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YouTube is pretty good at both theory part: there's MIT physics class, but also on intuitive parts (i.e. visualizing how phase arrays work). ChatGPT is also seems to be very good a…

#1 Can you fix the 2h commute? (edit) Would companies consider paying for commute time as work time?

Man with ego invents, creates new jobs both at his company and outside, boosts the industry productivity. It's spark that matters; no matter how much wood you bring upfront, it won…

The system Ahrens describes is more: it has indexing system and an approach to generate new ideas. github + markdown + cross-page linking works really great with his system.

DeOldify [1] by Jason Antic got really good results with old photos and movies colorization. [1] https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify

That's what Spark is for. You can do petabyte-scale jobs... with DataFrames.

oura ring fills this use case.

Problem statement first.

There is another great book written by Cal: Deep Work [1]. Don't follow your passion. Instead, become really good at something. Apply methodical approach to improve your craft skil…

You can put a credit freeze on you file in major credit bureaus - this way their website would not be able to verify answers on security questions and deny login. Brian Krebs did a…

Here's what you do to significantly reduce telemarketers calls: 1) Go to https://www.donotcall.gov/ and register in the National Do Not Call Registry 2) Wait 31 day (it takes some …

I really like the idea. However, let's think about abuse patterns: what prevents CEO agency from creating 1k t2.micro instances and clicking upvote for a link of interest and downv…

You don't have to kiss ass. Instead, you can deflect and let interviewer answer the question. Something like this "I saw that X corp has an open position. This is an opportunity fo…

You have to start somewhere. Once idea is visualized and internalized on lower dimensions, you move to the next level, where images not needed; however to get to that step 0, where…

> They did aggregate up until this point Still an issue if most people support 1-2 creators with $1-2 pledges.

You can go creative (though, I'm not lawyer, nor accountant): have a minimum payment limit: 5$, for instance; if pledge is $1, then ask to pre-pay 5 units in advance (and be transp…

I understand why they do it: they trying to bring down transaction costs with payment processors. These fees on small amounts is death by thousand cuts. But, I believe, there is a …

FTC complaints works great too.

Is public transportation more efficient per mile/person? Yes. Does it solves all the transportation problems? No: it's not covering even half of our needs. Just for reference: only…

Well, car owners can use the same argument: public transportation benefits only people without cars, why car owners should pay maintenance of train stations, buses, trolleys, repai…

Nobody is subsidizing your car: as a car owner, you already paid 1) sales tax; 2) yearly registration; 3) yearly property tax; 4) taxes included in gas. Why car owners should be do…

We used it a lot when they just started. For a while the quality was very good: chefs did a good job providing variety of choices, packaging was good. But after a year or so they s…

5c from me: 1) why CTR mode was chosen? I would probably go with something like GCM: privacy + integrity check. 2) IV ideally should be re-generated on every re-encryption. It does…

Client-side encryption and zero-knowledge storage design might give some peace of mind to some users.