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by pmcg 4mo ago
I haven't read his book, so I don't know how much of a kook or grifter I would judge this guy to be, and I'm always dubious about things, but I try to remember that even kooks and grifters sometimes (not always!) have genuine
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by pmcg 4mo ago
That's fascinating, I just did some reading on this - I had not known that the basic technique of "mewing" is very similar if not identical to something that's been practiced in yoga for thousands of years. That in itse
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by pmcg 4mo ago
I had a similar experience, with a slightly different approach (mouth tape and a nose dilator) but seemingly similar outcome. I like that you did it just through exercises with no mechanical intervention. Inspiring.
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by pmcg 4mo ago
I had bad sleep apnea until last year, sleeping 8-9 hours a night and usually feeling tired in the morning. As of the last 12 months it seems to be heald, after I used mouth tape and a nasal dilator consistently for 30 nights in a row. I h
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by pmcg 8y ago
From my perspective, your reply supports the article's point. Yes, the inner and outer circles are paid well. And yes, nothing is completely black and white, there are spectrums in many dimensions. Everything is complex, but it is so
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by pmcg 8y ago
I was an engineer in the "outer circle" who quit and lived for four months with "untouchables" in a homeless camp. When I was an engineer I definitely felt the artificial distance between me (a human being) and a large g
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by pmcg 9y ago
I don't think this applies to division by zero. But I expect that in general, for most things humans consume, as efficiency has increased, consumption has increased too.
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by pmcg 9y ago
Coal consumption increased steadily since 1865 and is almost at its all time high right now. There was a tiny dip in the last few years, but oil consumption is still increasing.
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by pmcg 11y ago
Google has team offices for some teams. My first year here my team was split in two 5-person offices with doors. For the last year we were in an open office space. Soon we're moving again and some of us will be in team offices again
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by pmcg 11y ago
Does HN need a top banner saying that it's April 1?
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by pmcg 12y ago
Some places are really beautiful, but would not be less beautiful just because people can enjoy them. Maybe the solution is to preserve these places until we have relatively cheap tech (like quadcopter drones) that can carry people to some
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by pmcg 12y ago
Hopefully they make a way for arrays to be stack-allocated and passed by value too and take a step ahead of C# in this department. :)
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by pmcg 12y ago
Anyone writing Minecraft in C# would use a struct for the position vector. There's no good reason to frown upon it in this case.
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by pmcg 12y ago
There can be two allocations when you call String.Split, one at the calling site where you create the array of delimiters to pass in, and one inside that creates the String[] to return. The parent refers to the first, which you can avoid by
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by pmcg 13y ago
As a long time paid Fastmail user, Fastmail will probably stay as good as it is for longer if we don't tell everyone about it! :)
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by pmcg 13y ago
> "Don't worry! There won't be any permanent damage..." What I don't understand is how we can know that?
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by pmcg 13y ago
I agree that computer literacy is becoming as important for everyone as reading/writing and arithmetic skills. What I'm unsure about though is which specific skills and knowledge are most important. For instance, a huge number of people wo
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by pmcg 13y ago
> I guess the really right way to put it is -- That's what the google crawler has seen written most frequently -- and assume it doesn't really mean what you or I think about things. Not what the crawler has seen most, but what people ty
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by pmcg 13y ago
It's not necessarily what google expects you to think , but rather what you are most likely to be searching for . Sometimes people search for content that they might not agree with, because they want to see what is being said there out of
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by pmcg 13y ago
> "Newly minted college graduates soon entering the job market could be facing another hurdle besides high unemployment and a sluggish economy. Hiring managers say many perform poorly—sometimes even bizarrely—in job interviews." First p
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by pmcg 13y ago
Chrome has a default zoom setting. I have it at 150%.
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by pmcg 13y ago
Do we all disdain math, writing, science, and history because they are forced? I imagine most of us did to some extent, but then again, some of the forced skills have turned out to be useful. I'm not arguing for either side but I question
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by pmcg 13y ago
There's that, and also the fact that cpus aren't getting faster as much as they used to. I imagine if my cpu was still doubling in single-core power every couple years that there would be dev tools that could make use of that power and I w
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by pmcg 13y ago
For me to be able to even guess at where I fit, either "coder" needs to be defined, or the poll needs to be "how many coders do you think are better than you" not as a percentage of coders, but as a percentage (or number) of people in the w
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by pmcg 13y ago
No, but we who could stand up and confront those people do. And we can be encouraged to do so by this kind of post.
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by pmcg 13y ago
I think "power corrupts" applies more to relative power, not absolute "power". If you were the only person in the world with those abilities, you could use that to exert control over other people and that kind of power might corrupt.
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by pmcg 13y ago
I prefer company meals since it saves my time. I don't have to go out and get food or bring my own. This is assuming the food is good and healthy, which it happens to be.