maxbond

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901.
by maxbond 2y ago
I'm not going to quote a definition to you, the only winning move in that game is not to play, but there are certainly more interpretations of "archive" than just the one. I certainly didn't assume you meant the narrow l
902.
by maxbond 2y ago
I'm far less interested in how they measure up to some legal definition of an archive than I am in all the good work they do to archive things . If you think the former is more important, I would suggest the confusion is on your part.
903.
by maxbond 2y ago
Not sure what they did to upset you, but they are absolutely archivists. Off the top of my head, they've preserved flash games and animations and written an interpreter to get them working in modern browsers; they've scanned books
904.
by maxbond 2y ago
It's possible that it's more of a personal ethic and a view towards their own actions (something like, "I don't disparage others") rather than that they view this company as deserving protection.
905.
by maxbond 2y ago
No magic necessary. Factor your hand-rolling into a function that returns a string (instead of printing as in the example), and write a test that parses it's return with a proper JSON library. Assert that the parsing was successful and
906.
by maxbond 2y ago
Additionally, you would be hard pressed to find a corporation of that size which hasn't made some kind of DEI pledge over the years. Here's a page on Nvidia 's website [1] talking about their supposed commitment to DEI. How
907.
by maxbond 2y ago
It seems likely, but it's probably also those same customers who are the ones with large enough codebases for performance to be "unusable" instead of merely "not great".
908.
by maxbond 2y ago
I think optimization in general is about understanding the layer of abstraction below you and arranging your workload to exploit it's efficiencies and avoid it's inefficiencies. (Cases where you can reimplement using a different a
909.
by maxbond 2y ago
But you've never seen an electron.
910.
by maxbond 2y ago
You have not yet imagined a reason, and neither have I. That doesn't mean one doesn't exist. Likely it would be something idiosyncratic involving legacy code that would only make sense in a real world context - "we have to ch
911.
by maxbond 2y ago
If it's a bad idea but considered legal according to the documentation, then that would make it a footgun rather than a bug, no?
912.
by maxbond 2y ago
The context is that someone suggested that covering it up is only temporary, right? That would depend on local conditions, but presumably in some places it's true (due to eg how the topsoil is eroding in that area). You suggested that
913.
by maxbond 2y ago
Based on coursework I did years ago. I could've given you more information back then but it's been a while. You would definitely need to look into the lead coming out the chimney; if it does, you just dry the material and accept l
914.
by maxbond 2y ago
The visual references in that video were great. The Steve Jobs took me by surprise, I thought of tech titans being culturally relevant was a distinctly recent phenomenon, but of course 99 was the peak of the dot-com bubble and Apple was hug
915.
by maxbond 2y ago
You could probably decontaminate the soil in place by cultivating plants that bioaccumulate the lead, harvesting them, burning them, and then disposing of a relatively small volume of ash into which the lead had been concentrated. There&#x2
916.
by maxbond 2y ago
Looks to me like they said both.
917.
by maxbond 2y ago
What I see is people enjoying that they all remember the same thing, not claiming they are atomic or special. (Not that I see why people feeling special would be a problem, anyway.)
918.
by maxbond 2y ago
Where can I learn about the alliance between wind and gas?
919.
by maxbond 2y ago
Excellent episode in an excellent series, but just to note, the author is John Scalzi. (All of the episodes are adapted from short stories.) https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/02/when-the-yogurt-took-...
920.
by maxbond 2y ago
Judging by the website [1] this is an expansion of an "experiences" business that seems to have been running for a couple years, though I had never heard of it. On cursory inspection, they do things like Bridgerton themed tea part
921.
by maxbond 2y ago
You probably wouldn't have been flagged if you'd said something like, "I remain skeptical. Could you demonstrate your ability to tell what lizards are thinking?" In my experience comments are usually flagged for tone rat
922.
by maxbond 2y ago
Ask HN: How do I safely contact drug cartels? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36731320
923.
by maxbond 2y ago
near's oral history of BSNES https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21026000
924.
by maxbond 2y ago
What about if I think I know something and then realize I don't? Didn't I receive information that increased my uncertainty?
925.
by maxbond 2y ago
It's an interesting perspective. I understand that the language choices they made were strong and thus not for everyone, but I don't see a reason to be rude about it. If it didn't make any sense to you it's probably beca
926.
by maxbond 2y ago
I've no such ability (and never claimed to), but I'll share what I can. A few years ago I was standing on my balcony. I saw a lizard sunning itself on a rock, a story below. On impulse I made a shadow puppet of a bird, and that li
927.
by maxbond 2y ago
Zhuangzi: See how the minnows come out and dart around as they please! That is what fish enjoy! Huizi: You're not a fish - how do you know what fish enjoy? Zhuangzi: You're not I, so how do you know that I don't know what fis
928.
by maxbond 2y ago
My dad was a programmer, so there was a certain expectation I would be one as well. As a child I chaffed at that like I did with all expectations. I insisted I wanted to be a scientist. One day I walked into Borders and bought The Cuckoo&#
929.
by maxbond 2y ago
Have you, as an adult, had a relationship with an animal, like a cat or a dog? I was thinking about this once, why I believe my cat was conscious and was a person. I came to the conclusion that the relationship was a sort of epistemology, a
930.
by maxbond 2y ago
I think there is also a misguided razor that people who self identify as rationalists often apply, which goes, "the most cynical or disenchanted answer is likely the correct one." An overcorrection to superstition, perhaps. I pers

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