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by agubelu 2y ago
We use traditional paper ballots in Spain, and we have the full results within 2-3h of polls closing. The trick is using a distributed system. Each ballot box is opened, counted and tallied at the same time. The results (along with the vote
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Cones Are Messed Up [video](youtube.com)
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by agubelu 2y ago
I worked with some people who were actively working on this last year, focusing on CS research. The biggest issue was validation. We could get a system to spit out possible research directions automatically, but who decides if they're
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by agubelu 2y ago
Another giveaway of GPT content for me are overusing importance adjectives like "crucial" or "essential", and of course an extreme overuse of enumerations.
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by agubelu 2y ago
The concept of an antimeme has been living rent free in my head (which is quite ironic) ever since I first read this piece back then. Easily my favorite tale from the SCP universe.
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by agubelu 2y ago
Sort of related: "Why Spotify's "grand strategy" will fail" https://youtu.be/yDWgOwb8kj4
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So what exactly are Unicode and UTF-8?(blog.borrego.dev)
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by agubelu 2y ago
> They feel like they’ve been drafted a hundred times in the head of the author, but then put down on the page in a hurry, the clock ticking on their deadline. This is so spot on it hurts. The acknowledgements in my own thesis were draft
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Patching requests for fun and (concurrent) profit(blog.borrego.dev)
25 points by agubelu 2y ago|6 comments
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TeX is not a bug-free software(blog.borrego.dev)
3 points by agubelu 3y ago|1 comments
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by agubelu 3y ago
I think pointing to powerlifters as an example to what could happen is unreasonable; you wouldn't recommend against people doing cardio on a bike regularly because of how competitive cyclists end up. Very few people who do weight tra
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by agubelu 3y ago
> but if that is a problem people should expect to go build a new system Imagine you're walking on the street and see a helicopter crashed on a tree. You don't need to be a helicopter mechanic, or aeronautical engineer, or a pi
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by agubelu 3y ago
Ah yes, HN's automatic title editorializing strikes again, removing 33% of the title's wordcount and changing it from "click here to see my backup method" to "hey, I do backups".
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by agubelu 3y ago
No, I can see that. It's the same as the logical OR operator | computing unions of sets. I just fail to see how this solution is better than a standard parameterized query, it feels much more opaque without any obvious upsides.
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by agubelu 3y ago
I went through the first example in the README more than a few times, and found it quite difficult to make sense of... Are the query params stored in `q`? Which is also updated when it's inserted in the query itself? Why does a `sqlbin
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by agubelu 3y ago
I'd like to use this thread to spread the word of our lord and savior Powerwolf. I discovered them just over two years ago and they immediately became my favorite band: their mix of themes, aesthetic and impressive vocals are amazing.
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Why is it so hard to link <SVG> tags in HTML?(blog.borrego.dev)
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by agubelu 3y ago
I think there's some kind of echo chamber or distortion field among entrepreneurs, which makes them believe everyone's goal in life is entrepreneurship, "being your own boss" and some nebulous idea of "success"
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How we teach front-end development using vanilla JavaScript(blog.borrego.dev)
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by agubelu 3y ago
> Repeat the last 1-3 words the person just said as a question. The first time I read about this was in Chris Voss' "Never split the difference", a great book about negotiation. It's called "mirroring" and i
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by agubelu 3y ago
I think the "code should be self-documenting" view is a bit simplistic. Good comments shouldn't explain what the code is doing, I agree that should be evident from the code itself if it's clear enough. However, why the
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by agubelu 3y ago
I agree with this. For example, it leads to weird situations where a linter with a strict type checking configuration marks some code as a type error, but it runs just fine. Which, in turn, leads to you ignoring type errors entirely, since
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by agubelu 3y ago
I'd very much prefer something that works seamlessly in 95% of the use cases and makes me do some work or look for an alternative for the remaining 5%, than something that makes me do work in 100% of the cases.
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by agubelu 3y ago
Coffee nerd tip: if you want more bitterness, you're probably better off using less coffee for the same amount of water ("weakening" it a bit). If you tamp it, there's a greater chance that the water breaks an easier pat
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by agubelu 3y ago
> Moderate alcohol intake (vs none, occasional, or heavy) I thought it had already been shown that the only healthy amount of alcohol is zero. I'm also surprised that "moderate" is better than "occasional".
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by agubelu 3y ago
I didn't know this exists, thanks. Every time I google anything programming-related looking for the docs, and the official docs are buried under a pile of SEO shit, I die inside a little. This is particularly egregious with Python, and
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by agubelu 3y ago
I frequently hop between Spain and the UK. Self-checkout is ubiquitous in the UK and people seem to almost universally favor using it, manned tills are a minority and generally reserved for larger purchases. In Spain it's quite the opp
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by agubelu 3y ago
Personally, I find it a bit tiring that the usual response coming from the vim userbase towards someone not liking vim is either a) you obviously didn't learn it well enough, or b) you must be a bad programmer. Sure, vim is a great too
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by agubelu 3y ago
On the current LTS version of Ubuntu, I had to drop down to the terminal to adjust the mousewheel's scroll speed.
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by agubelu 3y ago
"Accident" doesn't only mean plane crash or dead people. According to ICAO Annex 13, it is also an accident when: "the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure which: - adversely affects the structural strength, pe

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