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by euske 5y ago
I want also to add that the programming space, or software specification space, is also mindbogglingly big, if not bigger than the chemical space. People should know how many possibilities of small details exist for implementing a teeny tri
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by euske 5y ago
I think the drag-n-drop UI is less intuitive. Wasted a few minutes trying to click these items as "buttons" and wondering if there's something wrong because of the http-onlyness of the site (console gives a lot of warning).
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by euske 5y ago
I really want to add this bit: cut -d delimiter -f fields sort -t delimiter -k fields awk -F delimiter
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by euske 5y ago
I agree with the talents bit. This article somehow reminded me of Richard Feynman saying that scientists are "just people" who really likes thinking and looking into stuff. Ultimately, I tend to think that one's talent is rea
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by euske 5y ago
It is worth pointing out that Yann LeCun, a prominent ML researcher, also worked with DjVu, an image compression algorithm. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu
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by euske 5y ago
My pet theory is a bit similar to the article but in a more computer-architecture way. I tend to think that sleep is our brain performing "GC" our experiences, i.e. choosing what information to retain and what to discard. Since we
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by euske 5y ago
Counters are often depicted as a unique feature in Japanese but I think it originated in Chinese, as their use of counters are more systematic (e.g. instead of saying "this book", you can say "this [book-counter]" in Chi
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by euske 5y ago
But ideograms and pictures can be also pronounced verbally. So what the SCP does is to steal any encoded information about him? But then it would stole every random bit because any information can be theoretically decoded as random bits!
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by euske 5y ago
Same. My first reaction was: "Isn't English the first (or older) general purpose programming language?"
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by euske 5y ago
This is kind of crazy thought experiment, but would the Internet be really different today if there's no ads? (e.g. somehow it's been considered extremely uncool from the beginning so it's naturally shunned.) Many ad-supporte
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by euske 5y ago
Meta observation: OP says nothing new, but I guess that people have to (re)discover this sort of principles by themselves, no matter how many times they're told by the wise and old. We often say that we hate reinventing the wheel. But
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by euske 5y ago
My reason of getting interested in programming has been changing. When I was a kid (10yo), I loved programming because I can do graphics and audio and other eye-catchy things. When I was in teens and in 20s, I loved programming because I wa
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by euske 5y ago
Personally the biggest obstacle of using a debugger is that it cannot be automated easily. You have to be present when it's triggered. You have to navigate it manually. When the program crashes again, you have to repeat the process. I
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by euske 5y ago
I kinda agree, and I do like playing and making video games myself, but I don't want people to be uppity about it. It is a very complex form of art, yes, but more "advanced"? It's certainly not as matured as novels or mo
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by euske 5y ago
I'm using this bash script that adds a web-browser like history management (going forward with "+" and backward with "-"). It's been used for a couple of decades now. https://gist.github.com/eus
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by euske 5y ago
Thanks. I just had to make this for my own sanity. https://imgur.com/HJlojYx (This is Japanese hiragana. The original letters are written below for comparison.)
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by euske 5y ago
> Success is almost by definition a hindsight measure. The same goes for natural selection. "Survival of the fittest" is always defined retrospectively. You'll never know what is truly advantageous at the moment. The only
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by euske 5y ago
Is there any government contact tracing app that is considered successful by tech people? Japan had a similar problem: its contact tracing app, COCOA, was originally developed by volunteers in open source. Then the government "purchase
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by euske 5y ago
Ha. This just occurred to me - Google is a search engine of websites for many people, but at the same time it is a search engine of people for many advertisers. We thought we were looking for something but actually we were constantly search
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by euske 5y ago
What do you call the art style like this? It reminds me of a game called Va11-halla. I kind of like it, but it's frustrating that I can't name what it is. I see random Japanese texts here and there that are obviously made by non-J
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by euske 5y ago
> when they fail, they fall all the way to bottom. Thank you for this. I love when HN provides a view outside a typical Western middle-class cohort. At a larger scale, I think the same thing could be said to an entire society. In a poor
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by euske 6y ago
It's one of my favorite Saint-Exupery quotes. This is also relevant: (from my vague memory) "Any fool can add things. Subtracting, however, requires a genius." - Greek saying
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by euske 6y ago
Now what I want to see is a real clinical study of quitting (or reducing) addictive phone use with this thing. Because fake cigarette can actually work for some people quitting smoking, why this one wouldn't? The same technique might w
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by euske 6y ago
This is probably a dumb question, but what language an early COBOL compiler was written? Is that assembly? How the language runtime was connected to the I/O? Was there even an operating system? COBOL and mainframe seems so arcane to me
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by euske 6y ago
Also happened to know about this site just today, thanks to the video by Johnny Harris (who covered a lot of geopolitical stuff recently). Awesome stuff. cf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PbgYReEUO8
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by euske 6y ago
Fun fact (not fabricated BECAUSE IT'S APRIL 2ND OVER HERE): Japanese alphabets (kana) doesn't have a concept of upper/lower cases. There are two different types of kanas (round ones and square ones) but they are kind of equal
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by euske 6y ago
The tools shown in the article are not IDEs or editors but more like static analyzers. I think that an increasing number of people want to check if the finished product satisfies what they actually want, and there will be a sizable market f
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by euske 6y ago
You can do this with tmux too. ~/.tmux.conf: # export to clipboard. bind-key > run-shell -b 'tmux save-buffer - | xclip' # paste from clipboard. bind-key < run-shell -b '( xclip -o | tmux loa
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by euske 6y ago
I think, as of 2021, terms like "OO" or "OOP" (as well as "AI") should be avoided from serious technical discussions. Its definitions diverge a way too much from person to person, and it often leads to blanket
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by euske 6y ago
What's amazing about hentai-kana (hentai as "alternative form", not pervert) is that governments and town registrars still allow using them as an official name in their electronic registry. I recently got a copy of my family

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