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by kuboble 4y ago
I agree with all you say with the exception that it is very distinct from being a programmer or an artist like a painter or graphical designer. As a programmer I love that when I type [i*i for i in range(10)] I can predict the output and th
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by kuboble 4y ago
Yes, I have tried a lot, and still haven't gotten close to the desired end-effect. I maybe want to shift my claim. I am not sure that it's impossible to create this particular image but that it's almost certainly cheaper to h
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by kuboble 4y ago
For what is worth, dall-e is great for exploring but it's nowhere near to being able to deliver a particular image you might have in your mind. I wanted a very particular, well defined scene: - A pig and a donkey play poker at the poke
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by kuboble 4y ago
>I don't think it helps to have a contest about which forms of discrimination are more impactful, because they all add up. But it often seems like some are easily overlooked. When I was born into a poor working family in Poland, my
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by kuboble 4y ago
Do you have much more traffic on the most recent additions as compared to the most popular historical ones? Are you selling place for "message from X" on a post for a limited time or the ad stays forever? Sounds like a bargain for
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by kuboble 4y ago
I don't know if that is helpful but logarithms are quite an easy concept that helps with thinking about code complexity. It's an inverse of exponent which translates to " grows very slowly with input size. 10 for a thousand,
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by kuboble 4y ago
- the World Cubing Association speed cubing rules are designed to make competitions more interesting and fair for speedcubers and NOT for general public. - the 3x3x3 without inspection used to be an official WCA event but was removed as it
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by kuboble 4y ago
You can search youtube for things like "hand analysis with piosolver"
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by kuboble 4y ago
Let's say you are a company that hires a lot of flexible-remote workers? The deal is that everyone works from home but can come to the office if they want to have a real meeting or if they feel like it. Makes prefect sense they shoul
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by kuboble 4y ago
It takes $420k per year to run Lichess - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955204 - February 2022 (266 comments)
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Google gives wrong answer to “CET time now”
1 points by kuboble 4y ago|0 comments
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by kuboble 4y ago
It might be hard to believe that the particular person in a particular company did that, but given a lot of attempts, dedication and lucky / unlucky circumstances eventually somewhere someone will trust a malicious person and will get
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by kuboble 4y ago
I have moved with personal and business email from Gmail to fastmail. My main problem with Gmail was that often emails from two unrelated customers where joined in one conversation and I have mistakenly confused who I am communicating with.
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by kuboble 4y ago
> Then if the software has been around for one year, the expected value of p is 50%. But if the software has been around for ten years, the expected value of p jumps to 0.5^(1/10) ≈ 93.3%. This reasoning is incorrect. You have to t
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Swiss retail giant votes to remain alcohol free(swissinfo.ch)
2 points by kuboble 4y ago|0 comments
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by kuboble 4y ago
I believe hdf5 is the format that can serve that purpose.
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by kuboble 4y ago
So teach them poker, but have them play chess.
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21x21x21 the biggest mass produced Rubik's Cube(youtube.com)
6 points by kuboble 4y ago|0 comments
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by kuboble 4y ago
If you can solve the same problems as the best problem solving person in the world but 10x slower it still makes you one of the best problem solvers and that test won't tell that.
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by kuboble 4y ago
half of a questions was basically "maybe another xor? yes, that's a xor"
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by kuboble 4y ago
Cube state is basically a permutation of pieces and any algorithm applied to the cube is a cycle applied to the permutation. You can't solve any state of a cube with one algorithm the same way as you can't sort any array with a si
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by kuboble 4y ago
There are two main 3x3x3 speedsolving methods. Cfop and roux. 90% of world class solvers use cfop which has significantly higher move count (55 vs 45). The cfop method has characteristics which make it considerably more finger friendly, a
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by kuboble 4y ago
Yes, we have all DNS settings configured correctly. We use big email provider to send emails (Gmail & fastmail). We send order emails via smtp client. We already did try to figure out why our emails are marked as spam including external
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by kuboble 4y ago
We used to send them from Gmail, then we switched to Fastmail. It was the same in both cases. We're not aware of being on any blacklists. Our emails are delivered, just land in spam for few Big Email providers.
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Ask HN: Can I force Big Email Company to not mark my emails as spam?
10 points by kuboble 4y ago|19 comments
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by kuboble 5y ago
Most recent example: My kid loves logical puzzles like this one: https://www.smartgames.eu/uk/one-player-games/little-red-rid... It comes with a booklet of 40 or so problems which she quickly solved so I wrote a p
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by kuboble 5y ago
I'm suffering from severe chronical lower back pain. > Yet approximately 90% of patients with CLBP cannot identify any clear specific cause or origin of their pain. Same here. More than once in my life I seemed to not feel any pain
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by kuboble 5y ago
We have private companies designing and building weapons. There are laws regarding who it can be sold to or where it can be exported. I believe malware is in the same category.
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Ask HN: Emails from MS about account with almost my address. What happened?
2 points by kuboble 5y ago|2 comments
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by kuboble 5y ago
Yes. That lowest common denominator will be probably being able to send text messages. Maybe a little more. It's a big thing. And it's a great thing. Already in email you have some cool features that only work Gmail to Gmail but

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