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New comment by sgdread in "Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas (2016)"

sgdread — Wed, 29 May 2024 22:11:21 +0000

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 at TA/Professor job when grinding through math-heavy parts: asking intuitively explain things do wonders. And you can also ask lots of stupid questions to understand things.

New comment by sgdread in "The forced return to the office is the definition of insanity"

sgdread — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:59:26 +0000

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

New comment by sgdread in "My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot"

sgdread — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 23:40:12 +0000

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't burn until the first spark is created.

New comment by sgdread in "Incremental note-taking"

sgdread — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 01:11:21 +0000

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.

New comment by sgdread in "JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI"

sgdread — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:30:25 +0000

DeOldify [1] by Jason Antic got really good results with old photos and movies colorization.

[1] https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify

New comment by sgdread in "Is a Dataframe Just a Table? (2019) [pdf]"

sgdread — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 22:06:09 +0000

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

New comment by sgdread in "Apple Watch Series 5"

sgdread — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 22:21:16 +0000

oura ring fills this use case.

New comment by sgdread in "On Software Tooling"

sgdread — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:41:56 +0000

Problem statement first.

New comment by sgdread in "Ask HN: How did you find your passion?"

sgdread — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 15:38:36 +0000

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 skills. Once you got mastery, you might actually like it.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...

edit: formatting

New comment by sgdread in "Equifax statement regarding extent of security incident announced Sep 7 2017"

sgdread — Tue, 08 May 2018 18:45:49 +0000

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 good article on the process placing a freeze on your file [1]

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/how-i-learned-to-stop-wo...

New comment by sgdread in "Ask HN: How do you reduce unsolicited phone calls?"

sgdread — Wed, 02 May 2018 17:35:55 +0000

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 time to propagate this information to callers)

3) Start reporting unwanted calls via link above

I have not received a single telemarketer call over a year since I started doing that.

FTC is also very good at dealing with collection agency calls if you are not the person they are trying to reach. I received personal apologies from ERC after filing complaint through FTC website.

New comment by sgdread in "Show HN: A search engine that doesn't track you, where users vote for results"

sgdread — Wed, 02 May 2018 17:25:53 +0000

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 downvote all the competitors?

New comment by sgdread in "Ask HN: What's your 'Why should i hire you?' response?"

sgdread — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:09:55 +0000

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 for me because ... , so I reached you. I assume, you are looking for is a qualified candidate who can do the job described. I saw the requirements and, I believe, I am qualified candidate. If you are not convinced yet, how can I change your mind?"...

New comment by sgdread in "What are the complex numbers, really?"

sgdread — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:10:21 +0000

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 you understand why complex numbers used in AC: lots of folks never bother to explain that it's just the best way to describe rotation.

New comment by sgdread in "We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change"

sgdread — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:20:21 +0000

> They did aggregate up until this point

Still an issue if most people support 1-2 creators with $1-2 pledges.

New comment by sgdread in "We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change"

sgdread — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:00:01 +0000

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 transparent why this has to be this way).

New comment by sgdread in "We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change"

sgdread — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:32:45 +0000

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 way: they can introduce wallets for $1-2 patrons: put $10 in a single transaction, then charge the wallet once it is a time to pay to creator. This should aggregate small transactions into larger ones and significantly cut the costs.

New comment by sgdread in "MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill"

sgdread — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 21:41:58 +0000

FTC complaints works great too.

New comment by sgdread in "SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street"

sgdread — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 19:28:28 +0000

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 30% of NY population is using mass transit for commutes. SF is just 15% [1]. And in most areas in the country you can't go and buy some food if you have no car: there is not even a sidewalk, not to mention public transportation. So what you are proposing is to additional burden for the majory of the population for "storing their property" without providing any alternative.

Edit: who pays majority of taxes for road use? It's car owners. You have cheap buses only because car owners paid majority of the bills for road network maintenance and development.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_transit_in_the_United_Sta... [2] https://taxfoundation.org/state-gasoline-tax-rates-2017/

New comment by sgdread in "SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street"

sgdread — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:59:13 +0000

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, repair shops for those etc?