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by kqr 1y ago
This is sad. XMonad handles workspaces with multiple monitors exactly the way I want. I really wish other window managers did -- especially on Wayland. Until they do, I'm stuck with XMonad. (Which is good, but it would be fun to get to
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by kqr 1y ago
This sounds similar to how I use XMonad (except I swap in different workspaces on the main monitor as I work). I wish there was something like it for Wayland...
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by kqr 1y ago
Oh. That's actually very helpful. I hadn't realised Newton--Raphson could be that easy to use in practice. The closeness between 1.47 and 144 did strike me.
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by kqr 1y ago
Log-odds difference from contingency table: ln (4×11) - ln (1×8) = ln (44/8) = ln 5.5 ~= 2.3 × lg 5.5 ~= 2.3 × 0.75 = 1.75. Standard error of log-odds difference: √(1/1 + 1/11 + 1/4 + 1/8) ~= √(1 + 0.09 + 0.25 + 0.1
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by kqr 1y ago
I think the HN audience might be interested by this controversy around to what extent LLMs can be used to direct text adventure games.
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ParserComp 2025 – Initial Results(intfiction.org)
1 points by kqr 1y ago|1 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
Yes, it is wrong. The curvature of the sail lowers the leading angle of attack which promotes attachment, i.e. reduces the risk of stalling at high angles of attack, but it is not responsible for lift in the sense you mean. It could be argu
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Crontab(xkqr.org)
1 points by kqr 1y ago|0 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
Seems like it's on the line that's scaring people like AI 2027, isn't it? https://aisafety.no/img/articles/length-of-tasks-log.png
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by kqr 1y ago
You're right -- that's what I was trying to say. There are all sorts of external systems tied into flight planning and operations, but once the plane has left the gate the plane should contain everything important already. Thus, t
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by kqr 1y ago
I would guess that refers to entering records when the plane takes off and lands, to keep track of where it is. I.e. not information that would be used in flight -- at least not critical information! Obviously air traffic control wants to k
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by kqr 1y ago
Checklists are surely not pulled from an external system while the plane moves. That would be a recipe for disaster!
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by kqr 1y ago
By the time they have pushed out the weights are already accounted for. It's part of the checklists that come before taxiing.
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by kqr 1y ago
The relevant critical information would probably be copied to pilots already. I suspect it has more to do with what happens after landing.
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by kqr 1y ago
As long as the planes don't leave, the airline will know exactly where staff and equipment are: right where they were when the system broke. Once things get moving it becomes really complicated to figure out where everything is again.
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by kqr 1y ago
This is something I love about Finnish as an outsider: instead of loaning words they create beautifully poetic compounds. I have lost my list but remember comet being "tail-star", capital being "head-city", and world bei
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by kqr 1y ago
Passkeys are still a shared secret, aren't they? Asymmetric cryptography would have been amazing. Barring that I would actually recommend Oauth or something like it, to limit the number of parties who manage shared secrets to a smaller
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by kqr 1y ago
> AND more accessible languages I'm not sure I interpret you correctly but the increased prevalence of good package managers on Linux surely contributed to increased usage of languages not installed by default, unlike Perl.
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by kqr 1y ago
> its annoying that parties’ primary goal is to gain influence Inevitable consequence of a representive democracy. Parties are chosen based on electability, which is merely a proxy for good policy. This means parties that don't opti
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by kqr 1y ago
It also gives you cover to ask questions that reveal politically inconvenient truths: you can pretend you had no idea that answer would pop out of it. (Of course, in an organisation that contains many politically inconvenient truths, you ca
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by kqr 1y ago
For anyone curious: an average of 1.2 instances per month the first year and a half. During the worst season, it can be twice in a month, sure. https://entropicthoughts.com/how-often-does-a-child-get-sick (Child spent 16 %
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by kqr 1y ago
In Sweden at least, there's an informal rule that a new speed zone is marked with speed limit signs on both sides of the road, whereas a continued limit is marked with a sign only on the driving side of the road. I never quite saw the
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by kqr 1y ago
This is one of the things I find difficult about travelling abroad, particularly with children. I'm used to incredibly high safety standards, and when I'm in traffic in many other places in the world it feels like going back a few
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by kqr 1y ago
Indeed. The "cones" used in the Nordics are diagonally striped bollard-like things[1]. As a local, I can tell whether the work is done by professionals not based on whether cones are present (they are), but it comes down to if the
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by kqr 1y ago
You notice this quickly when cycling in cities. Cars take forever to safely negotiate their way through intersections thanks to their size.
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by kqr 1y ago
Really? Anonymous subroutines/coderefs are defined with sub {} are they not?
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by kqr 1y ago
That is true. You'd need to expose alternative versions of system functions that deal only in parsed and not raw data, and then prohibit the native variants. A little more ceremony, but also a little more flexibility. Edit: It might be
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by kqr 1y ago
Why the empty prototype in the first alternative?
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by kqr 1y ago
Not true. I'm sure Perl is one of the most widely installed languages in the world, by virtue of (still!) being a system component in various unices. (Maybe even macOS?)
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by kqr 1y ago
This is "parse, don't validate" as a language feature. Any statically typed language has this, in the sense that you can write your domain logic in terms of a set of "untainted" domain types, and only provide safe c

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