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by m12k 4y ago
How certain are we at this point, that there are no hidden variables in quantum mechanics? I'm asking because I read an article a while ago about some advances in higher-dimensional math that turned out to simplify certain quantum mech
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by m12k 4y ago
Affectionately called "god rays" among graphics programmers
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by m12k 4y ago
That actually look pretty neat - I've wanted for a while now for my browser to be more "research" oriented, with ways of grouping all those related tabs that are all trying to answer the same question, or represent the same l
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by m12k 4y ago
The iPhone 3G was introduced in July 2008 along with the App Store, and official support for 3rd party apps. I was lucky enough to get a job programming an app for it a couple months later. It was rough at first, with so much undocumented b
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by m12k 4y ago
I heard optimization described this way: Sure, you think you need to tune the engine, but really, the first thing you need to do is get the clowns out of the car.
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by m12k 4y ago
According to https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri they are using "Node.js for running the CLI (deno and pure rust are on the roadmap)"
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by m12k 4y ago
Does anyone have a good idea for use cases for these? It seems a lot of use cases for "small, cheap electronics" are already covered by RFID, where you keep the processing "smarts" in the device that reads the RFID. So w
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by m12k 4y ago
If there's one thing Dungeons and Dragons has taught me, it's that intelligence and wisdom are two completely different stats.
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by m12k 4y ago
As a programmer, I'm very impressed by the cleverness of blockchain and cryptocurrencies as a tech demo, much the same way I'm impressed by 64k intros from the demo scene. And at the same time I'm as horrified by the notion
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by m12k 4y ago
I attended a talk by Richard Garfield, the game designer behind Magic: The Gathering. He made a point that adding randomness to a game can be a way to give it that property of "easy to learn, hard to master", and in turn make it e
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by m12k 4y ago
We don't need them to weigh in on social issues, but we do need them to not be part of the problem. E.g. if a company of Google's size had an issue where Indian employees tended to prevent qualified candidates from being hired bec
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by m12k 4y ago
I think the GDPR has shown that all you need to do is set fines as a % of revenue, and they'll be taken seriously.
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by m12k 4y ago
In 15 years in the industry, the only UML I have seen outside of a classroom has been made ad-hoc, on a whiteboard during a discussion. There would usually be no strict adherence to whether a square or "blob" was a class, an objec
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by m12k 4y ago
Yeah, public reddit is terrible, but make an account, unsubscribe the default subreddits and subscribe to smaller subreddits, and it can be awesome. A selection of subreddits I can recommend (depending on your interests of course): bodyweig
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by m12k 4y ago
To me, Scrum has always been something of a paradox. The whole point of agile is to adapt the process to the team's needs - if you're doing dogmatic agile, you're not actually doing agile. But what Scrum seems to add on top o
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by m12k 4y ago
>I can't pretend to have derived any life lesson that applies to everybody from this Part of what attracted me to software engineering in the first place was an interest in "how things work", and being able to move between
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by m12k 4y ago
A tactical game where I can play semi-competitively even if I only play a couple hours each week. Most competitive games like (CSGO, Apex, Starcraft, LoL) have a "twitch" element that take years to build up, and requires constant
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by m12k 4y ago
It's not exactly what you're asking for, but you might want to check out the game Grounded. It's a crafting-survival game that's heavily inspired by "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"
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by m12k 4y ago
There are legitimate ways in which the web would benefit from being more decentralized. Democratizing domain distribution away from money-printing machines like ICANN, freeing user's data from the walled gardens like the fediverse trie
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by m12k 4y ago
I don't know an official name for it. It seems like it's almost too basic - "subdivide into helper functions" - to make it into the Gang of Four or other design pattern collections. But in my head I'm calling it the
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by m12k 4y ago
I think your example illustrates why it's so important to choose the right way to generalize/share code depending on the circumstances. I've found that when there's a 90% overlap between 2-3 use cases, many people tend t
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by m12k 4y ago
I was just about to ask if it is pronounced like Pinocchio or kino-pio, guess that clears it up, thanks.
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by m12k 4y ago
The problem is that economics as a field spans from sociology and mass-psychology (almost impossible reason about, fully quantify or prove anything in a scientific manner) to mathematics (easy to reason about, model and publish results - bu
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by m12k 4y ago
One of the things I like in P4Merge is having 4 panes - the two versions, their common ancestor, and the final merge result. Can you get all these in Meld as well?
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Second paragraph in the article
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There's another side effect: Whenever a site or community grows, it becomes a more and more attractive target for bad actors. The site finds a way to separate signal from noise, this attracts an audience, and that attracts bad actors w
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It's also possible the deal provided an ad-hoc loyalty test and these to execs failed it.
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Customer acquisition funnels are multiplicative (E.g. Ad -> Landing page -> Signup -> Trial -> Actual product usage -> Purchase). Double any factor along the way, and the final output doubles. But it also means that if any fa
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by m12k 4y ago
Ugh, the EU should be enshrining the right to privacy as a human right, and instead we get this garbage.
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by m12k 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the point of having a "position" in a stablecoin? It seems that if they manage to maintain the peg, there can't be any gains either. My impression was stablecoins are mainly used as an intermedia

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