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by alxndr 6y ago
The final words on the Tesseract page are lovely! > I find it very inspiring that while we can’t physically experience a four dimensional space, with just a bit of ingenuity we can easily simulate how a tesseract and its shadow would loo
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by alxndr 6y ago
This characterization of flaws in political discourse reminds me of the SEO arms race discovering flaws / hacks in Google's search results rankings.
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by alxndr 6y ago
Short answer is that they pay a lot.
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by alxndr 7y ago
T-Mobile's free data and texting in many countries is the primary reason I stick with them despite being able to find lower prices and better coverage elsewhere.
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by alxndr 7y ago
> I've personally upgraded projects from Pharo 1.x all the way to Pharo 7 and have been very willing to trade a small amount of effort porting for big increases in productivity. Wow, any chance you've written about the upgrade
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by alxndr 7y ago
I've enjoyed having Ctrl where Caps should be so much, and my right hand missed having a Ctrl key on these small Mac keyboards, so I turned the Enter key into Ctrl as well! (Possible as a Complex Modification in Karabiner: "post l
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by alxndr 8y ago
Here's how Lojban's vocabulary was created: https://lojban.github.io/cll/4/14/ > At least one word was found in each of the six source languages (Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic
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by alxndr 8y ago
Satisfied occasional user of Gigalixir here! I have a side project chugging along on their free tier.
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by alxndr 8y ago
I don't know about a long history, but it does happen today. Source: I know someone who is a substance abuse counselor.
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by alxndr 8y ago
What about a completely untimed take-home project?
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by alxndr 9y ago
May shed some light: "How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment: The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun. Today, millions believe they did. Here’s how it happened." https://www.bren
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by alxndr 9y ago
And now the cannabis shops in California take credit cards!
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by alxndr 9y ago
Git has a built-in way of achieving what you've done with the $FORMAT and $PRETTY variables; look at @twic's comment on this story.
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by alxndr 9y ago
The captcha on that page is broken in Chrome 63.
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by alxndr 9y ago
Aaron's second paragraph there sounds like Social Penetration Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_penetration_theory
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by alxndr 9y ago
That faucet doesn't appear to work.
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by alxndr 9y ago
Would love to hear a lawyer's take on this.
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by alxndr 9y ago
I was also curious; here's what Wikipedia says about Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread": > "In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capital
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by alxndr 10y ago
Could take the "Heroku" out of the Heroku button if there were a really easy way to deploy/connect Docker containers.
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by alxndr 10y ago
Cliff, thank you for writing that book! It is what got me, like many others, seriously into exploring computers (in legal ways!).
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by alxndr 10y ago
Inconsolata has been my favorite monospace font for working in terminals and editors for a couple years now. It's pretty subtly-serifed for a monospace, punctuation doesn't seem to distract me like it can in other fonts, and I fin
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by alxndr 10y ago
Could be a good topic for Ask HN?
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by alxndr 10y ago
Also makes the border control's system a pretty attractive target for hackers.
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by alxndr 10y ago
What are the corrections made relating to the treatment of First Nation peoples? The Japanese internment has already been trotted out as a precedent for creating a registry of American Muslims. That doesn't sound like recognizing our m
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by alxndr 10y ago
There are big companies using Elixir; I think what qaq meant is that Elixir isn't itself developed by a big company.
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by alxndr 10y ago
My guess is the uncanny valley[0] is still too big for "realistic" human characters. As for the goofy-looking chicken, it's convenient to make an animal goofy-looking for comic relief. (And in the case of Jiminy Cricket, I th
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by alxndr 10y ago
Amazon is currently running a TV ad which has three people saying "Alexa..." commands; I wonder why that ad isn't also causing false positives?
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by alxndr 10y ago
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13323154
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by alxndr 10y ago
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13323154
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by alxndr 10y ago
This could be explained by Macs working better on random networks and having better battery life than other laptops. Anecdata: I know of several Windows laptops, but only one Mac laptop, which are now effectively desktops.

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