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by interroboink 1y ago
I can't speak on the subject, but I just want to say I really enjoyed the Star-Trek-esque language (: Here, we introduce optical rotatum, a behavior of light in which an optical vortex beam experiences a quadratic chirp in its or
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by interroboink 1y ago
I think one could argue that FreeBSD is more cathedral-style than Linux, and there are other examples, especially for programming languages, where the inventor(s) want to avoid it being pulled in too many directions at once (extreme example
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by interroboink 1y ago
Nice to see Mercurial on HN — my favorite version control software (: I remember years ago learning that in some way Mercurial repo functionality was a "superset" of Git, the main issue being Mercurial's "named branches&
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by interroboink 1y ago
Somewhat tangential: this reminded me of Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning was the Command Line" [1] which speaks highly of BeOS. I liked the bug report "R4: BeOS missing megalomaniacal figurehead to harness and focus
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by interroboink 2y ago
I did! [1] There was some initial activity, and we got it narrowed down to a range of commits, but did not get any real smoking gun. To be fair, I also put in less effort once I found I could just copy the 11.3 loader and get things working
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by interroboink 2y ago
Having run some hardware for about 20 years (recently deceased), the problem that eventually happens is that newer OSes drop support for old hardware. If you hit some weird bug on your setup on a new OS release, there won't be anyone t
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by interroboink 2y ago
(aside: I'm not especially arguing with you; just thinking out loud in response to what you wrote) > Something waddles, quacks & lays eggs because it is a duck. Or: something does those things, period. We notice several such som
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by interroboink 2y ago
I might nitpick the "understanding" part. Lots of ML-type statistical models produce good results, but we can't very well explain how they work. Or maybe by " working understanding" you mean "we have a black b
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by interroboink 2y ago
I suppose that's where a nematode is interesting — it's maybe juuuust simple enough that a real nematode on a plate of agar (as described in the article) might be able to be simulated well enough that we could actually make useful
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by interroboink 2y ago
> Right on up to professorships, this is how science really works. Reminds me of Feynman's "Cargo Cult Science" essay[1] One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil
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by interroboink 2y ago
The author makes a good point that it's important to define what "a good simulation" means. On one extreme, we cannot even solve the underlying physics equations for single atoms beyond hydrogen, let alone molecules, let alon
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by interroboink 2y ago
“We’re only going to do this once and there’s always the unforeseen.” — Joseph Bazalgette, on doubling the pipe diameter when building the London sewer system (though I don't have an original source for that quote)
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by interroboink 2y ago
I suppose I lightly disagree with that. Revenge, to me, holds a significant connotation of "spite." I.e. making someone feel bad/hurt because they made you feel bad/hurt. It's about the hurt, as much as (or more t
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by interroboink 2y ago
Yours is a good point — and something that took me a long time to understand about some people I care about. Personally, my anger is usually "directed," though more in the sense of furiously/forcefully wanting to correct som
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by interroboink 2y ago
Perhaps since FreeType is the one handling the more untrusted inputs (the font files themselves, downloaded from who-knows-where), it is more at-risk and thus stood to benefit from the conversion more? But I don't really know anything
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by interroboink 2y ago
I think what they're suggesting is that yes, Google spent some SWE hours to implement it, but they have (or will, over time) saved more than that in equivalent compute (by pushing it onto users). So, from Google's point of view,
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by interroboink 2y ago
I actually prefer the "when it's done" model rather than the "train leaving the station" model, for software like this. I feel it better allows for broad-scope changes, which may touch large swaths of a codebase, to
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by interroboink 2y ago
See this comment on the chain: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411#d... (and the comment that spawned it, which is essentially the same as yours but with some more specifics)
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by interroboink 2y ago
Are these animated, or somesuch? I tried naïvely using `ps2pdf` (Ghostscript), but got errors on both of them. I guess they're meant to be consumed by some other sort of system?
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by interroboink 2y ago
Reminds me of this older story, of Harrison Okene, who was trapped in a capsized boat at the bottom of the ocean for 3 days: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/26/i-survi... video of his r
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by interroboink 2y ago
> you don't need any keys for trust, you can imagine a centralized system ... I guess part of the essence of what I was trying to describe was that it's non-centralized. Otherwise, you have to trust some entity to unilaterally
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Ask HN: Are there web-of-trust style online communities?
7 points by interroboink 2y ago|6 comments
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by interroboink 2y ago
Interestingly, potatoes contain almost everything a person needs (all essential amino acids, carbs, etc). If I recall correctly, you get complete nutrition from: potatoes, a small amount of dairy (vitamin A, calcium, fatty acids), and a sma
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by interroboink 2y ago
I'm new to websockets, please forgive my ignorance — how is sending some "heartbeat" data over long polling different from the ping/pong mechanism in websockets? I mean, in both cases, it's a TCP connection over (eg
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by interroboink 2y ago
Maybe you already know this and have discarded it (if so, no worries), but for what it's worth, this is my perspective on these things: Some people, in some contexts, use words like a laser — very specific, very targeted, with precise
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by interroboink 2y ago
While I, too, believe that words should mean things, I don't think it's quite so cut-and-dry in this particular case. Part of the reason the term could not be trademarked was because it is too descriptive; it's easy for peopl
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by interroboink 2y ago
Just to add a different perspective: sometimes people mean Open Source[1] when they say "open source," and sometimes they don't. Personally, I take the cathedral/bazaar distinction to indicate different development caden
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by interroboink 2y ago
Perhaps my main objection is that you said "Nothing in our society X" rather than "many things in our society Y." I was just providing some counter-examples to show that there's more than nothing at play, here. Ce
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by interroboink 2y ago
> Nothing in our society operates in a way that might imply this. I beg your pardon? Consider just about any physical belonging — say, a book. When I buy a book, it belongs to me. When I read a book in my home, I expect it to be a privat
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by interroboink 2y ago
Could someone explain to me — it's not actually crashing on its first instruction, I take it? Why does it appear to be crashing on the first instruction? Did the malware mess with the main thread's code, so that the first instru

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