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elbows

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About elbows

Consultant, experienced with GPU programming, performance optimization, image processing, and cross-platform application development in various languages and tech stacks.

http://nathan-weston.com/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45635836

    They mostly sound reasonable at a bullet-point level, but reading closer turns up details such as: > Signatories must commit to “defining and otherwise interpreting ‘male,’ ‘female…

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    Comment #43557417

    I don't think it's that difficult if you're training a lot and eating accordingly. For someone eating 3000 calories a day, that's less than 25% of calories from protein, which is p…

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    Comment #37947693

    Yeah, this is a weird article to have popped up on HN and probably pretty opaque to anyone not already versed in the topic. The "ecological" part here comes from ecological psychol…

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    Comment #36649267

    Out of curiosity, how do you go about finding clients for this kind of work?

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    Comment #29615061

    In my experience (doing consulting/freelance work for a few years now), you have to get away from "freelance" kinds of jobs into "consulting". The terms are not well defined and th…

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    Comment #29498244

    If you like the "knees over toes guy" exercises, I'd definitely recommend signing up for his online coaching program for a couple of months. The Youtube videos are a bit scattered …

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    Comment #29160673

    OP's partner may be non-binary or otherwise use they/them pronouns.

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    Comment #29084113

    Where? The website listed above is just a logo and title: I don't see any email address or contact form there, or in your posting above.

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    Comment #28455757

    A lot of martial arts training is focused on practicing techniques in isolation and developing "perfect" form (punches/kicks in the air, doing the same throw repeatedly against a c…

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    Comment #26101526

    I've always felt the same way. My fingers naturally want to spread out, so pulling them close enough together to rest on the home keys causes a lot of tension.

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    Comment #24777172

    He actually does make this claim very specifically. In his conclusions chapter, one of the main headings is "Chew", where he states: "the bones in the human face don't stop growing…

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    Comment #23869654

    I use OfflineImap to backup all my email to a local maildir: http://www.offlineimap.org/

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    Comment #23203219

    It's more of an issue with things like std::transform or std::copy_if. Ergonomically, it's nice if these kinds of functions either allocate and return a new container, or return an…

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    Comment #22995413

    One issue is that the Vulkan API is absurdly low-level and verbose. There are good reasons for this if you're writing a game engine, but if you just want to run simple compute kern…

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    Comment #22758021

    SEEKING WORK - Boston, REMOTE Python & C++ programmer with focus in image processing. I'm a software engineer with 15 years of experience in various areas including image processin…

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    SEEKING WORK - Boston, REMOTE Python & C++ programmer with focus in image processing. I'm a software engineer with 15 years of experience in various areas including image processin…

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    SEEKING WORK - Boston, REMOTE I'm a software engineer with 15 years of experience in various areas including graphics, image processing, GPU programming, and performance optimizati…

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    Comment #21730165

    I got into consulting mostly for the freedom and schedule flexibility. I work when I want to, and if I wake up feeling tired or unmotivated I can take a morning off instead of havi…

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    Comment #21685884

    SEEKING WORK - Boston, REMOTE I'm a software engineer with 15 years of experience in various areas including graphics, image processing, GPU programming, and performance optimizati…

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    Comment #21583305

    The American Red Cross has Adult CPR/AED/First Aid classes where the classroom portion is only an hour. There's an online component that you have to do beforehand, so the whole cla…

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    SEEKING WORK - Boston, REMOTE I'm a software engineer with 15 years of experience in various areas including graphics, image processing, GPU programming, and performance optimizati…

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    SEEKING WORK - Boston, REMOTE I'm a software engineer with 15 years of experience in various areas including graphics, image processing, GPU programming, and performance optimizati…

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    SEEKING WORK - Boston, REMOTE I'm a software engineer with 15 years of experience in various areas including graphics, image processing, GPU programming, and performance optimizati…

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    SEEKING WORK - Boston, REMOTE I'm a software engineer with 15 years of experience in various areas including graphics, image processing, GPU programming, and performance optimizati…

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    SEEKING WORK - Boston, REMOTE I'm a software engineer with 15 years of experience in various areas including graphics, image processing, GPU programming, and performance optimizati…