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by anitil 6y ago
tom7 made a while video explaining how to create an executable only with printable characters [0]. He even write a compiler called 'ABC' for it. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA
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by anitil 6y ago
I will be sending this to all my friends in academia. Bravo!
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by anitil 6y ago
I think I was confusing trade winds with the gulf stream perhaps : "the waste products of nuclear explosions will move eastward out over the Atlantic Ocean" In other news, that article was kind of crazy! They onshored nuclear deto
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by anitil 6y ago
There's a sense in which is predates the US! Throughline from NPR had an episode about it, referring to a book called 'How the Post Office Created America' [1] [0] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/02&#x2F
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by anitil 6y ago
I have a memory that experts advised that it would be safest to perform nuclear bomb tests on the east cost because the trade winds tend to move west to east, and that would ensure that radioactive dust would not fall over habitable land, a
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by anitil 6y ago
> Training horses is not for the faint of heart :-) I was going to guess a motorbike, but I'm pretty sure horses are even worse!
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by anitil 6y ago
A great episode! (RIP Reply All, you'll be missed)
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by anitil 6y ago
While I disagree with you in this specific instance (because I think it'd be hard for them to be so specific this early on), I think you've made a very good point about building trust in the face of handling things.
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by anitil 6y ago
I'm starting a SAAS where for $15/mo we'll provide you with physical storage for your computer! Join the movement at https://i-was-up-till-3am-and-this-is-what-passes-for-humor.... ! (/s, obviously)
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by anitil 6y ago
I wonder if there's also a marginal effect here where early on each paper is contributing a lot to your knowledge base, but as time goes on the marginal contribution reduces. I haven't done a PhD (yet), but I get the sense that in
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by anitil 6y ago
I felt so grossed out I had to close the tab!
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by anitil 6y ago
That is equally parts silly and useful. There's so many time's I wish I'd had one.
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by anitil 6y ago
I've been playing with the ast module in Python lately, and the documentation actually says to go look at someone else's documentation because it's better, which is a refreshing take. Official Documentation: https:/&#x2
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by anitil 6y ago
Or is it reversed(list)? checks Stack Overflow
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by anitil 6y ago
</rant> phew, that was bothering me
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by anitil 6y ago
I have no idea!
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by anitil 6y ago
An example is the House of Saud. They are incredibly wealthy, but I believe Forbes doesn't look at _families_ only _individuals_, even if, say, the head of the family would technically make the list. Also, they're unlikely to put
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by anitil 6y ago
You could use an SVG editor, then take the raw svg file, edit than, then open it in a browser. Not smooth, but the workflow is sort of there
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by anitil 6y ago
Someone on here made the comment a little while ago that while that is true for compiler makers, parsing is the much more useful skill for the average programmer. It allows you to approach a new realm of problems that are otherwise off limi
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by anitil 6y ago
Soon it'll be a whole bitcoin miner in a QR code
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by anitil 6y ago
As often happens, Planey Money has an episode on exactly this [0] (from 2016, so could be out of date). There's also some followup episodes at the bottom of that link. They even name their company 'Delawhoo', which I think is
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by anitil 6y ago
I was thinking it was in the spirit of "A permanently high plateau" by Fisher
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by anitil 6y ago
I've started moving to using python to generate what I need a lot of the time now in C. I'll either make a '.h' file, read it in and generate the boilerplate I need, or just do it using native python and emitting the C I
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by anitil 6y ago
"Jig. Gets you from CTO to CEO"
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by anitil 6y ago
This reminded me of a Thunderf00t video where he created tiny jets for ammonia. I expected it would be some expensive procedure, but he just heated up some glass, stretched it and cracked it. Not every one worked, but it was surprising how
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by anitil 6y ago
It's sad that 'success' in a startup sometimes means that you get a payout, then everything you worked for over years gets put in a drawer somewhere and everyone gets let go. It's some sort of Pyrrhic success. As an asid
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by anitil 6y ago
It bothers me that people have expectations of perfection. Of course there will be breaks in the chain the lead to doses being wasted. There are thousands or millions of ways for it to go wrong, and only a few ways for it to go right. It is
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by anitil 6y ago
I remember Matt Levine talking about how regulators would often find emails along the line of "Let's sell this crap to those idiots" and use that as leverage to force settlements rather than showing actual violation of regula
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by anitil 6y ago
I just spent 20 minutes trying to find an article by Bryne Hobart vaguely in this area [0], but for personal messaging. The idea being if you control the storage (or deletion) you can avoid casual or speculative regulatory interest in your
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by anitil 6y ago
> like remote surgery This one annoys me so much. I've seen this exact promise every other year for 20 years. And it's never going to happen (outside of some PR stunts maybe).

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