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by lkbm 6y ago
Oh, neat. I just started playing around with a new crossword puzzle project earlier this week. I don't really want to use C++, but I'll bet I can get a lot of helpful design concepts from this.
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by lkbm 6y ago
They switched to Yahoo search for a while. Looks like maybe 2014-2017[0], though I'm not certain of that. It was briefly annoying, but I just switched it back, so it wasn't a big deal. Defaults matter, but if you're using Fir
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by lkbm 6y ago
I think this is a big part of it. When I think about how I'd like my work to have a big, positive impact on the world, one of the first things that comes to mind is fixing hiring/job hunting. I'm moderately intelligent and ha
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by lkbm 6y ago
My understanding (that is, I was told by a lawyer I know) is that if the person receiving the information thinks there's an attorney-client relationship, there is. Presumably there's some defense of "a reasonable person would
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by lkbm 6y ago
Agreed. My coworker recently shared[0] with us, which is largely jsut an expanded part of the TPS section. "Yes, I'll send over the TPS report this evening" doesn't solve the confusion around what "TPS" stands
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by lkbm 6y ago
This is HTML+CSS. CSS3 is Turing Complete.
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by lkbm 6y ago
Firefox uses the GPU via WebRender[0]. I don't know what specific things it's used for, but I'm pretty sure it's not any of the DOM parsing. The GPU is used for the actual graphical rendering down the line -- compositing
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by lkbm 6y ago
One amusing thing I saw in the two courses I mentioned is that in Intro to Logic, we spent something like a month learning each of the eighteen rules of inference, gradually adding a couple each day until we were familiar with all of them.
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by lkbm 6y ago
Modus tollens. It was also covered in both CS (explicitly in Discrete Math) and Philosophy (explicitly in Intro to Logic, and implicitly in many others ) at my school in the US. It seems like the question in the article doesn't really
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by lkbm 6y ago
Probably, but it's smart to be specific with what you've actually measured/observed. This study is specifically observing babies, and if we want to assert that this is true of all people, we should do experiments that include
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by lkbm 6y ago
Sure, this is largely true (panniers and trailers not withstanding), but most car trips aren't to the store. I suspect the majority are to/from work/school. If we enabled more people to bike for our commutes and just use a dr
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by lkbm 6y ago
I've lived on a one-way street for over a decade now. Pre-COVID, it was unusual to go a week without seeing someone going the wrong way. It was not unusual to see this multiple times in a day. I also bike down a two-way separated bike
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by lkbm 6y ago
They spent 200M for the one they now know is successful. It does seem likely they could've had > 10% chance of success for under 20M, but that might just be me being way too optimistic / not understanding the expenses of trying
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by lkbm 6y ago
It is a very good deal for Stripe, but I do wonder if would it have been a better deal to buy 2-3 early stage Nigerian startups five years ago. Maybe the winners aren't willing to sell early/cheap. Should Stripe be investing in se
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by lkbm 6y ago
Ah, you're right. I forgot UPN even existed. Thanks.
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by lkbm 6y ago
I recall it changing when Star Trek: Voyager was on the air -- at least for Voyager. Looking at Amazon Prime, seems the episode length changed from 46 minutes to 44 minutes going from Season 5 (1999) to Season 6 (2000). (What I was remember
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by lkbm 6y ago
There have been reports that some of those posts have been vanishing from Google Groups[0]. It's nice that this person/org is hosting these, but I'd feel more comfortable if archive.org (and perhaps another org or two) mirror
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by lkbm 6y ago
I thought this was going to be "How to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times"[0]. It's an hour-long talk, but quite enjoyable. In the example in the talk, it was less about knowing cs algorithms and more about knowing the d
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by lkbm 6y ago
The immediate feedback about how I did is nice, but also may pollute the data in a way. Once I got it right, I new to retry a very similar expression for the next 1-2 tries. But then, most people might actually know how to make human expres
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Getting Postmark’s Lighthouse Performance Score to 100(wildbit.com)
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by lkbm 6y ago
Cool! I never had many comics books as a kid, but I think this is one of the handful we had around. Probably still in a box somewhere at my parents' house.
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by lkbm 6y ago
That's nice. Here's 9GB resident[0] per htop. (Dev edition, four windows -- just under 50 tabs.) Interestingly, about:performance informs me that the highest single process is a Facebook tab taking 174MB[1], followed by Gmail at 1
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by lkbm 6y ago
I've complained about Goodreads a lot, but the idea that their search is bad is new to me. (Except in that I can't open each result in the dropdown in a new tab. Very annoying.) If I type in Inferno, it drops down Dan Brown's
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by lkbm 6y ago
So look at which books I finished and rated highly, find people who overlap strongly with that, and recommend the set of {their books - my books}. As I recall, this is basically what won the Netflix recommendation engine contest. There&#x27
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by lkbm 6y ago
Whoa, that's crazy precise. They got it down to the tens of thousands? If so, seems like they should write "13.700 billion" for the first part. I'm a little suspicious of this number as-is. Looking for a source for tho
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by lkbm 6y ago
Wikipedia agrees[0]. Looks like the article and headline have now been updated. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Enterprise_Defense_Infra...
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by lkbm 6y ago
The how is difficult -- studies like this are part. "Do you really want to?" is a clear yes. It's called a Pigovian tax, and it's the most unambiguously "correct" way to tax things: you tax things in accordance
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by lkbm 6y ago
I noticed the other day that various chatbots (as in, a single service shared across multiple websites) call me "The University of Texas at Austin", presumably because I have a housemate who works there. I tried various VPN server
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by lkbm 6y ago
There's one bike-and-ped bridge I used to cross for work, and as a cyclist I did find pedestrians very annoying--they take 90 degree turns across the trail without looking at all -- but that's only one very crowded section. (and a
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by lkbm 6y ago
Some of us would, but even if not, why would it be the same price? More housing should lower the cost for both, and paying for 4 bedrooms + 1 kitchen should always cost less than 4 bedrooms + 4 kitchens. Personally, I'd like a private

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