akkartik

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by akkartik 4y ago
"An unusual feature of the mission is that it only had a one-second launch window due to the precise orbit required by the experiment."
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by akkartik 4y ago
Bad OSE (optimizations on the part of the search engine), you mean.
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by akkartik 4y ago
Worth a try! I have a feeling you'd need to make programming a happier activity first..
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by akkartik 4y ago
That feels out of scope for OP. I've learned that there is such a thing as apologizing too early, when I don't actually feel sorry yet. I need to take some time to make sense of what happened and apportion responsibility in my own
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by akkartik 4y ago
Is there a list of awesome fractals to zoom into with Xaos somewhere? edit: Wait a minute, it's right on the same site! http://www.paulbourke.net/fractals
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The New Major Questions Doctrine(papers.ssrn.com)
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by akkartik 4y ago
Ooh, ooh. I'm on Ubuntu, and it looks like I need to upgrade to 22.04 before I can experience the build process for myself. https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&arch=any&search... The repo itself is sho
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by akkartik 4y ago
I'm still looking for something that notifies me when someone else posts or comments. Twitter followees for HN. I used to have an app that did that, 10 years ago.
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by akkartik 4y ago
Can you elaborate on the "override"?
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by akkartik 4y ago
The last of those was 10 years ago. They seem to have learned from their experience there. It's only chat apps that seem a stubborn blind spot.
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by akkartik 4y ago
That explanation helps but doesn't explain why new chat apps get greenlit more often than new local shopping sites, social networks or balloonshots.
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by akkartik 4y ago
"collected" :'(
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by akkartik 4y ago
> Our tools should adapt to us, not the other way around! Agreed! I actually provided some concrete critique of Google docs in OP. Do my criticisms also apply to Microsoft Word and LibreOffice? More broadly, I'd like to persuade you
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by akkartik 4y ago
I appreciate your comments, Tom. Particularly that you actually installed it and tried it out before coming to a conclusion. I'm not sure what you mean by "external text source". Ctrl-v does read from the system clipboard reg
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by akkartik 4y ago
Honestly, I just went with JSON because there's a nice Lua library for it (thank you https://github.com/rxi/json.lua ). I haven't thought about the file format much so far, just the experience of writing in it
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by akkartik 4y ago
Yes thank you, I was indeed alluding to https://github.com/akkartik/mu . Perhaps a more precise term would be "software stack".
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by akkartik 4y ago
I prefer Matt Levine from his newsletter today: "Safe assets are much riskier than risky ones. This is I think the deep lesson of the 2008 financial crisis, and crypto loves re-learning the lessons of traditional finance. Systemic ris
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by akkartik 4y ago
All I meant is, if drawing too many things overloads the system so it can't render at 30fps, that's fine, I build things that don't look bad if the rate drops. I can't do action games, high-speed video, a few other thing
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by akkartik 4y ago
You're absolutely right. So I do without 30 FPS. We're all up this tree where we want all the features we're used to and we're willing to put up with software bloat and insecure software and sprawling supply chains to ge
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by akkartik 4y ago
Lately I'm all in on LÖVE ( https://love2d.org ). No dynamic linking required, cross-platform, less bloat than mainstream toolkits. Anything it can't do I just accept as a constraint I can't change.
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by akkartik 4y ago
What do you think trn/slashdot/HN-style threading is lacking?
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by akkartik 4y ago
Most interesting. Did you feel confident you wouldn't mess up your work laptop too catastrophically?
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by akkartik 4y ago
What setup did you use when you were learning NixOS? Server in the cloud or a desktop rig?
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by akkartik 4y ago
How much time do you spend maintaining this stuff every month? Like upgrading versions, etc.? Do you subscribe to any security channels? Do you care what language it's built in, try to keep it all on a few languages to minimize mainten
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by akkartik 5y ago
As always, it all depends on what you negotiate. They promise not to use the "cost of living" hammer during the negotiation, but as always the most important factor will be your "other offers" hammer.
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by akkartik 5y ago
I'm curious what your take is on: * Whether people should go into work * Where the pressure to go into work comes from in an org
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by akkartik 5y ago
Ok, just that then.
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by akkartik 5y ago
Is this some new feature I don't know about and can't find?!
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by akkartik 5y ago
"..since the unconscious understands language perfectly well or it would not understand the problem in the first place, why doesnt it simply answer Kekulé’s question with something like: “Kekulé, it’s a bloody ring.” Perhaps because
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by akkartik 5y ago
"The more living patterns there are in a place -- a room, a building, or a town -- the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. "And w

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