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by connorboyle 5mo ago
The current title of this post, "Dating App Sued for Targeting Men in Her Dormitory with Her Tiktoks", contains pronouns ("Her") without any antecedent, making it impossible to parse.
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by connorboyle 6mo ago
Wow, there is a (seemingly non-official) account on here with the username `ycombinatornews`. Somehow, they joined in 2018 and only have 60 karma.
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by connorboyle 6mo ago
Thanks for all your work. The post title on 2026-04-18 (when this HN post was made) did not include this qualification: https://web.archive.org/web/20260418153857/https://blog.cali...
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by connorboyle 6mo ago
You seem to be using vanilla (or one might say "area-weighted" population density numbers. The article specifically says that they are using population-weighted population density numbers for comparison: > Population weighted d
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by connorboyle 6mo ago
If I were a GNU core utils maintainer, I would not be too happy with this post title
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by connorboyle 6mo ago
> The announcement speaks of blocking domains, URLs and IP addresses, the latter of which affects legitimate services if the addresses belong to CDN services such as Cloudflare. > La información habla tanto de bloqueos de dominios, UR
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by connorboyle 6mo ago
> And Mr. Back’s thesis project focused on C++ — the same programming language Satoshi used to code the first version of the Bitcoin software. I know the author isn't claiming this is definitive evidence, but I think it's so co
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by connorboyle 6mo ago
>> 我等在此... This is also an example of a plural suffix ("-等") which the post author paints as English/Western influence (specifically "-们")
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by connorboyle 7mo ago
I can understand why various unscrupulous entities and individuals would use AI to generate "slop" content to drive clicks/karma farm etc. But it's baffling to me when I ask someone a question and they respond saying the
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by connorboyle 7mo ago
It makes sense to me that a program currently written using multiple processes would now be re-written to use multiple truly parallel threads. But it seems very odd to suggest (as your grandparent comment does) that a program currently run
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by connorboyle 7mo ago
Regardless of exclusive RoW or signal priority, it is physically impossible for a bus route to: 1) stop every few hundred feet to pick up and drop off passengers 2) maintain an effective speed significantly faster than running
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by connorboyle 7mo ago
A bus route that is made twice to be twice as fast (whether through stop consolidation or some other means) will mechanically be twice as frequent, given the same number of service-hours. Slow buses are either more expensive to run, or come
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How Space Manufacturing Could Be Revolutionary – Scott Manley(youtube.com)
2 points by connorboyle 9mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: An Ishihara (colorblindness) test generator(connorboyle.io)
1 points by connorboyle 9mo ago|1 comments
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by connorboyle 1y ago
Author here: sorry, I've only recently discovered my blog is unusable for some iOS users. I'll try to fix it in the near future
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by connorboyle 1y ago
Thanks for reading and commenting. I used "|x|" notation because I don't like introducing new unknown names if I don't have to. Too bad the annotation is ambiguous; I'll make a note about it. If you right-click on t
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by connorboyle 1y ago
Author here: thanks for sharing!
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The Cooley-Tukey Fast Fourier Transform Algorithm, Visualized(connorboyle.io)
2 points by connorboyle 1y ago|0 comments