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by Yen 9y ago
Say you want to see a picture of an orange cat. So you send a short HTTP query to the nice computer at google.com, which responds with 700,000 characters worth of instructions, in unreadable minified formatting, with the implicit promise th
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by Yen 9y ago
You joke, but there's some definite advantages to that strategy. From my point of view: * I'm a software engineer. I'm already highly-paid, so the marginal hedonic impact of a nice party is relatively small compared to its mo
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by Yen 9y ago
I wonder if this might partially be a function of company size - I know that some indie developers are relatively well-known, and have a relatively guaranteed audience for whatever their next game might be, even if that next game is in a di
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by Yen 9y ago
There's many circumstances in which one party breaking the law allows another party to _legally_ perform actions which are typically not allowed. For example, it is illegal to kill another human being. However, nearly all jurisdictions
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by Yen 9y ago
GitHub may not be the primary contributor to git, but they're certainly a significant user of it, and they _have_ contributed patches to upstream git. (example, the '768 conflict' bug here: https://githubengineerin
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by Yen 9y ago
> But you still need to be connected to work with parts of the code base you haven't used before. Which seems like a fair tradeoff to me. The existing "native solution" for a very very large codebase would be to have it sp
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by Yen 9y ago
I mean, unlike a lot of aggregation sites, HN has a specific policy about link titles, which is generally sensible and does the right thing. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) Sure, in some cases, implementa
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by Yen 9y ago
I believe GP's point is that Magic: The Gathering was not intended to be a turing-complete set of rules and cards. I.e., the game design was _intended_ to be entirely decidable. Indeed, certain game rules discuss what happens when eve
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by Yen 9y ago
For those who missed the FAQ, > To avoid this problem in the future, OpenBSD will now receive vulnerability notifications closer to the end of an embargo. i.e., _explicitly signalling_ that this researcher intends to play "defect&qu
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by Yen 9y ago
That's quite possible. The article mentioned "_Logan's Lucky_"'s high rating and low box office results. I hadn't heard of this movie at all, but the ratings & reviews on Rotton Tomatoes convinced me to giv
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by Yen 9y ago
A 100% rating doesn't mean no one would think the movie is bad - it means no one who saw the movie thought it was bad. With the exception of critics, most people watch movies that they expect they will enjoy. If that movie meets or e
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by Yen 9y ago
My suspicion is that it's just the author's opinion, and because negativity sells. But I could be wrong. If it is a submarine piece, well, the author does seem particularly sold on the idea of AR vs. VR. Brings up several emotiona
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by Yen 9y ago
When I was a kid, sometimes friends would hang out at someone's house, and one person would play a single-player video game, and the others would watch, comment, offer advice, and generally hang out. Even though it was a single-player
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by Yen 9y ago
And those early mobile phones were so expensive, and so bulky. No way that technology would ever catch on.
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by Yen 9y ago
Incidentally, I've noticed this same thing when trying to touch-type with a VR headset on. Even though I consider myself pretty good at touch typing, and even fairly accurate at touch-typing with my eyes closed, it's very difficul
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by Yen 9y ago
The article is long-winded, and a bit patronizing(1), but it seems to generally be saying that "VR is going to drop off in popularity in the near future, and may never become popular again". I don't think this will be the cas
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by Yen 9y ago
You may be thinking of his book by that same name. https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Surplus-Technology-Consumer... It looks like it's also summarized as a TED talk (I've not seen it) https://www.ted.com
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by Yen 9y ago
Even if it's not a foregone conclusion, it's an important topic to discuss before entering a long-term relationship. If one partner wants children, and is counting on that happening, and the other partner wants to not have childre
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by Yen 9y ago
(I'm not sure if your comment was genuinely asking about the number of political parties in the U.S., or sarcastically remarking on the fact that there's only effectively two parties) While there are technically more than two poli
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by Yen 9y ago
That definition disallows QoS based on the ISP knowing-what's-best-for-you I don't think it would preclude an ISP offering "we'll treat your packets either as high-bandwidth high-latency, or low-bandwidth low-latency, ba
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by Yen 9y ago
Neither of those are the correct answer, though. The correct answer is node.children, which isn't syntax-specific, it's about the pseudocode of whether you want to visit the node, or the node's children.
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by Yen 9y ago
That's not python specific. When you're running BFS, after visiting a node, you next visit each of that node's children. From a python-specific viewpoint, dequeue.extend appends a given list to the end of the queue. The first
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by Yen 9y ago
I'm generally a fan of redistribution strategies, but, it's worth noting that motivation is not just a binary function of "is the marginal value > 0". Say I could spend 30 hrs/week running a small business at mod
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by Yen 9y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a former employee of Zillow Group, and still hold stock. These online real estate listing sites are using machine learning to try and predict sale price. The main difficulties are: 1. 'Machine Learning' is a
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by Yen 9y ago
Even more egregious than that: > For quality control, I looked only at comments with Reddit score > 100 That's a non-trivial popularity score. Also, since it's an absolute score, it will bias against smaller subreddits, wher
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by Yen 10y ago
> The other thing this author tried to make this about was politics. I think there is something to be said about politics, here, but it's not about specific countries, ideologies, or personalities - it's about the nature of how
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by Yen 10y ago
Many of the useful abilities in League of Legends are 'skill shots' - manually aimed, with travel time and wind-up animation, and are thus missable or dodgeable With superhuman reflexes, a bot can be nearly immune to skillshots in
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by Yen 10y ago
One tiny detail I noticed - I hadn't been aware of the new logo until today, so I didn't have any context for what "moz://a" might mean. After googling about it, and seeing the new logo, I realize that, in the
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by Yen 10y ago
I'd argue that there is exactly one "correct" view of comments on a document, per-community. The correct view is the one that best represents the range of opinions of the community, and bests represents that community's
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by Yen 10y ago
A) the human feeds the cat, with delicious wet food, every morning. Many cats are only fed once daily anyway, this cat is fed twice daily. B) When traveling, one is not at home to feed the cat, at all. If fed, cats are quite content to have

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