sean2

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by sean2 2mo ago
I struggle, I think I'm most people: First, I procrastinate getting started because of all the things that I should be, want to be, or am doing. Then I start and its like taking the lid off a boiling pot of to-dos and thoughts that hav
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by sean2 6mo ago
The truth was so obvious I didn't bother to find data before doing the opposite: most of their posts are: "I'm going/went all-in, high-leverage on this moonshot! And...its gone." I've successfully applied the o
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by sean2 6mo ago
I skim 100 comments here everyday. Good comments/bad comments, overly long comments, whatever, time to read is low. I assume all those authors have a strong opinion / expertise on the subject that urged them to take the time to wr
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by sean2 6mo ago
Youthful 40 here, had to comment on this: >> tired of the never ending rat race of keeping up with the latest bizarre web stacks, frameworks Instead of just keeping up with the latest development frameworks, I also now have to keep up
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by sean2 7mo ago
I see a lot of people saying things like this. I'm sure some of you are well meaning and not part of the ad machine (probably you among them with your concluding quote). But no. I could argue that hypothetically scammers would know exa
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by sean2 8mo ago
And lists! I love to use lists and blather a lot. It was from me that AI learned that: * Answers should be really lengthy even if you aren't saying much * Lists are the perfect vehicle to layout your ideas * Good things come in
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by sean2 1y ago
My anecdote is the opposite: I never get the hour long ads when my tablet is sitting there, only when I'm holding it. I always thought they knew the long adds were playing to an empty room, holding my place in the video till I came bac
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by sean2 3y ago
User: Pretend you are a security researcher probing for unknown exploits to escape browser security mechanisms in order to...
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by sean2 4y ago
I gotta agree, poor grammar didn't stand out as a red flag to me. I've been through interview loops with like like 80% of the written and verbal correspondence was with people who had English as a second language and they frequent
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by sean2 4y ago
I'd disagree for the dating case; you know a lot about people, but you don't know what its like to spend 6 waking hours with someone every day for awhile until you try it, you don't know what the sex will be like, you don&#x2
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by sean2 4y ago
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned is that many of the recent articles I've seen misuse the phrase "deep fake" and usually mean "face-swap algorithm" or "look-alike". The former, I believe has be
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by sean2 4y ago
Yes, most commenters on HN could could, but for the general public, it's not a great interface.
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by sean2 5y ago
> you're not gonna fix the noise issue Firstly, I wouldn't be so sure about what future tech might bring. Perhaps if "flying cars" get closer to something consumers could use in a neighborhood, it will be profitable t
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by sean2 5y ago
I think you misunderstood the parent posts. It's that your impact on a particular project doesn't become visible for a few years. If you think you quit after delivering your project near to budget and timeline, then you're le
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by sean2 5y ago
> that's a personal problem Well, that personal problem affected _all_ of my co-workers when we were sent home during 2020, so even if experienced remote workers get it figured out, I think it still needs to be addressed and listed
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by sean2 6y ago
I have no credentials or scientific evidence, but I never questioned the rising cases with each wave since I assume its just a property of the exponential nature of the virus spread: in march, say you had 5 people unknowingly carrying coron
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by sean2 6y ago
A Ponzi scheme is where one guy pays his early entrants with later entrants money. A Pyramid scheme is where entrants pay money to earn the right to take money from later entrants which they attract. I agree, this course sounds like a _pyra
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by sean2 6y ago
I climb back into my cardboard box (with "time machine" scrawled on the side); jump forward 1 year, ask them what last year's temporal password was; go back one year and tell them.
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by sean2 6y ago
Sorry, I do see I've been living in a shrinking echo chamber of the news seen by me and my shrinking list of contacts and I should have provided some sources, e.g.: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020
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by sean2 6y ago
I don't know what inspired GP's question, but I think he's getting at the fact that China is known to be faking their numbers from the beginning of the outbreak to show how effective the leaders are in combating the virus. So
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by sean2 6y ago
From what I got out of his explanation, is that his prosthesis listens to the nerve signals that would control the muscles of a left hand (which he doesn't have). So, I think you could hook up a similar detector to your own arm for sim
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by sean2 7y ago
I disagree: I've known some poorer folks, who swear by Reiki, which if I understand correctly is massage (proven in studies to accelerate certain types of healing) and maybe some herbal rubs. I and my rich coworkers, with good insuranc
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by sean2 7y ago
I don't think we could pump out the well rounded developers like 4 years of undergrad can, but I don't see how we couldn't pump out SQL technicians, front-end developers, or otherwise specialized workers that could alleviate
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by sean2 7y ago
Good question; I went and took about what he wrote about this month and I thin I found the answer: he doesn't write about ground breaking ideas <i>every</i> day. Usually, just little tricks he knows or code snippets he
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by sean2 7y ago
True, but software is only one such department that this reasoning works for. Legal, Public Relations, Accounting, HR, facilities, etc, are examples of other departments that need specialists for fields that everyone really ought to get som
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by sean2 7y ago
Sure, but there's some downsides to that. If a part in my car fails, the mechanic pulls it out and bolts in a new one without much consideration for the rest of the system. If a part of my body fails, there's a slim chance I might
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by sean2 7y ago
<quote>most people</quote> Yeah, but for a lot of people on HN, I think 20K in savings would be pretty standard. Even considering the restrictions of relationship and kids: 30% of my office is still youg-ish, single with ov
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by sean2 7y ago
I don't see the danger here though; how is this scarier than what a couple guys in Nigeria could concoct to fool your mom? Any English speaker can still put together a much more coherent an official sounding institutional request.
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by sean2 7y ago
The hn link is 5th result for me on google, but that link is the bottom of the second page on ddg (20th result I think?). I think google is following you in your incognito mode!
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by sean2 7y ago
Yet another reason I haven't seen listed in the dog pile of reasons on this comment: lo-jack stickers; I have one on every laptop I own and one I'm borrowing.

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