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by amenghra 11mo ago
Because javascript programmers are cheaper/easier/whatever to hire? So everything becomes web-centric. (I'm hoping for this comment to be sarcastic but I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out not to be)
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by amenghra 11mo ago
One of my favorite kids music toy is a mini piano where you have to replay one among 5-6 melodies (each melody is 5-10 notes that you have to memorize by ear — no lights involved) to unlock a little happy sound. This toy managed to keep bot
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by amenghra 11mo ago
A zombie comment? How appropriate…
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by amenghra 11mo ago
There's a Tom Scott music about a musical road in California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef93WmlEho0
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by amenghra 1y ago
If you have the time, what Bret Victor’s talk Inventing on Principal. The talk covers feedback loops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
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by amenghra 1y ago
Malicious binary steals browser cookies giving attacker access to all active sessions?
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by amenghra 1y ago
If you are getting powned by running random executables found on usb drives, passkeys aren’t going to save you. Same if the social engineering is going to get you to install random executables.
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by amenghra 1y ago
The confusion is perhaps caused by the word “reachable”. “No legal chess position with more than 218 possible moves” would have been more clear imho.
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Weighted random generation in Python (2010)(eli.thegreenplace.net)
2 points by amenghra 1y ago|0 comments
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by amenghra 1y ago
An automated van that has roughly regular routes but goes slightly out of its way to pick up/drop off people would be a good middle ground between taxis and buses —- not unlike Jeepnys in the Philippines.
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by amenghra 1y ago
Vegas is also good for many other reasons: year round good weather, lots of tourists in need of taxi services, too hot to walk, too drunk to drive, etc…
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by amenghra 1y ago
Screen recording for those who want to see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lHo-d5cURM
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Compilation abuse: playing Bad Apple using GCC warnings(github.com)
3 points by amenghra 1y ago|1 comments
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by amenghra 1y ago
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/all-bart-lines-down-frid... might have some more info.
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BART down due to computer problem
2 points by amenghra 1y ago|2 comments
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by amenghra 1y ago
More line scan trains: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738987
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by amenghra 1y ago
Price segmentation happens all the time in pretty much every industry.
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by amenghra 1y ago
Each row reuses the letters from the row above and below. So think a combination of clues and scrabble/jumble.
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by amenghra 1y ago
I've been building Crossabble ( https://crossabble.com/ ) a free and fun weekly web word game. Feedback welcome! The game is mostly done, so I'm now focused on tooling to make it easier for me to craft each week&#x2
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by amenghra 1y ago
It's inspired by Simon Tatham's classic puzzle collection, nice! A similar type of puzzle I made in the past: https://www.quaxio.com/sliding_puzzle/puzzle.html
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by amenghra 1y ago
“Had more money to spend” => it could be a little money and a large amount of stock.
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by amenghra 1y ago
Blog post going over some of the details/things I ran into while building this game: https://www.quaxio.com/building-crossabble/
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Show HN: Crossabble, a weekly word game/puzzle(crossabble.com)
3 points by amenghra 1y ago|3 comments
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On Building Crossabble(quaxio.com)
1 points by amenghra 1y ago|0 comments
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by amenghra 1y ago
I’m no expert, but you should be roughly as tired burning 200 kcal running vs walking vs biking. The difference will be how quickly you’ll burn those calories.
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by amenghra 1y ago
It's not a thing in most US cities. Since there's no incentive for individual people to return their trolleys it ends up being someone's job to collect the carts.
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by amenghra 1y ago
In a similar vain to the second link, I previously wrote about using css to truncate git hashes so that search functionality continues to work: https://www.quaxio.com/truncating_hashes.html
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by amenghra 1y ago
Lou Wall's comedic musical "Where is bed": https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1jxf2a5/where_is_bed...
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by amenghra 1y ago
They should just build a mobile app for the purpose of receiving these notifications. Make the app $2.99. Turn the expense into a profit. /s
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by amenghra 1y ago
Sign the first offer, continue interviewing, if you end up switching companies just write a nice email to your recruiter/manager explaining the situation. It wouldn’t be the first or last time that it’s happened. IANAL, the above isn’t

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