eriknstr

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   by eriknstr 9y ago

   I use XXX to mean note/attention. I do so because "NOTE" on it's own does not "scream loudly enough" to me when I read it, and as for "ATTN" I associate that with the writing on a letter when you want
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   by eriknstr 9y ago

   Perhaps XXX001, XXX002, XXX003 and so on?
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   >what exactly "not open" means in the hardware context As natch said, lack of documentation. This lack of documentation prevents others from developing their own drivers etc. >why so many manufacturers do not make "open
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   >there’s even a plugin to directly build a GraphQL API from your postgresql database Would like a link for this.
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   I've worked a bit on it. My solution is not incredible or anything, probably there are far more efficient and/or elegant solutions out there. Mine is not done yet but I'm going to continue with this one later and by then the
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   >Zebra puzzle Interesting puzzle. I copied the puzzle text to a separate text file so that one does not accidentally read anything else in the Wikipedia article. https://pastebin.com/0DWbSSx3
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   I see you in comments here on HN every so often and I enjoy reading what you have to say. I've been wondering -- and sorry for going totally off-topic here -- whether or not you picked your username inspired by the Xen hypervisor initi
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   I have a stray dash in the above comment. Too late to edit now. Where I said "in-order" I meant to say "in order".
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   by eriknstr 10y ago

   Thanks, I thought it might be something relating to execution but was confused by the Google results which was had a Wikipedia article stating "scaffolding, also called scaffold or staging, is a temporary structure used to support a wo
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    >Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality Never heard of it before. For anyone else interested; http://www.hpmor.com/
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    While I agree that the person that is using the word "magic" might often do so for the reason that you say, I think it is better to state it as "an implementation detail" rather than using the word "magic". Not
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Disturbing practice but interesting article. Good point about hypocrisy on the part of the people of that era. I was wondering though, what is meant in the following sentence: >And in 1908, a last known attempt was made in Germany to swa
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Not really surprising. I've heard about corpses being fastened in their coffins with a metal pole through the corpse and that said practice is the origin of the idea that you can kill a vampire by driving a wooden stake through their h
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Is that quote intentionally saying that you have contradicting premises, and by extension is the statement in that sentence that contradictions do not exist contradicted by the later part of the sentence, or is there something about the sen
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Some JavaScript frameworks use method chaining in-order to give you something very similar to what you are talking about. $('#my-div').css('background', 'blue').height(100).fadeIn(200); Personally I don&
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Personally I use prototype definition without argument names because when I change the name of an argument in the C file I don't have to go to the header file and change the prototype. The code I work with in C is generally small enoug
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    >It's one thing to "know" how to balance a binary tree because you've read up on and practiced the most common challenges - it's something else entirely to actually think through and understand a problem, then co
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    Broad agreement in the Rust community that pestering others to RIIR is not okay(reddit.com)

    2 points by eriknstr 10y ago|0 comments
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I inquired about the license for that one but unfortunately they can't allow commercial use. https://github.com/luanfujun/deep-photo-styletransfer/issues...
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Current title: Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks Current link: https://junyanz.github.io/CycleGAN/ Previous title: Berkeley's software turns paintings into photos, ho
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Speaking of German technical jargon, one thing that bothered me probably more than it should have was that in my Norwegian-German wordbook, "computer" ("datamaskin" in Norwegian) was translated as "festplatte".
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    "The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance." In the US, the idea of freedom is valued highly. I am not from the US, and I don't live there, but I agree with them that freedom is worth fighting for. Much of the government in bo
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    >the colon is an important delimiting character, which makes having hex coded value ambiguous as well In IPv6 or in Red, you mean? In IPv6 the colons are there for convenience only, with the rule being that leading zeros can be omitted a
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    There were 15 participants in the GitHub issue. Hardly enough people to manipulate anything, so obviously that was not the intention. Even though some 300 people are watching the repo as a whole I doubt that many of them would see that part
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    Here's an extended example. mkdir -p ~/tmp/xml-merge-example cd !$ git init . cat > example.xml <<EOF <?xml version='1.0'?> <hurr durr='hello'/> <durr hurr=&
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I found a program someone wrote called sortxml that will prettify and sort XML files. It's written C#. Might be possible to run it on Linux also, or to find another similar program for Linux that will. I'd investigate further if i
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I think with any larger scale open source project looking to change license they basically have to assert that no response implies agreement because of the amount of people that have contributed over time and things that this leads to, such
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    I previously worked with Unix sysadmin tasks and software development at Statnett SF [1], the transmission system operator (TSO) for the national level of the Norwegian electrical power distribution network, and am currently studying at the
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    by eriknstr 10y ago

    In a similar fashion, some turntables have four rows of dots on their platter and a strobe light that will blink at a frequency determined by your mains AC frequency, and when the platter is moving at a perfect 33 RPM or 45 RPM, the respect
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    Why taking LSD makes music more meaningful(beckleyfoundation.org)

    2 points by eriknstr 10y ago|0 comments