, and we would give free records (mostly promos) to our best customers. I would also include a hand written note thanking them for
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A Yale history professor’s 20-point guide to defending democracy under Trump(qz.com)
5 points by peterb 10y ago|0 comments
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by peterb 10y ago
They have horrible management, which is where the "layoffs" should happen. They have great engineers, skilled craftsmen, workers, etc., but the upper ranks and board of directors are full of patronage and incest.
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New Ways to Teach Young Children to Code(wsj.com)
2 points by peterb 11y ago|0 comments
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by peterb 11y ago
you mean us-nord-1 :-)
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High Scalability: The Serverless Startup – Down with Servers(highscalability.com)
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Making Apache Kafka Elastic with Apache Mesos – Mesosphere(mesosphere.com)
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by peterb 11y ago
Yeah, that's what I would do. First apply an IIR low pass filter (e.g. 200 Hz), downsample, apply a window function (e.g. Hamming, but there are probably better choices) and then autocorrelate the window. The peaks in the autocorrela
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Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures (pdf, Usenix)(usenix.org)
2 points by peterb 12y ago|0 comments

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