tomkat0789

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by tomkat0789 10d ago
Reminds me that I need to study the impacts of a vegan diet in the science literature to understand how aggressively I should be pursuing it. The times I’ve lived on a near vegan diet, I feel quietly better in lots of little unexpected ways
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by tomkat0789 3mo ago
I’ve always wondered what is unique about semiconductors that PhDs need to work like assembly line workers. I’m sure they’re not solving partial differential equations all day, but what’s so different between different batches of chips?
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by tomkat0789 5mo ago
This looks awesome! Before the pandemic I’d take a 16 hour flight leaving at midnight to where my wife’s family lives in Asia. This takes flying closer to long trains and it could be good!
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by tomkat0789 1y ago
Was it this one? This article has stayed with me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100677
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by tomkat0789 1y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, scipy, MATLAB, C LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-thomas-01702183/
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by tomkat0789 1y ago
Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, scipy, MATLAB, C Résumé/CV: Available on request LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mich
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by tomkat0789 2y ago
the new way all these online services suck
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by tomkat0789 2y ago
“results from a population-based sample of Norwegians followed for almost three decades, from adolescence into midlife (N = 2215).” Nice! Largish sample size and 3 decades of following the subjects around! I wonder what else this group is l
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by tomkat0789 3y ago
I wonder if the article itself was written by an AI. The style seemed strange to me.
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by tomkat0789 3y ago
+1, I enjoyed that talk. He showed a diagram of the Artemis mission plan and said, “Does this make sense!?” He also referred to a publication NASA created after Apollo titled “What made Apollo a Success” which is good reading: https:/
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by tomkat0789 3y ago
From your link; “Near the solstice, one pole faces the Sun continuously and the other faces away, with only a narrow strip around the equator experiencing a rapid day–night cycle, with the Sun low over the horizon. On the other side of Uran
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Forget Oil. Wildcatters are drilling for “geologic” hydrogen(forbes.com)
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by tomkat0789 3y ago
Twain’s escape West is an entertaining memoir! He did a little bit of everything and accumulated some great (if a bit tall) tales. I remember it has the story of his first stand up comedy act, including a description of some people he paid
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
I switched from spammy weather apps and other sites to just using the NOAA years ago! The maps are basic but show me what I need as well! My tax dollars at work! I’m very pleased.
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
With all the lawyers in this country you’d think one of them on the train would use their hours long delay to assemble a law suit against the freight rail companies. What an insulting deal for taxpayers!
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
Work for 10 people, but they only want to hire 3. SOURCE: my current company likes me and the other 2 gritty software engineers.
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
Yes! I spent many hours with Legos growing up! I also remember playing a basic little kid video game about road construction. You’d select various heavy machinery to plow snowy roads and build bridges. I vaguely remember laying down pavemen
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
I think he highlights some fundamentally toxic aspects of human nature with this bit: “The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin paci
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
I’m not a git expert, but little visualizers like these helped me get comfortable (coding work on and off for 10 years) with git bash: https://learngitbranching.js.org/ https://ohmygit.org/ Merge conflicts
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
A middle option could be to install a fake ring camera as a deterrent without the privacy hazards.
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
Time off for illness! That's nice. I wonder if one of the HR scribes tracked the days every person took off in an analog ERP system. Scribes seemed important, maybe they outsourced the basics to contractors.
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
I'd love to hear some stories! People who failed, false positives, etc. I recently contributed to letting in a false positive into my org. Properly interviewing people is a skill I need to develop!
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'Bigger is better' is back for hardware – without any obvious benefits(theregister.com)
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
I’m reading this while vacationing in Barcelona. We’re staying in the city’s Gothic Quarter, which has this labyrinth of narrow medieval streets. This evening we realized that the whole week of our visit we never got into a car, not even a
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
I hated taking the SAT/ACT, but holy cow are we in the US in a better situation than Chinese students dealing with the Gaokao. A Chinese pen-pal once showed me some calculus problems from the Gaokao and the example I saw (a bunch of in
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by tomkat0789 4y ago
I always check for yunohost on these self-hosting threads. Standing up a yunohost on my raspberry pie has been on my to-do list for a long time. Unfortunately their default for my raspberry pie didn't "just work" on the Satur
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
> "SLS... its just not going to be a significant player in the future in space..." > Boeing’s Starliner... continues to be delayed. Man, is 'old space' good for anything? Over breakfast this morning I read the arti
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
I see several comments expressing that they haven't used the radio in years. I still use mine every time I get into my mid-2000s Honda! I'd be cursing the tech gods if they locked me into a single station! I guess I'm not the
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
I do a bunch of Meetups and watched this happen a bunch (EDIT: the going to a hobby event and never speaking again that is). About a year and a half after meeting a fellow regular of a hiking Meetup I finally felt not awkward inviting the l
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by tomkat0789 5y ago
For a similar rabbit hole with US maps, somewhere (a Google away - sorry I'm on my phone) there's historic USGS Topo maps of the USA. Once I found Chicago maps going back to the 1890s, and moving through the years you could see th

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