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by jancsika 2y ago
> I just knew I did not understand the world or people much at all, seeing them as sloppy systems that seemed to operate without any predictable set of rules aside from maybe self-preservation and immediate gratification. That's a f
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by jancsika 2y ago
"If you could put the universe into a tube, you'd end up with a very long tube, probably extending twice the size of the universe. Because when you collapse the universe, it expands. And it would be-- you wouldn't want to p
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Ask advice, ask permission, whatever. It'll be okay. Let's take that at face value for the moment. The person making the request cannot know ahead of time that the person they are asking treats advice/permission intercha
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by jancsika 2y ago
> If Philip Glass had had to live in "rural nowhere" in order to afford to make music, we would have never heard of Philip Glass. Congratulations-- you're officially wrong on the internet! Meet Harry Partch: https:/&
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by jancsika 2y ago
I remember at one point reading about webrtc and some kind of "introducer" server that would start the peer-to-peer connections between clients. Does wormhole try something like that before acting as a relay?
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by jancsika 2y ago
Dollars to donuts you've spent more in your own time reconciling than you've recovered in bank errors.
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by jancsika 2y ago
> I said 'if there's a market for it'. In which case, that reminds me: The neat thing about central planning is that it can invest in things-- like rural electrification-- which are cost prohibitive for a market-based solu
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by jancsika 2y ago
> I am unable to do this in my older age, it's a younger man's game, it's good to see that people are still trying. You're on a site called Hacker News. Get 3 more old dudes, develop a whistling protocol, and box th
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by jancsika 2y ago
Rank speculation-- similar type of improv is quantized to the level of a full sentence. Even ranker-- doesn't German have the same kinds of filibuster phrases as English? Stuff like this: "Look," "The point is this--&quo
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by jancsika 2y ago
> I don’t understand why the taxpayer needs to absorb these loans when the individual took it out on their own assuming it wasn’t predatory or illegal. Because too many of your fellow citizens are spinning in what are basically poorly-wr
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by jancsika 2y ago
> While marketing helps, it's but a spark. But I think in your mental model of the internet, you removed all the marketers and influencers! People whose business is marketing artists have the ability to get orders of magnitude more
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by jancsika 2y ago
> they seem to be caught up in silly exercises just to show off to other nerds. Jazz musicians literally so, and to a much more insidious degree than Haskellers or mathematicians. That is-- jazz musicians fall prey to the tendency to f
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by jancsika 2y ago
Ok, as far as the efficacy/importance/tradeoff of optimizing compilers... How do Firefox and Chrome perform if they are compiled at -O0?
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by jancsika 2y ago
> The crypto people really want to write slow code. That's what constant time means - your best case is as slow as your worst case. At least for a hot path constant-time algo, they want all cases to run as slow as the worst case.
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by jancsika 2y ago
Yes! Has anyone tried implementing it? If not I'm going to give it a shot. :)
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by jancsika 2y ago
Oh man, this article reminds me of an article that was a parody of some horrid business logic. Something like this: a "genius" programmer was somehow, for some reason using svn commits as a method dispatcher. Commit ids were sprin
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by jancsika 2y ago
> But "works as designed" isn't the end of argument; things can be working exactly as the founding fathers expected (though only Scalia, with his powers of divination, could tell us for sure what they would think of today&
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by jancsika 2y ago
> but there is no way that anyone would not prefer giving (or receiving) a colorful, professionally printed store-bought one. Oh boy, you've got a fun education ahead of you today! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by jancsika 2y ago
Digression-- this is a good example where the mumbo jumbo that anarchists buzz on about applies in a very obvious way. You were literate in that domain. The interviewer wasn't. In a conversation among equals you'd just continue ta
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by jancsika 2y ago
That's a qualitatively different "tritone substitution" than what the author describes. author: spice up your jazz by simply replacing one dominant 7th chord with another a tritone away! Scarlatti: You thought I was aiming to
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by jancsika 2y ago
> A confirmation of Greenspun's Tenth Rule, if you will. I've always found this rule suspect. If it were true you'd have had lispers loudly reimplementing well-known, slowly-and-buggy mid-size C programs in common lisp, at
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by jancsika 2y ago
To add to the point you were making: an "individual" who's been starting at a screen doing nothing but typing aphorisms for a week straight will look visibly unhealthy to their friends. That change in countenance reveals all
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Classes as a means of lifetime management Wrt plugin systems: at least as the class level, are classes really a means of lifetime management in practice? IIRC, audio plugin APIs follow the shell command pattern of memory management for
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by jancsika 2y ago
Nobody wanted to sit in a cubicle all day playing Minesweeper, either. But it shipped with Windows, so they did. :)
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by jancsika 2y ago
How does isaspec affect the effort to get better OpenGL/ES support? I'd like to use FF webrender on a device that uses the GC7000Lite. Without webrender a lot of the web just takes too long on layout.
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by jancsika 2y ago
> They've been proposed all the way back to Chaum's DigiCash, but no micropayment system has ever really taken off. If it's true that Chaum fucked up the deal to have it shipped with Windows 95, then this is a bad example.
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by jancsika 2y ago
You've just found a way to restate "they don't truly believe they can (consistently) beat the market." On the flip side-- a passive fund manager would take 100% downside risk of the fund failing to properly track the i
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by jancsika 2y ago
> If your DSP callback executes in 1ms 99.99% of the time but sometimes takes 10ms, you’re hosed. I tend to agree, but... From my recollection of using Zoom-- it has this bizarre but workable recovery method for network interruptions. Ei
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by jancsika 2y ago
> * Programs in the US get created, and never garbage collected That is demonstrably false. In fact garbage collection is so common I'd bet I can just stand here and do nothing for 5 minutes until my brain finds an intersection with
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by jancsika 2y ago
> IMO just copy AE’s UX affordances first if your goal is to make something you want other people to use. @clementpiki I second this advice and strongly suggest to document it as a guideline for your project as soon as possible. Surf on

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