To have an original idea i need to take my mind of things. For small problems i like taking a walk, sometimes talking to someone helps (a dog is great at that, they love the attention, or a guinea pig which will also…
say you search for a new job using your email at your current employer... using company computer is the same problem if you open your private emails on their machine
Zero Trust. apart from them getting to know everything what you do it is also important to understand that your employer will be liable for anything you do with their computer. (Download something by bittorrent, even if…
have old pc hardware mostly. get an WD Green 120 GB SSD for about 20 - 25 €. Have a teenager / child come over with their parents and we build their first pc from the parts up. The kids install the windows license which…
Exactly that. This means accepting loss and hurt. Definetely a very hard thing to do if the bad people are familiy. Might be impossible if the bad person is your spouse and you have kids. Might mean that your kids are…
No longer working for bad clients. There are so many bad clients out there which will actively hurt you to press the most benefit out of you until you drop. dead. you can only hurt me once. the second strike is only…
Genetic longevity has evolved. Consider a queen bee. Her livespan is so much longer (several years) compared to the worker bee (4 weeks during spring/summer/fall, until winters end for the hibernating generation). The…
Data Tau http://www.datatau.com/news is a site using the hacker news stack focusing about data science. Quite slow, but some nice articles / links there.
The pain you feel might be from the part of you (it might feel like a part of your soul) that is now missing - that is the reason it hurts so much. Realize that this part of you is with your friend as you had shared…
This notion that you do not need any kind of mathematical knowledge is widespread. Ever tried to delete 1 000 000 files in Windows Explorer ? Select All, Shift delete ? Takes ages. Why ? because Explorer creates a list…
IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad. Sturdy, replacements / repair kits available, often used by university students. Buy refurbished, max ram and swap for ssd. look for i5 / i7 models T420, x201T is a tablet pc (pen, but no touch)…
It takes an entire village to raise kids.
the traction of improving education is to make learning things easy. This is dead wrong. Learning is hard. Banging your head in desperation against a wall - repeatedly - without hope for relief - hard. You cry in…
programmers don't byte, they just nibble a bit
Half the Truth is often a great Lie.
i am either part of the solution or part of the problem
RoboRally is a turn based board game, each player controls a robot by selecting a number of command cards which will be executed by the robot like forward, turn left or right, fire laser :) and so on...
coding in schools - possibly a mindless activity - clicking and shoving a mouse around in an excel spreadsheet or throwing together a website - without any understanding of what actually happens - might be what will be…
Go for a used Thinkpad T or X series with i7 processor, swap harddrive for SSD, maximize RAM. Thinkpads have the advantage that they are available cheap refurbished and you still get access to spare parts (anything from…
just one thing: computer science ist not about programming. CS is about the math involved in solving problems using a specific set of instructions in a manner sufficiently specific that it can be implemented. It is…
HP N54L. 4x 3.5" internal drive-bays with trays (no hot-swap), 1 External 5.25" bay, 1 internal 3.5" bay, 2 PCI-E, 8 GByte ECC, takes 4 TB drives, 6 external USB2, 1 external E-Sata, 1 GB/s NIC. There is an HP-ILO Card…
Compartmentalization is key to stopping an epidemic. 1.) Quarantine health workers caring for ebola patients in high risk setting (contact to patient, infectious material) like a tour of duty in the military: you take…
areas to cover: do not kill each other, do not fight each other. Things are already bad enough. Because that one fails we gonna start at square one. Leave the water, land is kinda ok. language as ability to communicate…
For Reports with lots of tables and mathematics: generate LaTeX file -> PDFTEX to PDF using MiKTeX
To have an original idea i need to take my mind of things. For small problems i like taking a walk, sometimes talking to someone helps (a dog is great at that, they love the attention, or a guinea pig which will also…
say you search for a new job using your email at your current employer... using company computer is the same problem if you open your private emails on their machine
Zero Trust. apart from them getting to know everything what you do it is also important to understand that your employer will be liable for anything you do with their computer. (Download something by bittorrent, even if…
have old pc hardware mostly. get an WD Green 120 GB SSD for about 20 - 25 €. Have a teenager / child come over with their parents and we build their first pc from the parts up. The kids install the windows license which…
Exactly that. This means accepting loss and hurt. Definetely a very hard thing to do if the bad people are familiy. Might be impossible if the bad person is your spouse and you have kids. Might mean that your kids are…
No longer working for bad clients. There are so many bad clients out there which will actively hurt you to press the most benefit out of you until you drop. dead. you can only hurt me once. the second strike is only…
Genetic longevity has evolved. Consider a queen bee. Her livespan is so much longer (several years) compared to the worker bee (4 weeks during spring/summer/fall, until winters end for the hibernating generation). The…
Data Tau http://www.datatau.com/news is a site using the hacker news stack focusing about data science. Quite slow, but some nice articles / links there.
The pain you feel might be from the part of you (it might feel like a part of your soul) that is now missing - that is the reason it hurts so much. Realize that this part of you is with your friend as you had shared…
This notion that you do not need any kind of mathematical knowledge is widespread. Ever tried to delete 1 000 000 files in Windows Explorer ? Select All, Shift delete ? Takes ages. Why ? because Explorer creates a list…
IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad. Sturdy, replacements / repair kits available, often used by university students. Buy refurbished, max ram and swap for ssd. look for i5 / i7 models T420, x201T is a tablet pc (pen, but no touch)…
It takes an entire village to raise kids.
the traction of improving education is to make learning things easy. This is dead wrong. Learning is hard. Banging your head in desperation against a wall - repeatedly - without hope for relief - hard. You cry in…
programmers don't byte, they just nibble a bit
Half the Truth is often a great Lie.
i am either part of the solution or part of the problem
RoboRally is a turn based board game, each player controls a robot by selecting a number of command cards which will be executed by the robot like forward, turn left or right, fire laser :) and so on...
coding in schools - possibly a mindless activity - clicking and shoving a mouse around in an excel spreadsheet or throwing together a website - without any understanding of what actually happens - might be what will be…
Go for a used Thinkpad T or X series with i7 processor, swap harddrive for SSD, maximize RAM. Thinkpads have the advantage that they are available cheap refurbished and you still get access to spare parts (anything from…
just one thing: computer science ist not about programming. CS is about the math involved in solving problems using a specific set of instructions in a manner sufficiently specific that it can be implemented. It is…
HP N54L. 4x 3.5" internal drive-bays with trays (no hot-swap), 1 External 5.25" bay, 1 internal 3.5" bay, 2 PCI-E, 8 GByte ECC, takes 4 TB drives, 6 external USB2, 1 external E-Sata, 1 GB/s NIC. There is an HP-ILO Card…
Compartmentalization is key to stopping an epidemic. 1.) Quarantine health workers caring for ebola patients in high risk setting (contact to patient, infectious material) like a tour of duty in the military: you take…
areas to cover: do not kill each other, do not fight each other. Things are already bad enough. Because that one fails we gonna start at square one. Leave the water, land is kinda ok. language as ability to communicate…
For Reports with lots of tables and mathematics: generate LaTeX file -> PDFTEX to PDF using MiKTeX