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by chongli 1y ago
Learning a language as a hobby is tough. If you don't need the language to communicate and survive in your environment then you have essentially zero real motivation to learn it. The problem with spaced repetition systems is that it do
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by chongli 1y ago
It's not normal. The vast majority of people travelling to other countries do not consult with an attorney before doing so. By recommending that someone consult an attorney Mr. Roberts has effectively cautioned this person against trav
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by chongli 1y ago
It’s also funny to me because every time I encounter “unreasonable effectiveness” in a headline I tend to strongly disagree with the author’s conclusion (including Wigner’s). It’s become one of those Betteridge-style laws for me.
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by chongli 1y ago
Producing the set of steps is the hard part. If you can do that, you don’t need a junior to follow it, you have a program to execute.
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by chongli 1y ago
Morality is an evolved heuristic for solving social conflicts that roughly approximates game theoretical strategies, among other things. Morality also incorporates other cultural and religious artifacts, such as "don't eat meat on
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by chongli 1y ago
The show Star Trek TNG has a great example it! Captain Picard is better than most people in his world. He also owns a luxurious wine estate in the French countryside. The floor in that society has been raised, absolutely, but there is no ce
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by chongli 1y ago
How do you get all the food in? Manhattan is an island. Without constant food deliveries by truck it will die. This food is delivered to countless restaurants and grocery stores, not to some central warehouse, so delivery by train doesn&#x2
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by chongli 1y ago
I want the modern version of Star Trek utopia Everyone wants this. No one knows how to make it happen. Heck, even the TV writers stopped believing in it and they still had access to replicators and transporters for their storytelling. Com
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by chongli 1y ago
It’s not the “incorporating it into their understanding of the world” step that is the problem, it’s the casual plagiarism that follows which is upsetting artists. If some genius human were capable of ingesting every piece of art on the pla
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by chongli 1y ago
the combat is by far the weakest aspect of the game I would correct that to say balance is the weakest part. The open-endedness of the game is one of its strong suits (which is surprising given how it’s written) but there are many opport
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by chongli 1y ago
It is broken. For every coveted job there are thousands of applicants. Employers will accept any signal that reliably predicts a modicum of intelligence, conscientiousness, and agreeability. University degrees cover all three. But that&#x27
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by chongli 1y ago
The SNES doesn’t have any concept of user space. Your program has full control of the hardware. You can do whatever you want. There is no operating system at all.
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by chongli 1y ago
16MB is larger than every single SNES game ever released. Modern programs have dynamic memory allocation. You can't just start writing to any address you want. You have to request memory from the operating system with malloc() and then
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by chongli 1y ago
Someone asked on the previous discussion why there's no heap but no one answered and replies are locked out, so I'll answer here: There's no heap on the SNES because the system has only one program running at all times (the g
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by chongli 1y ago
I’m completely unsold on legislation. Another headline that recently hit the top of HN is about how Apple flagrantly ignored a court order. The judge has recommended the case for criminal contempt prosecution [1]. The comments on the story
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by chongli 1y ago
It’s an interesting question: is it possible for JavaScript to be turing complete, able to read/write the DOM, and somehow prevent fingerprinting / tracking? Yes, of course: restrict its network access. If JS can't phone ho
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by chongli 1y ago
The jury's still out on this case. When historians look back a hundred years from now, will they consider it beneficial that Apple survived? Or will they see it as an unfortunate reprieve for a company that wrought unfathomable destruc
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by chongli 1y ago
If anything, it makes it cheaper for Apple to buy back shares!
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by chongli 1y ago
No. We’re only searching for life in a tiny area around the Sun within our galaxy, the Milky Way. To find life we first need to find planets, which involves looking at stars over extended periods of time to detect tiny dips in brightness (t
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by chongli 1y ago
They're not a black box though. They're querying an external resource (Google Search). That's crossing an API boundary. If you're going to let them use Google Search then let the human opponent use Google Search as well.
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by chongli 2y ago
I'm just picturing whole new swathes of rainforest being clearcut and bulldozed to make way for "artificial leaf farms."
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by chongli 2y ago
I can’t speak for helix because I haven’t tried it, but I did spend a few weeks trying to get used to Kakoune before giving up and going back to vim. The issue is that moving around would leave behind a trail of breadcrumbs. Sometimes these
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by chongli 2y ago
Yes, though that characterization is time-relative. I think vi would’ve been called “New Jersey Style” back at the time it was created, owing to its legacy as a minimal extension to ed for full screen interactive editing on a video termin
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by chongli 2y ago
I’m not a fan of motion-action. Most of the time in vi, all I’m doing is moving around. When you input a motion key in vi it moves you accordingly with no fanfare. The motion-action paradigm, on the other hand, primes the editor to expect a
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by chongli 2y ago
Yes, vim is not intuitive. It doesn’t teach itself to you. It takes hard work. I bought the O’Reilly vi/vim book [1] and read it cover to cover. I practiced a lot of things and was very deliberate about it. To me, learning vim is like
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by chongli 2y ago
Yes, emdashes are inserted automatically by iOS when a user inputs a double dash: —
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by chongli 2y ago
You’ve given me much food for thought, thanks! I know that at one time we did mathematics without the number zero and that its introduction was a profound (and controversial) change. The empty set seems like a perfectly natural extension of
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by chongli 2y ago
Rather, in this alternate universe, intersection is partially defined. Yes, but then topology becomes a very tedious exercise because so many proofs rely on the fact that the empty set is contained in every topology, that the empty set is
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by chongli 2y ago
If you don’t allow the empty set to be a set then you break the basic operations of set theory. For example, to show two sets are disjoint you compare their intersection with the empty set. In an alternative axiomatization (without the empt
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by chongli 2y ago
I don’t see why it’s a problem that the empty set cannot be a group. The empty set, being empty, lacks an identity element. Thus all groups are non-empty. The same is true for any structure which posits the existence of some element. Of cou

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