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by huntie 9y ago
Transmission does this with the verify command.
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by huntie 9y ago
Somewhat related, does anyone have a reccomendation for learning Newtonian Physics? I took a semester as an undergrad, but I didn't understand it as well as I would like.
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by huntie 9y ago
Not sure if they've done a production run, but BOOM[1] has existed for a while. I'm not sure if it supporst speculative execution yet. [1] https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-boom
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by huntie 9y ago
Ford sold their stake in Mazda years ago, and lost a controlling stake in 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda#Partnership_with_Ford_Mo...
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by huntie 9y ago
This only works for increasing weight, so you would have to use something lightweight like a Miata. The problem with this is that a Miata won't be able to take 600 whp. If you throw too much power into a car you'll just warp the f
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by huntie 9y ago
So you want an electric race car to feel like some other car? This really isn't possible at all. No matter what you do, a Testa won't handle like a Miata because you can't change weight on the fly. Really all that you could d
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by huntie 9y ago
I use ripgrep and it's pretty great, but I don't know why Visual Studio Code would be using it. Why not just use Rust's Regex library instead?
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by huntie 9y ago
What gopher client is that? It looks really nice but searching for "Little Gopher Client" didn't bring up anything.
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by huntie 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642088
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by huntie 9y ago
If you want to quit the smartphone, what I did was to set a random 10 letter password, which I kept on a piece of paper in my wallet. Change the password every 3 days. For me this made using my phone enough of a hassle to break any habit I
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by huntie 9y ago
I wonder what the studies considered an error. Are syntax errors counted, or did it focus on runtime bugs? I imagine that syntax errors would really skew the results if they were counted.
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by huntie 9y ago
I've been pretty happy with FF57. One thing I've noticed is that opening a new tab seems to block the browser. I have my new tab page set to a personal web page, which takes 150ms to fetch. If I open a new tab and press F6 before
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by huntie 9y ago
>threading macros Wow that's pretty awesome. I'd been annoyed with needing to use lambdas for this type of thing. I especially like the as-> macro. I need to take the time to explore Scheme macros to see what other useful ab
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by huntie 9y ago
Exactly what yoavm said. The pipelining that shell languages do allows for more complex and more arbitrary data transformations. I feel that doing this in Python would be difficult, but I'm not very familiar with it. In scheme you can
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by huntie 9y ago
This is interesting, but I feel that making shell support such a first-class citizen is a mistake. Shell languages basically treat system binaries as functions, which causes you to lose a lot of power with everything being a string. Using s
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by huntie 9y ago
I don't know why they couldn't be. I'm pretty sure Gerbil's macro/module systems are heavily inspired by Racket.
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by huntie 9y ago
I think it's usually to provide extra features. For example, Gerbil has a more advanced macro and module system than most Scheme implementations. It's also very easy to do because you're bascially given an AST for your new Sc
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by huntie 9y ago
Ah that's good to hear. I'm finishing up SICP now, so hearing you compare the two really makes me want to jump into the Feynman Lectures afterwards.
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by huntie 9y ago
Can anyone who's read the Feynman Lectures comment on how good they are? I started reading them, but after a few chapters I didn't feel that I was actually learning physics. I get the feeling that the Feynman Lectures are like Knu
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by huntie 9y ago
There's no reason why it coudn't be a live site. A live version would require a custom gopher server though, and it looks like they're using Gophernicus. So what they're doing would be analogous to serving static files w
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by huntie 9y ago
Why would you want one book? Can you even imagine trying to search through such a thing, or updating it? It's far better to have textbooks for each subject. As for open source textbooks, here is one such initiative: https://
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by huntie 9y ago
I thought this was a good talk, but it felt like an overview of chapter 2 of SICP. Not a bad thing, but if this interests you give SICP a read as well.
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by huntie 9y ago
I've never had issues with writing. I've doodled with one occasionally, and have run into issues then. Checking it now, it seems fine at a 45d angle. It does require more pressure at smaller angles, but my normal writing pressure
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by huntie 9y ago
I used to write with a fountain pen a lot, they're really nice to write with. Most of my writing now is math though, and I've found that fountain pens aren't the best for that. I really like the Sakura Pigma Micron pens thoug
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by huntie 9y ago
It's worth noting that while GPG's financial situation is better now, GPG is still looking for funds. Here[1] is a post from June about their current donation campaign. [1] https://gnupg.org/blog/20170606-camp
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by huntie 9y ago
Not sure what you mean, but Sci-hub was sued in 2015 by Elsevier. Nothing really happened because Sci-hub is hosted in Russia.
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by huntie 9y ago
I have >450 tabs open right now, so I guess this is me. I said this the other day, but I use the Tab Groups plugin, and I have a different group for each project I work on. For example, I have a keyboard group with pages related to DIY k
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by huntie 9y ago
I don't really follow Ethereum, but from headlines on Hacker News I've learned that 1. Ethereum is difficult to work with 2. Its difficulty does not provide security This doesn't exactly inspire confidence in it. Some comment
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by huntie 9y ago
That looks really good! I'll have to try it out first, but it makes me more hopeful about Firefox's future.
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by huntie 9y ago
I just checked and I currently have 450+ tabs open. I closed around 100 the other day. I work on a number of projects at the same time, so I'll often have a bunch of documentation open for one project and then switch to the next one wi

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