AKrumbach

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by AKrumbach 5y ago
I wish I could take full credit for this, but I'm paraphrasing Andrew Plotkin (developer for the Inform text-adventure programming language): Steam machines failed because they tried to replace Windows with a worse user experience. In
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by AKrumbach 6y ago
or as seen on Twitter[1]: "Every January: One month hiatus from work, and I could finally publish my draft of the next bestselling novel April 2020: Today I alphabetized the jelly beans" 1: not a reference to any specific tweet, j
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by AKrumbach 7y ago
No; if you look at an old rotary phone, you're counting the number of finger holes in order to determine pulses. To dial a 0, pulse the line 10 times.
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by AKrumbach 7y ago
> But I do not at all understand the enmity some nerds have for non-replaceable batteries. Devices exist on a repairability spectrum, from the industrial appliance which is delivered with full electric schematics and every part stamped w
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by AKrumbach 7y ago
> There isn't one game, there are infinitely many, and different people will have success at different games. But there is also the meta-game: The game of being able to win the highest variety and largest amount of different games.
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by AKrumbach 7y ago
No math proof, but I'd favor a cluster strategy as being faster to force a (partial) solution to existing clues.
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by AKrumbach 7y ago
> If the author means literally everyone dead, planet gone, then obviously it won't be "apocalyptic", but the science is suggesting it's likely to be really bad. No, the science doesn't imply that climate change
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by AKrumbach 7y ago
>> Apple : "The icon appears for system services that do not have a switch in Settings" > ... If Location Service is enable, these services will have access to them ... > The Author seems to miss the fact that the unkn
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by AKrumbach 7y ago
Also not in this thread until now, but two thoughts: First: A car can be "the means of production", if you're a driver for Uber/Lyft. Second: the issue I understand is that this website isn't letting one person ta
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by AKrumbach 7y ago
I'd be even more specific than that: understanding the transformation to turn a looping function into a recursive one is the key gateway into being able to comprehend code which uses advanced call-stack manipulation patterns, such as c
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by AKrumbach 7y ago
Well, that isn't the only bug in the code, just the one which is being requested for prompting the warning. It's been about a decade since I've written significant C/C++ code, but something far more dangerous stood out t
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by AKrumbach 7y ago
A search on Google turns up this Common Lisp code, which appears to define a number of SI units (both base and derived) in the sort of manner described. http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/knowledge-sharing/lib/unit-conve.
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by AKrumbach 8y ago
Well, for a SNES/NES/Atari/Genesis/etc. classic device, the issue might not be getting ROM images but doing so legally . Sure, I could find a torrent containing the entire NES+SNES library for making retro-Pi... but tha
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by AKrumbach 8y ago
It's not the form factor but the official FAQ page that really makes me think this is a RPi+UI, especially when the last question/answer pair is: > Can’t I just buy a Raspberry Pi, an enclosure, gamepad, keyboard, and mouse, 3D
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by AKrumbach 8y ago
Came into the comments to find this, and I'm going to expand on your description: I feel like quicksort isn't [uniquely] beautiful except when used alongside bubble sort to explain computational complexity (both big-O "worst
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by AKrumbach 8y ago
By your logic, a labor union "strike" must also be extremely ineffective. (They require massive coordination and go against each individual's incentive to work.) Yet they do work, and we don't call labor unions "gov
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by AKrumbach 8y ago
This argument seems to subtly imply that the only efficacious means to "level an uneven playing field" is government regulation, and not some other, non-government process such as boycotts. Government regulation is, ultimately, on
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by AKrumbach 8y ago
No, that's my first initial and last name (A Krumbach). Anyway, "puzzle" is now available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KYDTZ2AVWQfWCSACUvfl5gAIHzA... If I counted correctly, you should be abl
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by AKrumbach 8y ago
I'm at work right now, but give me a day and I will design that.
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by AKrumbach 8y ago
Which would be to say for fluency, the proof is in the punning.
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by AKrumbach 9y ago
I don't know about "won't have a clue what macros are capable of before..." -- there are quite a few use cases for macros which can be described easily to any programmer, even those who never used Lisp. I would like to
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by AKrumbach 9y ago
> Which makes me ask the question: do you, gentle Hacker News reader, really want diversity of opinion and why? I speak only for myself, but the answer is an absolute, complete and emphatic YES. The reason is quite simple: in all of huma
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by AKrumbach 9y ago
Yep, three years' worth apparently! (Would have been nice to have a [2014] tag in the original title.)
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by AKrumbach 9y ago
"You will have to forgive me when I cannot fathom how actively meddling with a complex system, which requires a substantial investment by our species in terms of scientists, research departments, universities, government offices - is g
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by AKrumbach 10y ago
> Trump won't do what's needed which is the one thing that will ultimately set the country on the right course: abandon capitalism. If we abandon capitalism, what alternative do you believe we should adopt instead?
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by AKrumbach 10y ago
> [T]here's a point when a politician is advocating for something so egregious that supporting said politician can no longer be ignored. There are no words by which I can be sufficiently emphatic in my disagreement. Politics [whethe
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by AKrumbach 10y ago
> Sam Altman and PG have both been very vocal in their denouncement of Trump, so keeping Thiel as a partner seems incongruous at best, and down right spineless at worst. You may have to clarify this for me, because it sounds as if you be
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by AKrumbach 10y ago
Came here to give the same answer. Between "Future of Programming" and the Mother of All Demos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY ) I find it mindbogglingly depressing that it feels so much like the entir
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by AKrumbach 10y ago
> I found it kind of funny that the author's big conclusion was less state-directed action, leaning on the thought that somehow the economy will work out for everyone... The original undirected market [that is: the natural environme
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by AKrumbach 10y ago
The induction hypothesis is a process in mathematics which assumes a formula for P(n) which is true, then uses this assumption and the problem definition to prove the case P(n+1). As a concrete example, take the formula for the sum of integ

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