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by jancsika 3y ago
But then how do you do what I'd consider simple things like sanity checks? For example, hooking up jumper cables. I suppose I could hook them up without an inner dialog. But then at any point if I get confused or remember that dangerou
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by jancsika 3y ago
Keep in mind that the normal learning process involves students asking questions out of left field, surprising and frustrating even long-time experts who might need some time to consider how to answer even if the expert has the knowledge
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by jancsika 3y ago
Off the top of my head: * critique of arguments for the existence of God (reasonable or otherwise) * critiques of national policy of a given political party (reasonable or otherwise) * reporting on the alleged wrongdoing of a powerful polit
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by jancsika 3y ago
> - It's optimized to "maximize engagement," which is code for making it addictive. When anyone says engagement in our industry it's usually a euphemism for addiction. Wikipedia on its own with zero-cost internal hype
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by jancsika 3y ago
Aldi consistently sells avocados for 60% less than the discounted avocado at the big chains. And this is in an area where avocados aren't grown. How are they able to do this across so many food categories? The interview doesn't an
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by jancsika 3y ago
Could you speed up CGI by, say, having an array of processes ready and waiting to receive data? Like an array of Haskell CGI processes or something...
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by jancsika 3y ago
If web users had to pay money for specialized 3rd-party plugins just to use CSS filters then everything would just get rendered server side. Same logic applies to the physical space. Just throw a filter on the well side. That avoids shippin
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Instead, carefully curate your identity . This is described well in Atomic Habits. Train yourself to think “I am just not the kind of person who does x.” Interesting but orthogonal to the article. The article: "I am the kind of pe
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by jancsika 3y ago
I love the absurd verbosity of that reference svg: User: Hello, browser, I'd like to create an svg object. Browser: Now, hold on just one second. Is this the zeroth time you'd like to instantiate a custom xml object that you decid
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by jancsika 3y ago
If you want to attract other humans with a harpsichord, ditch the Church durges and reach instead for an operatic form. They're just more dynamic. Benefits: * recitative form allows you to freely speak-sing to get through a lot of cont
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by jancsika 3y ago
My two cents-- make the license be exactly whatever Linux is-- gplv2 only IIRC If you do this then you'll never waste another moment discussing licenses for the rest of your life. It's just "because it's what Linux use
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by jancsika 3y ago
From their CCC presentation it looked like the Chrultrabook had parity with the previous-gen ThinkPads. That's why I asked the question-- I'd like to know which Chromebook to look at which can support the bog-standard features I m
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by jancsika 3y ago
Ah, I see. So they could have at least excluded "==".
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by jancsika 3y ago
Whichever distro gives me the relevant drivers out of the box.
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by jancsika 3y ago
Is there a best of breed piece of hardware for Chrultrabook? Say, one where Firefox's webrender runs for GPU-accelerated browsing, standard fare like Youtube videos is also GPU-accelerated, WIFI chip runs flawlessly by default, and the
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by jancsika 3y ago
Could "use strict;" have silently changed all occurrences of "==" to "==="?
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by jancsika 3y ago
It would be funny on each new version to list "sped up rendering by 2x!" in the change log. And each time you just decrease the animation durations by half. :)
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by jancsika 3y ago
The problem here is that once you have a metric for outsized compensation you make it 10x easier for a cheater to snatch it up merely by turning it into a target. (Lines of code, commits, etc.) What's worse is that your metric is as li
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by jancsika 3y ago
Can you explain the process by which Mozilla gives the unique identifier to Google? The article quotes Mozilla saying they can correlate the two, but it doesn't state how.
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by jancsika 3y ago
> What's more is that you could without too much difficulty get that company not only to profitable status in pretty short order (given that kind of budget), but get it to usage share that matches Firefox's own (given how low t
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by jancsika 3y ago
> "subscribing is not an option because even though this paid service does exactly what I want now at a price that is trivial for me they might someday later change" Gonna gamble and call bullshit on this. My speculation: the m
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Apparently in the front near the entrance/exit, there's a button simply labeled "INTERNET RESET" that she presses whenever a customer complains. I worry that this is actually part of a RESTful interface. In that cas
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by jancsika 3y ago
It's too bad that technology in music refers to the means and not the ends. E.g., pastiche techniques in Mahler, continually developing variations in Brahms. Even octatonicism in early Messiaen, or a 70s DJ moving his hand back and for
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by jancsika 3y ago
> People say "just show the posts in chronological order," but this doesn't scale for humans reading it, especially as you follow more people. People say they want kind, honest car salesmen, but that doesn't scale for
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by jancsika 3y ago
> We're all prone to Gell-Mann amnesia. For those who don't know: Gell-Mann amnesia is the effect is what happens when you read a story in the newspaper about, say, the rampant corruption of the opioid crisis, but then turn the
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by jancsika 3y ago
Just a reminder that this happens on Hacker News, too. Check out one pro-Google astroturfing account that they caught back in 2020 and froze for posterity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22383746 Apparently this was a
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by jancsika 3y ago
> If I was a pilot, you bet your ass I’m going to hide any mental struggles I’m having from the FAA. There's an additional problem here: if you have depression , you can bet your ass you're going to hide your mental struggles.
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by jancsika 3y ago
How was the government robbing us with the First Step Act? That's smack dab in the middle of the Trump Administration, complete with Democratic support and Koch Foundation support. Also, the recent bipartisan bill to keep the governm
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by jancsika 3y ago
I'm just surprised there seems to be no bridge whatsoever between the two. Like the developer asks, "what's the address to set this bit?" and the tourist responds with whatever it is.
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by jancsika 3y ago
Hm, if that's the case then why don't Western open source hardware projects just send a bilingual tourist over to Shenzhen to muck around until they connect with someone who can give them the docs needed to bootstrap the relevant

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