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   by Rendello 1y ago

   Writing TempleOS software taught me lower-level programming! The OS is weird and idiosyncratic, but much more polished and logical than you'd expect from seeing videos of its author.
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   by Rendello 1y ago

   This script is awesome. I checked for "—" (em), "–" (en), and "--", along with other random strings.
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   by Rendello 1y ago

   Me too, I had 11 hits for the `en`, 7 for "--", and only 4 for the `em` using the curl script: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074990 Also see the relevant XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/3126&#x
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   by Rendello 1y ago

   How do you think they wrote the tests? ;)
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   by Rendello 1y ago

   I should note the money takes months to come through.
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   by Rendello 1y ago

   Depending on the region, you can get a pretty hefty payout for getting bumped, if you know what paperwork to file (even if they get you a hotel and later flight). Terrible if you have plans, not bad if you're backpacking like in my cas
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   by Rendello 1y ago

   I just went to submit this myself. It's one of the most enjoyable math explainers I've seen in a while, I love exploring these multidimensional graphs that describe so much about everyday life.
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   by Rendello 1y ago

   By marketing legend David Ogilvy, who listeners of the marketing/advertising podcast Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly will no doubt have heard tale of.
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   by Rendello 1y ago

   "What are you doing here?" "Uh, trying to perform my ablutions?" I learned a great new word from that episode. Archer is one of the best shows for strange and funny use of language, they just nail my favourite type of hu
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    What was the gadget? I'm also more of a back-end guy that occasionally does front-end. I have a strong design taste, but it takes a lot of effort to improve my skills be able to act on it. I feel like D3 appeals to people with a strong
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    The show is AI generated in content and voice. Their first few posts were flagged, not sure why they keep posting it.
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    They lost their ChatGPT password.
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    Wikipedia has a section in this, which I found interesting: > The standard pluralised form of octopus in English is octopuses; the Ancient Greek plural ὀκτώποδες, octopodes, has also been used historically. The alternative plural octopi
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    Or maybe doing anything ever!
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    I did for many years, now I just feel a sense of revulsion to the AI AI AI marketing. Apparently they don't train on private code, so perhaps that feeling isn't logical, but it remains for me regardless.
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    I ran into one of these neo-geocities-style websites in the wild when telling my friend about a trendy pizza place I liked. Even the EN-FR switch is animated: https://pizzabouquet.ca/
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    What about `infinity + 1`? ;)
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    To learn more about Erlang, OP needs only look back at the threads on the day HN went Erlang-mad: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    You meant to respond to my comment, not this one. In any case, this is news to me too, interesting.
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    I feel this. I think loneliness has been the principle feeling in my life forever, whether I'm with people very different to myself or like-minded. Lack of connection == lack of purpose, and that makes every action more difficult. Pier
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    There's some Anki (flashcard) decks that use the "KOFI" method: > KOFI (Konjugation First) is the name I've given to a provocative language-learning approach I've created: to learn all the forms of a language&#x2
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    Well, now you know the drill!
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    Previously seen on HN in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18665595 They made a Medium post as well: https://medium.com/anewtypeofinterference/completing-a-typef...
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    You can click them, they link to their sources.
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    If after that you're not satiated with data center cooling talk, Jane Street's Signals and Threads just did an episode about their cooling infrastructure a few days ago: https://signalsandthreads.com/the-thermody
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    Ah, yeah. Well, whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVgVB3qsySQ
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    1962: Cuba has missile silos only one strait away. 2025: Cuba has datacenters only one hop away.
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    Well, don't do this at work. You might end up with (unexpected but predictable) results! It reminds me of the time I was trying to find this meme about the NSFW Dutch phrase "neuken in de keuken" (sex in the kitchen) [1], so
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    Looking through this, beekeeping is a strange and interesting world that I know so little about. Cool!
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    by Rendello 1y ago

    14 year-old me set up Linux Mint with this LSD Conky display for my grandmother. I said something like "Well technically it's LSD but it looks cool so don't worry about it". https://github.com/matmutant&#