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yabbs··on Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard
The first 10m is the hardest. The last 10m is a cakewalk.
yabbs··on No Calls
You're c-suite and you negotiate based on time and materials vs ROI?
yabbs··on NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover: Never used, one previous owner
Dark side of a Hollywood basement
yabbs··on Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio?
I went with a PO box to add a layer, but yeah, ham does provide ample identity surface area.
yabbs··on Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal
Similar idea [1]:

>Engineering mode shuns uncertainty, because uncertainty may involve risk that corresponds to bad surprises. Discovery mode thrives under uncertainty, especially when a rare but beneficial result leads to finding something new, or a reduction of uncertainty in the face of making strategic decisions.

In summary, to understand the distinctions of Discovery and Engineering modes, one needs to have an appreciation for variation and the underlying distribution of outcomes expected while operating in each mode respectively. Without understanding the asymmetry in their outcome distributions, it would be difficult to convey how these work modes are different.

[1] https://jabustyermancom.wordpress.com/tag/discovery-vs-engin...

yabbs··on Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires
"This engagement taught me that a lot of so-called technical problems are in fact rooted in human issues, and those usually come from management."

Oh hey, I didn't see you there. Welcome to earth.

yabbs··on RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R
?

Yes it does.

yabbs··on Ask HN: Which skills are least likely to be replaced by AI?
Creative prosthetics and a VR headset and I'm less confident
yabbs··on R: Introduction to Data Science (2019)
Bayesian stats

Traditional stats

Very fast iteration for data exploration in REPL (vs code or R studio).

Prefer pipeline workflows (Tidyverse/maggrittr).

Prefer functional

Prefer array based.

Prefer 1-indexed arrays (yes there are some of us).

yabbs··on How to Change a System
Shock doctrine. Disaster capitalism. Economic hitman
yabbs··on Japan's Nikkei surpasses 1989 all-time high
They wish they could but they lost their shirts in 08-09 thinking their ATM, I mean houses, would continue to allow them to do nothing and get rich like it had for the prevuois 25 years.

Worst. Generation. Ever.

~disgruntled X

yabbs··on The Pleasure of Pattern
>What is the evolutionary advantage of being able to match abstract patterns? Assuming it increases evolutionary fitness, what is the cost of it that kept it from becoming universal?

Likely there is a tension between over- and under-fitting, with behavioral and evolutionary tuning always in flux as conditions change.

yabbs··on Researchers taking on fraudulent science
Economics <cough>
yabbs··on Why Hierarchy Is Fragile and Anarchy Is Antifragile
Tell my kids that
yabbs··on LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too
I aspire to this...

And...

How do you connect with employers, employees, look up companies, jobs, etc.?

yabbs··on Julia 1.10
I think you mean Julia is on par with LuaJIT? ..maybe exceeds?
yabbs··on Preparedness Framework
Preparedness should be driven by the precautionary principle in existential domains. Acting on facts may mean lagging behind points where prudence should be exercised.
yabbs··on Mechanical Watch (2022)
I've had spring bars break twice with the Leek. Replacement parts were sent for free!
yabbs··on Vermont May Be the Face of a Long-Term U.S. Labor Shortage
Vermont may be the face of a long term US wage shortage

...fair's fair in supply and demand. Oh, NY times, never mind.

yabbs··on CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic
2 planes, 3 buildings.

Hack those numbers.

yabbs··on Ask HN: Lessons learned from implementing user-facing analytics / dashboards?
It's my experience that you get easier, faster or better. Choose any 1, rarely 2, never 3.
yabbs··on Homebrew Website Club
Love the sparkline next to number of posts.
yabbs··on 9/11 in Realtime
What about the part where afghan, I mean Iraqi, I mean Saudi passports come fluttering down.

22 year old long con.

yabbs··on The worst programmer I know
Stories like this happened is because managers
yabbs··on Shocks to the system: Don DeLillo’s novels of the cold war and its aftermath
Throw in Joan Didion (e.g. Play it as it lays, Slouching towards..) to flesh this out even further.
yabbs··on None of us are truly living off the grid
They want to live in a world with severe consequences.... A world to make up for the last 70 years.
yabbs··on Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
I couldn't finish it
yabbs··on Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow
Applebee's... Does not compute.
yabbs··on What Is Radio Spectrum?
One place to start peeling the onion is amature radio. In the US, see: https://www.arrl.org/

Introduction to spectrum, freq allocation (bands) and modes.