waivej

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by waivej 3y ago
I got exposed to programming neural networks in the early 90s. It solved certain problems incredibly fast like the traveling salesman problem. I was tinkering with 3D graphics and fractals and map pathfinding. Though it didn’t occur to m
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by waivej 3y ago
I love stuff like this and brainstorm ideas for the ones in my garage. Of course you could do a cheap ev conversion or do a 24 Hours of Lemons race. What if you simply took it apart to individual bolts? Make a bicycle pedal car? Propane
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by waivej 4y ago
Great point! I just uploaded them to https://waiveris.com/books/
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Ask HN: What should you do with a large collection of math books
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by waivej 6y ago
Coldest winter of my life was near London. Heater was wired to cheap middle of the night electricity so you had to plan a day ahead to have hot water or heat. Friends had to go to hardware store to get tokens to feed their rental heaters.
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by waivej 7y ago
Our Omron arm cuff one reads 20 pts too high. We didn’t realize until a doctor had us bring it in.
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by waivej 7y ago
My Charge HR with “sensitive” sleep tracking setting was one of my favorite features. It always knew exactly how much sleep I got. I switched to a Garmin 935 and never look at the sleep data because it’s never accurate.
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by waivej 8y ago
I actually use an old version of Photoshop in a Windows VM because it's faster than a native modern version. As a perk, I don't worry that it's going to break if I upgrade OSX.
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by waivej 8y ago
I asked my father (retired math professor) and he responded "I am not sure what book to suggest. But if your friend wants to get away from the algebra of coordinate geometry maybe a book on geometric constructions.—How to do things wi
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by waivej 9y ago
I've been with them for 2+ years and am hooked. We use Green Chef as well for 6 meaks per week. Everyone complains about the lack of convenience but it saves me mind capacity more than anything and I never have to go to the store. We
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by waivej 9y ago
My first experience with the "web" was a friend showing me this "browser" thing a friend was working on at another college. It was like the text link thing (gopher?) that let you read man pages on other college networks
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by waivej 9y ago
I had to switch it to sensitive mode for the same reason. It's also more useful as a relative metric than specific number.
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by waivej 9y ago
We have a toddler so time became extremely tight. Though it's been wonderful to have nice meals together as a family. The sheer time involved to plan and shop for ingredients makes it seem like a bargain to us. Not having to entertai
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by waivej 9y ago
Back when I worked for someone else, I switched to part time after I had been there several years. I would work Mon, Tues, Thurs and got paid 60% of my previous salary. I was more productive than ever and came to the office having thought
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by waivej 9y ago
This is the thing that will make me leave them. I hate cutting those open to recycle them. Yes, you can reuse a few but what if you get 8 per month?
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by waivej 9y ago
If you go Air, the i7 are quite fast and can get 8GB RAM.
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by waivej 10y ago
I think the audio jack was removed as a step toward not requiring cables at all.
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by waivej 10y ago
As someone that has worked for myself for 16 years, I will sorely miss the the ACA. Let me know if you have any recommendations because surely I'm missing something. - Before the ACA we had Blue Cross and I inquired about maternity cov
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by waivej 10y ago
This is awesome! Thanks for creating and sharing it at a reasonable cost.
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by waivej 10y ago
I use Photoshop regularly (over 18 years) and earlier this year I gave GIMP another honest 2-3 week try. There are some big conceptual differences, but the small things like it not remembering what folder you last loaded images from slowed
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by waivej 11y ago
At that pricing, I'm curious if it makes sense to put blobs in the database rather than S3. Any thoughts?
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by waivej 12y ago
I totally know the feeling and have had to really dig deeply in the past year. Here are some things that worked. 1) Be ruthless about what you need to accomplish. This means choosing what to "do poorly" at. Sure everything is &
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by waivej 12y ago
It's hard, but put in the effort and finish the degree. Practice excelling. It'll be a lot harder to finish it later, but it can give you skills and access to better paying jobs later. Refine your ideas on the side. There&#x27
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by waivej 12y ago
Wow! It's 25% more than I'm paying for Comcast and 26500% faster.
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by waivej 12y ago
I took two grad courses this Spring: - Networking used Python with Mininet - Software Development used Java with Eclipse (Android, Swing, JUnit, Google App Engine, GWT, etc.) I finished my undergrad in 1995 and used C and assembly (RS6000,
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by waivej 12y ago
I priced and ran benchmarks for my last server upgrade. AWS was 2x the cost of collocating and some outages around the same time. I think it would have been only marginally more expensive since I could scale my server down to current need
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by waivej 12y ago
I have a personal connection to him, but Mark Baral did a great job helping out the FIRST robot club while I was a mentor. http://baraltaxaccounting.com/ It's probably a busy week for tax preparers so my first step mi
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by waivej 13y ago
Find a collection of experts you can turn to that are on your side: accountant, lawyer, web designer, insurance, business coach/advisor. You want your ducks in a row in these areas from the start even if you just have conversations an
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by waivej 13y ago
How about "graphic novels". Perhaps pick some comic books young boys would read more than once. I've puzzled over some Dutch ones for years and heard of others using them to learn a language.
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by waivej 13y ago
Every project has a price at which you know it is worthwhile. Sometimes it feels funny to estimate high...even 3-4x your normal rate. But trust yourself. Understand the additional costs in your time or energy. Likewise, some projects or

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