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by eeegnu 5y ago
Windows 7 had a very professional feel to me that subsequent versions lack. Probably has to do with attempting to create a unified tablet / phone / desktop experience.
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by eeegnu 5y ago
> When competitive programming hits the tier where you need to memorize all of the advanced data structures and algorithms to do better, that's where further improvement in the leaderboards no longer translates to better programmers
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by eeegnu 5y ago
Something about type constraining auto just seems funny. I can see how it's useful from an error minimization / code clarity standpoint, but it almost seems counter to the point of even using auto.
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by eeegnu 5y ago
To give another example of a bug in DCSS that went unnoticed for a while: there's a spell called Ozocubu's Refrigeration that for 6 months [1] dealt 1/3 the damage that it should have. It was considered very weak with a steep
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by eeegnu 5y ago
It's worth noting that at least in recent versions, the in game formulas have been getting simplified. For instance armor used to give you both AC and GDR (guaranteed damage resistance), whereas now GDR is a direct function of AC regar
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by eeegnu 5y ago
> 23. While rare, sometimes it's a problem with the compiler. Otherwise, it's always DNS. Is DNS here just referring to Domain Name System, as in to reference problems with systems out of our control?
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by eeegnu 5y ago
The kind of malware the average user is concerned about is the one that will break into their accounts by logging their keypresses, or lock them out of their own computer for a ransom. Neither of those things are likely to come from windows
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by eeegnu 5y ago
> Unfortunately, mathematical systems without some mathematical (i.e. non-"logical") axioms are quite limited What's an example without any axioms? It doesn't seem like you can do anything without say ∀x: x=x (which I
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by eeegnu 5y ago
One of the many reasons for defining the natural numbers to begin at 1. I didn't even notice they said integers and thought they said naturals.
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by eeegnu 5y ago
> In fact, most cryptography only works off of probability. Not only keys or RNG, but also on routine algorithms like finding a prime number. Usually in cryptography problems when we assume that our assumptions hold (e.g. there's no
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Ask HN: Limit to Nesting Volume Sliders?
2 points by eeegnu 5y ago|1 comments
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by eeegnu 5y ago
You're correctly inferring what JC is saying, but missing the point the other poster made; which was to imagine that history had gone differently, BSD was approved as the license, the source code was still publicly available, and how t
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by eeegnu 5y ago
The relevant implication in it hypothetically having been BSD is that he would have convinced his partners, not that its usage would have made the project never happen.
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by eeegnu 5y ago
ah yes, let me instead manually type the url into a new chrome tab, google will have no idea I went there.
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by eeegnu 5y ago
> towards understanding natural intelligence, a prerequisite for creating an artificial one. I've thought about this before, and I'm not convinced it's really prerequisite. Naturally developed intelligence in my mind may a
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by eeegnu 5y ago
What prevents someone from making the transaction on the lightning network, as well as the btc blockchain before the lightning network syncs up?
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by eeegnu 5y ago
This is really a great lesson at always taking things in skeptically. I saw yale.edu and the great detail in multiple sections and the block of citations at the bottom that I let my guard down.
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Ask HN: Is there a name for this line of thought?
3 points by eeegnu 5y ago|1 comments
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by eeegnu 5y ago
> If you accept the customer for cheap stuff but refuse to help him when he gets scammed on an expensive item, you are the bad, pathological, person/business. For every refund system you will unfortunately get people who attempt to
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by eeegnu 5y ago
If you keep track of these categories and have amassed a large enough dataset, it sounds like a fun experiment to see if a NN can learn some feature of the papers text to predict if a paper is BS. Some combinations of citations may even be
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by eeegnu 5y ago
> Why is Bitcoin made up of back-links to previous blocks? Isn't a block no more than a memoization of a event-sourced log at a point of time? That's just a really badly constructed journaling filesystem. My understanding is th
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by eeegnu 5y ago
Then what happens when your comparison fails. There's no consensus mechanism. But then can't everyone just start using a fork from the last time you all agreed (ignoring that coming to a consensus on where to fork would pretty muc
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by eeegnu 5y ago
How can you know nothing was altered, even if you stay in constant sync with the git repo, if github wanted they could selectively send different copies to different people. The entire point is that it's a trustless system where malici
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by eeegnu 5y ago
Note the massive errata list which is very likely just the scratching the surface. Later editions tend to either implement these corrections, or have a more complete list.
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by eeegnu 5y ago
Wouldn't the hundreds of other PoW currencies still be an incentive?
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by eeegnu 5y ago
The point is that the parent comment conflated validators with people, whereas one person or entity can control many validators. That doesn't say anything about it being better or worse than PoW, but it's disingenuous to claim tha
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by eeegnu 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong since I've only read the brief overview of how validators work on ethereum.org, but 141k validators doesn't mean anything when every validator is independent / anonymous and someone with 32k eth s
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by eeegnu 5y ago
This sounds like a very interesting project, especially if it could be done just by taking pictures of both your ears (I'm not sure if that's sufficient to capture all of the topology.) Generating a sufficiently large dataset to l
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by eeegnu 5y ago
> contracted to twenty-seven levels For anyone unfamiliar, 27 is a number ingrained deeply into the game, with some traces very well hidden. https://www.reddit.com/r/dcss/comments/mvrc1w/did_anyone_of_
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by eeegnu 5y ago
> Often they forget that old versions are still available for download, playable offline and on most online webtiles servers. Typically players get upset because they like the majority of the quality of life changes, and new content, but

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