jancsika

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by jancsika 2y ago
This being HN, I'd love to hear from one of the many IRC channel mods who literally typed (I'd guess copy/pasted) this kind of text into their chat room topics and auto-responders. If you're out there-- how does it feel
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> So if my self-image is, "I've advanced our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality," then the idea that my contributions weren't useful becomes painful. Only if one believes the logical fallacy that the d
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> Baseline Tcl's biggest challenge, in my opinion, was providing mechanisms to write modular code for larger programs and data encapsulation. I don't know if something about tcl's design precluded lexical scoping and a nor
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> You can't just arbitrarily set the status quo that way, can't just sneak a premise that the state has default a right to collect a piece of arbitrary appreciation on an asset (as all assets are used for speculation) when the
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There's a second problem here. OP is either unaware or doesn't care that they're being filtered by people who are wary of others who knowingly and consistently lie to strangers as the common case of getting to know one anot
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> thousands of factors But this includes risk factors, too. E.g., IIRC there's research into how certain stressors on the mother during pregnancy increase the likelihood of things like anxiety and depression for their offspring.
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It's like the Two General's Problem embedded in a single connector. You never really know it's right until you take it out and test the friction against the other orientation.
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> My gut reaction is to unplug, to go offline, to seek out in-person communication and to shun online media. Keep in mind this is rank speculation 20 years into the future . If this were 2004 OP would have you convinced 90% of your day
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by jancsika 2y ago
I doubt people are even reading the document posted in the tweet. Take number 7: 7. Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reason-able" and avoid haste which might result in e
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You: escape the oppressive technical limitations of scoring a piece for an orchestra through novel use of technology . Csound: To make a sine tone, we'll describe the oscillator in a textfile as if it were a musical instrument. You ca
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This case isn't abrasive, but it's certainly incoherent. Name a single case where professional responsibility would require C code advertised as "rough around the edges" to be used anywhere near production. (The weasel
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> Regardless of copyright, it does feel like there is a place for archival indexing of historical recordings. Does anyone have a link to such an index for what.cd? Just the following: * album/track string plus minimal metadata (rele
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I just imagine you saying this to a group of frustrated NASA engineers, then seeing a hard cut to a bunch of rough necks chasing each other around on an oil rig.
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> I mean, I do understand that it's easy to sit there and think 'I understand sending money the first time, but how do you still fall for it the 6th time they ask you to send more money?'. Such an assumption would show a c
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The divisions are also interesting. You've typically got something like a group of 16 violins for the first section, then another group of 16 for the second section. Each section has a "1st chair" which is the violinist sitti
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by jancsika 2y ago
If you don't know anything about OpenBSD, here's a fun thing: 1. Randomly choose "yes" or "no" to this question. 2. Read the post and get the answer. 3. Repeat until you begin to get a tingly "Spidey sense
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Am I correct that malformed pages in xhtml would have triggered the browser to output a red XML error and fail to render the page at all?
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At least in terms of emotive distance between original and cover, I'd say Joe Cocker's version of "With a Little Help from My Friends" beats it. Cocker's version was so compelling they didn't even bother doing
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In that case we're talking at cross-purposes, so I'll reserve judgment. I'm concerned with what let's call Gorhill's Web-- that is, the experience glued together by gorhill's Ublock Origin that is viewed by the
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A question before I enter your Manichean universe: Does Tor Browser Bundle currently ship with Ublock Origin installed and on by default?
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> We don't really know yet if the 401k experiment is going to be successful. Wouldn't there have been some segment of the population with about 25 years of 401k by 2008? It should be possible to compare them retiring during the
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Would be cool to see a histogram of all of the web's textual representation of floats based on character length. In other words-- what percentage of outstanding publicly-accessible data sets require an implementation of strod which can
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What happens in that case? I'm going to speculate: 1. Remote keeps sending stuff to your unplugged connection 2. You plug your ethernet cable back in 3. Your computer's TCP acknowledges the last sequence number it received for eac
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> The people agreeing to these debts, by definition, do not have an education in complex debt instruments that cannot be discharged. I guarantee you that law/med school students have an education in "complex debt instruments th
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> If student debt is dischargeable and the government guarantee is removed or dramatically reduced, pretty much all problems are “solved”. Chesterton's fence definitely applies here. If you don't understand what that law attemp
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To complete the LARP[1], would you mind finding a boomer-age Korean father and complaining jealously about his "white-person's version of Korean food?" 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Prod
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> But that will be their water under someone else's bridge and as long as that water sill allows them to reap the benefits of their "not proudest moments" then it's just going to happen again and again with the next g
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> but it has also been a substitute for organizing Hard to imagine even a single would-be organizer who got side-quested into zealously advocating for Tor. On the other hand-- easy to imagine many digital utopianists who on principle
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> Mac's drivers are even better with sub ~20 ms on my m2 pro IIRC. Just to be clear that you're measuring apples to apples with OP: You are measuring less than 40ms roundtrip latency on your Mac. Is this correct?
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> There hasn't been a Wikipedia-like event for many decades. Off the top of head... OpenStreetMap was in 2004. Mastodon and the associated spec-thingy was around 2016. One/two decades is not the same as many decades. Oh, and wh

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