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jrgoj··on Consciousness Is Just a Feeling
> Consciousness, which nobody really ever defines clearly

"An organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism -— something it is like for the organism." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F

jrgoj··on Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
Interesting. How would this integrate into a network running DNS Resolver (i.e. Unbound) in pfSense?
jrgoj··on People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
Many large companies have a cafeteria on site.
jrgoj··on Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps
What do you advise for a baseline DAC+Amplifier?
jrgoj··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2018)
SEEKING WORK Location: Minneapolis / Saint Paul, MN USA Remote: Yes

Technologies: .Net, C#, Azure, Web API, WPF, WinForms, SQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Javascript, React, Node, much more

Experience: 12 years FTE development experience, leadership roles, consulting services as well

I am looking for contracts up to 10 hours per week.

Resume: Please email me

Email: grjrojo at gmail

jrgoj··on Ask HN: Does Shareware still work in 2018?
One thing developers of products like this can do is offer an accessibly priced license for individual users in a corporation. If it's an indispensable tool for me that I use at work, and the bureaucracy for obtaining even $0.01 USD from the company is not going to happen, the individual license can be a nice middle ground. I can write it off at tax season too.
jrgoj··on UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation
I saw the Black Triangle UFO [1] in Duluth, MN about 10 years go. It went from a low altitude hover to a slow glide across the night sky. I was standing almost directly under it in a parking lot. I thought it was a strange pattern of new streetlights for a few moments until it started gliding. Always wondered what that was.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_triangle_(UFO)

jrgoj··on Ask HN: What framework for a cross-platform menu-bar app?
QT is more accessible than you might assume. The QT Designer comes with a number of templates to get you running quickly. Connecting UI elements to backend code is fairly straightforward as well, and you can do much of it using the designer UI itself. Documentation is also pretty great.
jrgoj··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018)
SEEKING WORK

Location: Minneapolis / Saint Paul, MN USA Remote: Yes

Technologies: .Net, C#, Azure, Web API, WPF, WinForms, SQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Javascript, React, Node, much more

Experience: 12 years FTE development experience, leadership roles, consulting services as well

I am looking for contracts up to 10 hours per week.

Resume: Please email me

Email: grjrojo at gmail

jrgoj··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2018)
Location: Minneapolis / Saint Paul, MN USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: .Net, C#, Azure, Web API, SQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Javascript, React, Node, much more

Experience: 12 years FTE development experience, leadership roles, consulting services as well

I am looking for contracts up to 10 hours per week.

Resume: Please email me

Email: grjrojo at gmail

jrgoj··on Spatial – Collaborate from anywhere in AR
He was making a joke. AR == Arkansas
jrgoj··on How some websites know your Google search queries
Interestingly, that setting was turned OFF for me my default because I have uBlock Origin installed.
jrgoj··on Most drivers who own cars with built-in GPS systems use phones for directions
As much as the size, placement, and car integration of my vehicle's (2016 CX-5) dash GPS is ideal, the fact that it cannot display Waze renders it mostly useless for my everyday commuting. Until I can do so via Carplay or Android Auto, I'll be using gaudy cell phone mounts.
jrgoj··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016)
SEEKNG WORK - Minneapolis / St. Paul - Remote OK

Technologies: .Net, C#, Web API, SQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Javascript, React, Node, Azure, much more

Experience: 10 years FTE development experience, leadership roles, consulting services as well

Resume: Please email me

Email: grjrojo at gmail

jrgoj··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)
Location: Minneapolis / Saint Paul, MN USA

Remote: Either, but I prefer a mix

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: .Net, C#, Web API, SQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Javascript, React, Node, Azure, much more

Experience: 10 years FTE development experience, leadership roles, consulting services as well

Resume: Please email me

Email: grjrojo at gmail

jrgoj··on Windows Server 2016: End of One Era, Start of Another
Some of us just prefer it, even without being tethered by other MS dependencies such as Exchange, SQL Server, etc.

Personally, given the choice I would prefer to start a new web API project in .NET because I feel most productive in that environment.

jrgoj··on Announcing Quill 1.0
One editor feature I've been looking for is the ability to lock down a region of text so that the user can drag the region around within the text or add text before/after the text. However, the contents of the region can't be edited nor deleted.
jrgoj··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2016)
Location: Minneapolis / Saint Paul, MN USA

Remote: I prefer a mix

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: .Net, C#, Web API, SQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Javascript, React, Node, Azure, much more

Experience: 10 years FTE development experience, leadership roles, consulting services as well

Resume: Please email me

Email: grjrojo at gmail

jrgoj··on Is fasting good for you? What we know so far
The author went through keto flu, which is a series uncomfortable adjustments your body makes as it transitions from glucose fuel to ketone fuel (ketosis). People who begin ketogenic diets know this well. Fasting feels very similar. The most acute symptom is often "brain fog", which manifests exactly how the author described.

Ketosis takes several days to begin while the body burns through its reserves of glycogen, at which point the symptoms begin, then lasts several days while basic adaptation takes place. Full adaptation to match one's athletic performance while glycogen fueled can take months.

The author didn't even mention the words ketosis nor ketones, so I have to imagine she went into this quite blindly. Once you've gone in and out of ketosis several times, you don't experience flu symptoms nearly as much and sometimes (me) not at all.

For most people a fast starts to feel magical after about day 5, where keto adaption has taken place and the mental habit and craving for food starts to subside. Obviously this will vary from person to person, so maybe the author didn't quite get far enough along to get out of the woods, so to speak.

jrgoj··on Ask HN: Any advice for switching from self-employment back to employee?
How has the self employed market been for you in the Midwest? I am also in the Midwest, taking baby steps towards self employment.
jrgoj··on Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser
> Input: Bison from Buffalo , which bison from Buffalo bully , themselves bully bison from Buffalo . Parse:

   Bison NNP ROOT
    +-- from IN prep
    |   +-- Buffalo NNP pobj
    +-- , , punct
    +-- bison NN ccomp
    |   +-- themselves PRP nsubj
    |   +-- bully RB advmod
    |   +-- from IN prep
    |       +-- Buffalo NNP pobj
    +-- . . punct
jrgoj··on Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser
Now for the buffalo test[1]

`echo 'Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo' | syntaxnet/demo.sh'

   buffalo NN ROOT

   +-- buffalo NN nn

   |   +-- Buffalo NNP nn

   |   |   +-- Buffalo NNP nn

   |   |   +-- buffalo NNP nn

   |   +-- buffalo NN nn

   +-- Buffalo NNP nn

        +-- buffalo NNP nn
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
jrgoj··on AWS Database Migration Service
Great! Let me know how it goes. It will be a couple of days before I can try it. Hopefully I can migrate just the schema and cherry pick some relatively static tables. We'll see.
jrgoj··on AWS Database Migration Service
What are my chances of a relatively successful SQL Server migration with several hundred tables and complex views to PostgreSQL using their migration tool?
jrgoj··on My Reaction to React
One thing that helps me overcome template/boilerplate paralysis is when there are a few sentences for each of the submodules that explain what they do, how they fit into the larger picture, and why they were chosen over similar alternatives.
jrgoj··on Machines, Lost in Translation: The Dream of Universal Understanding
It seems to me that we're still waiting on a breakthrough. FTA:

> "There's no saying where machine translation can go when the electronic brain meets the human one."

The neural networks that we modeled after our brains have recently become much faster, and subject to much more input (training data) thanks to our information age, but has the network fundamentally changed?

I foresee something of a plateau with the current model. Yes, in recent decades we've seen exponential increases in MT accuracy and speed, but it's still missing so much in terms of contextual relevance, and tiny errors/hesitations in human thinking/speaking.

Yes, we can improve the algorithms and input processing speed, but are we really on the brink of a breakthrough of something better? I think that remains to be seen.

jrgoj··on File format wiki
Not Telelingua here. I currently work on a proprietary system. Why do you ask?
jrgoj··on File format wiki
I have not worked with the Translate Toolkit yet, but I'm a little familiar with a few of the tools. I'm always interested in learning or contributing where I can.

I currently work on a proprietary l10n/i18n system, so a lot of what I do is under an NDA. However, I'm slowly gaining traction in moving us, at least in part, to a more open model.

If you let me know your email, I will reach out.

jrgoj··on File format wiki
Thanks for this. I write file parsers for language translation at my day job, so this could be a nice resource to have on hand.