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I had a similar experience where I was also assured the data was “doubly protected, it’s secured by a password here and re-secured at the remote site.” Besides that immediately mak…

Written and illustrated as a kids book, but even adults will be edified by the stories here [1]: 101 Orthodox Saints. All are stories of faith and are quite inspiring. (Just a head…

An eye-opening perspective came to me a few years ago when I first heard the quote,” When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thi…

My understanding, to put it in AWS EC2 pricing terms, is that we do not pay the market "spot" rate for electricity (variable, often less than what you might pay elsewhere, but coul…

I generally agree with the “get over yourself” comment but would like to offer a different perspective. The ending suggestion here and in many other comments is “work on yourself m…

I’m not an expert, but my light reading of the paper makes it seem like it isn’t “random noise” in the colloquial sense, but more like “there are properties to the randomness even …

Agreed on the nice effort comment. The ones showing the scene from a distance took me some extra time to figure out what was "off". For me it is the whitecaps on the water (if pres…

I don’t follow the research here but I was pretty sure it was a joke at first because after the initial quote (preceded by the statement “ Consider the statements below. What do th…

I’m not outright disagreeing, but it seems your last statement contradicts the rest of the payday example. “If instead we start to examine causality we can start to figure out the …

Related to your point, George C Scott apparently didn’t want to film the opening scene of “Patton” because he thought the movie wouldn’t live up to the scene. It really gets at the…

> The rise of remote work is 100% misunderstood. Good software engineers can work anymore but I haven't met many engineers that can mentor well remotely. Absolutely this. I love wo…

I'm with you there. I (not a game dev) imagine that balance is hard to find, particularly when choosing the right moment to release. I remember playing "Age of Conan" (the mmo) whe…

In the simple savings-and-loan case, banks loan from their deposits. So technically it is the bank's available capital, but the capital belongs to someone else. If the bank has $1 …

Fascinating read - I must confess I only made it through half at the moment. I used to play Crusader Kings 2 and there was an event about a “Hole from Hell” which was essentially a…

I would add some nuance to this view. For nearly every undergraduate course I agree - the ability of knowing where to look for resources in a particular subject matter, synthesizin…

I'm coming in late to the discussion, so there is a good chance you won't see this which is okay, it's a reminder for me to apply this advice to my own life. I read a few years bac…

I can’t find the source of this quote, but it applies here: “the hallmark of an amateur is the focus on tools”. Obviously tools matter, but professionals know how to balance gettin…

I have looked into SO for Teams in the past, but was not able to convince myself that it was worth the effort to push for its adoption (from the bottom up). I would be curious to h…

From what I understand there is a lot of variation in providers. As I understand SDGE's Net Metering policy( https://www.sdge.com/residential/solar/getting-started-with-... ), you …

I previously would have dismissed this sort of comment with the thought "surely they are missing something." But recently we were looking for simple cabinets and found some we like…

We have a Water Rower. They have a Bluetooth module you can install to get data to other devices (phone, etc). The programs Aviron offers look cool, but I would never trade out a w…

Does anybody have good overview/resources to learn more about how the internet "pipes" are configured at a national level? I can understand conceptually how a government could disa…

Haha, I think the HN submissions will be more along the lines of "How I spoofed a GPS signal to get my neighbor's automated lawn mower to cut my grass"

The person I immediately think of after reading this is Bret Victor and how I felt after watching his “Stop Drawing Dead Fish” presentation [1]. The presentation was so well though…