amenghra

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   by amenghra 4y ago

   “The Elo system only measures differences between players, it has nothing to do with absolute player strength.” But it seems ratings have been deflating lately ( https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-elo-ratings-inflation-or
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   by amenghra 4y ago

   Differential equations show up all the time. Your professor could have provided concrete examples -- maybe they were more interested in their own research work than their teaching duties. In high school, I looked into analytically calculati
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   by amenghra 4y ago

   In the early 1990s, we used to break out of Macintosh's AtEase at our middle school by writing a two line MacBasic program which launched Finder. We would then bring games on floppies. Everything old is new again!
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   by amenghra 4y ago

   Not really. Time smearing isn't moving the leap second into just a rendering thing.
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   by amenghra 4y ago

   IMHO, leap seconds belong at the timezone layer. I.e. ignore it internally and for things like "seconds since epoch". Adjust at display time. Timezones are already backed by a database which needs regular updates, including leap s
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   by amenghra 4y ago

   You can approximate the birthday paradox by taking the square root. So 1mil gives you ~1000. 365 is ~19 (the actual value is 23).
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   by amenghra 4y ago

   Purely Functional Data Structures[1] by Chris Okasaki is worth reading. There's a book version if you prefer vs reading a thesis. Even though the domain application is functional programming, these datastructures can come in handy when
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   by amenghra 4y ago

   There are several languages which use linear types, Rust being the most popular. For example, https://github.com/austral/austral claims to be simpler than Rust and was discussed on hackernews a few days ago.
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   by amenghra 4y ago

   This link? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32010317
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    There’s bots to unroll threads. Eg tag @threadreaderapp and type unroll. Or just tag @UnrollThread.
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    Self-driving race car crashes straight into a wall from the starting line during the world's first autonomous race series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4fdUx6d4QM
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    Use Google Voice as your 2nd number.
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    The old ironing symbols were fine and better than the redesigned ones.
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    The future TV will ship with an embedded SIM card…
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    It's common for tech companies to give RSUs which vest over 4 years with annual refreshers being comparatively quite small. The financial incentives can dwindle after just 4-6 years at a given job.
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    Disclosing an unfixed Google Cloud Platform vulnerability post 90-day deadline(twitter.com)

    2 points by amenghra 4y ago|0 comments
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    https://github.com/facebookarchive/xhp-php5-extension if you are interested in seeing how Marcel initially implemented XHP for PHP. The concept was popular at Facebook, so it made its way into HPHP, HHVM, and later Rea
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    Devil’s advocate: the appartement or land you own still requires paying annual government taxes (and sometimes various other fees) in most places.
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    “ And I put all of this in a pen... to have a real pen-test tool.” perfect :)
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    iOS feature request: only allow notifications for apps I used in the last 24h.
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    Hypothetical situation: how would you feel if your medical records and used to calculate health risks for your children/other family members and refuse specific insurances (or make them more expensive)?
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    I added instructions to the README.md. Let me know if you anything isn't clear.
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    Try to use your sequence to build a row at a time.
24. 354.▲
    by amenghra 4y ago

    Sorry to hear about that :( hope things get better!
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    Thanks, I updated the colors for the easy level. Hope this pair of colors works better.
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    I know, the hard level is however novel. I started prototyping this game several weeks ago but Shubham beat me to the punch.
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    The initial position starts from the goal and makes 100 random moves. So it’s guaranteed to be solvable.
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    Did you try the hardest level?
29. 359.▲
    by amenghra 4y ago

    Yes. The initial position starts from the goal and makes 100 random moves.
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    by amenghra 4y ago

    Toroidal Sliding Puzzle => chefkiss emoji