madog

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by madog 3y ago
I had an MLB.tv subscription for many years, paying like $140 a year. In the UK, so nothing was blacked out... great... except last year find out they sold post-season rights to BT Sport so nothing in the post-season was available live AT A
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by madog 4y ago
Wow. I had no idea, I've been taking that for years. It's in every single OTC cold and flu medication with painkillers. I found this to be a good read/overview: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post&#
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by madog 4y ago
Right. Generally more air and more fuel, produces bigger explosions and bigger forces, so the engine would output more power and torque. These greater forces cause more stress to factory engine components, so generally at a certain level yo
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by madog 4y ago
Just to add to this there was a good Financial Times film [1] recently that covered the after effects of Brexit. Covid and Ukraine have allowed politicians to divert attention away from the economic disaster that Brexit has been, and have b
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by madog 4y ago
Also see the "From Zero to main()" series: https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/zero-to-main-1
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by madog 4y ago
Try the vscode-neovim[1] plugin instead of the more popular vscode-vim plugin. It runs an actual neovim instance in the background and works so much better than vscode-vim, which I also found was "not quite right" and very laggy.
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by madog 5y ago
I don't have anything to add to this, only to say thanks - that's decent advice. If you do X, you can learn about Y, and apply it to Z. If you have a broad interest there's like a million different ways to pivot and branch of
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by madog 6y ago
I like cheat.sh. I have this in .bashrc to allow "cheat <cmd>" from bash shell: function cheat() { curl cht.sh/$1 }
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by madog 6y ago
This Large Bitcoin Collider is similar to Plundercoin and is actually quite interesting [1]. It's a distributed brute force attempt on every possible bitcoin key, I believe initially based on a mysterious bitcoin puzzle transaction [2]
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by madog 6y ago
I found Azeria Labs [0] to be a pretty good introduction for learning ARM assembly basics. Although the main focus is ARM exploitation, it's still a good primer [0]: https://azeria-labs.com/writing-arm-assembly-part-1&#
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by madog 6y ago
I definitely agree with the documentation side of things, particularly lack of concrete examples. I found that overall however, learning Haskell made me a better programmer, even if it's more useful as more of an academic than practica
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by madog 6y ago
He makes some incredible reads as well. Some great videos on YouTube if you search for "Negreanu reads" [1] 1: https://youtube.com/results?search_query=negreanu+reads
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by madog 7y ago
It's called a variable ratio reward schedule [1]. It's at play in slot machines for example. Very effective at getting rapid and persistent responses. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Gambling_%
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by madog 7y ago
You would be a fool to act based off only 2 instances of seeing a particular behaviour. That's why you have to weigh up how many instances you've seen. Sometimes if it's less than X instances it's not worth considering t
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by madog 8y ago
Another good technique for hard plastic is plastic welding, especially for clean snaps. Basically using a soldering iron to melt the plastic back together. Seems to be as strong as before. Plenty of good YouTube videos showing the technique