rfreiberger

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by rfreiberger 2y ago
I'm older now but been playing games since I was younger. In the years of playing games, I can't place why certain games gave me motion sickness while others didn't. One of the worst games I played was Silent Hill on the PS,
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by rfreiberger 3y ago
I recall Flickr before was free up to a certain resolution, at the time it was something very low like 800 pixels or less than 2mb. During Marissa's CEO days, they pushed Flickr and introduced the unlimited storage for all users. I bel
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by rfreiberger 3y ago
I honestly see the company as a startup in idea. They couldn't afford to build a proper deep sea sub so they used the idea of new tech in the form of carbon fiber (which I'm assuming is way cheaper to form vs a titanium hull) and
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by rfreiberger 3y ago
The sad part to ponder is most likely the team on the ship knew the sub was gone right when the communications was lost but kept the information to themselves.
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by rfreiberger 3y ago
I believe this is the way many companies are going, even if they don't need to reduce the headcount, they can scoop up hungry workers cycling them out for average performers. I keep sharing that many companies have not defined the remo
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by rfreiberger 4y ago
I'm not sure if this is the same as the DJ apps that remove vocals and other instruments but there seems to be a surge of apps that have this feature. It's impressive how well some of these work and I believe they are mostly based
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by rfreiberger 4y ago
I used to be a huge fan of Evernote, but a few things made me look at other solutions. One issue is the capturing of code was automatically formatted and I was burned a few times keeping my code snippets for reference. Been using Notion for
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by rfreiberger 4y ago
I learned a bit of Perl from authors who focused only in Perl, great videos and books that allowed me to understand Perl how it worked differently from Python (at the time was taking over learning media). But using Perl in the real world wa
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by rfreiberger 4y ago
I personally cannot tell, if I was mixing vinyl I honestly would never have known about this. But using a digital vinyl system like Serato which displayed the bpm as 100.0, it's very apparent the tracks will fluctuate. The other issue
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by rfreiberger 4y ago
I can speak on this owning a pair of Technics 1200 mk2 I bought new in 1995 and a pair of Reloop RP8000mk2 I bought two years ago. What might be confusing is many DJ turntables are made by the same company now, and are reffered to as "
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by rfreiberger 4y ago
Wasn't most of the Amazon issue on fake items related to the UPC barcode issue they ran into with books? I recall they only stored the UPC code of items and pulled from their own stock or resellers (who had fake copies with the same co
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by rfreiberger 4y ago
One of the big wake up calls I had during that time was a friend telling me about Webvan. At the time I was younger and not investing so the conservation was mostly around how great the food was, cheaper than up scale stores and they delive
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
Given the amount modern GPU's are requiring that doesn't seem such a rare occurrence. During some game sessions, my 3080 will max out the capacity of my consumer UPS and ponder if a loose pin on the power connectors could cause a
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
Just speculating but I would guess that's a reason for asking people back in the office. If you're getting paid the same amount as an engineer in the Bay Area but living South Dakota, I'm sure this causes some alarm for the c
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
Negative Reaction is a great episode!
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
I rediscovered Columbo a number of years back and playing the original series is my way of having background noise while working. But every time I watch the same episode, I deepen my understanding of asking questions and how they lead to th
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
I agree, I never seen the first fret displayed to the right. You can rotate the fretboard at the bottom right.
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
LinkedIn is my guess, the social media platform with the most reshares and least amount of new content. Everything I see is just a reshare of the same CEO message, or "hustle life" post. I would expect to find posts about career q
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
Having dabbled in film photography during high school and college, I'm amazed at the quality of these images and also being in color. The processing for color was much more difficult (last I checked) since you couldn't prep the pa
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
The name needs to change but also the attitude that as engineers, we build complex systems and assume everyone has the knowledge how to use it. A few world wide outages I've been a part of was caused by a task runner which didn't
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
Thank you, I wasn't aware it's that easy. I have gotten around the saving issue with the desktop clients, they work decently well. I also love the tree view which many note apps seem to move away from.
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
I've been using Tiddlywiki for my technical notes. Before I was using Evernote and Notion, both would format my code blocks and it was just easier to use Tiddlywiki with a desktop app for saving. But my concern with Tiddlywiki is extra
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
The biggest reason why I held off on the camera was missing the fisheye lens, once that became a common feature, I was pretty much sold going with the phone over a camera.
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
I started with SLR's in high school photography and loved how you could see just what the camera was doing. Using the Pentax K1000 with a 50mm 2.0 lens (at the time was a super cheap combo kit) just inspired me to really learn more abo
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
I love the idea of alternative reality and what if the vacuum tubes were never invented, the same with the transistor. Would we have huge steam engines running building sized mechanical computers to calculate simple programs. Each time I vi
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
The best joke was the Robot Hell. "10 SIN" "20 GOTO HELL"
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
So I'm a mostly self trained low level programmer and found Project Euler is great but there is a level of math knowledge that left me more puzzled on the formulas than actual coding. Is this something I should focus on as someone lear
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
Not sure if this is the same but a few universities will offer certificates and degrees in various subjects off campus. I think these are mostly sold as "business development" but I always wondered if they were simply fly by night
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
My father works in Taiwan and he was aware something bad was coming down well before it hit US news. This was late January 2020, and by then most all of the masks at the stores were sold out, followed shortly by the cleaning supplies. I wou
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by rfreiberger 5y ago
Being someone in their 40's, it's hard to watch so many people of my younger years have resulting physical injuries. Like many others my age, all those crashes and endless skating has a toll on our knees plus other joints. I hope

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