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lawlorino commented on What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?   abitmighty.com/posts/the-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
taherchhabra · a month ago
At my ex employer, every employee had an hourly rate in the system, I had thought of pulling the rates from the internal system into Microsoft teams, to display the cost of every meeting.
lawlorino · a month ago
I like this. To add: It serves as a strict lower bound, since it doesn’t account for the hidden cost of context switching etc.
lawlorino commented on Window cleaner in quest to confirm priceless Shakespeare portrait   bbc.com/news/articles/c5y... · Posted by u/rmason
bazoom42 · 5 months ago
The article does not make it clear why they think the portrait depicts Shakespeare. I guess you have to watch the tv show for that information?

It talks about comparison to other portraits of Shakespeare, but as far as I know there are no depictions of Shakespeare confirmed to have been made in his lifetime.

lawlorino · 5 months ago
Agreed it's not clear from the article, but I think the reason is the similarity to an engraving called the Droeshout portrait [0]

> It is one of only two works of art definitively identifiable as a depiction of the poet

> ... commentators have used the Droeshout print as a standard by which to judge other portraits alleged to depict Shakespeare.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droeshout_portrait

lawlorino commented on ReMarkable Paper Pro   remarkable.com/... · Posted by u/buro9
lawlorino · a year ago
I noticed when reading through user reviews for the remarkable 2 that I can find several that are pretty critical of the product, but the rating of the reviewer is apparently 5 stars. https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2#user-reviews
lawlorino commented on Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab   bandmatch.app... · Posted by u/pg5
pg5 · a year ago
I didn't want to release the app without proper translations for the target countries. FYI - I haven't yet implemented the feature to toggle off "local-only" artists.
lawlorino · a year ago
IMO English only is better than nothing, support can always be added later. I live in Finland and guess the probability of translation to Finnish is somewhere on the order of 0.1%. It’s also not really needed since a large majority of people here under the age of 50 speak English pretty well.
lawlorino commented on AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life    · Posted by u/dvgrn
lawlorino · a year ago
I discovered Langton ants and Turmites a couple of months ago, I guess these are a subset of cellular automata. I was talking with a friend about using them somehow for art somehow (music generation came to mind), is this a topic you might know about and could recommend some resources to get started?
lawlorino commented on I am Neal Stephenson, sci-fi author, geek, and now, sword maker – AMA   old.reddit.com/r/books/co... · Posted by u/consumer451
nestorD · 2 years ago
I have heard Neil Gaiman say something similar. Writing by hand is slower and you end up having to type it which pushes you toward cutting things down and streamlining the prose.
lawlorino · 2 years ago
This is pretty interesting, I've noticed I find it easier to recall information if I've written it down by hand instead of typing it on a computer. I wonder if it's a similar mechanism to what Neil and Neal find with writing - it means the thing you want to express spends longer in the brain's buffer and this leads to several benefits at the cost of it being slower.

Probably goes without saying I might be talking out of my arse here but it's interesting to think about.

lawlorino commented on Showering at the South Pole   brr.fyi/posts/showering-a... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer
lawlorino · 3 years ago
Quite enjoyed the writing and it’s a fun topic to think about.

Would doing a daily “submarine shower” [0] be the best strategy here for maximising cleanliness? This would be use fifteen seconds with water on to get as wet as possible all over, turn water off and apply soap and shampoo, then water on for the last 15 seconds. (Note I’ve never actually tried this so ymmv)

[0] https://sketchplanations.com/submarine-shower

lawlorino commented on Ask HN: Which courses (online or not) have had the greatest impact on you?    · Posted by u/debanjan16
lawlorino · 3 years ago
Took Andrew Ng’s machine learning course on Coursera back around 2015 as my first taste of machine learning.

I was studying for my PhD in Physics at the time and didn’t know what to do with myself with graduation only a year or so away. I was fascinated by the whole machine learning topic and got me interested in learning more - looking back it was the gateway to my data scientist career, which I’m still doing 8 years and 3 countries later.

I think I got quite lucky that this was around the time that data science was becoming a hot topic in industry, but there were very few qualifications in it (sorry statisticians) so people like me with STEM PhDs and relatively little training could go straight into a job from graduation (with varying results)

lawlorino commented on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?    · Posted by u/coreyhn
forinti · 3 years ago
I was in my late 30s when I found out I didn't have to peel kiwis (I love kiwis). It doesn't really affect the taste to just eat them unpeeled.
lawlorino · 3 years ago
Same with ginger root as well
lawlorino commented on Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?    · Posted by u/paulgb
lawlorino · 3 years ago
https://github.com/jameslawlor/reddit-playlists

I made a bot last summer to generate and update weekly Spotify playlists from 100 or so music subreddits based on the top submissions of that week. Update operates entirely through a GitHub action so no resource spending.

I don’t often finish my side projects so was pretty happy to have something finally usable and shareable, it’s been fun showing friends!

u/lawlorino

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