6502nerdface

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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of Leonard Read's classic essay, "I, pencil" [1] about the many thousands of hands that make a simple pencil, all guided by local decisions and price signals, without a single mastermind. [1] https:&#
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
Fun, irrelevant fact: William Tecumseh Fitch is a direct descendant of General William Tecumseh Sherman of the US Civil War.
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
My favorite 2D liquid simulator is this IOCCC2012 submission [1]... simply astonishing. That is the source file shown at the beginning of the video... it compiles without warnings, runs a full blown fluid dynamics sim with surface tension a
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
It is kind of BS though that someone who simply steals your phone and passcode can, with nothing else, completely lock you and all of your other devices out of your iCloud account (including photos and documents) for the rest of your life w
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
Use the archive link posted elsewhere in this thread to read it. What makes this notable is that the thief can change your AppleID/iCloud password knowing only your passcode and nothing else . Once they do that they own you complete
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
The iPhone "feature" referenced by the headline is that you can change the AppleID's password knowing only the phone's passcode; no need to enter old password, no 2FA (technically having phone + passcode is 2FA accordi
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
I'm curious what mitigations against this people would suggest. - Using a very long passcode? (Harder to shoulder surf) - Using a third-party password manager instead of keychain (something with its own master password independent of A
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
The Journal also ran a lovely obituary of him earlier this month: https://wsj.com/articles/blind-software-engineer-expanded-ac...
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
> assuming it's even real. Sir or Madam, you question my good faith!
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
Well, I guess all I mean to highlight is that a blanket ban might be sub-optimal versus requiring some minimum bar of fairness and consideration of noncompetes. After all, if the situation outlined above seems fair to us, then I feel like w
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
> non-competes should be banned, yes. I like my non-compete. I'm a highly paid professional with rare skills/experience, I negotiated hard on my employment contract with multiple rounds of edits in consultation with my employme
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
Also available for purchase in print from the official ANSI store: http://global.ihs.com/doc_detail.cfm?currency_code=USD&custo...
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American Standard Safety Code and Requirements for Dry Martinis (1966) [pdf](acbcert.com)
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I, Pencil (1958)(fee.org)
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
The documentation is still very much in progress, but I thought I'd share this library/DSL that I've been working on, which is inspired by my experiences in academia and quant finance, as well as a desire to improve on scikit
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Show HN: Frankenfit, a Python-based DSL for predictive data modeling pipelines(maxbane.github.io)
2 points by 6502nerdface 4y ago|1 comments
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
Mostly they're just cool as works of art :). Still lifes with skulls and such.
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
Personally, I hang a "memento mori" near every mirror in the house, to remind him who would regard himself that what he sees will one day inevitably return to the earth.
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
It's going to be like those scenes in Star Trek: TNG when they give instructions to the holodeck.
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
I really highly recommend Robert Hazen's _Story of Earth_ [1] if you're into this sort of stuff. Highly knowledgeable and entertaining geologist argues that the geosphere and the biosphere should really be viewed as one co-evolvin
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
I absolutely love how in the YouTube demo (on the github page) he makes a point of enabling 1080p playback :-)
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
As employed so hauntingly by Jake Thackray in "Molly Metcalfe": https://youtu.be/TiXINuf5nbI
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
https://archive.ph/AoOno
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We tried to run a social media site and it was awful(ft.com)
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US Army Corps of Engineers 2023 Cat Calendar(usace.contentdm.oclc.org)
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The Westinghouse Time Capsules(en.wikipedia.org)
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
The English word is pedantry, not pedanticism.
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
> Honestly, I got no problems with the rats. They're kinda cute actually. Wait, are you the one posting all these pro-rat posters? [1] [1] https://ibb.co/CV0CWcm
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
It's perhaps worth mentioning the smaller and more liberally licensed editline library if you want to embed the same line-editing functionality in your own CLI. It's been used in non-GNU Unixes for decades. https://tr
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
Yes :). I'm just saying that it could theoretically be done properly in a way that addresses GP's criticisms, but it would be impractical.

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