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by samkater 2y ago
I had a similar experience where I was also assured the data was “doubly protected, it’s secured by a password here and re-secured at the remote site.” Besides that immediately making me question their security, it is a great example how pe
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by samkater 2y ago
Written and illustrated as a kids book, but even adults will be edified by the stories here [1]: 101 Orthodox Saints. All are stories of faith and are quite inspiring. (Just a heads up, a lot of the saints were martyred, so you should cons
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by samkater 4y ago
An eye-opening perspective came to me a few years ago when I first heard the quote,” When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60, you realize no one was ever thinking ab
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by samkater 4y ago
My understanding, to put it in AWS EC2 pricing terms, is that we do not pay the market "spot" rate for electricity (variable, often less than what you might pay elsewhere, but could spike up) - which is what Texas allowed. Typica
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by samkater 5y ago
I generally agree with the “get over yourself” comment but would like to offer a different perspective. The ending suggestion here and in many other comments is “work on yourself more” which I disagree with as the primary path to take. Inst
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by samkater 5y ago
I’m not an expert, but my light reading of the paper makes it seem like it isn’t “random noise” in the colloquial sense, but more like “there are properties to the randomness even though the images look like noise.” The abstract seems to sa
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by samkater 5y ago
Agreed on the nice effort comment. The ones showing the scene from a distance took me some extra time to figure out what was "off". For me it is the whitecaps on the water (if present). Some of the pictures appear to show waves
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by samkater 5y ago
I don’t follow the research here but I was pretty sure it was a joke at first because after the initial quote (preceded by the statement “ Consider the statements below. What do they describe? A trip on psychedelics? A dream?”): > I felt
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by samkater 5y ago
I’m not outright disagreeing, but it seems your last statement contradicts the rest of the payday example. “If instead we start to examine causality we can start to figure out the root of the issue and how to address.” The causality piece i
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by samkater 5y ago
Related to your point, George C Scott apparently didn’t want to film the opening scene of “Patton” because he thought the movie wouldn’t live up to the scene. It really gets at the heart of what the whole movie is about and I can’t imagine
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by samkater 5y ago
> The rise of remote work is 100% misunderstood. Good software engineers can work anymore but I haven't met many engineers that can mentor well remotely. Absolutely this. I love working remotely and will probably not go back to an
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by samkater 5y ago
I'm with you there. I (not a game dev) imagine that balance is hard to find, particularly when choosing the right moment to release. I remember playing "Age of Conan" (the mmo) when it was released and in my opinion while t
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by samkater 5y ago
In the simple savings-and-loan case, banks loan from their deposits. So technically it is the bank's available capital, but the capital belongs to someone else. If the bank has $1 million in deposits, it might decide it can safely lo
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by samkater 5y ago
Fascinating read - I must confess I only made it through half at the moment. I used to play Crusader Kings 2 and there was an event about a “Hole from Hell” which was essentially a bottomless pit. I always assumed that was just a made up th
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by samkater 5y ago
I would add some nuance to this view. For nearly every undergraduate course I agree - the ability of knowing where to look for resources in a particular subject matter, synthesizing the available information to solve a reasonably novel pro
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by samkater 5y ago
I'm coming in late to the discussion, so there is a good chance you won't see this which is okay, it's a reminder for me to apply this advice to my own life. I read a few years back (long since forgotten where) in an advice t
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by samkater 5y ago
I can’t find the source of this quote, but it applies here: “the hallmark of an amateur is the focus on tools”. Obviously tools matter, but professionals know how to balance getting the best environment set up, and actually producing what
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by samkater 6y ago
I have looked into SO for Teams in the past, but was not able to convince myself that it was worth the effort to push for its adoption (from the bottom up). I would be curious to hear more about what the journey to success looked like for
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by samkater 6y ago
From what I understand there is a lot of variation in providers. As I understand SDGE's Net Metering policy( https://www.sdge.com/residential/solar/getting-started-with-... ), you sell back power at retail pri
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by samkater 6y ago
I previously would have dismissed this sort of comment with the thought "surely they are missing something." But recently we were looking for simple cabinets and found some we liked on Wayfair but just seemed expensive to me. On
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by samkater 6y ago
We have a Water Rower. They have a Bluetooth module you can install to get data to other devices (phone, etc). The programs Aviron offers look cool, but I would never trade out a working rower for a new one just for the workout programs.
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by samkater 6y ago
Does anybody have good overview/resources to learn more about how the internet "pipes" are configured at a national level? I can understand conceptually how a government could disable internet connectivity to _outside_ the c
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San Diego Zoo Gorillas Contract Covid-19; First Known Transmission in Great Apes(kpbs.org)
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by samkater 6y ago
Haha, I think the HN submissions will be more along the lines of "How I spoofed a GPS signal to get my neighbor's automated lawn mower to cut my grass"
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by samkater 6y ago
The person I immediately think of after reading this is Bret Victor and how I felt after watching his “Stop Drawing Dead Fish” presentation [1]. The presentation was so well thought out, and the concepts follow one another so clearly that
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by samkater 6y ago
I wonder if there is a way to incentivize the behavior of "I work at a big company and have the ability to help out a stranger with a problem"? Perhaps people who help others with these issues (which are public by nature of being
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by samkater 6y ago
We used it for our assembly course in 2013. A new professor joined the department the year after I took the class and he taught something else, so from then it depended who was teaching the course that year. It was a small teaching univers
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by samkater 6y ago
Great advice, thank you for sharing! I'll comment too that it also applies to things that can't be measured with number of users/readers/dollars in bank/etc. I'm not a naturally outgoing person and making new
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by samkater 6y ago
I just had to go find that for myself! Here's the link to 4:10:45 when they start talking about it - https://youtu.be/13OkD0C_TWU?t=15045
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by samkater 6y ago
Yeah, I think there are two sides of it. One is as you say, people need to keep an open mind and accept good ideas on their merits. I try to limit my online discourse because I know I'm prone to knee-jerk reactions. A _very_ long tim

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