te_platt

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by te_platt 4y ago
Yes, very much. Growing up I used to scramble to get whatever computer equipment I could. My parents didn't have much money but many of my friends parents did. I hated asking to borrow stuff even though people didn't seem to mi
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by te_platt 6y ago
From March 13, 2020: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/trump-asks-energy-department... Also: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-02/china-to-...
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by te_platt 7y ago
Not so bad. Assuming a spherical Earth in a vacuum and a bunch of other slightly less reasonable assumptions we have: 1E+45 photons from sun per second 1.49598E+11 distance to sun in meters 6365000 earth radius in meters 2.81229E+23
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Ask HN: I was hit with a SIM swapping attack; ideas on improving protection?
3 points by te_platt 7y ago|5 comments
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by te_platt 7y ago
In most ways, yes. For me the first 5 seconds or so were fantastic. It felt like seeing a behind the scenes "How it was made" documentary where I was seeing the actors out of character. Or like it removed the sense of being fro
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by te_platt 7y ago
It's something like an economist finding a $20 dollar bill on the ground and it's actually a real $20 bill that no one has picked up yet.
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by te_platt 7y ago
The one I would add is: Names are a reasonable indicator of the person's sex. Go ahead and prefix a Mr. / Ms.
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by te_platt 7y ago
My (Chileanized) Castilian is pretty rusty but I thought your translation was in line with how I read it. Instead of "withhold" I would say "hold onto for myself" ; as in "Retener mis derechos". The broader c
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by te_platt 7y ago
I agree with the main argument but would like to note "crank" in not an all or nothing description. Sometimes the problem as publicized doesn't exactly match the precise problem. For example you can trisect an arbitrary ang
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by te_platt 7y ago
I wonder how they take into account the kind of people who take a test like this are likely to have a good vocabulary. I suppose that might not be true but I don't think I'd do something similar for a test that measured something
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by te_platt 7y ago
A few years ago the guy I was sharing an office with at work was cleaning off his desk and found a stack of resumes. He said they were all from the batch that I was hired from and asked if I wanted to know why I was picked. Very cautiousl
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by te_platt 7y ago
Nice touch: 4.15 FERMAT’S LAST THEOREM: ... General case when n>2 was proved by Andrew Wiles (1994). The proof is too long to be written here. See: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~anindya/fermat.pdf
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by te_platt 7y ago
My last two projects have been for the military and a medical device. The example here seems so wonderfully simple (even as an example of how much has to happen on a simple change). Add in all the process/design/QA/validati
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by te_platt 7y ago
I was both impressed and horrified. Well done.
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by te_platt 7y ago
Having never worked on a search engine myself I will avoid guessing as to why Google's results are the way they are. As a search engine user I noticed Google's results seem to be less useful than they were before. After a partic
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by te_platt 8y ago
Neither of whom is white nationalist.
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by te_platt 8y ago
As well as sarcasm, emphasis, irony, puns.... I really like this sentence from Douglas Hofstadter: "Every word in this sentence is a gross misspelling of the word 'tomato'." There are so many ways a translator could go w
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by te_platt 8y ago
I've always been fascinated by the difficulties of translation. There is the issue of expressing the original thought. Already I've edited this post several times. Then there is the issue of the surrounding context which will be d
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Why Are Most Impact Craters Perfectly Circular? (Rather Than Ovals)(youtube.com)
2 points by te_platt 8y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 8y ago
I think you are right on both points. There were more details and his answer was just a quick way to say: He didn't care about the status of having a PhD He didn't need a PhD to advance his career He was having fun doing math stu
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by te_platt 8y ago
My oldest brother had a real love of mathematics and got a masters degree but never even applied to a PhD program. When I asked him about it he just said he was tired of working on other people's problems. He had a quiet programming p
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by te_platt 8y ago
It's nice to read an article like this that doesn't try to invent some controversy. It looks like a supernova could cause a disruption large enough to cause an extinction. No, there's not enough evidence to say it actually.
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by te_platt 8y ago
The hoax I wish would get around is that it is really good to smoke is dandelion roots. I love to imagine groups of teenagers running around at night digging out dandelions from random people's (especially mine) yards.
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The Gulag Archipelago: A New Foreword by Jordan B. Peterson(quillette.com)
8 points by te_platt 8y ago|1 comments
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by te_platt 8y ago
That especially hurt me too read as just this morning I helped a friend move a couch. We had had to turn it pretty much every way possible and the only reason we kept trying was because we knew somehow she got it moved in. It's intere
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by te_platt 8y ago
A few years ago I re-read Crime and Punishment, 30 years after trying to get through it in high school. I was blown away by how deeply it affected me this time around. It's not so much a crime story as much as a "why is there cri
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Tell HN: Some thoughts on ten years on Hacker News
72 points by te_platt 9y ago|18 comments
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by te_platt 9y ago
The ability to get another job.
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by te_platt 9y ago
If you are interested in a deeper dive into the topics covered in this paper I would suggest "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science" by E. T. Jaynes available at http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/cpreambl
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by te_platt 9y ago
I have a little brother and a brother in law who each went from bad financial situations to making a lot of money in a relatively short time. By a lot I mean much more than I make, and I do pretty well. I found it strange that I was both

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