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by jchook 7y ago
I read a relevant article about how the semantics of division by Zero ultimately rest on arbitrary decisions of the mathematics community. Trying to dig this up I found these: - https://www.1dividedby0.com/ - https:/&
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by jchook 7y ago
Thank you sincerely for not contributing energy to realtime chat, FOMO, and the "constant inbox". I personally find amazing productivity when I turn my phone to DND (helps with robocalls too) and quit all chat apps. On most phones
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by jchook 7y ago
Qwant.com produces far better results than DDG in my experience.
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by jchook 7y ago
Any info on the motivation for making an entire language instead of a library for an existing language (e.g. for C, Python, or Go)? Especially if the syntax mimics C-like languages, what important advantages do we get?
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by jchook 7y ago
Not a complete solution, but I’ll throw in some tips: 1. Don’t show anyone. For me, this saps my interest by providing premature reward for my hard work. Keep it secret except from people helping you directly on the heavy lifting. 2. Will i
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by jchook 8y ago
Laws stopped crime so no question they'll also fix the Web.
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by jchook 8y ago
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. If you love this article you will love this book.
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by jchook 8y ago
EditorConfig should be called CodeConformity. The project doesn’t actually aim to provide consistent editor config. They only want to control code formatting. The maintainers refuse to implement certain configs on principle, such as soft wr
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by jchook 8y ago
“This article is probably full of potholes, errors and half-baked thoughts.” To chip in some thoughts: 1. If you use chrome, you cannot fully disable tracking. Even if you use chromium, you can’t enable sign-in, which pretty well neuters a
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by jchook 8y ago
So they capture the CO2 then.. release it? Into a greenhouse? Then what? How much of the CO2 goes back into the atmosphere?
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by jchook 8y ago
I got a little excited that it would replace Prettier except with [insert more reasonable style preference here]. Alas, they list the autofix support as partial/experimental.
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by jchook 8y ago
AppImage maybe
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by jchook 8y ago
The only folks with this skewed perspective on the issue already donated their DNA to a company and simply want to convince themselves that it was a great idea.
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by jchook 8y ago
Is that a feature or a bug of *nix?
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by jchook 8y ago
If you really wanted to follow UNIX philosophy, why not build atop xinetd? for example... simply accept stdin and stdout as I/O streams by default, but don't provide a network mechanism.
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by jchook 8y ago
I agree. Summary of findings: “Test subjects who spent hours practicing [insert proprietary game here] scored better when tested on different games that require similar skills.” Smells like a poorly designed experiment salted with commerci
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by jchook 8y ago
Personally I was quite surprised by the good performance of React 16 + Preact in the benchmarks. It's not much slower and does all the "update" logic for you. Keep in mind, too, React handles MANY edge cases for scenarios lik
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by jchook 8y ago
I want to switch to Firefox. The few things preventing me seems small, but have made the transition unfriendly and/or tedious. 1. Chromium "Multiple Users" feature allows me to separate business and personal life very conveni
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by jchook 8y ago
I found this interview with Karl Friston helpful to understand free energy principle from a high level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIu_dJGyIQI
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by jchook 8y ago
You may also enjoy https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and...
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Wikipedia for Cobra Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jchook 8y ago
> If someone is good at her job, she’ll be promoted... This is exactly the opposite of how I understand the Peter Principle. My understanding is that folks who are good at their job remain in their position (because they are good/ef
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by jchook 8y ago
Sick burn.
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by jchook 8y ago
Hey despite the poor performance this post taught me a lot about Ruby. Thanks! I did wonder.. doesn’t readlines load the entire file into RAM? Would it be more performance to try, e.g. File.open(filename).inject(0) { |c, line| c + 1 }
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by jchook 8y ago
It’s so funny that quantum physicists chose the term “retrocausality” because the literal meaning of its parts (“ex post facto”) can only be understood in the context of the “arrow of time”. Perhaps wordsmithing that alludes to a superordin
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by jchook 8y ago
Do I read this article in the future because I found it on HN today? Or did I find this article on HN today because I read it in the future?
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by jchook 8y ago
Stratechery has a great article about how Google chooses to show their local results over more useful results from its competitors: https://stratechery.com/2018/the-bill-gates-line/ The relevant explainer video:
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by jchook 8y ago
Really curious what the biology-centric AI folks have to say about this, e.g. Jeff Hawkins.
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by jchook 8y ago
Upload all your files to our internet web server for FREE!!1
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by jchook 8y ago
The US Government subsidizes our oil addiction. If the costs were apparent at the gas tank, a “free market” would correct in a blink.

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