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by jessetemp 11mo ago
I always wonder how much of HN is just bots debating bots
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by jessetemp 11mo ago
I didn't find 2 surprising either, but I'm a little surprised you never see it. If you want to treat the args to a function as immutable, what can you do besides copy, modify, and return a new object?
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by jessetemp 11mo ago
I hadn't heard of the author before this. I'll definitely read more of their stuff, but I thought the bottom line for part three was a little incomplete. > Bottom line: the more uncertainty, indeterminacy, ambiguity in your gam
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by jessetemp 1y ago
The title contradicts the article. Our eyes are averaging information that is up to 15 seconds old, but we can obviously react to visual stimuli in less than 15 seconds so it’s not all that old. They’re probably also confounding the researc
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by jessetemp 1y ago
Meanwhile the local “eco friendly” pesticide company is knocking on everyone’s door, showing them pictures of scary looking bugs, offering to treat their entire yard from the foundation to the pavement. I don’t get it
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by jessetemp 2y ago
OSH Park is pretty great for prototyping. $5-20 / square inch depending on the board type. I remember running into some constraint limits years ago but they may have improved since then. https://oshpark.com/
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by jessetemp 2y ago
Flies are pollinators in the US too, but the second to last paragraph is a little worrisome > Another important point is that we have very good evidence of range declines and even extinctions among wild pollinators, which aren’t being m
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by jessetemp 2y ago
What were the results of your study? I’ve heard that bat lungs are so sensitive that when they fly across the pressure differential of large turbines their capillaries basically explode
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by jessetemp 2y ago
> E.g. what if the liability was solely with the person who sold me the wood (even if they’re actually “innocent” and simply bought from a fraudulent distributor). Why would the liability stop with them and not you? If only the last pers
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by jessetemp 2y ago
This is about mid range wireless charging [1] not Qi chargers. If something is charging your watch from across the room it's blasting your whole body. The FCC limits RF exposure to 1.6 W/kg. [2] That's presumably the standard
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by jessetemp 2y ago
Structure, as in pattern, not space station
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by jessetemp 2y ago
I think what’s going on behind the verbal sleight of hand here, is focusing on the process (quest) instead of the outcome (goal). It’s the difference between doing a thing and having done a thing. I might enjoy having written a book, but I
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by jessetemp 2y ago
I don't want to cramp your style, but displaying those in a table would really improve readability
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by jessetemp 2y ago
I’ve had the same problem. In my case it was uBlock hiding the full page cookie dialog but the dialog was still disabling text selection. I really wish websites would just respectfully set the minimum by default and let users opt in to the
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by jessetemp 2y ago
Sounds like a questionable tradeoff to me. I just want underscore remapped to shift-space. It’d be easy to type because they’re both big keys. And underscore is a variation of a space anyway. It’s like an uppercase space
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by jessetemp 2y ago
It’s wild how many patents were granted for basically the same thing. Add a little wiggle on the end? New patent!
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by jessetemp 2y ago
Exactly. LLMs are closer to a plinko game than consciousness. And I'd bet they quickly start returning gibberish when you run them in a feedback loop, sort of like an opamp going to a power rail in a badly designed circuit
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by jessetemp 2y ago
Not that it changes your point much, but AI research also took decades. It’s just that the last few years are when all these milestones were achieved
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by jessetemp 2y ago
They’re probably referring to the earth getting enveloped by the sun in a billion or so years as it expands. I still think you’re right though. The better plan is staying on earth. The trick is moving it outward as the habitable zone expand
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by jessetemp 2y ago
That post just gets better all the way through. I can't believe I never realized the frequency domain can be used for image compression. It's so obvious after seeing it. Is that how most image compression algorithms work? Just wip
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by jessetemp 2y ago
That’s an interesting idea. If there’s enough room between floors already, I wonder if you could squeeze in some horizontal periscope skylights without removing floors. Just need to occasionally send someone out to scrub the exterior window
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by jessetemp 2y ago
They're saying the things that don't add value are muda (waste), not the foundational stuff. I only know that because my employer uses the same jargon. And since almost no one speaks phonetically-spelled-out Japanese, they always
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by jessetemp 2y ago
How do you genetically engineer a resistance to fluid in the lungs, or radiation exposure, or whatever all the other interesting ways to die in space are? Imagine all the suffering caused by failed attempts, people living their whole life w
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by jessetemp 2y ago
Might very well be in panic mode. They're also partnering with Indeed to bring back a new version of StackOverflow Jobs. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/399440/testing-a-ne...
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by jessetemp 2y ago
Well to me, sensible would be where I can play an album, and then select a couple more albums to start playing in sequence after the first album. Spotify's queue doesn't do that, at least on windows. Instead, playing the first alb
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by jessetemp 3y ago
It's not perfect, but pretty close if you compound monthly. It works with your examples too. 100% interest (compounded monthly) doubles at about 0.75 years, and 0.75 interest doubles at around 100 years. 41% interest doubles at around
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by jessetemp 3y ago
Circa 90s and early 2000s. I like how there's a whole book on quaternions. I've never understood them and I'm convinced every definition I've read was written by someone who also didn't understand them. I might try
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by jessetemp 3y ago
Not disagreeing with the general complacency of humans, but the frog thing is a myth. They only stay in the water if you remove their brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
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by jessetemp 4y ago
> not sure why people keep beating the "if you add more supply, the price goes down" drum The cynic in me assumes it's because they're investing in real estate and want more real estate to invest in, so they can conti
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by jessetemp 4y ago
Lightmatter is a great first person puzzler that I haven't seen anyone here mention. The story is good enough, and if I remember correctly, told through audio recordings you pick up along the way. Non-violent, but you can die. I really

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