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by IHLayman 4y ago
It is also possible to trisect an angle using paper folding too: https://plus.maths.org/content/trisecting-angle-origami Paper folding is incredibly powerful.
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by IHLayman 4y ago
But it’s probably not ASCII but rather scancodes, which definitely use the MSB for special keys such as function keys, scroll lock, caps lock, and other chorded combinations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scancode
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by IHLayman 4y ago
I think it is harder than just blowing them with air… different plastics have to be recycled in different ways. The number in the recycle arrows tells you what it is and how (or if) you can recycle it (see https://www.thoughtco.c
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by IHLayman 4y ago
I would say definitely look at the “Gilded Age” of banking in the US. History may not repeat but it sure rhymes. https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/banking-panics-...
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by IHLayman 4y ago
Thank you for posting this. I know that is expressed most succinctly with an upvote, but I wanted to reiterate, because you were able to express something I wasn’t able to quite put my finger on but have felt for a long time. I was hoping t
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by IHLayman 4y ago
I work for a Japanese company from the east coast, and I can tell you from personal experience that latency matters and that you can't beat the speed of light. 1 light millisecond is about 186 miles. Communicate with a server halfway a
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by IHLayman 4y ago
The problem is that not everyone has the same neighbors. If everyone gave what they could to their neighbors, then people in poorer neighborhoods would still be worse off. Maybe you are speaking more in the abstract, but I think it is impor
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by IHLayman 5y ago
Let me preface with the fact that I loved both games in their different ways. While I understand your critique for the Witness being “plotless”, I found it a bit less depressing than the plot for Talos, which actually made Talos drag for me
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by IHLayman 5y ago
>> Our ever increasing population and consumption will cause the price of energy and materials to increase as the low-hanging fruit is picked. > This appears to be wrong. Population growth is inexorably declining, and with renewabl
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by IHLayman 5y ago
“Stop having an opinion on everything because at the end of the day nobody’s opinion matters.” …don’t you see how nihilist this sounds? And also unrealistic. You will have opinions, everyone has opinions and beliefs and feelings or else the
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by IHLayman 5y ago
At some point I would like people to quit vilifying a completely legitimate business setup because it doesn’t fit their world view as well. But as you can guess from my lead up, I look at it from the opposite direction. If there is no reaso
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by IHLayman 5y ago
Can a model be trained in 4 days fast enough to score a perfect on this, under cost? It becomes a weirdly positive feedback loop if the pool keeps going up and up.
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by IHLayman 5y ago
I am glad that you added not an endorsement. This level of selfishness is the reason other people quit their jobs, and contributes to toxic workplaces. A really good book about dealing with assholes at work is https://en.wikipedi
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by IHLayman 5y ago
“…you could end up on twitter.com for example but it would be worthwhile.” Unpopular opinion: I never click on twitter links anymore. It’s almost never worth it. IMHO, 140/280/N character limits are a way to cheapen discourse. I t
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by IHLayman 5y ago
A pedantic note that follows from this particular thread: HackerNews’s search capabilities are powered by Algolia and require JavaScript to work (turn off all JS and the HN branded Algolia page will not load). The reason I bring this up is
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by IHLayman 5y ago
Both Children and God Emperor completely change the ideas of the narrative, and grow far larger than the first two books. They are definitely worth reading. The last two (four if you count Brian Herbert’s extensions) are of diminishing wort
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by IHLayman 5y ago
"Most of the open source tools today (e.g. kubernetes, tensorflow, pytorch) are not coming from academia , but from big tech companies." The three projects chosen for the argument were started by companies, but let's dig a bi
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by IHLayman 5y ago
Here’s a link to a Gizmodo article talking about the study… unfortunately I can’t get the original study to load: https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-it-would-really-look-like-t...
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by IHLayman 5y ago
“That is also why Australian highways feature well-known road trains – extremely long distances and straight roads allow semi-trucks to pull up to four trailers.” Driving around double-trailers in Indiana always made me anxious, so I had to
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by IHLayman 5y ago
Didn’t Ready Player One call their VR world the OASIS? I thought the term metaverse came from Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, which was actually a pretty good book (even if the ending was a bit off the rails)…
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by IHLayman 5y ago
It’s hard to consider .2% reduction in mortality non-significant. Nearly 6 million people have died from COVID as of now. 0.2% of that is nearly 12,000 lives. Calling SIPOs ineffective as well because they only reduced mortality by 2.9% is
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by IHLayman 5y ago
I hope then that the NYT vetted the word list before buying the app. I can tell you that there is at least one Scrabble-banned word in the answer list.
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by IHLayman 5y ago
This article's posting on HN is possibly inspired by the recent post about the unreasonable uses of bubble sort [0] as it is a counterintuitive belief in CS that an inefficient algorithm could ever be useful. I am pretty sure that ther
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by IHLayman 5y ago
I think the parent refers to sixel: https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/
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by IHLayman 5y ago
Except that in general most mushrooms produce more CO2 than then consume. In fact, they’ve been researched as a possible additional variable to the CO2 budget equation: https://phys.org/news/2016-01-mushrooms-contribute
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by IHLayman 5y ago
“ No, elemental fluorine has commanded respect since well before anyone managed to isolate it, a process that took a good fifty years to work out in the 1800s. (The list of people who were blown up or poisoned while trying to do so is impre
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by IHLayman 5y ago
I hate to be that person but I must point out that there are studies that show that children less than 10 years old using VR can have impaired head-trunk coordination. See this study for more info: https://www.nature.com/art
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by IHLayman 5y ago
(Edited for formatting) No book is totally life-changing IMHO, but many are life-altering… life-shifting? But for a good shift in perspective, I would maybe try the following: For fiction, best no reasons given, go into these blind: - Parab
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by IHLayman 5y ago
For a different perspective on certifications, I just got my CKA cert from the Linux Foundation, and that test is legit: all simulation, no multiple choice. They use a full test cluster, backed by killer.sh, and every question involves some
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by IHLayman 5y ago
From your Wikipedia article: “ The name "home-ownership rate" can be misleading. As defined by the US Census Bureau, it is the percentage of homes that are occupied by the owner. It is not the percentage of adults that own their o

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