harveywi

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by harveywi 4y ago
Python is a religion. No quantity of technical shortcomings will dislodge its habitat in the minds of its acolytes.
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by harveywi 4y ago
They're gonna need a bigger trie.
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by harveywi 4y ago
It is undecidable to determine whether a manuscript has terminated, or whether it will continue being revised forever.
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by harveywi 4y ago
We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
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by harveywi 4y ago
They got angry when Trump was elected so they forked the Oval Office.
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by harveywi 4y ago
Compare with Meta's "Galactica", which was a complete disaster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33611265
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by harveywi 4y ago
The bigger they are, the barder they fall.
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by harveywi 4y ago
To go from level N to N + 1, one must learn to embrace the succ.
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by harveywi 4y ago
To Jimmy Carter's credit, the space shuttle Columbia disaster could have prevented if the thermal foam on the external shuttle tanks had been replaced with a sweater.
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by harveywi 4y ago
The electromagnetic radiation from the wi-fi antenna helps the food cook more quickly.
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by harveywi 4y ago
They missed an opportunity to call this "Levenshtein 3D"
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by harveywi 4y ago
It seems you have identified the second commonest cause of high blood pressure.
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by harveywi 4y ago
For those who may not have access to this treatment, an alternative is to add the following to /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 facebook.com 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com 127.0.0.1 twitter.com 127.0.0.1 www.twitter
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by harveywi 4y ago
Should be possible to train them all as scrum masters.
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by harveywi 4y ago
It is only a matter of time before ChatGPT learns how to ask: 1. What did you do yesterday? 2. What will you do today? 3. Any blockers?
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by harveywi 4y ago
Those details have to be omitted from manuscripts in order to avoid having to cite the works of Jürgen Schmidhuber.
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by harveywi 4y ago
It truly belongs in a museum.
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by harveywi 4y ago
There are plenty of petty turds in academia today who do similar things, ruining the careers and significantly negatively impacting the lives of students. When they decide that they do not like a student (for _any_ reason), they have unchec
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by harveywi 4y ago
Tired: effective altruism Wired: agAPE
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by harveywi 4y ago
Also known as "unplaid leave".
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by harveywi 4y ago
> As someone who's worked on a huge Python program (10M+ LOC), type safety was the last thing on our mind when maintaining it. This is true. Python dictionaries are extremely powerful, and they obviate the need to use elaborate type
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by harveywi 4y ago
So you are essentially saying it was not an apples to apples comparison?
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by harveywi 4y ago
Also known as the Tennessee barking spider.
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by harveywi 4y ago
Question: Wikipedia article on coprophagia in software engineering Answer: Coprophagia in software engineering is a phenomenon that is commonly observed in agile software development teams, whereby a member of a software development team wi
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by harveywi 4y ago
Question: Wikipedia article on rectal breathing Answer: Rectal breathing is a technique for controlling the volume of air inhaled into the lungs by increasing the amount of air held in the rectum, thereby reducing the amount of air in the l
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by harveywi 4y ago
Calling it now: The hollywoodified hagiographic biopic of Zhang Yitang will feature him having a sudden mathematical epiphany during his shift at a Subway restaurant. While filling an order for a ham and turkey sub, he is struck by the insi
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by harveywi 4y ago
>Works out to about $65 per lunch. How did Elon calculate >$400 per lunch? Probably the olive tapenade [1]. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/moiravetter/2015/06/04/the-4000...
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by harveywi 4y ago
>It's quite a sensation overcoming the "need" of breathing. Indeed there are many ways to experience it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27159001
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by harveywi 4y ago
Tired: Logical distributed clock Wired: Clockchain
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by harveywi 4y ago
Possibly the same estimated 1B crabs that disappeared from Twitter when the Elon Musk deal was announced.

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