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541.
by krick 3y ago
Yep, seems to be so. I mean, it shouldn't be very surprising that among all possible lengths and bases there are some of length 1, would be more astonishing if there wasn't any. But it's not like it's somehow less worthy
542.
by krick 3y ago
Yes at all. 6174 is specific to base-10 and 4 digits. For 4 digit numerals in base-9 there are 2 cycles. Same for 4 digit numerals in base-8. It's unlikely that there's any special meaning for 4-digit numbers in base-10 having a
543.
by krick 3y ago
True. However, this problem can be formulated in other bases, and yield results of similar (in)significance. For example, for 4-digit numbers in base-9 there are apparently just 2 cycles: 7252 → 5254 → 3076 → 7252 and 7072 → 7432 → 5074 → 7
544.
by krick 3y ago
So, what's next? Lispless Emacs?
545.
by krick 3y ago
No, not really. Brassica oleracea is a single species manually cultivated by humans into variety of forms that are known by different names. Orchids are a huge family of plants. If anything, you should compare them to all Brassicaceae. A qu
546.
by krick 3y ago
Woah, that must be it. I couldn't figure it out, but that explains everything. Jesus, that's ridiculous.
547.
by krick 3y ago
It was quite limited set of entities that did atmospheric nuclear testing. Same cannot be said about LMMs. Mine post-apocalyptic scenario I half-jokingly predicted some 5-10 years ago was that all general-purpose computing hardware, which i
548.
by krick 3y ago
> ~100TB That's a lot, compared to mine. How do you organize replication and do you make backups on any external services? I kinda do want to hoard more, but I find it complicated to deal with at large scale. It gets expensive to ba
549.
by krick 3y ago
I had no idea systemd can do that. It sounds kinda exploitable. Is the ability to do that even a good idea?
550.
by krick 3y ago
You are basically just repeating what he said, but it doesn't answer my question. After all I'm not ssh-ing to GitHub directly, I'd use git, which will use ssh as a transport, and I don't know if git will use the subdoma
551.
by krick 3y ago
So subdomains can be arbitrary and you just manually add them when performing git clone? Will then git push/pull/etc automatically use the fake subdomain you like for this repository?
552.
by krick 3y ago
It doesn't cover everything, but I liked "High Performance Browser Networking" by Ilya Grigorik. It was very straightforward, and focused on what's relevant today in the browser. However, that "today" was 11 ye
553.
by krick 3y ago
One doesn't exclude the other. I wouldn't ever prefer a gauge to a number because of my personal taste — like, I don't know why would one emulate analog clock on their smart watch, etc. But I still do find gauges useful. For
554.
by krick 3y ago
Huh? It's the same as saying RSS doesn't rely on corporations that might kill your preferred email client. Both are true in a way, but RSS reader is as user-end, as an email client, all you need to read RSS feeds is a browser exte
555.
by krick 3y ago
What's even the point of a newsletter in 2023 unless you need to gather people emails for marketing campaigns or other shady stuff? What does it do that RSS doesn't?
556.
by krick 3y ago
Why isn't it your thing? Isn't it similar to his youtube stuff? What it's like?
557.
by krick 3y ago
Except that can be only implemented on the search-engine side, obviously.
558.
by krick 3y ago
Exactly. It actually feels to me that it does worse than google in this regard.
559.
by krick 3y ago
Is it? I don't know, I don't use it for personal (actually personal) stuff, but if I actually want to publish something — I'd do it there. If I want to contribute to something — it's way easier to do it on Github than mo
560.
by krick 3y ago
Why is "Skathi (moon)" 12-th most popular in 2022?
561.
by krick 3y ago
The joke is completely lost on me. I don't even mean the person who did this — why not, after all. 1198 upvotes ATM is what confuses me. Lookup tables for computable values are not novel, nor are they a joke. This actually is a solutio
562.
by krick 3y ago
Cool, but I am completely unable to read it. I'm not very apt in graphical design, so I wonder how it could be improved to be actually usable.
563.
by krick 3y ago
> sensible defaults > a tabline on top I don't have anything against all these "default configurations" for vim (even though I'm struggling to imagine, why the kind of person who doesn't want to configure vim
564.
by krick 3y ago
Curious to see how well it will work. Does anybody here know a robust and not crazy computationally expensive solution to extract tables from fairly clean PDF files (especially non-english)?
565.
by krick 3y ago
It's still factually wrong. And has over 1000 upvotes... (Obviously, because it's factually wrong.)
566.
by krick 3y ago
Are you saying everyone in your social circle willingly vendor-locks themselves by using an app that is available only on a specific device? That sounds just comically bad. Where is that? USA? I just checked, the iPhone market share appears
567.
by krick 3y ago
I never figured out how to use Mastodon and the likes. Can somebody explain? I mean, I would know how to use it if my goal was self-indulgent shitposting or very questionable marketing strategy, but these services are always mentioned as an
568.
by krick 3y ago
More than that, the reporter mentions "donors who contributed millions of dollars to her work", implying how valuable her "research" was. But given the nature of that "research" you could also ask yourself, if
569.
by krick 3y ago
Honestly, not sure on which side I am. Facebook being a criminal organization is nothing new. Harvard (and pretty much any other university) being a criminal organization is nothing new as well. But, man, "propaganda scholar"…
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by krick 3y ago
Obviously it is a bug, but, apparently, author didn't bother to report it, opting to write a blogpost with a somewhat clickbait title and ending with "so weird" instead.

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