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Arduino raises Series B funding round of $32M(blog.arduino.cc)
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The power law is surprising. We're taught that the Gaussian distribution shows up everywhere in nature (aka the "Normal" distribution) yet here is a distribution that converges to a power law tail. For comparison, Zipf has a
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One of the best programmers I know grew up on Rocky's Boots. IA has a playable version [0]. [0] https://archive.org/details/Rockys_Boots_1982_Learning_Compa...
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I tend to not like story, so the following might fall short of the story aspect: * Fez * Overcooked * Animal Crossing * Untitled Goose Game * Baba is You (maybe?) * Snakebird * Stephen's Sausage Roll * The Witness * Rock Band (or it&#x
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There is a complete and utter annihilation of a generation in a rolling 120 year window. That is, there is, to most anyone's knowledge, no human older than 120 years. We've lost every single person from generations that are older
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In my opinion, yes, of course such a movement would find traction. We've seen similar movements at every major technological shift in human history. Some examples off the top of my head are certain types of Orthodox Jewish religions an
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This is dependent on your goals and what your age cutoff is. Violins are one of the hardest musical instruments to become proficient at but kids still learn it and become adept. Programming languages, using the command line and other steep
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Wow, I didn't expect to see so much pushback from the community here. This sounds pretty obvious to me. Gimp is really not adequate for everyday usage compared with Photoshop? Really? LibreOffice/OpenOffice doesn't provide ad
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> index funds are getting market returns, which could be negative. ... so they're losing money? Isn't this precisely the point I was making? Index funds are losing money in a bear market as is Wood's fund. Wood's insi
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I'm confused by this reaction along with all of the comments on this thread. Half are saying that Wood's strategy is no better than a martingale strategy (bet twice what you lose) while the other half are expecting positive contig
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80,000 has a jobs board that might be of interest [0]. [0] https://80000hours.org/job-board/
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I think other responses to this thread are insightful, offer valuable ways forward and get at the heart of the matter but I wanted to add one idea that I don't think gets enough traction which is that being a "10x" developer
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Stable distributions are more normal than the Normal distribution [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_distribution
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So, to be clear, you think OAuth are projects that have no place in the ecosystem because of things like password managers?
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The 'certification' is coming from a decentralized network of computers running the blockchain and underlying cryptocurrency. So, yes, exactly, the decentralized blockchain instead of a centralized company. The decentralized part,
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I don't use a password manager, so I'm a bit at a disadvantage but, from what little I remember from others, the password manager basically lets you look up a password, put the username and password into a buffer so that you can c
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Vessel itself might not be a good example but there are other 'web3' wallets ([0] [1] [2]) that allow for authentication and digital payments that are, in my opinion, an order of magnitude easier to use than PayPal, etc. If you&#x
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This is a type of project that will not go over well with the HN community. It looks like Vessel is a web browser extension that acts as a cryptocurrency wallet. The key words here are 'cryptocurrency', 'non-custodial' a
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by abetusk 4y ago
I'm certainly no expert but the two methods I know about are spaced repetition [0] and mnemonic devices ([1]?). The basic idea of spaced repetition is that we tend to forget things on an exponential curve with some exponent. As the ite
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by abetusk 4y ago
Agreed but having clauses "c" and "d" can be abused. If the usage outlined is illegal, then there's no need to add it to a license agreement as the type of use is prevented by law. If it's legal then there&#x27
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by abetusk 4y ago
Free being 'gratis' in this case. There are additional licensing terms that make it non-libre/non-open/non-free (as in freedom) [0]. Finding quality libre or public domain art remains difficult. Here are a few resources
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This is much better than a "personal use" license or a non-commercial license, but the added licensing terms are, in my opinion, still pretty restrictive: """ a. Sale or distribution of Content as digital Content or
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This HN post is the first I'm hearing about it but looking at a video the a reviewer put up, it looks like (at least in an earlier version) there are SATA lines dedicated to particular slots. [0] [1] [0] https://turingpi.com
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This looks to be some electronics and housing to seat other RPi modules into it: """ It essentially runs up to four computers interconnected by a network ... The Turing Pi 2 is equipped with a 1Gbps managed switch, 2x Etherne
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The answer is that many of the applications listed under "mobile apps" have a desktop version that one can use. I did only skim but doing a little more link diving on the prompting of other siblings comments in this thread shows t
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Can you provide some more context? In theory TOTP doesn't need a mobile phone (I guess) but in practice this is about whether GitHub, or anyone else, provides non-mobile 2FA options, either as an app running on the phone or by receivin
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I appreciate that there's a response to the 'supply chain attack' issue, but this also seems like we're raising the bar further for participation. I'm still dubious as to whether a phone is required but even if it&#
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I can't help but feel the article is biased. The first line is "The launch of ... Chivo, has been a flop ...". Has it? It seems like there's more nuance than this broad stroke. Here's a snippet from section 4, &quot
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`socat` is netcat but for serial. [0] [0] https://serverfault.com/questions/246347/whats-the-differenc...
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I love these one-liners. It's also about knowing your tools better. I hadn't known about `look` [0], which is great. The writer looks to be a bioinformatician, so it might be a bit out of scope, but I also found `socat` [1] quite

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