harveynick

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Software engineer, cinephile, bibliophile, foodie and general purpose nerd.

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Comment · 4 months ago
Dude. Apple basically created USB-C.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
It is just for the harness. Using a Mac Mini gives you direct access to Apple services, but also means you can use AppleScript / Apple Events for automation. Being able to run a real (as in not-headless) browser unlocks a bunch of things which otherwise be blocked.
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Looks like the slack invite expired?
Comment · 4 years ago
Lack of scalability. It’s a person checking your transactions for possible fraud, not just an algorithm.
Comment · 4 years ago
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quantitative-Equity-Portfolio-Manag...

Caveat: it’s not exactly “easy reading”, and you might want to have the “three blue one brown” YouTube channel on standby.

Comment · 4 years ago
Your logic seems to be “he doesn’t look like a fitness influencer, therefore he’s not fit and healthy”, and I’m not sure that stacks up. Maybe his goals are not the same as yours, and you shouldn’t conflate them?
Comment · 5 years ago
Good for them, and good for everyone else here who's happy about the switch to remote working. That said: I think I'd almost rather quit than "work from home" indefinitely.

For me I'm not "working from home", I'm "living at the office". I deeply resent that my work has taken over a part of my home. For the record: I love my job. I also really miss working from the same physical space as my colleagues. Meetings which I used to enjoy are now awkward and draining. Lastly: I even miss my commute home in the evening (not so much my morning commute, to be fair). It used to give my 30 minutes in which to decompress and switch my brain out of work mode.

Comment · 5 years ago
If there's a Robin Hobb trilogy you need a break before starting it's this one. It left me a sobbing mess on more than one occasion.
Comment · 5 years ago
The Emperor's Soul is set on the same world as Elantris, though is more or less completely unconnected to it.
Comment · 5 years ago
There's another Sanderson Cosmere book called Warbreaker which crosses over with Stormlight pretty heavily from book 2 onwards (it's also very possibly there are references in book 1 which totally passed me by). You'll definitely have a better handle on why a particular object which shows up in the Stormlight books is so scary if you read Warbreaker first.

Book 4 of Stormlight does have some pretty big references to the original Mistborn trilogy, too.

On the whole I try to read books in the order I bought them (ish), but Sanderson is one of the authors I'll just drop everything for when a new book comes out. Disclaimer: he does have some bad habits (mainly inserting "wise ass" characters who don't fit the tone or setting, and who I strongly suspect carry the author's voice a little _too_ directly). But he does epic world building incredibly well, and very different to just about any other author I've read. He also writes action exceptionally well.

Comment · 5 years ago
This might be the best YouTube rabbit hole I've ever fallen down. Thank you for posting it!

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