You should talk to musicians about digital equipment. They talk about latency in terms of how far away the instrument feels. It’s wild, good musicians can describe latency on the order of low tens of ms. What’s crazy to…
> same amount of money to do less work Um… work is not important. Value is important. Your employer is employing you because they expect your value to be higher than your cost. Moreover, if you are busy, your marginal…
In the fastest shrinking industry at the time? I think the phrase has something to do with blood and a turnip… I was actually thrilled with my cola that year along with the required vacation time. Honestly it was a very…
very much this. I was denied 2 rounds in 2008. I knew too many of the systems to risk losing me. Was sort of ok with it in at the time, and the length of the recession made me really happy in retrospect. Today I…
> "Your phone knows its position in space" This is not wrong at the pop sci level of the video. Your phone undoubtedly has a gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer all in a single IMU IC. Data from this IMU can be…
The turning point against pro corporatism for me after years of schooling in economics happened a few years ago from a simple argument that I can’t get out of my head. Technological advancements in an owner controlled…
10 print "hello" 20 goto 10
I’m still on the fence about closing the door for a short task like pouring milk. My understanding from the physics of opening the door, you’re mostly already replacing all the air in the fridge with air from outside…
Your question seems disengenuous, and it’s not clear you read the post. But I would reckon many of us are having very similar experiences with how our daily activities are shaking out. The author’s story likely…
> I believe you. I don’t need the details. Tell me what we're changing. Yeah, for me in these situations it’s often about messaging to stakeholders, and so management in general feels like the problem has been…
I had to stop reading one of my favorite authors when I was doing infant duty with my oldest. The books kept getting thicker, and I could no longer one hand them comfortably reading either end of the novel due to the…
I saw 10million quoted recently, and that sounds about right. 300k is a super safe withdrawal rate for that much money and you have a pretty comfortable life at that income level most places.
There’s a great lecture on giving lectures by an MIT prof. He says you can give no more than 3 ideas per hour, and you must repeat yourself at least 3 times for each idea. And while, part of his thesis is because people…
Good to be skeptical. Remember, though, that there is zero cost to displaying ads. That means they get bundled at places like indeed. If you’re HR and have 3 openings, but have 4 ads you can run for less than the price…
I had an interview once for a firmware position dealing with (relatively) high wattage transmitters. They wanted to know how I’d deal with some conditions where I’d need to turn off the power quickly. After talking a…
It’s the caps that fail. Electrolytic caps have the highest failure rate of any passive component. My team tries to avoid them in our designs as much as possible. But you’re right, caps in a good design can easily last…
Could be c't magazine accidentally played the mp3 version louder. Human's have a known preference for louder music, and will tend to prefer louder samples over quieter samples. Rumor in the industry is that this was a…
I was suprised to see the use of wiremesh in sand castle building some years ago. Same concept though. You add something that helps with shear strength and you can build much taller sand buildings. It’s really counter…
Most likely that’s the nitric oxide (not to be confused with nitrous oxide) that is a biproduct of vitamin d synthesis which requires UV light. It is a natural muscle relaxer and is generally considered good for blood…
Having lived near the US border most my life, the way it was explained to me years ago, is that there is a strip of land at the border crossing, where you are in neither country. In this space, you are not privy to any…
> is just going to be making up the missing data. This is generally true. What I find fascinating is the application of information that is not present in the data but that can be confirmed by the data. I’m thinking…
There are people working on this problem honestly. The general solution 10 years ago was a micro kernel. Today, I’m not sure. The linux model is starting to look dated, with similar problems elsewhere. Modern hardware…
Does anyone know if Ben Jordan's AI generated music algorithm would work here to spot fake voices? He's looking for compression artifacts introduced from the training data in the output music. I'd expect similar…
I first learned of kratom in the last year from Elijah Lemard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z5ixJIqbGY&t=267s He's an odd guy who likes to investigate some really dodgy stuff. And I suspect many here on HN would…
I see this all the time with audio too. The amount of bits you need to reserve a
You should talk to musicians about digital equipment. They talk about latency in terms of how far away the instrument feels. It’s wild, good musicians can describe latency on the order of low tens of ms. What’s crazy to…
> same amount of money to do less work Um… work is not important. Value is important. Your employer is employing you because they expect your value to be higher than your cost. Moreover, if you are busy, your marginal…
In the fastest shrinking industry at the time? I think the phrase has something to do with blood and a turnip… I was actually thrilled with my cola that year along with the required vacation time. Honestly it was a very…
very much this. I was denied 2 rounds in 2008. I knew too many of the systems to risk losing me. Was sort of ok with it in at the time, and the length of the recession made me really happy in retrospect. Today I…
> "Your phone knows its position in space" This is not wrong at the pop sci level of the video. Your phone undoubtedly has a gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer all in a single IMU IC. Data from this IMU can be…
The turning point against pro corporatism for me after years of schooling in economics happened a few years ago from a simple argument that I can’t get out of my head. Technological advancements in an owner controlled…
10 print "hello" 20 goto 10
I’m still on the fence about closing the door for a short task like pouring milk. My understanding from the physics of opening the door, you’re mostly already replacing all the air in the fridge with air from outside…
Your question seems disengenuous, and it’s not clear you read the post. But I would reckon many of us are having very similar experiences with how our daily activities are shaking out. The author’s story likely…
> I believe you. I don’t need the details. Tell me what we're changing. Yeah, for me in these situations it’s often about messaging to stakeholders, and so management in general feels like the problem has been…
I had to stop reading one of my favorite authors when I was doing infant duty with my oldest. The books kept getting thicker, and I could no longer one hand them comfortably reading either end of the novel due to the…
I saw 10million quoted recently, and that sounds about right. 300k is a super safe withdrawal rate for that much money and you have a pretty comfortable life at that income level most places.
There’s a great lecture on giving lectures by an MIT prof. He says you can give no more than 3 ideas per hour, and you must repeat yourself at least 3 times for each idea. And while, part of his thesis is because people…
Good to be skeptical. Remember, though, that there is zero cost to displaying ads. That means they get bundled at places like indeed. If you’re HR and have 3 openings, but have 4 ads you can run for less than the price…
I had an interview once for a firmware position dealing with (relatively) high wattage transmitters. They wanted to know how I’d deal with some conditions where I’d need to turn off the power quickly. After talking a…
It’s the caps that fail. Electrolytic caps have the highest failure rate of any passive component. My team tries to avoid them in our designs as much as possible. But you’re right, caps in a good design can easily last…
Could be c't magazine accidentally played the mp3 version louder. Human's have a known preference for louder music, and will tend to prefer louder samples over quieter samples. Rumor in the industry is that this was a…
I was suprised to see the use of wiremesh in sand castle building some years ago. Same concept though. You add something that helps with shear strength and you can build much taller sand buildings. It’s really counter…
Most likely that’s the nitric oxide (not to be confused with nitrous oxide) that is a biproduct of vitamin d synthesis which requires UV light. It is a natural muscle relaxer and is generally considered good for blood…
Having lived near the US border most my life, the way it was explained to me years ago, is that there is a strip of land at the border crossing, where you are in neither country. In this space, you are not privy to any…
> is just going to be making up the missing data. This is generally true. What I find fascinating is the application of information that is not present in the data but that can be confirmed by the data. I’m thinking…
There are people working on this problem honestly. The general solution 10 years ago was a micro kernel. Today, I’m not sure. The linux model is starting to look dated, with similar problems elsewhere. Modern hardware…
Does anyone know if Ben Jordan's AI generated music algorithm would work here to spot fake voices? He's looking for compression artifacts introduced from the training data in the output music. I'd expect similar…
I first learned of kratom in the last year from Elijah Lemard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z5ixJIqbGY&t=267s He's an odd guy who likes to investigate some really dodgy stuff. And I suspect many here on HN would…
I see this all the time with audio too. The amount of bits you need to reserve a