Posts by drewfer@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #9t8XK2m8Zkog41nFoW by drewfer@qoto.org
2020-03-18T16:08:41Z
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It appears I've been exposed via a friend who came over to the house. So, today is my first day of self-imposed quarantine. So far I can't log in to my work account remotely and am waiting on IT to call back with suggestions. While I wait I've made myself some real oatmeal for the first time in years. I might even get a little yard work done and start on a woodworking project. It's amazing that once you are forced to deal directly with the scary thing a lot of the anxiety just goes away.
(DIR) Post #9t8ZDs5Xb3qB5c3OkK by drewfer@qoto.org
2020-03-18T16:30:24Z
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@realcaseyrollins Appreciated. I'm not in a high risk category so I'm betting the net outcome of this situation is a shorter home improvement list and hopefully being a bit better at guitar.đ
(DIR) Post #9vU0vvbvj5W7mhKB8K by drewfer@qoto.org
2020-05-27T20:29:48Z
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@MutoShack @freemo @nyetoots I started out in Zoology and then moved into a MS in CS later in my career. The advice @freemo is giving is solid. Anyone with a decent logical mind can do well at the practice of programming (writing good code, working with other developers, etc) but you'll be limited on the design side without brushing up on your math. If you've made it through Cal2 then you should have a strong enough grounding to pick most of the other stuff up. Discrete math and Linear Algebre would be good courses to look for online as supplements.SCIP is a very good intro book but TAoCS is extremely dense and you'll most likely miss most of the nuance without the equivalent of an intro to algorithms course.
(DIR) Post #9vU2j7iLc8wdSzLeGO by drewfer@qoto.org
2020-05-27T20:51:08Z
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@nyetoots @MutoShack @freemo "[Computer science] is not really about computers -- and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes...and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments. Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments: when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use." - Hal Ableson (author of SICP).SICP will show you how CS people 'think' about programming problems and teach you your first language (a semi-toy language, useful for instruction) so it's a great first book. I haven't read the Concrete Math book so I can't really comment on it but I'd definitely encourage you to seek out a good algorithms course after that. I think Harvard has some free courses online. Then you'll want to learn a very high level language like Python for general applications. After that, what tools you learn will be more specific to what you want to end up doing.
(DIR) Post #9veOYaEOJlBm0gikZE by drewfer@qoto.org
2020-06-01T20:44:54Z
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@freemo any interest in setting up a QOTO instance of Lemmy?http://dev.lemmy.ml
(DIR) Post #9veSnbKEvmCXZ3sBA8 by drewfer@qoto.org
2020-06-01T21:33:18Z
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@freemo @dakara it's federated thought, so we could pull in content from other instances.
(DIR) Post #9z2mMYZqqcYr8anQJ6 by drewfer@qoto.org
2019-06-28T22:09:32Z
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@mngrif like muttrc.vim? https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1479
(DIR) Post #A1H0XY9lasaALMsom8 by drewfer@qoto.org
2020-11-17T01:10:37Z
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@freemo where do you get your stock data?
(DIR) Post #A1H2Namt9mkLW3YtJg by drewfer@qoto.org
2020-11-17T01:31:18Z
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@freemo are you scraping or do they have api's available?
(DIR) Post #A1LJgXz7MgOgg40PL6 by drewfer@qoto.org
2020-11-19T03:04:11Z
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@freemo @2ck how did the trading go today?
(DIR) Post #A1M9Hdd6R3JyYt9U4e by drewfer@qoto.org
2020-11-19T12:42:18Z
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@freemo @2ck sure!
(DIR) Post #AXUndTG0Y4pXgnOgMq by drewfer@qoto.org
2023-07-08T20:39:36Z
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@freemo I prefer the 2:2:4
(DIR) Post #AXgaDKHXNc2T7dZqlM by drewfer@qoto.org
2023-07-14T13:05:43Z
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@freemo the difference is from technological advances in metallurgy and the change from black powder to modern smokeless powders Modern ammunition designs just don't need anywhere near the same amount of case capacity to generate the same amount (or more) energy.The .38 vs 9mm is a good example as they have roughly the same diameter bullet but the 9mm has almost ~30% more energy despite being ~30% shorter overall.
(DIR) Post #AXhOF7Tyvwp9iHRl7Q by drewfer@qoto.org
2023-07-14T22:26:20Z
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@freemo @SteelFolk It's more about the casing, chamber, and barrel of the gun itself, not the bullet.The Army's most recent iteration of the standard issue rifle (SIG Spear) has a specially designed steel & brass case to help handle the overall pressures that the propellant generates. My understanding is that the new bi-metal construction was needed to ramp up the bullet performance but keep it within the pre-existing overall cartridge length requirements. Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.277_Fury
(DIR) Post #AXte2oT6fGqyWtLMrA by drewfer@qoto.org
2023-07-20T20:19:54Z
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@freemo how did you manage that?
(DIR) Post #AXtfqeGmxP3tKeuRKy by drewfer@qoto.org
2023-07-20T20:40:06Z
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@freemo well, now you can hang all sorts of things off your barrel without needing a rail :)
(DIR) Post #AY4WCXtCdQ744quUCW by drewfer@qoto.org
2023-07-26T02:13:51Z
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@freemo The muzzle break should help significant with follow up shots considering the amount of barrel roll you get on a 1911 platform.Do you do time drills? You should be able to see a difference in score.
(DIR) Post #AY4Wj3AvqkZYNLhb5U by drewfer@qoto.org
2023-07-26T02:19:44Z
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@freemo The muzzle break should help significantly with follow up shots considering the amount of barrel roll you get on a 1911 platform.Do you do time drills? You should be able to see a difference in score.
(DIR) Post #AY4WkXQiqhrsUxnVTM by drewfer@qoto.org
2023-07-26T02:20:00Z
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@freemo The muzzle break should help significantly with follow up shots considering the amount of barrel roll you get on a 1911 platform.Do you do timed drills? You should be able to see a difference in score.
(DIR) Post #AaVnXVjdaWdTbDVZxo by drewfer@qoto.org
2023-10-07T01:49:32Z
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@freemo late to the party, but I hope you went high sheen. Flex nibs love the sheen. What inks do you have?