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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s a zero-sum game, but there are 3 parties: the state general fund, the prize pool, and the players. By regulation, a fixed percentage of each ticket sale goes to the state general fund and the rest goes to the prize pool. Also by regu
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The lottery’s and retailers’ profits are each a fixed amount of the ticket price, and the rest goes into the prize pool. They don’t lose any money unless they commit to paying more prize money than they allocated to the pool. Jackpots are
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I didn’t intend to signal a blanket disagreement with ‘lotu, but rather to indicate that their position rests on assumptions that don’t necessarily hold for all cases. I actually agree with most everything you say here, except for grouping
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Linked lists allow you to keep track of the order of items when you can’t control their location for one reason or another, and tend to show up as one part of a more complex structure— For example, many garbage collectors use them to keep t
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
They’re requiring that the app publisher has editorial control over the ads that appear next to their content. This is a shift back to how things work in pre-internet media and ensures that any damage done by an inappropriate ad (whether b
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
But in monetary terms, what do these “free” services cost to various populations? The advertisers believe that paying for the service is turning them a profit, so someone is paying more for the advertised products than they used to. Is
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The feel of the thing is determined by end-to-end latency, not the latency of any individual part. Without knowing that, we can’t evaluate how much of an improvement this is in relative terms— is the overall latency 50% of what it was or 9
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I will do what I will do And what I do shows me what I want to do. I am but an adviser to myself, Trusted but reluctantly.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
You reinvented the accounting daybook: Shops doing paper accounting never went through the hassle of double-entry accounts for each sale. Instead, each was a single line in the day’s journal, and closing for the day involved reconciling th
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I started with the augmentingcognition.com spaced repetition model, and then decided to augment it with a catalog of everything I read(1). For my own original thoughts, I write them down in a few paragraphs and then treat them like any oth
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I generally prefer to use Make as my build system everywhere, so that I only have to learn the quirks of one system, and it’s easier to handle mixed-language projects. The documentation for using rustc directly is hard to find, but it’s qui
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> 3.8.0b1 is scheduled to be release shortly after the PEP is officially submitted. Since it's improbable that the PEP will pass all stages of the PEP process in time, I propose a two step acceptance process that is analogous Python
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
E is the output gear, and B is the input. The arrangement on the right is to make the frame A and gear C turn in opposite directions, and D adds the two rotations together again to turn E twice for each revolution of B.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Generations of hackers have been expressing designs perfectly well with traditional class syntaxes. “Traditional class syntaxes” have existed for only half the time since people started thinking about object-oriented programming in the
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Any VIP program works on the (perceived) social standing that comes from (perceived) exclusivity. YouTube doesn’t want to alienate the traditional celebrities with ties to big media companies; part of that means stocking the VIP pool with
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
In similar situations, I’ve often discovered that I’m hoping the penny will fall one particular way. When that happens, I don’t look at the actual answer and go with the one my subconscious apparently wanted.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
If you write them yourself they certainly can. For small projects, you can leave everything explicit and it works great. Can you break down your problem into a bunch of rules of the form “To produce this file, I need to run these shell com
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Lots of restaurants never stopped using reusable utensils, they just don’t let you take their bowl home with you because it’s expensive. It would not be hard for a restaurant to take a deposit and let you walk away with their bowl, and let
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Kids are also graded on an easier curve than adults. Inevitably, skill is assessed in comparison to your peer group, so kids are doing well when compared to other kids their age. For any given activity, especially language, most adults pa
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The original idea was that you had URLs that told you where to find a thing, and URNs that identified a particular thing regardless of where it appeared. These used a unified schema (called URIs) because when you’re telling somebody else a
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The closest I can think of is trying to define a set of CRDT-compatible operations that are expressive enough to describe your database schema, starting from an empty database. Then, the migration you need to perform is whatever the CRDT m
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
There were a few incidents where people were crushed to death by a panicked crowd trying to flee burning buildings. With that much force behind you, there’s no way to open an inward door. It’ll also generate a lot of friction between the
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> If you don't leave enough space you'll have to shift all the books after that letter. This is what card files were originally invented for— number all the shelves, put your new book wherever there’s room, and put a card with
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’ve found maintaining a Leitner box with physical cards much more engaging than any of the software, probably because our brains intuitively understand physical things better. You have compartments that get bigger as you go farther back in
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
For my language cards, I don’t have any English on them at all. They’re all Cloze deletions from either books or a dictionary, or sometimes declension tables. I wrote more detail a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
“Who is the teacher behind FastAI”— This sort of thing is useful so that you can remember a search term to find other things that he’s done, or if you’re regularly writing things where the convention is to site by author’s name, instead of
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
When you want to change how your data is stored you have two options: 1) Don't touch the old data, and make sure all your code knows how to handle both the new and old layouts 2) Update the old data to comply with the new layout #1 is
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Some people use the word “exercise” to mean any physical activity, and others use it to mean pushing your body near its limits. Lots of the bewilderment that happens in these discussions is between people that define the word different way
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
One issue I’ve noticed from growing up is that “exercise” and “healthy” were always adjectives of last resort — if something was described that way, I knew I was in for a thoroughly unpleasant experience.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
> is an accident caused by the progress of technology, not a design goal of the license plate It certainly wasn’t a design goal for 1910-era license plates, but it probably is for 2010-era license plates. The only way to really know wou

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