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by legerdemain 3y ago
Has anyone tried the apps that the author mentions (Saturday, Geneva, BFF)? Are there other ones you had a good experience with?
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I have always thought it was just a coincidence or an intentional reference, but there actually exists a connection between Hipgnosis (British design studio responsible for a lot of prog rock album covers) and Psygnosis (British video game
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I 100% concur with afavour that regularly running into acquaintances around town is magical, and wonderful, and pro-social, and a rare privilege . I've had that experience only once in my life, when I lived literally in the center of
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by legerdemain 3y ago
In threads like this, people often bring up gyms as social spaces. Hell. No. I've been using a gym for most of my adult life. Gyms are anti-social spaces. Big box gyms, sports clubs, the gym at the Y, campus gyms, the gyms that most pe
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by legerdemain 3y ago
Thanks for writing Modern Fortran !
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by legerdemain 3y ago
Given a permutation of a collection of elements, it's trivially possible to find the next permutation (in lexicographic order) without ranking and unranking. Sedgewick 77 [1] calls it the Fischer-Krause algorithm. The traditional (and
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Ask HN: Have you ever been hired without an interview?
16 points by legerdemain 3y ago|22 comments
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by legerdemain 3y ago
The irony of being outlived by Shane MacGowan.
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by legerdemain 3y ago
My last comment here for a while, but to answer the question... you might not end up being able to? Like, ever? It's like asking "how do I win the lottery." You can improve your odds. And you might also never win. A lot of pe
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by legerdemain 3y ago
The message pretty clearly states that the visible presence of the homeless is a crime against the OP that leads to vigilantism (i.e., attacks on the homeless). This kind of eliminationist rhetoric is common on this site.
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by legerdemain 3y ago
The extended "original" versions of several idioms, including this one, were created in the 21st century. See, for example, this: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/508907
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by legerdemain 3y ago
Likeness courtesy of Harrison Ford. Body movement by Jackie Bradshaw. Facial acting and expressions from Tony Armstrong. Nose performance (closeups) by Vic Ganderton. Hands: Industrial Light & Magic
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by legerdemain 3y ago
So, what are some software engineering conferences with a good "hallway track"? What are you excited for this year?
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by legerdemain 3y ago
Upon receiving notice of intent to leave, one of my previous employers would walk you out the door same day. In their judgment, removing quitters immediately was worth the loss of organizational knowledge and team planning challenges that r
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I'll try it this weekend!
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I see a 7T model from Siemens with a standard 60cm bore. Interesting!
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by legerdemain 3y ago
What's the bore diameter for a 7T or a 10T magnet? All of the ones I've seen wouldn't be wide enough for an adult human.
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I'm surprised that no one has said "work." (Or maybe not surprised, since there is a vocal minority on this board that would rather just receive work assignments on a folded piece of paper shoved under their door and never in
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by legerdemain 3y ago
We agree, you don't need to keep trying to convince me. I don't keep going to monthly events because I love the cadence. It's because the weekly event near me is "YC Startup Accountability Circle."
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I apologize, but your response is a muddle of contradictory cliches. I am literally there to make friends, of course I care what at least some of them think. I'm not there to actually run. I went. I sucked, to the point of it being awk
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I have spoken to people in that group and attended some of their events. I hope you will allow the possibility that I know more about the group than their Meetup page says. For example, the 3.5 miles on Wednesdays is on a track at a local h
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I mean stuff like pickup soccer or basketball that happens in parks and at gyms. I don't think we have much in terms of league sports around here, except maybe employment-based leagues (like Google, Meta, and Microsoft fielding softbal
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by legerdemain 3y ago
Yeah, maybe. I never discovered the secret of sending invitations that radiated "please don't bring your partner." Brunch is, after all, an activity for mostly women and couples.
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by legerdemain 3y ago
The traditional activity in Dolores Park is sitting on a beach towel while smoking pot.
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by legerdemain 3y ago
Their shortest run is the 3.5-miler on Wednesdays. That's kind of the best I can do on a good day. Their other runs are at least twice as long. I don't think this is my jam, and I say that as someone who ran a 5k every day for thr
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I concur. I'm at every local cafe, to the point that the baristas recognize my order, and I'm at the gym at the same time most days of the week. After gym, I go to the supermarket next to it to buy some fruit or a drink, and the c
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by legerdemain 3y ago
Weekly meetup? Goodness! All the marginally interesting meetups in my area are monthly or less. I specifically started a twice-monthly one myself because it was so grim. (And no, I'm not very happy with my own meetup, either.) Pretty
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I have never played a sport outside of gym class. When I went to local sports meetups, I mostly found people practicing the sports they played in high school or college. I sucked by comparison, and it showed.
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I relate hard to your last point. It's something I have repeatedly worried about now and again for the last 15 years. I'll be getting married and my side of the aisle will just be tumbleweeds.
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by legerdemain 3y ago
I can relate. For a lot of people, "friends" is someone you might find yourself sitting with at the same table at a group dinner or playing the same board game with a bunch of other people. But meet up with them one on one and you

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