ElongatedTowel

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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
That poses the question whether a civilization that is advanced enough to build a dyson sphere would be able to build a second one somewhere else. The species would have enough time to collect energy and improve the machine until no reachab
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
That point is often brought up. But we don't really know how a time-machine could potentially work, so why is teleportation a necessity? If you want to travel to the future you would abuse time delation. While all means to do so pose c
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
My problem with sleep in general is that I need about 8 hours to function and to get the most out of exercise and studies, but I have a much easier time getting up if I'm sleeping only 6 hours or even less. Haven't found a solutio
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Ever seen a graffiti of someones name you can't even decipher on the back of a trash can at the far off bus stop near the forest? It's kind of like that.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
And if I criticize myself, do I make it harder for myself to change?
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I use tabs wherever possible, yes. Though that might change in the future. I'm not sure why spaces are so common in the Python world.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Tabs. But I thought about changing because apparently over 90% of Python developers on GitHub use Spaces. Problem is, for every benefit there is a downside and some of the benefits aren't that interesting to me. Benefits seem to be: 1.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Tabs work fine in Python if you don't mix them with spaces. Or is there a problem with tabs I've never encountered?
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I always used a pseudonym and even change it from time to time. But if I want to have a job in software development, what choice is there? If you can't rely on past experience you have to build something from the ground up. I feel forc
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I entered my address out of curiosity and it told me I had an Adobe account. I can't remember ever creating one so I tried the password reset process. Adobe tells me there doesn't exist an account under that address. How is this p
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
It's kind of a vicious circle. I wouldn't even play videogames (something I enjoy very much) if I had a girlfriend because I would value the relationship and time spend far more. But at the same time it was pretty much impossible
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I guess I was what Japanese people call Hikkikomori (I'm not Japanese though). Pretty much a combination of my parents providing for me and living without any luxuries whatsoever (guitar was borrowed, computer is over 8 years old, no o
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
You're asking for plans, but I'd like to tell you what actually happened for me. As someone who did this in the past for far too long I've seen the darkness that emerges. I'd rate myself 2/10 in terms of willpower a
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I'm using one I wrote myself. I'm not sure if it makes sense to ever release it, seeing that there are already over 9000 more mature generators out there, but I'm trying to solve some problems I've had with others, which
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Ask HN: I have trouble finding the right JS/Canvas solution
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I bought a domain with it. Although I'm not quite fond of the potential traceability. I earned the money by playing poker. In a way someone could link my personal information I had to give up to make the purchase to my poker habits and
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Seems to happen whenever I use locs_around. I think I'll replace that method with my own. Half my robots are guarding because this function is hitting recursion limits every god damn time.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
You can use the selection engine as a standalone. http://sizzlejs.com/
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
"Chances are your OS and nginx can handle more than “ulimit -a” will report, so we’ll set this high so nginx will never have an issue with “too many open files”" If the limit is a hard limit it doesn't really matter what ngin
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I always get a maximum recursion depth exceeded exception in game.py using the rgkit. The exceptions aren't very helpful and only point to problems in the runner, not the bot. I'm not even sure what is triggering it. The only rg m
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I guess the ethical thing would be to inform all people selling iPods the wrong way that their methods are flawed. The second best thing would probably be to give those tips for money.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I thought about freelancing too a while ago, especially because I don't need the money I'm earning and I'd rather work, say, 6 hours a day instead of 8 even if I end up with less. That flexibility is not a given with "no
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
I wondered how expensive their serves actually are. 1 month of reddit gold ($3.99) pays for ~276 server minutes at the moment, or so they say. That's about 0.0145 cent per minute. In a 30 day month there are 43200 minutes. Using these
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
And if you mix both every language that relies on indentation (Python e.g.) throws you a nice warning or even an error.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
What is a good way to pay then? I can't get a normal credit card so I have to make due with a prepaid card. To make it right from the getgo and buying a new domain as well as hosting my alternative idea was: buy domain/mail at nam
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
As a Pythonista Javascript is really strange. Let's combine two arrays with a + b. Wait, why is it now a string? Why did it just create a undefined.jpg when I run filename + '.jpg'? Ah damn, I named it filepath. I guess I che
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
You count how many lines in the chat one has missed, but if you come back to the tab there is no indication where you left off. Might be useful.
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Facing the same problem. The whole US government fear, uncertainty and doubt mess makes me question decisions which probably don't even concern me in the long run. I guess namecheap is about as popular as it gets and most European sell
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
My biggest problem is knowing whether an idea is worth spending time or even possible. Or just parts of it. There is no place to throw in questions like: "I need this in my database but im pretty sure it won't scale, will it? &quo
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by ElongatedTowel 13y ago
It uses a similar build process to what you and I are already used to, so in a way it is indeed easy. Despite that the git version is not something the average user should use. The download link seems to have been fixed so I'll take a

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