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by dmurray 1y ago
If everyone in this sector is getting lucrative acquisitions, that should encourage more copycats.
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by dmurray 1y ago
At that time, we will have niche dialects "American English" and "British English". "English" will be identified with the variety spoken in India. Please kindly do the needful good sir.
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by dmurray 1y ago
It can have effects "similar to LSD, mescaline and amphetamines". 100% chance some people would use that recreationally if it were more freely available than the alternatives.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Industrialising production of a recreational drug seems like a double-edged sword. Does the Gabonese leadership really have the geopolitical know-how to make sure this stays as a boost to the economy and not an invitation to a series of US
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by dmurray 1y ago
> To do so would mean they leave money on the table! Generally it means that they can't capture the full value they add. If I have a business installing domestic solar panels, I can capture the economic benefit to a homeowner of
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by dmurray 1y ago
Of course he must. But the fact that we're arguing about it (and there's another thread with the same conversation) says that at least, the intent of this part wasn't clear.
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by dmurray 1y ago
I edited the last part; I meant that the Turing machine from my second paragraph can't do those things, though the Halting machine can.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Yes, I thought the article was really good until it got to that point. > a halt detector can be trivially repurposed as a program optimizer / theorem-prover / bcrypt cracker / chess engine. It's too powerful, so we sh
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by dmurray 1y ago
The recipient getting their stuff stolen is a big deal for the merchant too, though. Certainly for an expensive item, the customer may be out their time, but they are going to ask for a replacement or a refund or do a chargeback, the mercha
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by dmurray 1y ago
Actually, one of those things was brought back in in 2000.
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by dmurray 1y ago
> But he was using a variation of the Waffle House logo that their lawyers would argue would "confuse the average consumer", and he was using the "Waffle House" name in a domain. In something that was actually directl
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by dmurray 1y ago
I never understood why the joke is on the drunk guy in this metaphor. If you dropped your keys and they're either under the lamppost or fallen down the drain, you should start by looking under the lamppost even if you think it's m
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by dmurray 1y ago
list[int | str] might usually be a mistake, but what about my_list = [BarWidget(...), FooWidget(...)] ? my_list.append(BazWidget(...)) my_list.append(7) Wouldn't it be nice if the type checker could infer the type hint there, which is
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by dmurray 1y ago
Wow, I remember DownThemAll from...2005? If you had asked me, I would have said with confidence "that no longer exists, modern browsers have had this feature one click away for years". But I suppose the truth is they don't, a
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by dmurray 1y ago
This seems like a plausible argument, but you can extend it to any source of fossil fuels. What's wrong with providing oil from my oil well, since it's a substitute for oil or coal from another provider that would have been burnt
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by dmurray 1y ago
Interesting that they're being described as "abandoned" there. I thought they might be getting sold to locals who have plausible deniability that they're using them for construction work. Why abandon a working vehicle? S
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by dmurray 1y ago
Yeah, one minute didn't seem right, but I couldn't easily refute it. I figured maybe the free nitrogen atoms recombined with other ones milliseconds later, but as you point out the existence of Birkeland-Eyde process disproves tha
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by dmurray 1y ago
15 acres? It should take far less than an acre. The house isn't well insulated, but it's also small. A few big trees, say 40-year Sitka spruce, should last the whole winter, and you can plant a thousand of those on an acre. Of cou
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by dmurray 1y ago
A really good point. So what's the rate of this photodisassociation? I found it weirdly hard to Google an answer on this. Firstly, rates are given in terms of decays per second instead of in half-life which would be more relevant for o
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by dmurray 1y ago
You're a dev on the project and consider yourself authorized to speak on behalf of the project, on a legal matter, on Hacker News. Are you authorized to do the same on a blog hosted on microsoft.com? A lot of people would treat that as
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by dmurray 1y ago
I work at a mostly .NET firm and almost all the developers on that side of things are on Visual Studio. Rider has less penetration than PyCharm has among the Python devs.
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by dmurray 1y ago
It does discuss performance and points out some places where the Haskell implementation makes the natural naive solutions performant. > While it's true that sort has an O(nlogn) performance profile, one interesting thing here is tha
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by dmurray 1y ago
This, plus the part where the person who's been doing something the longest and has the most experience is likely to become the de facto leader.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Finally, a use for aircraft carriers.
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by dmurray 1y ago
> if someone was a decent programmer and willing to invest the time, they could recreate it from scratch without the code This is a stronger claim than the one in the article, which says it's easy for someone to recreate it if they
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by dmurray 1y ago
The stated reason for the gauge change is "to remove technical obstacles to transporting troops and goods between Finland, Sweden and Norway". Those few connections in the sparse north of the country are the entire point.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Nobody can do this on their own. You don't get to do this by having a great aptitude for high school maths and then being exposed to one or two more concepts that just intuitively click - which is enough to be competitive at the level
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by dmurray 1y ago
Or have one built around you.
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by dmurray 1y ago
It's an indication that something's wrong with the system. We'd get better overall health outcomes if we tested everyone and told a large cohort of people "you do have cancer, and there are these possible treatments for
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by dmurray 1y ago
£1000 a month for a single person certainly sounds like poverty, but £2000 a month for a couple sounds more manageable. If they each find a side gig that pays just another £100 a week, they're suddenly into the top half of households [

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