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by kqr 5mo ago
For what it's worth I find about the same things using Kagi as I do using DuckDuckGo. But with Kagi I get to pay for the service I use and that's their funding model and that's very healthy so I want to support that.
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by kqr 5mo ago
I second the Russ Cox recommendation. I read that ages ago and that was what made me realise some theory could actually be useful in practice.
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by kqr 5mo ago
I think the main complaint is with virtual Qwerty keyboards rather than the idea of virtual keyboards overall. If the KeyBee keyboard had a control key it would be very good. (Well, the fork of it that allows extra-alphabetical custom keys
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by kqr 5mo ago
> and use copy/paste Also ctrl-z for undo! I recommend looking into Unexpected Keyboard for a virtual Qwerty with a control key.
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by kqr 5mo ago
> you could tell how much money someone had by how far their couch was from the wall. Isn't this just a proxy for room size? A couch is bulky furniture and in smaller rooms need to be tucked away. Also in smaller rooms even a pillow
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by kqr 5mo ago
Does this mean the non-reserved tickets will get scarcer and command a higher price?
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by kqr 5mo ago
Not quite true. Higher volatility makes both CAGR lower and holding costs higher. Lower-volatility investments are thus closer to their naïve historical mean. See also: https://entropicthoughts.com/do-stonks-go-up
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by kqr 5mo ago
Yeah, I noticed when I tried the second tutorial mission. That mechanic worked out great! My first attempt at the second mission I had the periscope up too much and forgot to dive so the escort vessel rammed me. Maybe tell the player to pay
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by kqr 5mo ago
This question gets into information theory way beyond me, but I suspect it depends a lot on the task at hand. Human brains aren't very effective at combining sources of statistical variation, but they're great at other things. I&#
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by kqr 5mo ago
Something else it took some time to understand was how the TDC evolved the firing solution over time. I really appreciate the yellow ghost ship on the map, but maybe there could be four more ghost ships indicating computed positions one min
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by kqr 5mo ago
I was able to delete the target ship in the tutorial by selecting it and pressing delete, when I wanted to delete a mark next to it. Is that intentional?
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by kqr 5mo ago
For what it is worth, I ended up playing the tutorial mostly in real time, i.e. without pausing, because that felt more authentic. Under that constraint, I did have to play it three times to get proficient enough with the tools to succeed,
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by kqr 5mo ago
For me, part of the fun is in figuring out the "why" behind the "what". I really enjoyed getting a rundown of which tools were available to me, and then I get to figure out on my own how best to use them.
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by kqr 5mo ago
> It's interesting how even 5 tok/s is still much faster than you'd typically type, but feels glacially slow for an agent. Calling the token rate the rate at which they "type" is a bit misleading. They also do vi
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by kqr 5mo ago
That's interesting. Do you know what the fraction was of sprints that ended without all the work items associated with them being completed?
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Predictions as a Substitute for Reviews (2020)(acesounderglass.com)
1 points by kqr 5mo ago|0 comments
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by kqr 5mo ago
Good article! Looks like a great blog too. Subscribed to the RSS feed. Thanks for referencing.
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by kqr 5mo ago
If this were the end of the story, that would be a correct interpretation of the situation. At Amazon, something like this is likely a closely watched experiment. They knew it would incentivise waste. But they don't know what the oth
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Show HN: Crane Control(xkqr.org)
1 points by kqr 5mo ago|0 comments
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by kqr 5mo ago
> Try it yourself. Pick a topic that is important to you. Try searching Polymarket for probabilities, versus asking Claude about it. I wager you’ll prefer Claude’s take, even if it is less accurate. For one thing, Claude can speak to iss
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Looking at the data behind prediction markets(asteriskmag.com)
118 points by kqr 5mo ago|48 comments
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by kqr 5mo ago
I agree. I come back to it all the time when I need a little inspiration for how to deal with a gnarly codebase. Usually there is something in there I can apply directly to get me out of a pinch. When there is not the reminder of how mallea
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by kqr 6mo ago
QR codes, like other barcodes, store information. They never "do" anything. Or are you saying the ones you found failed to checksum?
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by kqr 6mo ago
On the other hand, > there are few things as dangerous as an expert with access to open-ended data that can be interpreted wildly, like a clinical interview. https://entropicthoughts.com/arithmetic-models-better-than-y...
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by kqr 6mo ago
This is a very good explanation of Simpson's paradox, which is the name for this thing. It can go arbitrarily deep and the trend can flip sign for each added controlled variable.
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by kqr 6mo ago
This may change with age. My children were cute but didn't engage me much emotionally while they were still mostly crying, pooping, and trying their best to hurt themselves. Once they became more multi-faceted that changed.
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by kqr 6mo ago
This is a neat idea, but it does require that you know up front the largest union that could ever be supported in that argument, so that you have the ability to narrow it down later. Worse, it in the limit it requires a combinatorial explos
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by kqr 6mo ago
Ah! I didn't know the term for it but I have often been stubborn in running a neglected platform as my dev environment for precisely this reason. Sometimes it makes the system more complicated, but it definitely also reveals where the
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by kqr 6mo ago
Another example would be something like a leader/follower distributed data storage system. It (and maybe its clients) needs to maintain a coherent view of which the leader node is. This adds significant complexity, and in many cases is
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by kqr 6mo ago
When the Apollo astronauts learned that they might need to repair the computer if it breaks they joked they might as well learn brain surgery if they end up needing that too. (This was when they planned on sending a modular computer with th

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