ilyagr

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by ilyagr 3y ago
Moon or Mars would only get the second stage of the starship, with 9 engines (was it?), not the super-heavy with dozens. So, it's okay to only have the flame trench on Earth.
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by ilyagr 4y ago
https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua is similar to `z` but has extra features, including a useful integration with `fzf`. It does require installing some version of command-line lua.
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by ilyagr 4y ago
Fascinating, thanks!
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by ilyagr 4y ago
> many satellites use tape measures for this purpose, literally tape measures. They're called gravity gradient booms. Could you elaborate a bit? What part of a satellite is a tape measure useful for? How is it useful?
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by ilyagr 4y ago
2 is the odd prime for the same reason.
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by ilyagr 4y ago
Yeah. I wish the article talked about "the most boring nonempty quine".
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by ilyagr 4y ago
Fake investigative journalism "proving" whatever you want people to believe. Alternatively, a critical mass of such "journalism" convincingly arguing for contradicting theories, making people confused and apathetic on th
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by ilyagr 4y ago
Shake hands!
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by ilyagr 4y ago
As an aside, my own opinion is that the practical implications of the existence of these chatbots are vastly more worrying than the philosophical implications.
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by ilyagr 4y ago
The main philosophical effect of these chatbots is that some questions that were discussed by a minority of people for tens and hundreds of years suddenly reached the popular imagination, and became interesting to vastly more people. Sudden
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by ilyagr 4y ago
I wish it was "Becoming a demigod allows arbitrary code execution..."
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by ilyagr 4y ago
Great story, but I think the last sentence can lead people to wrong conclusions. It sounds to me like you spent more than 3 days on it. A crucial part of what you did, IMO, was to figure out what's needed, how you could do it, and then
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by ilyagr 4y ago
I wish the article mentioned Fira Mono, which is the same as Fira Code but without the ligatures.
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by ilyagr 4y ago
Re parallelism: I have 12 cores, and cargo indeed effectively uses them all. As a result, the computer becomes extremely sluggish during a long compilation. Is there a way to tell Rust to only use 11 cores or, perhaps, nice its processes&#x
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by ilyagr 4y ago
https://micro-editor.github.io/ It's being actively developed. I wish it replaced Nano, Pico, etc
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by ilyagr 4y ago
You can give https://github.com/martinvonz/jj a try. It works with git repos. Jj is developed, in part, by a few Mercurial developers.
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by ilyagr 4y ago
Mine stopped charging and broke years ago. :( I couldn't find a smartwatch I like since.
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by ilyagr 4y ago
Pebble Round is pretty much the only thin smartwatch I'm aware of. It's 8mm, if I remember correctly.
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by ilyagr 4y ago
I prefer the style of the original Geiss plugin ( http://www.geisswerks.com/geiss/shots.html ) to Milkdrop, but every recent project I know (I know if this one and https://github.com/jberg/butterchur
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by ilyagr 4y ago
Here's a video of wild orcas cautiously playing with a human: https://youtu.be/bTIcQMwYC1o . The description of the video is worth reading for context.
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by ilyagr 4y ago
I, personally, learned to use git a couple of years ago, have never learned to use the `checkout` command, and had no need for it. The goal of `switch`/`restore` is to do everything that `checkout` does while being less of a confusing
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by ilyagr 4y ago
Diamonds are a great example!
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by ilyagr 4y ago
I guess if I can get USPS to accept the parcel quickly enough, what happens afterwards is their problem. I'm sure they won't mind. In fact, if the parcel is - er - damaged while in their care, the USPS will owe me. They better rus
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by ilyagr 4y ago
Can this overcompressed material continue to exist at room temperature and pressure? It would be remarkable, but I guess it's hard to imagine how that could work.
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by ilyagr 5y ago
I'm confused about what this is supposed to achieve. The Budapest treaty already exists. It doesn't include most of Ukraine's neighbors, but Russia certainly signed it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud
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by ilyagr 5y ago
However, the US is not willing, at the moment, to take possession of the planes and then give them to Ukraine. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60657155?ns_mchan... I wonder if it's fear or bure
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by ilyagr 5y ago
Apparently this was an unpleasant surprise for the US. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60657155?ns_mchan...
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by ilyagr 5y ago
The New York Times had a nice article about this. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/world/europe/russia-ukrai... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30550572
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Last Vestiges of Russia’s Free Press Fall Under Kremlin Pressure(nytimes.com)
11 points by ilyagr 5y ago|4 comments
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by ilyagr 5y ago
Apart from grouping, custom indexes are great as default columns for joins. I just wish Pandas treated named index columns as columns. When I write df["blah"], I don't want to have to remember whether I just loaded the data a

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