garfieldnate

3 maanden geledendiscuss

You can't expect a company to support you in directly hurting them. This reminds me of a guy I know that sued his bank regarding a loan, but he used a terrible lawyer. The bank pretty quickly took their own action, including stopping all payments from his account (as they claimed that the money was theirs).

garfieldnate

6 maanden geledendiscuss

Not that not being able to open a ticket is not actually an implemented feature from GitHub; they simply added this issue template to let you know that you shouldn't open one:

*DO NOT OPEN A NEW ISSUE. PLEASE USE THE DISCUSSIONS SECTION.*

*I DIDN'T READ THE ABOVE LINE. PLEASE CLOSE THIS ISSUE.*

garfieldnate

9 maanden geledendiscuss

At some point I think it will be required for police bodycams and any security footage used in court to have this technology built in.

garfieldnate

9 maanden geledendiscuss

I know Korea is a fast-changing place, but while I was there I was taught and often observed that the value of "ppalli ppalli" (hurry hurry) was often applied to mean that a job was better done quickly than right, with predictably shoddy results. Obviously I have no insight into what happened here, but I can easily imagine a group of very hurried engineers feeling the pressure to just be done with their G-Drive tasks and move on to other suddenly urgent things. It's easy to put off preparation for something you don't feel will ever come.

I'm going to check all the smoke detectors in my house tomorrow :D

garfieldnate

2 jaar geledendiscuss

This looks amazing! Also, I had no idea that tutoring was over $100/hour, but it makes sense, being a specialized skill that's employed on a freelancer basis (meaning half or more time is spent traveling or finding clients).

I've been really frustrated trying to study more advanced math topics (functional analysis, complex analysis, abstract algebra, etc.) that I think are super interesting but are just out of my reach (Tristan Needham's books come to mind). There is the math stackexchange, which is wonderful help from volunteers, but you're not necessarily guaranteed an answer (and definitely not a timely one), sometimes the answers leave out key details ("exercise for the reader"), and I think having videos of worked solutions from tutors will just fill my need better.

I had been thinking that maybe AI would step up here, but I like having human access better.

garfieldnate

3 jaar geledendiscuss

I thought "How the Internet Really Works" (https://nostarch.com/how-internet-really-works) was pretty good.

garfieldnate

3 jaar geledendiscuss

I found your love for your mom and your dedication to taking care of her to be really touching. This is really wonderful!

garfieldnate

3 jaar geledendiscuss

I'm confused by the price on the website. It's only $100? Or is this a deposit to allow me to pay whatever the real price is? Hard to know whether this is worth it without knowing the price.

garfieldnate

4 jaar geledendiscuss

100%, a $70 CO2 sensor made a huge difference for me. I live in Germany, and there is no ventilation unless you open the window. I noticed that when I worked all day in the apartment, at the end of the day my brain would be toast, I wouldn't be capable of any really important thought, and I'd have a splitting headache and feel exhausted. Now I just open the window whenever the meter turns yellow (which actually means I just leave the window open almost all the time). Here's the one I use: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/B00TH3OW4Q

garfieldnate

7 jaar geledendiscuss

>the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet.

Didn't look that simple to me! Reminds me of Andrew Ng showing his students the simple one liner to solve the cocktail party problem in Octave. There's a lot represented in that one line of code!

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