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by eindiran 3y ago
I don't understand, what set of programmers never (do/want to?) to reach 1.0? Are you referencing something like the Tex versioning scheme? Conventionally 1.0 is just the inflection point where things are featureful and stable eno
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by eindiran 3y ago
I see this joke frequently when looking at available wifi; is this meme a reference to a particular thing (other than the FBI having surveillance vans) or did a bunch of people just converge onto it?
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by eindiran 3y ago
Yeah the old refrain that the Redditification of HN is an illusion[0] becomes less true with each passing year. Communities obviously change with time, but the Covid era and the tumult with Reddit really did a number on this one. As a posts
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by eindiran 3y ago
>>> 27600000000 / 332000000 83.13253012048193 According to google the current life expectancy (in 2020) is: 77.28 years So a touch shy, but almost.
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by eindiran 3y ago
It may not be "trolling", but it definitely violates the spirit of the HN guidelines[0] (somehow hitting 3 out of 4 of the first comment guidelines -- failing the kindness test, snarkiness test, and editing out swipes test). The c
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by eindiran 3y ago
My washing machine broke the other day and I had to stop by a laundromat. Someone had left a copy of "Slowness" on the table there, so I spent the time doing my laundry reading it. Hadn't even heard of it before, but it is de
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by eindiran 3y ago
It does sound kind of misleading, but the nomenclature is correct. It's being used in the broad sense of hallucinogen (ie the drug is a dissociative, deliriant, or psychedelic). MDMA definitely has psychedelic effects, though less pron
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by eindiran 3y ago
It's funny that you picked the language with the single worst and most fundamentally broken orthographic system in the world as your example.
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by eindiran 3y ago
I'm not certain of what tool he is using to generate the SVG files but a great option is Inkscape, which is FOSS and free-as-in-beer. If you want an illustration tool, Inkscape is definitely the best non-Adobe option I've used (an
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by eindiran 3y ago
> ChatGPT can't be an impolite Internet citizen (spoofing UA's) and claim to be using AI for the good for humanity, so they're not going to be dishonest with their user-agent. That reads an awful-lot like "Google can&
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Exposing Floating Point (2019)(ciechanow.ski)
71 points by eindiran 3y ago|29 comments
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by eindiran 3y ago
I don't really have a horse in this race; the insistence on GNU/Linux seems silly to me and misunderstands branding pretty severely. But to RMS's larger point, a kernel is not an operating system and the Linux userland exists
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by eindiran 3y ago
So long enough ago that the youngest voters of the time would be 87 today, significantly more than 1 sigma over the median life expectancy in the US?
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by eindiran 3y ago
TempleOS has no networking support at all, so I suppose one interpretation is that it drops all packets with the evil bit set.
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by eindiran 3y ago
> And by fostering this environment you're providing cover for atrocities. To be clear, I am not "fostering [an] environment" or defending 4chan here at all, I am just pointing out that this is a misunderstanding of what t
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by eindiran 3y ago
This is a deep misunderstanding of 4chan, enough so that I find it difficult to believe you've even seen any board on the site you are discussing. The abuse is directed at everyone ; no matter what opinion you share, no matter who you
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by eindiran 3y ago
This is completely untrue. Every major garden supplier will sell them, and there are a number of places where you can find cultivars bred for their alkaloid content. The latter type is perhaps grey-area legal, but definitely still available
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by eindiran 3y ago
It's because there is a strong perception (at least in American culture) that g (or more specifically our best metric of it, IQ) should translate into accomplishment, productivity, or usefulness of some kind before you are allowed to b
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by eindiran 3y ago
Some suggestions: 1. There is a lot of stuff in the HN Undocumented norms repo[0] that would be potentially good candidates. 2. Clear up some of the oft repeated norms around disagreement and downvotes. Downvotes in general (when do you get
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by eindiran 3y ago
If you are eating meat in the US and aren't going significantly out of your way to get meat not farmed "that" way, you're getting meat farmed "that" way, whether or not that offends your sensibilities. The pret
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by eindiran 4y ago
I'm not sure the Glock holster vs Glock magazine example supports your claim at all; there are a huge number of regulations surrounding magazines around the world and even within the US that mean the same magazine legal in Montana is b
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by eindiran 4y ago
I've seen a few interesting ones: https://github.com/gd3kr/BlenderGPT - actually an attempt to make something useful, though its working with meshes and not step files. https://github.com/JennyList
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by eindiran 4y ago
It is to prevent necroposting. The reply button disappears after 14 days I believe. EDIT: Oh you're talking about the max reply depth thing. I am not sure about that one, but I found the thread you mean and I can't reply to some o
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by eindiran 4y ago
I haven't used Nim in prod, but I messed around with it quite a bit a few years ago and it really hits a sweet spot in terms of language size (features, not ecosystem) and expressiveness. At its best, it really does feel like a tidier
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by eindiran 4y ago
I disagree. In oral usage, when you control for potency, particularly with regard to the stereoisomer composition, amphetamine and methamphetamine are FAR closer in effect (and "side effects") than historically people have claimed
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by eindiran 4y ago
There is an international, widely-recognized standard alphabet for precisely specifying the pronunciation of things in arbitrary languages, and you are unsure of why it would be useful for people trying to figure out how to pronounce someth
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by eindiran 4y ago
Methamphetamine is a schedule 2 drug and prescribed in the US, though significantly more rarely than amphetamine. Is there a difference between oral consumption of amphetamine and methamphetamine dosed out in correct proportion to the salts
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Gabriel's horn(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by eindiran 4y ago|0 comments
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by eindiran 4y ago
I sincerely don't understand your responses in this thread. Why are you so personally invested in defending corporate blame evasion?
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by eindiran 4y ago
They are being laid off, playing dumb about this isn't a good look.

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