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by ThatGeoGuy 4y ago
I like this post, it reminds me a lot of when I started using vim / neovim in university. I spent a lot of time learning nano, cramping my hands, and then eventually deciding to sit down and learn vi proper. One thing I'm not so s
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by ThatGeoGuy 4y ago
I'd have to support this as well. Many folks always reel in terror when I tell them I almost never use a debugger, or I'm using gdb or lldb instead of some graphical thing if I decide that it's worth actually running. I think
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C++ & Rust: Generics and Specialization(tangramvision.com)
5 points by ThatGeoGuy 4y ago|0 comments
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by ThatGeoGuy 4y ago
> Huh? I don’t know why you’d say that, if anything I think it’s the Either err t / Result<T, Err> style that is more expression-focused (I mean, it even originates in Haskell :). I wouldn’t even call Common Lisp particularly
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by ThatGeoGuy 4y ago
This is correct (in that the most simplistic case is try-catch). However, the difference between a try-catch and conditions / restarts is that when one signals a condition (exception), the restart (catch) has a continuation from the co
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by ThatGeoGuy 4y ago
HN (and myself honestly) might be a bit biased in favour of Lisps, but if one wanted an unambiguous notation for mathematics, Polish notation / s-expr style writing would be the way to go. As for screen-readers -> parsing s-expressi
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by ThatGeoGuy 4y ago
This is actually what this law is about. The difference between a cyclist at a stop sign and your average vehicle is visibility. Cyclists don't have blind spots the way cars & trucks do. So if you can reasonably see that there is n
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by ThatGeoGuy 4y ago
One note to readers who may end up seeing discourse like this online: a (very simplified) critical race theoretic version of this goes as follows: 1. All race is a social (and to some degree, legal) construct. There is more variation in gen
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by ThatGeoGuy 4y ago
I should check this out! Bernoulli's Fallacy is pretty new though, it was originally published (hardcover) in August 2021. Which likely explains why GoodReads has more ratings, since it's barely been a year yet and books like this
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by ThatGeoGuy 4y ago
It's difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison with this statistic because the US has more sprawl. Like sure, per-kilometre fatalities may be down, but that says nothing of: 1. The number of non-fatal crashes 2. How much of this
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
While I'm not dang, I will ask that you refer to HN's guidelines if you want to criticize my writing: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In particular the first three rules: > Be kind. Don't
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
Thanks! I'll fix this soon. Small details like this always seem to slip through.
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Book Review: Bernoulli's Fallacy(thatgeoguy.ca)
15 points by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago|11 comments
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Projective Compensation in Calibration(tangramvision.com)
2 points by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago|1 comments
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
> Elan School was apparently a behavior modification/"therapeutic" boarding school in Maine that engaged in some extremely controversial practices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élan_School Not that I
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
North America does seem to like their cars, and is quite hellbent on finding any explanation for deaths caused by automobiles that absolves the system from having to take any responsibility or do anything (e.g. build infrastructure, regulat
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
If you can get used to applying Bayes Theorem in your head as a second nature, it helps greatly as a quick dummy check with reality. Obviously this doesn't mean calculating hundreds of probabilities in your head at once, but it can be
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
It doesn't seem likely. Vaccines were mostly rolled out in the west (read: United States), whereas the initial variants (alpha and delta) were a result of COVID proliferation in unvaccinated areas. Delta, for example, first really blew
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
Ariadne actually answers this in that thread: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/16660#issuecomment... I'll quote the section: "Given that the OpenSSL 3 migration had an outcome where our con
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
Because the message format is different. In XMPP, the message is an XML document according to the message schema. In Matrix, it's JSON. You can exchange the private keys, but using what format? Once that's done, you can encrypt XM
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
It seems like you're trying to hold Element to some kind of impossible standard here. It's not like the tech they used to build the bridge didn't already exist. The bridge itself serves a specific purpose (opening up Signal t
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
There is a whole host of things this could be, but you may want to talk to your University IT and determine if they're doing any kind of port blocking, NAT blocking, etc. on the network. Many campus networks are fairly restricted, ofte
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
The physical kill switches work as described, but yes, the phone is "too good to be true." It will not (yet) replace your iPhone, although you can get pretty far on your own if you don't mind SSHing into such a device and mes
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
I am extremely skeptical of this. I think the best summary of why this isn't the story is provided by Zvi[1]. See the section "Delta Variant." It's not something I can summarize in a couple short sentences, but the base
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
Didn't _Alphabet_ buy Tenor (not Google)? It seems pedantic but it's probably the over-arching corporate structure that determines the distinction here. Edit: Actually I kind of walk this back. I don't think Tenor has ever st
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Camera Modeling: Exploring Distortion and Distortion Models (Part 1)(tangramvision.com)
3 points by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago|0 comments
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
I think a lot of the performance problems on the switch occur when you set the resolution of the device to anything outside a fixed 720p. I've definitely had issues with 1st party titles, but after going into the settings and forcing 7
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
Compiling custom versions of proton are somewhat a thing of the past already. I installed Steam on Debian sid via Flathub / Flatpak, and then installed https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom using the
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
Usually the best bet is to use something like https://hn.algolia.com and search that way if you're looking for an actual HN post. Otherwise Google does wonders here.
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by ThatGeoGuy 5y ago
Ah yes, the part in my comment about dismissing matrix was in reference to the thread parent. Apologies if you thought that was directed at you.

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