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by Yen 7y ago
The debug assertions can panic on code which has defined behavior in production, but behavior that's probably wrong, and probably would be asserted in production if it weren't too expensive. For example, if you do "u32::INTEG
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by Yen 7y ago
I disagree with the assertion that "no one can count all those different orderings by hand". To steelman a bit, let's consider a worst-case brute force manual tabulation of the results (there certainly may be more efficient w
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by Yen 7y ago
I'll do my best to summarize the situation, at least as well as I understand it. When speaking in English, it often sounds awkward to repeatedly use the same proper noun in a sentence or paragraph. So, instead of repeated use of the ac
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by Yen 7y ago
+1 for the reference documentation. I've often been able to write complex and correct manifests, just by recursively following the links and filling in the YAML as appropriate.
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by Yen 7y ago
I don't know, why you're not there Results of the query, unaware So is it true, is it false? It's undefined...
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by Yen 7y ago
I've done the same thing, and I've found it super helpful. My particular configuration is at https://github.com/YenTheFirst/dotfiles/blob/master/.bash_cd... 90% of the time, the bash history is
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by Yen 8y ago
I've been wanting to do a similar thing, but also bring memory/storage into the human scale as well. A byte is approximately a single letter. A 4kb page of memory is approximately a single-sided piece of paper. A 32kb L1 cache is
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by Yen 8y ago
I'd expect "few repeat customers" to be a good thing - after pairing on DIY repair the one time, they have the confidence to do it on their own the next time.
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by Yen 8y ago
An additional reason why people may not be confident in their initial alignment - Even if a user knows about the icon indicating "top" of a USB plug, and is aware of the top side when plugging in a plug, there's no such affor
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by Yen 8y ago
This devolves really quickly into debates on semantics. Which is not a bad thing, but it means it's important to be clear on definitions. I've heard Artificial Intelligence snarkily defined as "whatever computers can't d
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by Yen 8y ago
It's very much not-cheap, but I really like my https://www.humanscale.com/products/product.cfm?group=float Rather than being motorized or cranked, the desk's weight is counterbalanced with springs/pneuma
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by Yen 8y ago
Like many things, this can be a matter of preference, but here's the rules of thumb I try to follow when writing challenges, and the things I appreciate when playing challenges. * Avoid intentional red herrings, full stop. Your players
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by Yen 8y ago
I haven't solved this for video games, youtube, etc. I'd be interested in a solution! For disposable income purchases, we budgeted out income, necessary expenses, savings, travel, etc., everything that requires long-term planning.
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by Yen 8y ago
I use dvorak as my daily driver. I'm still able to use qwerty, and while my typing speed is not as fast, it's still adequately usable. However, an extended typing session in qwerty just feels...weird. I feel vaguely unbalanced, an
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by Yen 8y ago
My gut sense is that proof-of-work as a spam deterrent can _improve_ the signal-to-noise ratio, but won't bring it up to an acceptable level. Say you have a simple proof-of-work protecting some action (posting a comment, voting up&#x2F
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by Yen 8y ago
The word I think of is "skeumorphic", though that's not 100% the same thing here.
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by Yen 8y ago
Firstly, research into Chess AI has had a surprising amount of beneficial spin-off, even if we don't call the result "AI". Secondly, while it's still a simplification and abstraction, DotA's ruleset is orders-of-mag
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by Yen 8y ago
I've had a similar problem in the past. The things I've found to be very helpful are: 1) Don't look at the PR diff as a whole, look at individual commits, and judge each one, then read the PR diff. 2) If the commits are too b
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by Yen 8y ago
I use branches and PRs when developing solo , nevermind developing on a team. It's incredibly freeing to be able to say "This branch is treated as a sandbox. The code is in flux, history is mutable." and "This (master)
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by Yen 8y ago
There's another potential cause for procrastination, that this website doesn't seem to diagnose or offer advice on - I have a hypothetical task in front of me, which is interesting, impactful, within my skill range, well-defined,
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by Yen 8y ago
The author references reddits "Change my View" subreddit, and dismisses it as a failed experiment, "the instances of the original poster actually changing their view were discouragingly few." I think this is an unnecessa
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by Yen 8y ago
I agree we don't need to optimize for characters typed, and needing to memorize/lookup formatting directives is a time sink. What I _do_ want to see optimized for is readability - and this often is related to more compact repres
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by Yen 8y ago
I really like this idea. Also, challenges like this might be a good way to surface existing projects which are trying to attack some broken system or problem, but don't (yet) have a lot of attention or traction. Sometimes what we need
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by Yen 9y ago
FWIW, I would not recommend Elite: Dangerous as an experience without motion sickness. The game features artificial yaw, pitch, and roll. Even though I'm fairly experienced with VR, and fairly resistant to motion sickness, my first f
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by Yen 9y ago
That's assuming that the random number generator is truly random, and not a deterministic pseudo-random-number-generator, which will _necessarily_ produce a sequence of numbers that satisfy certain statistical properties, over a long e
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by Yen 9y ago
Echoing the other commentor, I think the name-dropping provides two important pieces of info: 1) I can match my previous knowledge of related projects to get an idea of what this project is trying to be, and likely have that be accurate. 2)
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by Yen 9y ago
I'd like to specifically advise caution with the "gang up on the current winner" strategy. One the one hand, yes, it can make games more fairly balanced. It works well when a) all players are roughly on the same skill level,
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by Yen 9y ago
I've been trying to get "caspaicious" to catch on. (from "caspaicin") That's not currently a real English word. But it could be!
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by Yen 9y ago
Thanks for the link, this will prove useful given the amount of Arxiv links on HN. Doesn't appear to work with this paper, though.
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by Yen 9y ago
His chart "Nonfarm business sector: Real output per person" shows a notable _slowing_ of the growth rate of per-capita productivity, consistently, over the last 70 years. I was under the impression that the opposite has occurred -

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