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by lexpar 7y ago
Does anyone have a read on the rigor and ideological slant of the blog? I've flipped through a couple posts and find the content easy to follow (I have no economics background). However, I haven't found any meta commentary on the
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by lexpar 7y ago
"Given any input string, the sensitivity of that string is how many bits you could flip that cause the output to flip." The sensitivity of that string is the minimum number of bits that need to be changed in order to change the
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by lexpar 7y ago
For the record, I didn't down vote you (I don't even have enough HN cool-points to do so). I was responding more to the callous nature of your comment than whether or not current warming trends are an absolute existential threat.
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by lexpar 7y ago
The trade offs get really funny. If we think it's really the case that most wild animals will perish in the climate upheaval, then doesn't that change the math a bit on how much risk we should be willing to accept when it comes to
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by lexpar 7y ago
I really hope you'll change your mind, specifically about that last sentence. Probably billions of the world's poorest people are likely to see their environment become unlivable. That's not a problem a little AC and migratio
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by lexpar 7y ago
I meant there's an "infomercial" tone to a lot of the docs, (claiming the other ways are broken, a list of testimonials, etc). I think it's a bit odd. I wasn't trying to say that good documentation makes me suspicio
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by lexpar 7y ago
You can make any amount of money seem small by saying "well the top {1,0.1,0.001}% of people make that in a month".
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by lexpar 7y ago
Maybe you're right that it's a bit naive to throw money at internet eccentrics who don't have a plan and trust that they will manage things well. I just don't think we should be excusing things because it's (what so
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by lexpar 7y ago
> The amount of money is ridiculously small. It isn't worth the time to focus on it. Well, it's donated money... Do you think the people who donated share this view?
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by lexpar 7y ago
Reitz really does not come off looking very good here. I was always a little suspicious of the set of libraries he maintains - the documentation pages are so slick that I begin to wonder if this is a software package or a lifestyle upgrade.
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by lexpar 7y ago
That's really cynical, but I kind of believe it.
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by lexpar 7y ago
We are thankful for SSC.
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by lexpar 7y ago
pointing out a pattern of strange behavior != denying scientific consensus.
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by lexpar 7y ago
I don't live in a city with a smog problem, and this is not my area of expertise. I was just clarifying what I thought @dsfyu404ed was saying, since it seemed to me that @lm28469 had taken it out of context and jumped to a nasty reply
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by lexpar 7y ago
Not sure how to reply to you directly @welearndnothing, I think we reached max depth? I don't live in a city with a smog problem, and this is not my area of expertise. I was just clarifying what I thought @dsfyu404ed was saying, since
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by lexpar 7y ago
What's the deal with the over the top misanthropy we see in so many people with an environmental cause? Is it a cultural thing? Maybe it comes off as kind of edgy. Or maybe they're enjoying a preemptive "I told you so - idiot
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by lexpar 7y ago
I think their point was that technological advancements have 'solved' the problem of smog in the cities that have the legal and physical infrastructure (i.e. developed) to implement the solutions. They did not seem to be saying th
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by lexpar 8y ago
I worked a bit to integrate Gravity payments at a SAAS company I worked for a few years ago. Aside from the technical aspects, I was struck by how much "Dan Price!" there was in everything I read. Here we have some more. I think t
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by lexpar 8y ago
This comment is mind boggling to me. Both the fact that you've only tasted this cheese once, and that you thought it was plain!
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by lexpar 8y ago
Something like this would have indeed saved us a lot of time in the long run. Oh well.
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by lexpar 8y ago
The protocol buffers stuff seems pretty cool. At my last job (small web dev shop), we had constant headaches over the class definitions of endpoints changing and some js file not having its model updated to correspond. I thought we should b
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by lexpar 8y ago
Me and a friend put together this basic idea a few years ago at a hackathon. At the time we thought it was very funny to code something so useless (no offense to OP). Looks like we missed out on some sweet HN karma! https://githu
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by lexpar 8y ago
You say "without considering accidents", but I'd argue that accidents are usually negligible to begin with. Yes there were the "big" incidents early in the history of nuclear power, but besides being huge public rel
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by lexpar 8y ago
Reading this, I was unaware that nanovms.com is a website trying to sell me cloud services and not simply some blogging service. As a spoiler to any who came here first: the post ends with an advertisement for what the author wants to sell
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by lexpar 8y ago
The Montreal bagel is no joke.
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by lexpar 8y ago
I would like to chime in that I also very much enjoy L-Theanine. In addition to (I think) helping me focus, it has an even more pronounced effect on anxiety. When I take L-Theanine and have some obtrusive thought -- cooked up especially to
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by lexpar 9y ago
Can't overstate how great his stuff is.
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by lexpar 9y ago
Just looked at the video, the 'as you type' updated stack info is actually pretty cool. I thought based on the description that it only printed the contents of the stack after a command was executed. This is much nicer. You guys a
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by lexpar 9y ago
Not sure if OP is author, but if you are, just to inform you, there is a small typo in this paragraph: "Unfortunately, none of tehse protections address the cost of matching a single path element of a single file name. In 2005, CVE-2
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by lexpar 9y ago
I don't understand why things like this get posted to HN so often. This kind of program is a very common exercise in university courses and appears in countless programming books. Heck, you implemented it in C, and this exact exercise

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