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811.
by macintux 2y ago
There are echoes to discussions a few months ago about IMG_0001. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314547 The site displays random, ancient videos uploaded from the early iPhone YouTube app, often without people unders
812.
by macintux 2y ago
Ideally not thin-skinned demagogic grifter kleptocrats with no respect for the Constitution or rule of law. Seems like a low bar to hurdle, yet here we are.
813.
by macintux 2y ago
This republican form of government was explicitly created to insulate law and justice from the direct will of the public.
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by macintux 2y ago
When I left my wallet on Boston’s subway, I was able to retrieve it the next day with its contents intact. I was pleasantly shocked.
815.
by macintux 2y ago
After learning Erlang, it was painful to go back to any language which didn’t offer pattern matching. Such a great language feature.
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by macintux 2y ago
I was a little surprised to see the junta asking for outside assistance. I assumed they would be reluctant to let people in.
817.
by macintux 2y ago
I got into an argument with my science teacher in 4th or 5th grade about whether rivers could flow north, because on a globe, north is up.
818.
by macintux 2y ago
I don’t want to be penalized if I come to a sudden halt on a remote back road, with no one around, to remove a turtle, or a tire, or a bedframe from the road. (Yes, I’ve done all of the above, multiple times.)
819.
by macintux 2y ago
You’ll still find that sequence in data; it’ll just be rare enough that it won’t rear its ugly head until your solution has been in production for a while.
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by macintux 2y ago
Honestly I’m happier when Excel doesn’t try to convert anything. too much bugginess.
821.
by macintux 2y ago
What are the odds that NOAA has been forbidden to write anything about climate since this was posted?
822.
by macintux 2y ago
Very nice write-up. First time I’ve finished an article about formal proofs and thought to myself I’d like to give it a try.
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by macintux 2y ago
Very cool, thanks. One of the saddest days at my current job: when the company I’m contracted to stopped offering Excalidraw in favor of Lucid. I mostly understand the rationale, but the dramatic difference in friction basically shut down a
824.
by macintux 2y ago
That looks like a disagreement with him on the utility of machine learning; while I don’t know whether Chomsky is right about his more fundamental ideas on linguistics, that doesn’t seem relevant.
825.
by macintux 2y ago
"whataboutism" is pernicious, widespread, and devastating to civil society.
826.
by macintux 2y ago
Negative constraints like anti-knight significantly improve my enjoyment of Sudoku. They make it more likely that puzzles don't devolve to straight Sudoku near the end.
827.
by macintux 2y ago
I worked at a small software store (offshoot from WaldenBooks) sometime around 1990, and I remember a guy coming into the store asking whether a PC was “multimedia ready”. I didn’t know anything about PCs, having grown up with Apple, but ev
828.
by macintux 2y ago
Outrunning a crocodile might be possible on dry land, but how often will you be running from one outside a swampy area?
829.
by macintux 2y ago
On a very different scale, but I recall playing bzflag decades ago and discovering that I simply could not jump my tank to the second level. My graphics card was so slow that something wasn't working correctly, and no matter how many t
830.
by macintux 2y ago
I'd say relative to the difficulty of accuracy, the hostility of the environment, the known "lumpiness" of the moon, and the challenges of testing any of it in advance...yes?
831.
by macintux 2y ago
Even if you do recognize it, this isn’t Reddit.
832.
by macintux 2y ago
The Indianapolis metropolitan region used to have 4 major shopping malls, all owned at one time by Simon. One was completely shut down in 2022 after years of decline, another lost all but one anchor and was auctioned off for unpaid property
833.
by macintux 2y ago
Interesting, but I’m not sure I buy it. I certainly don’t think Simon is preparing for this massive economic shift; I think they’re reacting to an existing trend. > America's largest mall operator, Simon Property Group, is convertin
834.
by macintux 2y ago
Why isn't the answer wealth redistribution instead of tearing down the world order, tearing down the government, and hoping something positive miraculously comes out of it someday down the road?
835.
by macintux 2y ago
In the U.S., it tends to be a regional thing. Coke, soda, pop are all in common use as the general term for soft drinks.
836.
by macintux 2y ago
> and that's going to cause customers to reconsider alternatives. I'm very, very skeptical that anything short of Microsoft's bankruptcy could cause enterprises to seriously reconsider their software. It's just too
837.
by macintux 2y ago
I’m not going to discuss the merits of the rules, but postal mail seems a terrible comparison to the web. Global visibility, instant transmission of ideas, effectively free (as in beer) distribution.
838.
by macintux 2y ago
Why “so-called”?
839.
by macintux 2y ago
But size and revenue/budget are different things entirely. Does it scale down to pocket change for large community forums with no commercial backing?
840.
by macintux 2y ago
I really miss our local Fry's: my electronics knowledge is basically zero, and it was educational to explore the hardware aisles and look at the individual components.

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