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jhfdbkofdchkon Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making

Ok.

jhfdbkofdchkon Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making

yeah that's how you know you legit have ADHD, when a cup or two of coffee makes you calm instead of wired. I do have a threshold where if I drink too much coffee I can't sleep, get jittery etc.

jhfdbkofdchkon Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain

Happened to my friend in a 2017 or 2018 model S earlier this year. Drove through a large puddle, not like deep standing water, and after the stopped the car it wouldn’t start back. Water had gotten into the motor case and tripped a sensor. Whole thing shut down. Only fix was replacing the assembly.

Essentially this issue, https://insideevs.com/news/534878/tesla-models-motor-fail-ra...

jhfdbkofdchkon Previous: A NeXT Computer Emulator

It’s fine except for the Settings app.

jhfdbkofdchkon Mercury Vault: money market fund and up to $3M in FDIC insurance

Because they want depositors to spread their deposits around and not concentrate them at any one institution.

jhfdbkofdchkon Shipping Graphing Calculator

It was written 28 years ago

jhfdbkofdchkon Detect breaches with Canary credit cards

Only Amex at the moment.

jhfdbkofdchkon Motorola 68030 wire wrap prototype

slightly faster clock owing to the process shrink, and some changes to the bus. They doubled the cache by having a 256 byte cache for instruction and data separately. Instead of a unified 256 byte cache. Kind of a poor showing given they were released 3 years apart.

jhfdbkofdchkon I/O is no longer the bottleneck

Writing this in Perl will have significantly different results. Can’t speak for Go but text processing in Python is slow.

jhfdbkofdchkon Ask HN: Frustrated and stressed: Maang remote work and new team advice

Ha, is this me? Did I write this? I’m in the same boat at one of the big tech firms. I think it’s being new and remote, I’m out of sight and out of mind. No travel for now, so i doubt I’ll get to meet the team in person anytime soon.

I’m going to give it a year, and if it doesn’t get better then I’m out. I’m going to continue being very clear with them about what I want and will offer specific solutions but if it doesn’t change then I’m out.

You do you but if you’re asking if you should be interviewing then you probably should trust your gut.

jhfdbkofdchkon The Geometry Junkyard

One of the pages talks about a problem he got talking to mathematician on sci.math. Where do mathematicians talk about math and collaborate on problems nowadays?

jhfdbkofdchkon Machine learning, concluded: Did no-code tools beat manual analysis?

KNIME is a free, fairly well used tool in some sectors, for doing low and no-code analysis and machine learning models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNIME

jhfdbkofdchkon I found Katherine Johnson's calculations at NASA [video]

I don't know how NASA did it, but in the 60s and 70s the IBM Selectric typewriters had those replaceable balls and you could swap one in with special math symbols on it.

https://www.duxburysystems.org/downloads/library/texas/apple...

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/19930/writing-papers-in-p...