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by hawkice 10y ago
A computable number one where there is a finite length representation of the number, namely, there is the program that, given a number of digits, can output the number it describes accurate to that many digits. There are a tremendous number
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by hawkice 10y ago
I won't touch the geography of it all, but if a very good developer told me they were just average (as far as they knew), I'd say they're just being kind. True no matter where they are -- but I think more likely for remote wo
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by hawkice 10y ago
Star Wars A New Hope release date. The constant was called aLongTimeAgo.
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by hawkice 10y ago
I think that it's very possible that unrestricted political speech isn't needed for dynamic business environments. I feel like a lot of Americans are waiting for the other shoe to drop, but only use vague innuendo or metaphor to e
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by hawkice 10y ago
I mean, this is great, obviously. True spirit of the holiday. That being said, rustc _is_ slow.
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by hawkice 10y ago
There's lots of concern about the bizarre relationship disclosure. But perhaps even more bizarre is that this deal has a structure closer to a strategic move than actual philanthropy. Am I massively misreading this? This page details h
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by hawkice 10y ago
> strawmanning his position as nepotism So, you obviously feel strongly about this, but let me explain why your comments are less persuasive for those of us outside this subculture: The non-profit they donated to is (by any reading of th
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by hawkice 10y ago
Even that might be too long in some cases. Living out of a car and eating only dog biscuits while you work on portfolio pieces and find a better job is a preferable option for some fraction of people without families. No joke at all.
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by hawkice 10y ago
I think there is a norm of "no purely political stories", and an expectation that it is a story the hacker news audience will care about. Internet privacy rules seem very much in-bounds.
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by hawkice 10y ago
This is one of those times where I think the discussion might be confusing one hard problem with a slightly hard problem that's hard to scale. It seems like the hard problem is understanding how to model how neurons interact with enoug
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by hawkice 10y ago
Woah, that domain name. Also, I got kinda sidetracked looking into this StandardFile thing -- can I just use localstorage or something if I don't want to figure out what's going on with that?
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by hawkice 10y ago
I mean, for that timescale, I personally would prioritize making sure the kids know not to poop on their desks and not to scream indoors, but sure, metacognition, that's good too.
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by hawkice 10y ago
You have this backwards. New Mexico is #1 for unemployment only if you're going for a high score. Obviously, high unemployment should match low labor participation, which is what you see. The numbers make a lot more sense than you thin
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by hawkice 10y ago
Or a product made from fish (you may have a category, sales of fish and fish products). Or a product made by the fishes themselves, like corals are a product of marine life more generally.
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by hawkice 10y ago
A more appropriate headline, from another news source: "NSA Whistleblower Binney: Trump No Exception to Surveillance State". Might be perfect if you point out Binney has been talking about this for almost two decades now somewhere
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by hawkice 10y ago
This was put into effect under Obama, it seems, by the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act of 2016, an act introduced and sponsored by a Texan Republican. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress&#x
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by hawkice 10y ago
I don't disagree -- presumably some of their conversation happened verbally, so the claim 'I don't take notes or have records of confidential things' makes more sense? Seems likely, I frequently discuss things in person
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by hawkice 10y ago
tl;dr DJB was approached with a complaint, and thought it was a situation where he would give advice and his counterparty expected he would maintain his confidence. After he heard about the frustration the complainant was experiencing, aske
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by hawkice 10y ago
Yeah, down for me as well.
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by hawkice 10y ago
I like rust a lot, but even hello world web apps compile (and recompile) so slowly. I barely get a single step down my to do list before recompiles take more than a second, and it makes it functionally unusable compared to other tools. I kn
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by hawkice 10y ago
I'd say you're correct, but in a slightly more indirect way than many might assume (they might read it as, gov. gives money to company, therefore company has more money -- but they still compete with each other on price, so that d
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by hawkice 10y ago
> What is the point of transition where we stop treating someone like a victim and begin treating them like a criminal? A possible answer: proportional response. Breivik dealt out much more damage than he ever sustained. If a child has h
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by hawkice 10y ago
I guess I don't understand the value of querying based on a slug when the slugs could disappear or change non-deterministically. Wouldn't that pattern of APIs just encourage code that works a lot except then it suddenly stops work
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by hawkice 10y ago
It wasn't an issue of simplicity, it was about HTML being extremely hard to sanitize so it isn't turing complete. Having formatting (that can still line up with your sites styles) while knowing you can't get script injection
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by hawkice 10y ago
I just meant, that, not only is the premise of commitment contracts well thought through, the smaller choices, like the 1 week delay on changing a goal setting, to why the exponential increase in punishments is closer to tripling than doub
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by hawkice 10y ago
Beeminder. Everything from exercise to posture to meditation to work. It's one of the most clever pieces of software I've used, in terms of domain-ideas embedded in it.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Nice, but missing who knows how many. `developer` is on the list, but not `dev`. Not sure how to avoid that kind of confusion systematically, but I appreciate the attempt. Honestly, this is essentially why I have no interest in letting thir
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by hawkice 10y ago
This claim is so absurdly easy to verify with that 3rd party that I'm actually decently sure this isn't corporate espionage.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Also, weren't the ISPs injecting their own ads onto remotely hosted webpages? Is the claim here that people love looking at annoying banner ads?
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by hawkice 10y ago
I mean, illegally obtained evidence is still evidence. I don't think it's absurd to think police want to convict as many guilty criminals as possible, particularly if the crime is heinous enough to justify risking their own jobs b

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