garfieldnate

3 месяца назадdiscuss

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 месяцев назадdiscuss

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 месяцев назадdiscuss

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 месяцев назадdiscuss

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 года назадdiscuss

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 года назадdiscuss

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

garfieldnate

3 года назадdiscuss

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 года назадdiscuss

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 года назадdiscuss

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

5 лет назадdiscuss

My Casio GW-9600 electronic dictionary [1] was an amazing help in learning Japanese. It's perfectly optimized for quick word lookup: it boots from sleep instantly, the definitions are previewed as you type words, it has a full physical keyboard, and the screen is large but low-power so it rarely ever runs out of battery. The metal frame also makes it durable to falls on cement, etc. The content was, of course, also huge, almost guaranteeing that every word I searched for would be there. Well worth the money. I'm sad that the newer models became much slower; when you have to look up hundreds of words a day, there's a big difference between 5 seconds and .5 seconds.

My favorite dictionary app is a Thai one from word-in-the-hand and Paiboon [2]. The dictionary data is quite extensive, and includes linked categories like "food", "pronoun", "geography", "counter", etc. Tapping on the category tags takes you to other words of the same category (great for studying, say, restaurant vocab) and also to articles that teach you Thai via phrases and cultural info, and to grammatical explanations for, e.g. counters or prepositions. On top of all that, it supports several romanization schemes and includes baked-in information to help you learn to read the Thai orthography. It's a fantastic combination of extensive dictionary with good information for learners. Plus it has a (limited) export feature, which is something that Ex-Word never supported (except for if you bought special hardware to export to).

[1] http://gakuran.com/casio-ex-word-xd-gw9600/ [2] https://word-in-the-hand.com/thai-dictionary/

garfieldnate

7 лет назадdiscuss

>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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