hxegon

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by hxegon 3y ago
A part of CCC[1] is giant black holes outlasting the end of the universe to be around for the beginning of the next one. Is this a potential explanation? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
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by hxegon 3y ago
Clojure's lazy sequences by default are wonderful ergonomically, but it provides many ways to use strict evaluation if you want to. They aren't really a hassle either. I've been doing Clojure for the last few years and have a
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by hxegon 3y ago
I hope you find something better to do with your day than putting people down.
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by hxegon 3y ago
Honestly I'd like too. Besides covid I've been sick a few times in the last year and I think a mask would have prevented that. I was really hoping they would be normalized now, for general public health, but it's somehow beco
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by hxegon 3y ago
Just had a flashback to a bunch of people being really dumb and upset about the seatbelt laws. A lot of people saying they'd basically just push against the steering wheel to prevent them from flying through the windshield. Vividly rem
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by hxegon 4y ago
Same, can't find anything about it being different besides the color.
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by hxegon 4y ago
I completely agree that you shouldn't have to do it for fun, but I'd say A) it's still possible to balance 'code as a hobby' and the other parts of your life and B) I think OP's comment is more about having a m
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by hxegon 4y ago
The actual details of how the underlying datastructures work isn't that hard to grasp (see: https://youtu.be/wASCH_gPnDw?t=1817 ), but in practice you don't even need to go that far. At a high level there's re
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by hxegon 4y ago
Generally won't be swapping that often I would think, but besides the point because swap with SSDs (that are as good as the ones in MBs) isn't a big performance hit like it used to be. Swap also doesn't degrade SSD lifetimes
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by hxegon 6y ago
I'd encourage you to read "Talking with strangers". There's a section in there about the anchoring effect, which basically talks about how if you increase patrols in the worst parts of town and get crime there down, it m
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by hxegon 6y ago
That's pretty much what this is. I have a git repo with one dir for everything that needs configuration. Whenever I spin up a vps/vm or what have you, git clone dotfiles; cd dotfiles and stow what I'm using on that machine. s
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by hxegon 6y ago
Warning: opionion from someone who primarily used python a long time ago Ruby's design is a lot more consistent/predictable/ergonomic than python. the ruby standard library is honestly amazing (see: https://ruby-do
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by hxegon 6y ago
Current apple user/ex linux user Can't speak to your firebird issues, never used it, but as for keyboard issues? Spouse uses my main machine for basic stuff, she has her own account. I use dvorak, she uses qwerty. About 75% of the
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by hxegon 6y ago
couldn't agree more. waiting on nushell to mature so that rich data is the norm for shell stuff. learning to be comfy in shell is still worth it though. It's saved me, at minimum, hundreds of hours of work.
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by hxegon 6y ago
Feel like I'm stuck at this point myself. Sort of plateau'd my tmux at "persistence / tab manager"
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by hxegon 6y ago
I... honestly can't make heads or tails of this sentence
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by hxegon 6y ago
can't remember where but I think theoretical upper bound was about 11-12B, but realistically I think 9.5-10B based off nothing in particular.
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by hxegon 6y ago
wow this is bad. I know you should keep local backups too but if you shoot RAW then that quickly becomes cumbersome, and only using cloud backup looks very convenient. If I were a professional photographer missing client material or someone
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by hxegon 6y ago
Or there are experiences which have hard to describe intangible qualities that are hard to put logically. Not sure why you have to reach for stockholm syndrome here.
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by hxegon 6y ago
Pretty new to the language myself but it might be worth it to just dive in yourself and see. I imagine getting a proof of concept wouldn't take too long given how easy go is to learn, great builtin benchmarking, and the (from what I&#x
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by hxegon 6y ago
So you think because sometimes ebay listings are stolen goods that G2A selling stolen goods is fine, gotcha. Seriously what is your point here.
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by hxegon 7y ago
I mean I'd argue if you're questioning it then you should get out because you A) already perceive enough risk that you consider it questionable and B) It sounds like you're sticking with it because you already have it and it&
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by hxegon 7y ago
Please point out something legitimately wrong with those subreddits instead of just implying they're shitty by association with reddit. There are hard working people contributing great stuff and it just bothers me when people say stuff
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by hxegon 7y ago
System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys button on the bottom right click the "Caps Lock" dropdown and set to escape
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by hxegon 7y ago
then make 10 or 20 million and do something better with it. I hate this argument of "I could have done something better with x", it's reeks of authoritarianism. Yes, there is a better way to spend money, if you decide what
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by hxegon 7y ago
thanks, I'll check it out!
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by hxegon 7y ago
yeah starting to realize how fragile they were in the first place but I guess I'll know more as we see it play out
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by hxegon 7y ago
don't mean to make an offtopic request, but anyone have book or podcast recommendations for learning more about the Chinese political situation?
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by hxegon 7y ago
I'd never thought about it like this... pretty scary. Our economic ties always calmed my anxiety about a US-China war starting
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by hxegon 7y ago
I would say to get China to stop doing a bunch of shady shit like IP extraction but in reality I doubt people in charge care about that as anything but an excuse for strategic leveraging.

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