beagle3

75 ms·

691.
by beagle3 6y ago
“Among us” has a lot of the vibe if you want to join a random game when you have a few minutes to kill. It’s not werewolf - but it is perhaps an arcade version.
692.
by beagle3 6y ago
How often? I set mine to discard after 60 minutes, except for slack, WhatsApp and a couple of others; cost is reload when I do venture into discarded tabs - e.g. I scan HN and Reddit headlines in the morning, open each interesting comments
693.
by beagle3 6y ago
Auto-tab-discard on Firefox is your friend. Makes thousands of tabs possible with almost no memory use and seamless functionality.
694.
by beagle3 6y ago
Perhaps try to find a less crowded niche. When Ziv approached information theory it was nearly empty by the standards of the time (.. and everything was much less crowded than today, also publish or perish wasn’t yet a thing)
695.
by beagle3 6y ago
In what way are you “forced”? I assume you aren’t tenured - but I do know several tenured academics who got off the treadmill and are doing just that.
696.
by beagle3 6y ago
It has not aged well for ascii characters, especially for texts like English where the letter “e” is abundant enough to make it likely that your average jump would be 6, less than the 64-bit fetch. It can still be used to find a substring o
697.
by beagle3 6y ago
I'm finding conflicting web docs about what algorithms pkzip prior to 2.0 (deflate == gzip) used. There were "shrink" and "implode", they had some run-length encoding, and some entropy coding (shannon fano trees, la
698.
by beagle3 6y ago
The expression comes from “the matrix” movie, and to just about everyone outside a small Reddit circle, has a well established meaning that does not include violence or exploitation in any possible way.
699.
by beagle3 6y ago
Did you get a receipt by mail to your gmail, by any chance? Google analyzes receipts. When I still used gmail, it would automatically add flights to my calendar based exclusively on the receipt sent to my gmail account.
700.
by beagle3 6y ago
It is intuitive if you are familiar with "argmax" and friends.
701.
by beagle3 6y ago
I don't think notation is what's making things hard. The concepts behind are the hard thing. If you can't figure out the concept, the notation doesn't make much sense - and it is the notation that you meet first, so it s
702.
by beagle3 6y ago
Krebs' cycle, HeLa cells and Lugol's formula in medicine as well; And also an Allen key, a Phillips screwdriver, many of the physical units (Ampere, Volt, Tesla, Weber, Newton, ...). It happens in all fields. For that matter, the
703.
by beagle3 6y ago
"grade" (as opposed to "sort") means "find a permutation that puts this into order". So the sorted version of the list "name" is in APL, name[⍋name] (read "name indexed by the permutation that pu
704.
Floor, Ceiling, Bracket(johndcook.com)
100 points by beagle3 6y ago|67 comments
705.
by beagle3 6y ago
Yubikeys that can do gpg are $40 or so and have lots of other uses. Iirc, ssh can now do file encryption with FIDO2 keys; these are $10 or so. Definitely worth buying a pair if you are worried about security (both Trojans, where local encry
706.
by beagle3 6y ago
More likely it is compartmentalized in such a way that every single person has plausible deniability sufficient to believe that what they are doing is good “I help people find each other!” As Upton Sinclair noted, it is hard to make a pers
707.
by beagle3 6y ago
Firefox has an additional app called Firefox Focus which installs a content blocker for both Safari and Firefox. Also for Safari, Magic Lasso AdBlocker does a very good job.
708.
by beagle3 6y ago
That’s probably meant for another thread
709.
by beagle3 6y ago
Are you aware that the same exact uncompressed recording sounds different depending on context? This is known as the McGurk effect. Very worth your two minutes if you're not yet familiar with the effect: https://www.youtube.
710.
by beagle3 6y ago
Point taken. I always recommend and use the specific ISO8601 format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sssZ (or drop the ".sss" if not needed), and be 100% consistent about it. But you are right, I shouldn't refer to this as "
711.
by beagle3 6y ago
Iso8601 sorts just as well. I saw no benefit in storing two copies. That’s recipe for problems - e.g. “update” code that doesn’t update both, or somehow updates them differently (which one is right?). You can probably have t-sql or some “ch
712.
by beagle3 6y ago
I did that in DB2 or Oracle (or both, don’t remember - it was 15 years ago and the project used both) because I needed millisecond time resolution and the database date time field did not support milliseconds. Among the option of storing (d
713.
by beagle3 6y ago
I don’t know if this is related to their app SDK, but many apps use that (including e.g. Google’s own Waze) and that SDK collects analytics in its common Config (and lets you register your own events IIRC).
714.
by beagle3 6y ago
No, the IFR for a 30 year old is approximately 0.02%, remarkably similar to dying in a car crash according to recent CDC update: https://www.nbc26.com/news/coronavirus/cdc-estimates-covid-1... The 0.02% number cov
715.
by beagle3 6y ago
Do note Python recently gained a C like assignment operator, the “walrus” operator.
716.
by beagle3 6y ago
Nim has everything you need to do that.
717.
by beagle3 6y ago
They seem to be in line and comparable to other post-viral complications, see e.g. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.12.21253448v... ; prevalence is 13-14%, distribution of specific complaints is som
718.
by beagle3 6y ago
Which is weird in itself - The probability of death for a healthy 30-something year old is lower than their probability to die in a car crash (1/10 to 1/100 of all cause mortality for that age group). It’s a game of probability, o
719.
by beagle3 6y ago
Not op, and can’t google now but the project was called STEPS, they did a down-to-metal os including network and GUI (and mote) in 20k lines. Don’t remember anything about office suite. Related names I remember are Alan Kay, Dan Amelang, Al
720.
The Sound of 1-bit: Musical Creativity on the 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum (2017)(gamejournal.it)
63 points by beagle3 6y ago|25 comments

More ›