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by firebones 5y ago
Nearly every ball touched by a bat is tossed out of the game--foul balls, balls in the dirt, balls that get tossed back by the pitcher. Games typically use between 84 and 120 balls. It would be trivial to detect if the ump did a check on ev
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by firebones 6y ago
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/5-reasons-warren-buffett-did...
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by firebones 6y ago
It sounds almost like it is a kind of fuzz-testing then; I'm interested in what percentage of problems uncovered were problems in the spec or undefined behavior, versus problems introduced by the simulated annealing itself.
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by firebones 6y ago
Medium is not StackOverflow, it limits the number of articles that can be freely read. On the other hand, StackOverflow simply limits the number of interesting discussions that can be had.
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by firebones 7y ago
If Zoom supports stock background filters or modes, that would seem to be another massive source of repeating plaintext, depending on the implementation.
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by firebones 7y ago
* Lead by example. * Steer ad hoc discussions toward the issue tracker--whether via stories or spikes. * Don't let Slack/IRC/Teams be the place decisions are made and documented. They're good tools for conversation start
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by firebones 7y ago
Had a similar situation with my mother's iPad and Yahoo. YahooMail wouldn't allow a password change because my mother, having suffered an injury, moved and gave up her landline phone number, and had no alternative verification mec
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by firebones 7y ago
There is a lot of wisdom in this post. I think there are some people who have a knack for recognizing talent, value, whatever you want to call it, and protect and/or share their own social capital to encourage (boost?) what they see an
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by firebones 7y ago
Great story, although I really thought the punchline would be "Fast forward two years when a new firmware programmer took over, pushed a change that caused the rushed format detection to be skipped, and destroyed all our telemetry data
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by firebones 7y ago
I don't know. The proposition to a non-chain restaurant in the suburbs, of which there are very few to begin with, reminds me more of a Groupon situation where the restaurants come out on the short end. In this case, it's not beca
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by firebones 7y ago
In most of the groceries stores around me, discount logic is applied after the the total is completed. So voiding after you completed scanning and were ready to pay would have been legit, but maybe not so much if you didn't wait until
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by firebones 7y ago
Issuing additional RSUs for retention is something which, with their positive cashflow, they absolutely would do (handled by share repurchase) if the stock price dropped to the point it made rational sense. Who wouldn't stick around at
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by firebones 7y ago
My failures were ones of optimism about an open web. 1) When the semantic web didn't emerge, I got excited by embedded microformats as a way that many of the same benefits to be achieved in terms of computable knowledge. 2) I was alway
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by firebones 7y ago
Do you know if this vulnerability might manifest in other ways, and permit remote participants to force you into sharing or viewing your screen silently? One of the first times I'd ever used Zoom was in a call with a startup trying to
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by firebones 7y ago
The forces of capitalism and most existing forms of government are anathema to decentralization (inherent in the crypto-blockchain premise). The idealism of decentralization exists only until it meets the overwhelming real world gravity of
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by firebones 7y ago
Take a look at Google Reader, though. They got skewered for dumping that. But despite being shuttered years after RSS was a thing, even then it was limited to RSS wonks like a lot of us who were the only ones lamenting it (and the decline o
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by firebones 8y ago
This is wise. Choose a company to work for the same way you choose a company to invest in.
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by firebones 8y ago
It was never a picnic and I go back farther than 20 years. I'm not discounting new brands of terror, but propensity for cruelty is the constant--the medium of cruelty is the main difference.
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by firebones 8y ago
What volume of sand would you need to make a difference? And at what rate does it collect Cs137 to reach 99%? Would it be feasible to stack filters? (E.g., 0.01 * 0.01 * 0.01...)
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by firebones 8y ago
I've seen that too. And I've also seen some of the same people with very adaptable personalities who are continually learning and inquiring and who make working at such places tolerable.
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by firebones 8y ago
All of the other posts are great for personal finance and savings. But at some point, if you have some money saved, look for opportunities where you can make no-risk decisions that earn you $XX or $XXX per hour spent implementing them. And
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by firebones 8y ago
For all the Catcher hate in this thread, the short story collection "Nine Stories" may be more interesting to those who quit on Salinger based solely on traumatic coerced readings of Catcher.
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by firebones 8y ago
Fascinating that it beat out both "Catch-22" and "Franny and Zoey" for the award in 1961. Perhaps, as the author implies, it was its introduction of experience outside of the Heller/Salinger milieu that readers foun
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by firebones 8y ago
I love this 3-day graph the best: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=<your latitude goes here>&lon=-<your longitude goes here>&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical is my favorite. Just
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by firebones 8y ago
Have they been scammed before? Or been made as good marks? I've got an elderly relative who fell into something that I swear followed a lead generation funnel. Accepted some semi-legitimate domestic computer services help (optimize you
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by firebones 8y ago
That's pretty cool that it never goes down and you don't ever buy at $60 and sell at $59.40.
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by firebones 8y ago
Agree that it is far more likely to do that with small numbers rather than big numbers. But that is something entirely different than finding a sustainable scheme giving 10% per month returns. Sustainable should mean that 500 readers of HN
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by firebones 8y ago
I, too, would like a bot that generated 213% annualized compound returns.
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by firebones 8y ago
I give the post credit in that it provoked your comment and some potentially enlightening discussion for someone not entirely familiar with the study of human behavior (like me). For instance, I would have thought that twin studies might be
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by firebones 8y ago
Missed opportunity: the cult film "Six-String Samurai" set in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas and featuring the Russian-American music of the Red Elvises could have instead been entitled "Seven-String Samurai." But I don&#x27

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