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by amalcon 4y ago
The second simple answer from the article is basically this: pointing out that A is conditionally defined in step 1, but both definitions are used in later steps as if they are the same value. It then goes on to over-explain that a bit, b
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by amalcon 4y ago
Many years ago I worked at a pizza place. The town I was in had numbers in two different exchanges (the three digits between the area code and the final four digits in US numbers). Pretend the pizza place had the number 123-4567. The oth
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by amalcon 4y ago
Maybe not arrested, but you are pretty likely to have an unpleasant interaction with the police at a minimum if you're walking up to kids and asking them to come with you. Honestly the best way to do this (as in least likely to intera
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by amalcon 4y ago
I mostly disagree with grandparent's diagnosis of the issue, but it really doesn't seem like a normal phrase to me. I live in one of these elite coastal cities, work with mostly Ph.D's, and my primary social circles have an
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by amalcon 4y ago
The U.S. is a common law jurisdiction, which (among other things) means that when there is a novel factor involved, usually the courts are first to decide how much it matters. Autopilot was a very novel factor at this time, so the courts n
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by amalcon 4y ago
Is it not? If GitHub were asking me to download and run code from a github.io subdomain without checking a signature, or something of similar risk level, I'd be concerned. I'd also be correct to be concerned, since anyone can
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by amalcon 4y ago
It's shady because it's under the TLD for Serbia, while having no obvious connection to Serbia. I have nothing against Serbia, but the Rust project doesn't seem to have any special relationship to that country. In HN and sim
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by amalcon 4y ago
Auditing the script can certainly help, just not against malice. E.g. if the script is not set up in such a way that it protects against partial execution, then this represents a kind of vulnerability (truncation) that signed MSI/.deb
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by amalcon 4y ago
There are martial arts where even in competition, concussion is relatively rare. E.g. grappling sports like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu don't usually involve impacts of that intensity, to the head or otherwise.
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by amalcon 4y ago
I don't, but GameFaqs still does. Keep in mind that 1999-me was... not a great writer, or particularly good at math, by HN standards. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/n64/197462-goldeneye-007/faqs/...
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by amalcon 4y ago
Almost all of them. Back when I used to play Kingdom of Loathing (a super casual game whose main attraction is that it contains a lot of jokes), I used spreadsheets to optimize everything from which food to eat to which familiar to use whe
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by amalcon 4y ago
I once had a "There is water dripping on me; can you move me to a different seat and also tell me whether I should be concerned about that?". The flight attendant wasn't too thrilled about that one, probably because it creat
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by amalcon 4y ago
I don't think it's possible to learn macroeconomics "properly", in the sense that one can learn e.g. quantum physics "properly". I pick quantum physics because not every expert agrees on some of the tail end
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by amalcon 4y ago
I don't think this is the best way to send that message. The best way to send that message would be to stop breathlessly covering the various goings-on on Twitter. If done well, that sends the message that there are plenty of other w
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by amalcon 4y ago
They've pretty much all tried having comment sections, and removed them. Turns out, it's kind of hard and the incentives discourage it.
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by amalcon 4y ago
It's neither a completely crazy nor completely new idea. E.g. Metafilter charges (charged? I haven't checked in a while) a $5 one-time sign-up fee that's less for revenue generation and more intended to make it sting a bit
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by amalcon 4y ago
Alcohol abuse is both common and tremendously destructive, though. Drunk driving accidents in the US alone killed more than 10,000 people in 2019[0]. We might be at something of a local maximum in terms of policy -- I don't know, I&#
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by amalcon 5y ago
In the US (I'd assume Europe has a similar thing with different specifics), most fire extinguishers are certified for some or all of three categories of fire: normal, flammable liquid (think grease fire), or electrical. Most extinguis
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by amalcon 5y ago
I actually have already done this -- or, rather, helped someone else to do this. The individual in question was an academic with a license for a rather old version of a particular piece of domain-specific software, which would only run on
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by amalcon 5y ago
So, there are a lot of tricky translation issues in B'reisheet (the first being that we're calling it Genesis, but no comparable word actually appears in the text). This is not too surprising since a lot of routine concepts tod
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by amalcon 5y ago
I agree, I think Naroditsky is the best video content in terms of being educational while also being entertaining. Some others are maybe more rigorous, but not as entertaining, or vice versa.
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by amalcon 5y ago
> Are there contemporary instances of conservative driven cancellations? Colin Kaepernick is the most obvious.
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by amalcon 5y ago
This is a great point, and I should've made it clear that I was only referring to democratic countries that profess to value free speech.
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by amalcon 5y ago
I like to point out the Sedition Act of 1918 here. About 100 years ago, a law that literally made it a crime to criticize the government was not only enacted, but upheld by the courts. Can you even imagine that today? What people are fi
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by amalcon 5y ago
Sometimes, especially if you're on the senior side, you need to set up a meeting so that you can answer questions. Junior folks don't always feel that they should be doing this, but being remote increases the friction of the
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by amalcon 5y ago
Step one is to be OK with mediocrity. When you pick up a game, you need to be willing to accept that you just don't need to be the best at it. If you can't accept this for competitive multiplayer games, you just need to find a n
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by amalcon 5y ago
It occurred to me that this was a possibility at the time, so I convinced my parents (who were obviously adults when they watched the VHS with me) to check out the DVD also without explaining why. They agreed that the DVD was worse, but no
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by amalcon 5y ago
Grandparent seems to be making a point about the nature of art, and how small variants in the medium make a difference. It will date me a bit, but I'll provide an unrelated example: When I was little, one of my favorite movies was The
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by amalcon 5y ago
Bond couldn't jump, but I'm pretty sure I remember enemies doing a jump and roll thing. It's been long enough that I don't entirely trust that memory, though.
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by amalcon 5y ago
This particular one is described as a way to use existing Postgres GUI tooling (DBeaver, Postico 2) with SQLite. Building a compatibility shim for existing tooling is sometimes a more efficient way to solve this class of problem than ada

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