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by few 3mo ago
I learned from geoguessr pro, Rainbolt, that every tree and its species is mapped for NYC: https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/tree-map Now I am curious if there is a dataset for the location of every tree in every city in the
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by few 5mo ago
>So if your aim in doing mathematics is to achieve some kind of immortality, so to speak, then you should understand that that won’t necessarily be possible for much longer — not just for you, but for anybody. This made me a little sad
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by few 6mo ago
> In April 2024 I confided in an Amazonian that I was "not really doing a good job of owning FreeBSD/EC2 right now" and asked if he could find some funding to support my work, on the theory that at a certain point time and
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by few 6mo ago
I felt like one or two decades ago, all the rage was about rewriting programs into just two primitives: map and reduce. For example filter can be expressed as: is_even = lambda x: x % 2 == 0 mapped = map(lambda x: [x] if is_even(x) el
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by few 6mo ago
See also https://antirez.com/news/150 https://antirez.com/hnstyle?username=pg&threshold=20&action=... Which lets you find the alts of a handle
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by few 8mo ago
And their code example doesn't actually return a value!
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by few 11mo ago
Because people on the internet will call you a fake gamer if you don't play souls like games and those are best experienced on a controller?
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by few 11mo ago
Highlight: AE said at one point: “My proposal is to replace the logically complex question with a form of prompt injection . Instead of playing within the rules of the logic puzzle, we attack the framework of the simulation itself. The gua
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by few 11mo ago
This is completely tangential but as someone who used to be a competitive programmer in the 2010s, I feel like this year marked the end of an era for me. I don't have time to do regular codeforces/atcoder/leetcode rounds (and
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by few 11mo ago
I remember comments saying the stock went up because the average joe didn't realize how much of the internet was powered by AWS until all their day to day apps started failing. To most people Amazon is an online shopping site.
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by few 1y ago
It's interesting to see which codeforces blog posts get traction on HN. For context, in competitive programming a lot of combinatorial problems (find some formula to count something) require you to output the answer modulo some prime.
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by few 1y ago
Another infamous example is Brock's "jelly filled donuts" in pokemon https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/brocks-jelly-doughnuts
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by few 1y ago
>On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
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by few 1y ago
I have many years of experience writing C++. I still can't iterate and delete from a map without looking it up (if not allowed to use erase_if).
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by few 1y ago
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addr... https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr... >Krebs ... falsely and baselessly denied that
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by few 1y ago
This is cool. Does it only use a few recent comments or entire history? I'm trying to figure out where it figured out my city when I thought I was careful not to reveal it. I'm scrolling back pages without finding where I said it