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by hanche 5y ago
I used to play it quite a bit with a friend back in my student days, on a 12×12 board. We were aware, in principle, that the first player had a winning strategy, but in practice, the advantage to the first player was small enough to hardly
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by hanche 5y ago
It's true in a technical sense for any size board. But the proof that the first winner has a winning strategy can't easily be put into a practical winning strategy. In rough outline, the proof goes as follows: First, note that the
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by hanche 5y ago
I don’t know what a HOA is, but sadly, I think some neighborhoods in the US have regulations against the sort of good practices the OP described. My only source: family members living there, but my information may be a couple decades out of
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by hanche 5y ago
Or fossil, built on top of SQLite.
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by hanche 5y ago
> Stacking combining diacritics is also fun, to make extremely tall text. A bit OT, but here is a classic example of that (the much upvoted stack overflow post on parsing html with regex): https://stackoverflow.com/a&#x2F
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by hanche 5y ago
The extra ones are usually kept in the closet, I believe.
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by hanche 5y ago
One could argue that a date is a region in spacetime. It starts at the dateline, spreads eastward, and ends at the dateline some 48 hours later. (Edit: 50 hours is closer to the truth. And one could quibble about the definition of “dateline
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by hanche 5y ago
That would be very useful to many, but as far as I know, the technical hurdles are formidable. I don’t know if anyone has developed a non-invasive technique yet that is sufficiently reliable. And it’s not for the lack of trying.
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by hanche 5y ago
I guess it is a case of eat your own dog food. But LaTeX and PDF have existed for longer than any more flexible format suited for the task. And last but not least, if the documentation is to actually show you the typeset result using the pa
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by hanche 5y ago
I have used LaTeX “forever”, basically since it was first created. As so many longtime LaTeX users, I have a love-hate relationship to it: I love it for what it allows me to do. Nothing else comes close. And yet, the number of hours wasted
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by hanche 5y ago
I second that. I learned about it years ago, here on HN in fact. I have been using them ever since, happily. Some while ago they were subject to a DDoS attack and service was flaky for a day or two, but apparently the attackers lost interes
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BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M(appleinsider.com)
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by hanche 5y ago
I have my emacs config set up so that the left Alt key is meta, while the right one retains its original function. Think of it like AltGr on your typical PC keyboard. But I am using Mitsuharu Yamamoto’s Mac port. I don’t know if that is pos
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by hanche 5y ago
From the post title, I’d say a big part of the moral is that just because the unit test passes, everything is not necessarily okay.
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by hanche 5y ago
For sure, in the case of mkdir() and fopen() you need to watch out for relative pathnames containing “../“. Is that the sort of thing you had in mind?
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by hanche 5y ago
I wonder sometimes if note organizing isn’t a lost cause. If we could just solve note retrieval, who cares about organizing? I want to make a note when I find out something useful, and I want to retrieve that note when I need the informatio
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by hanche 5y ago
There is silicon. Some sci-fi authors have postulated silicon-based life in their stories. (It’s been too long, I don’t remember which.) As with most science fiction, how plausible that is, is a different matter altogether.
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by hanche 5y ago
In Norway, you Are never allowed to enter the intersection on a red light. If you want to turn left, you move into the intersection when the light turns green, then stop if needed. At that point the light doesn’t matter to you anymore, and
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by hanche 5y ago
That’s not totally clear, due to the way the problem is often described: As a one-off event, with no clear rules for what the host will do. If there is no clear rule about what the host will do, you are still left in the dark. For example,
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by hanche 5y ago
Scanners often have TIFF or multipage TIFF as one of their delivery formats.
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by hanche 5y ago
As far as I’m aware, all the tags (the T in TIFF) are in standard TIFF format. But your generic TIFF reader might haves some trouble getting the image data (I.e., the pixels).
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by hanche 5y ago
The important bit comes at the end: > That's right, I was that clueless newbie who came up with a completely ridiculous abuse of a SQL database that was slow, bloated, and obviously wrong at a glance to anyone who had a clue. >
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by hanche 5y ago
That was a she, not a he.
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by hanche 5y ago
This is a bit off topic, but moving up to an M1 macbook pro has been an unmitigated disaster for me, as far as AirPlay goes. (But I am very happy with it otherwise.) I play my music though an Airport Express at home. It has always been a bi
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by hanche 5y ago
I’ve been usding PDFpen pro for years. It is pricey, but I have used it enough for it to be worth the expense. It was recently sold off to a different company, though. Hopefully without ill effects.
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by hanche 5y ago
You might enjoy Hiromi Uehara playing I’ve got rhythm. Granted, she’s not a comedian, but boy can she play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY5dTBhRxOA
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by hanche 5y ago
The date January 2004 is on the first page. So why does the post title say (2017)?
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by hanche 5y ago
But those ads are static. They have no animated gifs or videos, having to rely on typography and still images to catch your attention. As a result, they are much less intrusive. More importantly, they couldn’t track you, nor did their selec
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by hanche 5y ago
I'm sorry, but I learned about this person in 1985 or thereabout, but in 1986 I changed to a university job that involved little contact with the oil industry. So many details are lost in time. But as I recall the story, he was a refug
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by hanche 5y ago
Behind the paywall for me, but if it is about who I think it is, he was washing dishes at a restaurant until his real expertise was suddenly in demand.

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