lake_vincent

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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Yup, can confirm Hinge free is rather excellent. YMMV, but I got plenty of dates (and even a girlfriend for a while) thanks to Hinge. It's not perfect, but if you work it, it can work for you. Yes, it's a casino game, but learn th
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
I used to work for a big name scientific publisher, and we published a lot of super-niche research monographs that didn't sell many copies. What a lot of people don't understand was that our bread and butter came from university
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
My 2c: I think the point is that types themselves are just syntax. It's all bits at the lowest level, so there's really no such thing as a 'type' on a Turing Machine tape. It can be expressed syntactically on the tape,
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Well, that's what I want to find out! Very rarely does autofill work for me on Bitwarden mobile - 80% of the time I have to open the app, copy, and paste my info. Not good password field recognition, and it's a regular friction po
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
For me it's the features I mentioned above - having a CLI on desktop, and both ios and android apps is so huge because I have devices in all three ecosystems! One password manager that works seamlessly across devices is very appealing
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
I appreciate this perspective.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Closed source I can deal with, as long as a strong audit has been performed. Found this: https://www.enpass.io/security-audit-report/ I'm not a security expert, so not sure if those audits are trustworthy.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Wow, okay, yeah, I'm actually sold. There's a CLI for desktop, and it's on both ios and android. Damn. Will gleefully fork over $80 for a lifetime license if it's as good as it seems. Why have I never heard of Enpass bef
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Ah, well said, that is a good way to look at it. Very true! Agree with your edit too. The logical and natural order of skill progression has somehow become offensive to many people. It's the "I got my karate black belt in 6 months
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
The thing I kept thinking when reading this was, what about the hikers' agency in deciding whom they hike with? I'm an athletic guy, and a fast hiker. I go up climbs like an escalator. If someone agrees to hike with me, there&#x27
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Ah, I see! That makes a lot of sense, thank you for explaining. If I understand correctly, that means type-checking python as you described was an open problem before, and this paper effectively proves it will never happen (ideally). They d
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Can you please explain why this is useful? I'm an intermediate python programmer with some undergrad level knowledge of complexity theory, so this is mostly over my head, but it's interesting. I have no idea what one would actuall
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Oh that sounds interesting, I like the idea of money as a desire accumulator. That makes intuitive sense to me. Could you please expand on the implications of this perspective?
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
You're exactly right, but that's kinda my point. I think my definition is quite fundamental, and holds true all the way back to the beginnings of finance. We used to just trade directly - trading horses for maize, etc. But then hu
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
I am trying to have this make sense in my head, but I agree with the other commenter that "money is debt" doesn't feel right. I think more fundamentally, money is simply the capacity for goods and services to be exchanged bet
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
"While the duration and temperature alone aren’t records, the simultaneous achievement of heat and stability brings us a step closer to a viable fusion reactor – as long as the technique used can be scaled up." Half of the enginee
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Yes, exactly! There are two problems here: 1. What's the most efficient way to boil water? 2. How do we generate electricity on a population scale without having to boil water? Question 1 is, apparently, much more tractable. We are sti
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
What are the reasons why not? What are the obstacles/drawbacks to the FLAC approach? I have no domain knowledge here, just curious
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
If you like the combination of math, hacking, and madness, check out Pi (1998). It's a bit disturbing, but sounds like it might be up your alley. It's a filmmaking masterpiece.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Of course! It's the NumPhy Air75. It's considered an entry level board, so it's nothing fancy, but for me it's been great.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
The whole thing reeks of Bezos wanting to be cool. You can almost hear his desperate cries for approval through the poorly written, and poorly delivered, script. Honestly, just watch the first scene. It's hilariously soulless. (This is
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
That's why I love them. I benefit from their obsession because they definitely know how to find the good shit. I'm not a mechanical keyboard fanatic, but I browsed their forums and found an excellent, affordable, keyboard I would
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
I absolutely love niche communities like this. Fountain pens, mechanical keyboards, even wetshaving - it's fun getting glimpses into how deep these rabbit holes go.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
It's almost like millions of people with valuable knowledge and skills were killed off or disabled by some kind of global pandemic or something. Go figure!
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Well said, I agree. According to the parent comment, in order to criticize Joe Rogan, I have to "get on his level" first. Got it. Brb, gonna go do some whipits.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
I mean, at the end of the day, it's just yet another symptom of how entitled these people feel to...well, anything. The message is: "These are MY roads. How dare a cyclist force me to slow down for 10 seconds? I'm IMPORTANT!
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Doctor: "Tests came back negative my man, have at your sister!!" High fives all around
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Found em: https://archive.org/details/civ-vi-25-th-online-manual-eng (Just kidding, don't hurt me)
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Right, because only extremes exist... Or you can add, oh I dunno, two or three more sentences to maybe hint at what is novel and important about the approach?
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Oh damn, I hit a nerve, huh? Not trolling, I am serious. It took Peter freakin Scholze to finally settle the debate over Mochizuki's work. What came out of it? What else could Scholze have been working on instead of spending time findi

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