OisinMoran

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by OisinMoran 9mo ago
Fun! If bi-twin chains are those where +1 AND -1 are prime, I wonder what the longest chain is where either +1 OR -1 are prime. And while we're at it, why not XOR too.
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by OisinMoran 9mo ago
If there haven't been any proposals for a friendly name for the 23 bit holdout it looks like a pair of glasses to me. So perhaps "spectacles" would be a nice one, similar to the spectre of recent aperiodic monotile fame.
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by OisinMoran 9mo ago
Delighted to see my local one in there, with a description reading like it was written by Douglas Adams. “The Hungry Tree is an otherwise unremarkable specimen of the London plane, which has become known for having partially consumed a near
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by OisinMoran 9mo ago
https://oisinmoran.com/ with a few entries that have made it the HN front page over the years.
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by OisinMoran 10mo ago
Reminds me of Gödel, Escher, Bach in which there is a phonograph dubbed "Record Player X", which destroys itself by playing a record titled I Cannot Be Played on Record Player X .
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by OisinMoran 10mo ago
I am equal parts daunted and excited about the size of it. On one hand, of course it's a lot of time (he's said it might the average person 500 hours to complete), and I'm liable to binge. On the other, I imagine there will b
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by OisinMoran 10mo ago
This is great! Especially nice to hear as I'd been all to aware of the advice to not rewrite your whole codebase once you raise some money as that's an easy way to tank the company. As a result I have probably erred to much on the
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by OisinMoran 10mo ago
Read to the end
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by OisinMoran 10mo ago
Span? Yes. Density? Not as much. I only say it as I've been surprised on several occasions by American friends living here voicing the same thing. I think it may have been in part due to some fortuitous scheduling making it so that lit
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by OisinMoran 10mo ago
Some funny related cultural trivia is that often Americans find the hardest thing about integrating into Irish culture is how much we reference the Simpsons in day to day life.
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by OisinMoran 10mo ago
Yeah that feature was nice at the start then got very annoying. Still like the browser though. Weirdly enough chrome on my phone has been reporting the wrong URLs, usually one I've just been on.
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by OisinMoran 10mo ago
Neat! Weirdly sending this article from my phone (Pixel 8) to my browser (Arc) via Pushbullet resulted in an incredibly strange bug that it loads this site instead: https://www.lindelystables.dk/en/posts/functional
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by OisinMoran 10mo ago
For a great example of some (non-live) coded music, I would recommend The Haywire Frontier by Nathan Ho [0]. The whole album was sequenced and synthesized entirely in SuperCollider with no samples, external hardware, or third-party plugins.
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
I've also read that a source of randomness like that could help prevent things like over-extracting some land
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
Something like this would be great for karaoke! Especially for the long held notes https://x.com/TheOisinMoran/status/1614435041764859907
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
If you enjoyed this you'll probably also enjoy "The Games People Play With Cash Flow" [0] And for the classic HN comment about the site itself: I think it looks very nice, but the native justification algorithm is not very go
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
May I introduce you to Bismuth?
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
My contribution to the genre: negative border radius. Let's make the (digital) world sharper https://x.com/TheOisinMoran/status/1846417247075459235
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
I found Neetcode to be a very fun way to progress through them. It has a skill tree that makes your progress more visible and has great lessons too. On the more abstract motivation side, despite the somewhat contrived nature of the challeng
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
It's funny, on mobile the ellipsis Github uses to truncate the username in the path actually takes up more space than if they just showed the "f"
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
Also now just reminded of the time my friends and I brought a chess board with us interrailing and we played so much that anytime I'd be drifting off or close my eyes I'd just see random board configurations.
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
Not sure MAU is the best metric here. I was recently surprised to find out their revenues are actually kind of close 12B vs 7B, so maybe closer (than could be fairly described as being dwarfed) in terms of token count?
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
There are lots of other non-videogame related versions of this too! The one I'm probably most familiar with is Parkour Vision, where practicing parkour enough leads you to view the environment completely differently, seeing a kash vaul
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
That makes perfect sense, you're a gent. This page [0] still links to (when clicking the main image) an oddish seeming corner of your site that mentions purchasing the book but has no link to it [0] https://inventingthefutur
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
I had a similar issue, clicking the author's name gets you to a decent page, but yeah I'd actually prefer if he made it a bit easier to buy the book! I'll have to get it now after such a nice article
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
If you had told me an article ostensibly about a file format would have me teary-eyed by the end I wouldn't have believed you. This is beautiful, thank you!
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by OisinMoran 11mo ago
Oh this is delightful! Such fond memories of the stick figure fighting craze, I even turned my first maths textbook of a few hundred pages into a flipbook stick figure fight, on both sides!
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by OisinMoran 1y ago
I did a fun one at a party of mine where I had name tags for everyone (a pretty good idea by itself) but each person's name tag had the name of someone else they had to talk to at some point. Most of the pairings were quite intentional
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by OisinMoran 1y ago
Also Arthur C Clarke in The City and the Stars (1956): “An engineer of the ancient world would have gone slowly mad trying to understand how an apparently solid roadway could be fixed at the sides while toward the centre it moved at a ste
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by OisinMoran 1y ago
This is great! There are surprisingly few tools that actually output anything nice when it feels like such a doable problem. One small improvement they could probably make is the ability to rearrange outputs at the bottom to reduce crossing

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