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by jjmarr 2y ago
It's not even the only TUI browser pronounced that way. See: links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Gift link with video, because a static archive doesn't do the opening video justice: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/science/cuttlefish-camouf...
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I've solved n-queens once before using exceptions to handle control flow. I coded a recursive solution for an assignment, but I wrote it wrong and it ended up printing all of the possible solutions instead of just one. Because I didn&#
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Sad to see it's shutting down. The wiki was the most fascinating thing about it to me as a kid with the lengthy recounting of mall sieges.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I've been told it depends on management's goals. If you are a startup (many HN readers are), employee hours are relatively expensive. The goal is to get a product out as fast as possible, and most of the time you fail at making a
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Are all probability-based mechanics requiring you to choose how you spend limited resources gambling?
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by jjmarr 2y ago
As the original commenter, I live in Toronto, Canada. It's pretty simple: homes are too expensive. One bedroom in an illegal sublet of an eighth of a house can be C$1000+/month. Why would anyone pay money to live in a de facto h
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Funnily enough, this was at Toronto Metropolitan University. We have a safe injection site on campus because it's downtown.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
A homeless guy shot another homeless guy on my university campus a few weeks ago. It's hard to consider that a school shooting even though it happened on-campus.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
In all honesty I just thought I was getting stupider over time. Glad to hear I'm just bouncing around the margin of error.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Use GPLv3 or AGPL then. If you want companies to "give back" when they use your code, put it in the licence. Or you can charge money for your product.
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https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/story-4-preprinted-f... Love this story so much I just posted it. Although it's from an era in which you'd buy CDs and books containing contracts, it's still
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Preprinted Forms Don't Go to Trial(stimmel-law.com)
4 points by jjmarr 2y ago|1 comments
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Here's a gif on how a real pinball bumper works: https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanical_gifs/comments/aflmj7/how... It's not really a rigid body, it's a dynamic component that squeezes the ba
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Ask HN: Do stock price changes affect the value of your annual stock grant?
3 points by jjmarr 2y ago|2 comments
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by jjmarr 2y ago
It is. As an example: https://sos.ga.gov/ In practice, people get confused by that.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Those properties are beautiful! I can get a beachfront villa for practically nothing. In Canada something that close to the water would be several million dollars despite not even having a tropical climate. What is Mexico's visa policy
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Can you give an idea of how much I'd have to spend on a house? And also what I'd get for that money?
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Domestic tech in Canada also pays significantly less. Entry-level for some banks is like US$50-60k
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by jjmarr 2y ago
wtf that's barely less than Canada? and significantly more on a purchasing power basis. How do I move to Mexico?
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by jjmarr 2y ago
They've removed the paywall, here's an archive of what it looked like: https://archive.is/1if4M
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Nobody actually knows what year Jesus was born, so setting "1 AD = Jesus' first full year of life" wouldn't be accurate. It's more or less the same puzzle as COBOL's alleged default. https://en.wikip
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Most computers use modified Harvard architecture, funnily enough. There's a shared memory space like von Neumann, but separated caches for instructions and data. It's the best of both worlds, because from the CPU's perspectiv
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by jjmarr 2y ago
While this nursing home guide is interesting, it's important to acknowledge that it sounds like ChatGPT.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
You can pretty easily submit shareholder proposals for trolling purposes or ask questions. Other investors will probably vote "no" to your proposals, but for many companies you can force a vote for a pretty low minimum. In Canada,
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by jjmarr 2y ago
magic_enum addresses your issue but will absolutely kill compile time on a large project due to recursive template instantiation.
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Aquinas was born in central Italy during the High Middle Ages. What hair and skin colour do you think he had?
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by jjmarr 2y ago
> Are AI-written books getting published? Yes, online bookstores are full of them: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/travel/amazon-guidebooks-... The issue is there's an asymmetry between buyer&
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Modules sound cool for compile time, but do they prevent duplicative template instantiations? Because that's the real performance killer in my experience.
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> He was consistent and clear when he talked about his identity in California courtrooms as he tried to fight the charges on the grounds that he really was the man whose name he was accused of stealing. But Mr. Woods made other remarks t

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