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by cancerhacker 3y ago
TIL, Discworld trivia connection: In "Going Postal", the protagonist obtains his horse from "Hobson's Livery Stable". (gnu terry pratchett)
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
You might enjoy the archives of Over The Edge[1] which I always felt like it captured the zeitgeist of 80s culture. (Edit: better link to internet archive [2]) [1] https://kpfa.org/program/over-the-edge/ [2] ht
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
It was there and has since fallen off. If you search for dominion, there's a video clip that doesn't even mention the damages and is saying "oh fox settled to avoid a lengthy trial that dominion may have lost."
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
After a few hours there was a short article that appeared on their front page (and is now gone) - and didn't mention the settlement payout. If you search for dominion, there's a 1m49s "news update" about it - where thei
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
As of right now, msnbc, cnn, drudge report, an nytimes all show the settlement story on their home pages, but foxnews.com ... huge "Biden cabinet secretary violated federal law". And searching for "dominion" on their we
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
US Aid to Nato is an investment in global economic stability that is repaid via increased commerce. It is a long term investment and it has paid off time after time.
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
A common idiom that is no longer as common is to always create a stack buffer up to a certain small bound and then an allocation if it goes beyond: void dwim(unsigned count) { struct Something _buffer[10]; struct Something* b
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Die of Boils, Mr. Sparky Car. (2022)(davidsimon.com)
2 points by cancerhacker 4y ago|0 comments
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
OK, I do have to share: after receiving news that the surgeon on my cancer treatment team wasn't willing to tackle my liver metastasis, I was talking to my primary oncologist about next steps, if any, and timelines. He told me I shoul
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A Psychedelics Pioneer Takes the Ultimate Trip(nytimes.com)
5 points by cancerhacker 4y ago|1 comments
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
Suggestion (not for you specifically, just a general comment): never answer leetcode questions right away. Push back and ask the interviewer to describe the problem they're actually trying to solve. Probe their constraints - memory l
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
You can get a long way just by running /usr/bin/strings against an executable, and maybe a platform specific version of otool -L. You should have a basic idea of how your OS does linking, shared libraries, etc.
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Flex: Full-Body Grasping Without Full-Body Grasps(flex.cs.columbia.edu)
2 points by cancerhacker 4y ago|0 comments
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
I was trying to get it to be a basic interpreter - open a numbered box and perform the prompt. It got hopelessly lost and started making up lines that did not exist. And since at one point I had it print the word "fizz", it deci
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
My hospital distributed all my CT, PET and MRI imagery on DVD. When I had to travel cross country to a specialist, I'd ripped them all and brought a thumb drive - which the new hospital refused to deal with. I had to stay up all night
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
After my cancer treatment (well, during, really) and 75% resection of my liver I developed severe gynecomastia that couldn't be surgically addressed. It was embarrassing and uncomfortable. The residents of the reddit /r/abr
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
Damn, looks like I picked the wrong millennium to quit smoking. That thread was <chefs-kiss/>
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
I'm using my high point's account for this: in 2016, 2 years after my Stage IV Colon Cancer dx and continuing treatment I (Silicon Valley fat engineer) bought a 2005 BMW 325 manual Convertible much to the dismay of my wife. Let me
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
I originally sought psychiatric help because of extreme depression. After meeting me the doctor gave me a standardized survey to fill out - I assumed to take away with me and bring back. But he told me to sit down in the lobby and take it n
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by cancerhacker 4y ago
There may be different medications that can help. I was initially given Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) and it was so good and I wrote the most beautiful code and my focus was pure and I needed more and more and I lined the pills up at nigh
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by cancerhacker 5y ago
I created this account on July 28, 2014 [1] - I had(have?) stage IV Colon Cancer with liver metastases. I did a FOLFIRI regime with cetaximab, then a colon resection with a general surgeon. My oncologist was great (ucsf medical center) - bu
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Ask HN: Maximizing sick benefits in Silicon Valley
2 points by cancerhacker 12y ago|1 comments