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by eslaught 6y ago
I was rereading The Lord of the Rings a while back and one of the things that struck me was how seriously the characters take the giving of advice. In retrospect I think this is one of the biggest blind spots of American culture in genera
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by eslaught 6y ago
Am I missing something? This only pulls up my own thread: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
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Ask HN: Google Docs Spam?
5 points by eslaught 6y ago|3 comments
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by eslaught 6y ago
I've heard that unsalted butter makes it easier to measure the salt to put in a recipe, since you don't need to reverse engineer the salt content of the butter. But in practice I don't find this very compelling because (in my
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by eslaught 6y ago
Just FYI, Stanford also has a class on parallel programming (which I TA'd at one point). This goes into GPU and distributed programming as well as multi-core. Slides are online though I guess lecture recordings are not: http:/&#x
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by eslaught 6y ago
In my opinion it's better to know that not strictly hard sci-fi. Let me explain, since I think this is an aspect of writing that's not widely appreciated. The beginning of a book essentially sets up "promises" for what t
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by eslaught 6y ago
Just FYI, there are devices specifically designed for this. It's basically a phone you hang around your neck, and it detects falls and uses an audio prompt (calling 911 on your behalf if you don't respond in 60 seconds, or somethi
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by eslaught 6y ago
If you've ever used Darcs, that might help motivate why Pijul is interesting. Darcs was the first system I used with an interactive mode, sort of like `git add -i`. Obviously that's a UX-side change that can be (and has been) repl
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Poetry and Ambition(poets.org)
1 points by eslaught 6y ago|0 comments
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by eslaught 6y ago
At least for me, this is exactly why I do personal projects. E.g., here's something random I did a couple weeks ago. It's so simple that it's almost embarrassing to post, but it's: 100% vanilla Javascript no de
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by eslaught 6y ago
I wonder how much that machine cost...
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by eslaught 6y ago
What stops you from using the normal Windows File Explorer? As far as I know the Dropbox replacement for Explorer is optional.
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by eslaught 6y ago
I'm one of the maintainers of the Terra language, so I can shed some light here. In addition to what the sibling comment said, LLVM is a moving target. The project moves slower now than it used to, but as a general principle, the proje
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by eslaught 6y ago
I guess you may have a different viewpoint on this. But from my perspective, that's a context switch, I have to now load up my mail client and be subjected to whatever email arrived since I last opened it. I also don't have "
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by eslaught 6y ago
It looks like your bug tracker is a bunch of pointers into a mailing list. This means: (a) you have no ability to edit entries (or do anything else that email is bad at), (b) the mail interface is frankly hard to read, with everything in un
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by eslaught 6y ago
> A shadow is the negative picture of the environment around the object producing it. Just screams to be the plot for a mystery novel/movie of some sort.
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by eslaught 6y ago
> at no point do we receive any training regarding practical components of research I think the fact is that most advisors get no training regarding the practical components of being an advisor. So it really shouldn't be a surprise
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by eslaught 6y ago
I agree, and I've thought for a long time that "natural talent" is usually just "natural curiosity" that has been given enough time to grow into something bigger. After all, if you regularly spend your attention foc
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by eslaught 6y ago
I guess it depends on how you count, but not really, at least not for the first 6 years or so. The first two-ish were high school, the next four were college, and the next six were in graduate school (so on a grad student's salary). Af
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by eslaught 6y ago
It probably took me about 10 years to get good at programming. Sure, I could create programs pretty quickly---but making something like [1] is another matter altogether. [1]: http://regent-lang.org/
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by eslaught 6y ago
But if that was your goal, why wouldn't you just remain silent and allow your targets to continue to use the platform? Presumably a live data feed is strictly better than one than one that immediately dries up.
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by eslaught 6y ago
Honest question: why do big organizations do this? I mean, I get it: you're making people pay for stuff they don't need. You can charge a higher price despite users not actually watching everything they buy. Clearly, this tactic m
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by eslaught 6y ago
This isn't just about hardware. It's about software, and an investment in making libraries that are fully optimized for the hardware. The problem here is the long tail of needs is very, very long.
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Dialogue Tags: An Empirical Study(elliottslaughter.com)
2 points by eslaught 6y ago|1 comments
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by eslaught 6y ago
Really? I've definitely experienced this later than 1992. What gives?
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by eslaught 6y ago
At least in the US, they're "government sanctioned" in the sense that the local city government may have signed a contract that gives them exclusivity in certain neighborhoods. I've been told "that's Comcast&#x
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by eslaught 6y ago
The graphics are better, but camera and animations are a dead giveaway. It was fine when the camera was relatively static and far away, but shots with more movement became really noticeable. (Watch carefully, you can see the character'
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by eslaught 6y ago
Just to confirm, if I turn off backup, does anything stop working aside from needing at least one device to be operational at any given time? Edit: Specifically, is key backup tied to the ability to recover account history on a new device,
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by eslaught 6y ago
The thing I like about Keybase is that keys are always generated client-side and never leave the client, and all of the functionality associated with adding/removing devices is done in a way so that there's no way for a server to
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by eslaught 6y ago
Or perhaps, instead of having the 30 absolute newest articles, you could have 30 articles, randomly selected from those submitted in the last hour. That way your chance at success isn't biased so incredibly heavily on how you do in the

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