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by eindiran 8y ago
Yes, but then you don't get to be checked for prostate cancer.
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by eindiran 8y ago
From the link: > Investigators concluded that the risk of exposure to peanut on an airplane stems from potentially contaminated surfaces and not from airborne levels. So the issue isn't not having exposure via air, but "not hav
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by eindiran 8y ago
From your link: > Investigators concluded that the risk of exposure to peanut on an airplane stems from potentially contaminated surfaces and not from airborne levels. I've literally had someone spill their food on me on a plane, so
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by eindiran 8y ago
He came up the the A* algorithm while working on Shakey the Robot, which is the other project he's most known for ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakey_the_robot ).
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by eindiran 8y ago
The most important step is to remember that data is a "toxic asset"[0], in that as long as you have it its a potential danger. Data deletion is a valid strategy for controlling risks, and as bdibs said in another top-level comment
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Ask HN: Where to start with getting in to retrocomputing as a hobby?
3 points by eindiran 8y ago|2 comments
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by eindiran 8y ago
It's the same reason that software engineers love greenfielding projects. Architecting clean, fresh systems is romantic! You won't make any of the mistakes that you've now learned from! All this needless complexity can be don
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by eindiran 8y ago
I've been interested in looking into Gopher for a while. Does anyone have any recommendations on a good introduction into Gopher, when you would use it, etc?
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by eindiran 8y ago
All credit goes to Matthew Rayfield ( http://matthewrayfield.com/ ). He has some very... interesting projects that should be right up HN's alley. Code for the project can be found here: http://matthewrayfield.
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Controlling a 3D printer with an Xbox 360 Controller(youtube.com)
2 points by eindiran 8y ago|1 comments
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by eindiran 8y ago
I think that the most plausible way that Category Theory is going to improve your life as an engineer is that it will sneak into the way your tools are designed. You don't personally need to know about the Yoneda lemma to benefit from
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by eindiran 8y ago
If you're interested in the work that led to this, definitely check out Kenichi Asai's reflective languages. The code for his Black language with reflective semantics is reproduced here: [0] More tangential but also cool: this tal
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by eindiran 8y ago
If anyone is looking to get into Category Theory as a programmer, I would recommend giving Bartosz Milewski's Category Theory for Programmers a shot[0]. Quite good, and you can read it as a blog post on that site or get the ebook/
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by eindiran 8y ago
> Many women simply aren’t cut out for the corporate rat race, so to speak, and that’s not because of ‘the patriarchy,’ it’s because men and women aren’t identical. Everytime there is a discussion of this, it gets bogged down because of
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by eindiran 8y ago
I think the issue is deeper than equality of outcome and opportunity being two different problems: as we have seen equality of outcome implemented so far, it explicitly violates the conditions that need to exist for equality of opportunity.
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by eindiran 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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by eindiran 8y ago
If I understand your question correctly, this seems like a case where per-feature branches are superior: Developer A is working on feature 1 and feature 2 concurrently. Developer B is working on feature 3 most of the time, but wants to make
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by eindiran 8y ago
The claim is poorly phrased in the headline. From the article ( https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181393 ), you are exposed to around 2000 bits of language-related information each day, which appar
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by eindiran 8y ago
If you thought this was interesting, it's worth looking up other argots/cants. Here are some interesting examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by eindiran 8y ago
That might very well be there difference. My coworkers are almost exclusively people who studied CS, and several wrote C professionally at some point.
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by eindiran 8y ago
That's not my experience as a software engineer at all. In fact, I would say that I see people worrying about writing algorithms that are asymptotically optimal (well before that should ever be a consideration) 10x as often as I see pe
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by eindiran 8y ago
Thank you for response/clarifying the timeline. I didn't realize that development on non-hardware parts of the system would happen so much earlier, but it makes sense that you'd want to know if changing archs made your catalo
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by eindiran 8y ago
You take a damped sine wave, where its amplitude gradually moves towards zero, of some frequency and you pass it through the particular sigmoid function. Just like you can play a sine wave, you can play the resulting tone. If you look at hi
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by eindiran 8y ago
That is weird. The paper was published in 2009 by Microsoft Research, and the Xbox One entered development in early 2011 according to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_One ). So when the author started worki
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by eindiran 8y ago
This seems similar to Popcorn Time ( https://github.com/butterproject/butter-desktop ).
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Swift to get Rust-like ownership model(github.com)
5 points by eindiran 8y ago|0 comments
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Code Smell: Boolean Blindness(runtimeverification.com)
1 points by eindiran 8y ago|0 comments
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by eindiran 8y ago
The value add is that you don't need to do the `xargs --max-procs N`, yourself. By default N is 1 for xargs. For parallel, the default is N = number of CPUs. Additionally, you can run a series of unrelated commands that aren't fro
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by eindiran 8y ago
History repeats itself: https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2013/10/shamir/ For added fun, compare comments on the 2013 version with comments on the 2019 version.
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by eindiran 8y ago
From the article: As Mr. Conley began bringing friends south to test the experience, he imagined that his resort’s core demographic would be 45 to 60. But after announcing a public opening last fall, he was surprised to field interest from

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