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This is so cool

As a history nerd and jaded software developer, I've been wondering a lot lately how I can use my tech skills for archeological research. Is there any way for someone with most of a bachelors to get into this kind of thing?

Thank you, this is just what I was looking for!

This sounds like super interesting and meaningful work. Are you hiring, or do you have any advice for your average software engineer on getting into this space?

I played the game in this picture at the pinball museum in vegas. One lever operates the rear fan and the other operates the bottom fan. It was a lot of fun for an analog arcade game.

I returned to the museum a few years ago and it was no longer working. I hope they fix it one day.

I went there around 8 years ago at their old location, then last year at their new location. Many more machines were disabled last year. I get the impression that the guy running it is very old and maybe is unable to keep up on maintenance.

It's a shame, the place has many old games beyond pinball and is truly a museum of gaming. If you get the chance, support them. I hope someone takes up the torch.

The limit in your examples is more time than language. Ample language could exist to describe a sunset. Language is extremely flexible and good poets constantly find ways to make words describe deeper and deeper concepts. The problem is that you could spend a hundred years expressing your thoughts of a sunset and only scratch the surface.

Your argument seems similar to saying that infinite numbers are "so ridiculous it verges on not even being worthy of being called unfalsifiable" because you can't count that high.

Related question, how's the SW contracting market right now? Been thinking about quitting my full time and picking up jobs here and there as my expenses are very low.

Location: Michigan or Colorado, USA Remote: Preferred, 5+ years experience Willing to relocate: For the right gig Technologies: iOs, Android, DSP, Raspi, Docker, CI, etc Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OwcrOrnIupPwYYZn_UAoiDe4... Email: popctrl@gmail.com

I'm currently employed at a really cool place, but I'm looking for work more aligned with my interests: farming, water conservation, crunchy scientific stuff, things that actually help people, medicinal mushrooms.

The short version of my resume is: I have a lot of experience with mobile app development, hardware like arduino and raspberry pi, and backend stuff related to apps and websites. Light experience with DSP, web apps, QA, UX, and a million other things. I've also presented at a number of conferences and customer meetings, so I'm comfortable with that kind of thing.

I've seen this asked on social media platforms and I'll admit ignorance on the matter, but this seems like a place to get better analysis.

What does it really mean when inflation is going crazy, but also many businesses are making really absurd, record profits? Is that a normal occurrence in periods of high inflation? It really feels more like price gouging than inflation to me, but like I said, I'm ignorant about economics.

How much inflation can be explained by the changes in the labor pool and government spending, compared to companies just charging more and hoarding more?

I guess it depends whether OP made their service as startup looking for a great exit, or a passion project based on their hobby that got extended to their friends.

I noticed something last night watching a live stream of Kyiv.

A lot of accounts were posting the comment '/cam2', with others implying something was happening on cam2. Others were saying that the cam thing was fake. I kind of thought it was a way to find out who was watching the video, since obviously youtube chat isn't going to change the video angle...And now I think that's exactly what it was, for this exact purpose.

One thing is clear, and it's very scary in light of all the NATO press conferences where people are asking if a cyber attack constitutes an act of war: There is a massive war happening on the internet right now. Reps are reluctant to respond to these questions because it's clear that total cyber war has been going on for years.

This is an interesting perspective. I feel like a frog in a pot of boiling water, the discourse in my life is just getting gradually worse and most of the media is happy to gaslight people into thinking...Well, anything that gets a click. I'd be interested to hear any more of your perspective.

This reminds me of something about flash games in the 2000s. I was in high school at the time and every morning in class I would check onemorelevel, kongregate, etc for new games. There was a pattern in flash games where someone would make a great simple game with an interesting, novel, or long-forgotten mechanic. It would get to the frontpage of all these sites, and a few months later you'd see that mechanic mixed with every other popular flash game mechanic. It was really cool to see a community of creative people embrace an idea and then beat it to death in a short period of time. I think in a lot of other creative genres, this kind of "copying your idea but a twist" is seen as poor form, plagiarism, or derivative. Maybe the flash game community was low enough stakes that it welcomed that kind of community engagement. I wonder what the people actually making the games thought.

Anyway, this is a really cool example of that. It's wordle, but with a twist.

I have experience with physical eurorack modular synths, visual sound programming tools (VCV rack, Max, audioweaver), and DSP programming (Supercollider, Matlab). I think the simulated wires paradigm IS the best one...for someone who doesn't want to learn at least programming and probably also matrix algebra. In my experience, sound code is generally a LOT of ugly boilerplate code surrounding a few really brilliant lines of code that require years of education to understand. But in a code-based version of VCV rack, the brilliant code would all be inside some object.

You're essentially dealing with connected one-directional graphs of arbitrary complexity. Feedback loops are required for the eurorack experience. That's pretty easy to lay out visually, but I haven't seen good ways of laying it out in code. There's room for innovation here; Someone in the programming world has a more intuitive, more informative way of visualizing data in a graph that could be adapted into DAW paradigms.

The idea that zero was "invented" at a certain time by recent humans and not in use until then has always seemed absolutely absurd to me. I will admit I haven't read deeply into it, but there's just no way people didn't have a concept for "none of a thing" until a couple millennia ago.

One of the justifications used for this reasoning is "You don't go to the market and buy 0 fish". But all that tells us is: There's no reason to record buying 0 fish or owning 0 acres of land. Another justification given is the difficulty children experience with 0 - but we don't teach children to start counting with 0, so it makes sense that they would get tripped up there.

I guess the argument sometimes seems to be that we didn't have a symbol for 0, and that this was somehow more confusing to adopt than other symbols? But if that's the case, then isn't claiming any culture "invented" zero the same as claiming a culture "invented" any concept they came up with a word for?

I'd love to hear all the reasons I am wrong and stupid.

I have chronic back pain due to a disease which went undiagnosed for most of my life.

I understand that this comment is made in good faith and with the best of intents, but I loathe getting this kind of advice. I'm not trying to be a dick, I just want to let you know that this advice is extremely frustrating for a lot of people suffering from back pain. ESPECIALLY "you look young and healthy"...Yea thanks, I'll probably still look young when I'm in a wheelchair.

PS If your back hurts and your doctor doesn't seem to believe you or care, get a new doctor.

I grew up outside of Detroit, MI. Talking to strangers does not seem like much of a thing there. The first time I spent more than a week outside of Michigan was in Oklahoma. I would be walking down the street and people would not just say hello but ask me how I was doing and then actually listen and make conversation. At first I thought they were trying to scam me or something. When they'd approach, I would step back, take a mental inventory of my pockets, and evaluate my surroundings. Eventually I realized they were just being friendly!

People may have a different experience if they are more extroverted, but some places really are friendlier than others.

I was in the same place a couple years ago. It's too bad DSP is not more well-known, as I definitely would have chosen to study DSP over Software Engineering in college (Having already known how to program)

So does the fact that so many people know about and despise Shkreli mean that the jury selection process will select for people who are less informed or don't reflect the values of the general population (Or just people who are willing to lie about their ability to be impartial)? Is there a term for this, or how is this accounted for in the process?

"The officers involved in the operation were suspended with pay" So they made a pothead buy coke and guns and get murdered, and got punished with a paid vacation...

In regards to hardcore, I think it should be placed on the border between metal and punk, much like crossover.

Also Black Metal's strongest ancestor is arguably crust & d-beat, which is not shown (And crust/d-beat falls on the line along with hardcore)

But go to a hardcore show and it will be pretty clear who the metal kids are and who the crusties are!

"We’re still in the process of soliciting input from stakeholders and hope to have final language ready soon." Who are stakeholders in this context?

Wait, I'm confused...Maybe I'm not reading this right?

Some white kids perform in loin clothes and the university defends it as free speech.

Some dick prints a bunch of racist fliers, and the university takes action to block any more from being printed.

Then we get this: “When it was happening to black students, it was a matter of free speech,” he said. “Now that it’s happening to white, Jewish students, it’s something else. There seems to be no conflation of hate speech and free speech now.”

How is it racist for the school to stop neo-nazi fliers from being printed? What was "happening to black students" when some white guys danced in loin clothes? I hope I'm reading this wrong...I don't want the world to be this stupid.

I was going to suggest that this page was meant to serve as a warrant canary but it looks like Apple had a warrant canary but it's gone now (Explanation of a warrant canary for the uninitiated in link): http://apple.slashdot.org/story/14/09/18/2216222/apples-warr...

Hey neat, my favorite number is on HN!

Here's an interesting video showing this stuff (And more) in a more user-friendly way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlaUalgxqI

1. Make the collar hijack any wifi devices it can and use their CPUs to mine dogecoin

2. Use earnings to create more collars, attaching them to stray dogs

3. Revel in your stray doge empire

The problem is that SO puts so much weight on points...I had to spend about two months just answering questions in order to have the rights to get any help, before I found out that I just need to say something popular without any real content to get all the points I need.

I'm not bitter that I got rid of a hard drive with 20 $1 bitcoins that I got for free...No not bitter at all