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by finnh 2y ago
Twin Peaks
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by finnh 2y ago
Right ... the output isn't really "keyboard & mouse operations" as stated in the abstract. The output is a sequence of atomic commands ("shoot", "select_weapon") or composite commands ("follow&qu
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by finnh 2y ago
For sure. Qubes OS is an interesting step in that direction. Mobile does mostly get it right - and yet the devices are single-user only, it's so odd. The fact that I can't share an iPad with my kid without needing to fully disabl
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by finnh 2y ago
Every time I look at NixOS, I think that it perfectly solves a problem that I only have once every 5 years, when buying a new computer. I think I even looked into it once to automate that exact process, but that idea fell apart at the firs
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by finnh 2y ago
If we could get an ice-9 that raises the freezing temp of water by only a couple of degrees, that might be hugely useful in a world of climate change. We could keep our glaciers and the wonderful year-round fresh water supplies (rivers) tha
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by finnh 2y ago
This was over a decade ago, so happily not something I'm feeling too sharply nowadays. It all worked out better in the end.
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by finnh 2y ago
I am not sure I'd agree with that - at one point Salesforce tried to buy my company, which was a best-of-the-AppExchange partner, and their justification for their (very) low offer was "that's what it would cost us to copy yo
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by finnh 2y ago
Was there, reviewed the PR, can confirm. Hi Steve! Since then we've also tuned it up in a couple ways, in particular adding "skip" logic similar to fast reservoir sampling to trade some accuracy for the ability to not even lo
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by finnh 2y ago
Good to learn, thanks. "Everyone you follow" isn't quite what I was saying, but I also don't use twitter so I'm doubly in the dark here. I'm surprised that someone with, say, a Twitter problem and tens of mill
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by finnh 2y ago
> These numbers are a bit better than Twitter’s numbers. Because of how unbalanced the social graph is, getting performance this good and this reliable is not easy. For example, when someone with 20M followers posts a status, that create
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by finnh 3y ago
The author should remove - or at the very least _credit_, come on - the image used in "The Pendulum of Database Realm" section. It's from Martin Kleppmann's "Designing Data-Intensive Applications", a particula
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by finnh 3y ago
Terrifying article about the impact of solar weather on our (electricity-dependent) society: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/what-a-major-s...
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by finnh 3y ago
Sounds like they aren't against "transactions" as a thing - they are limiting _their_ transactions with society at large. After all, the number of transactions required to make even a pencil is astonishingly high, as Adam Smi
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by finnh 3y ago
Curious why you are careful to never mention the handle of the HN user in text, only in images. What is the perceived threat model of stating clearly (in this comment, or in your blog post) the name of the HN user who copied you etc?
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by finnh 3y ago
I didn't realize Kamasi Washington is on Ninja Tune! They had a predilection for releasing zillions of compilation albums with heavily overlapping track lists, which kind of fatigued me on the label, but I'm still fond of the earl
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by finnh 3y ago
I think used car lots are the biggest users, per se - like a CarFax situation. I think a lot of the relevant data can be pulled off the car's monitoring post (i forget the acronym).
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by finnh 3y ago
I'm not sure that's true - temperature is a big factor that's uncorrelated with mileage, as is how frequently the battery depletion beyond the optimal level. There may be other things - I don't own an EV yet so I'm
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by finnh 3y ago
Exactly, the battery question is what it is all about. I wonder if these Hertz cars will be tracked on Recurrent[0] so you can gauge their battery health [0] recurrentauto.com, started friends of mine but otherwise no relation
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by finnh 3y ago
For the first decade or so that I used SoundCloud, music discovery was WORK - their recommendation engine wasn't great, and their search tools were limited, so you'd have to just kind of chase links through artists & commenter
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by finnh 3y ago
Nice! My family has a "Spirit of 76", inherited from my father-in-law who bought it new. It's always fun to open the machine up and trace through all of the connections. About ten years ago we hired a pair of local guys to re
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by finnh 3y ago
The "Washington" in "Washington Commanders" is Washington, DC. Not Washington State (which has no income tax).
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by finnh 3y ago
Can you point me to docs for ZFS offering a nocow mode? I haven't used it in about a decade, but i can't see how that would work - wafl/cow is a pretty fundamental invariant in everything ZFS does
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by finnh 3y ago
overtraining is such a trap! My college crew program had something like 11 workouts per week - one on the water, at 5am, and one in the gym at 4pm, every weekday, plus a "big one" on Saturdays. Very little tapering before big race
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by finnh 3y ago
why not use boats, on the surface of the water?
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by finnh 3y ago
ugh sorry to hear that. That squeeze I mentioned before (lowball offer at "this is what it will cost us to copy you") was, thankfully, for a company that we bootstrapped so we had no VC pushing us to close. And we bootstrapped be
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by finnh 3y ago
Thanks. I've sold two companies, and gotten a pressurized squeeze from a major player (which we said no to - we were profitable so didn't have runway problems), but I've never heard of dropping an offer valuation at the last
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by finnh 3y ago
Where are you getting those numbers from? The valuations of small acquisitions are closely held information; afaik there is no place to just look this stuff up.
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by finnh 3y ago
you might like "Without You There Is No Us," a memoir by a foreign national hired to work at a boarding school for the children of the NK party elite
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by finnh 3y ago
That must have been the section that broke downward, so was traveling faster than terminal velocity.
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by finnh 3y ago
that's so ravyn

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