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by mckirk 5y ago
Did you have the experience with Modafinil or Armodafinil? Armoda is meant to last longer; probably too long for some people to take regularly. It's also more anxiety-inducing, so despite being the 'older' variant, moda migh
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There was one other drawback: Some kernel features hadn't been implemented and you e.g. couldn't run Docker containers, which now works with WSL2. But that might have been fixed over time; in general, I find it a bit sad that the
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I suspect he is doing that on purpose, to highlight how dangerous this kind of scientific censorship is. He also has been a proponent of discussing the possibility of a lab leak for a long time, and has faced a lot of backlash for it, so th
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by mckirk 5y ago
I certainly see the value in those anecdotes. When I realized how much my Steam inventory was suddenly worth, because old CSGO items were rising in value for no apparent reason, that was my personal 'oh crap, this is exactly what an ev
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by mckirk 5y ago
What about banana.ch?
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Yep, we aren't exactly being conditioned towards higher frustration tolerance nowadays... I don't think I could still deal with a PC without an SSD. I think there are different kinds of being-stuck, though. With many problems in s
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Hmmmm yes, this assumption of good faith might actually be an important part of approaching these problems. I think I instinctively look for approaches to problems that would work even for adversarial examples. In the case of these puzzles,
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by mckirk 5y ago
Thanks for that, actually made me chuckle :) (And it illustrates the point quite well, as that is indeed probably the simplest and most general rule you can find.)
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Since I generally seem to do fairly well in problem solving, that is exactly what I'm trying to figure out: Are these problems actually representative of an important skill that you need for general problem solving, or are they, throug
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Am I the only one that gets driven kind of crazy by these kinds of problems? I'm not completely sure so far what it is, but I'm guessing it's the frustration of having to find a needle in a haystack of essentially infinite si
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I feel you; I was more confused after the video than before knowing there was any "method" at all. I think the grey levels are just there to distinguish between different pours. So you take the amount of water you want to use and
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"Anybody can build a bridge that stands. But only an engineer can build a bridge that _barely_ stands."
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SMB is... not very straightforward. I needed to reverse engineer it once to write an exploit, and it's difficult to properly formulate even basic requests, let alone the more complex stuff the protocol supports.
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That's fascinating, I'd never heard of those! I'm still looking for the 'perfect' wireless headphones, so I'll definitely research them some more. How is their sound, in your experience? And is the cooling effe
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This admittedly has been posted before[1][2], but I found the form of presentation such a great way of teaching that I wanted to share it again. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672039 [2]: https://new
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Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python (2015)(nbviewer.jupyter.org)
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> second order emotion That is a quite insightful way of looking at this kind of problem, thanks! Quite a few disturbances to inner peace can probably be summed about with that, from what I understand panic attacks can for example be exa
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by mckirk 6y ago
I'll make a bot minting token-minting-bot tokens.
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by mckirk 6y ago
That's really cool! I'd hoped custom HRTFs would become more prevalent, as using these one-size-fits-all HRTFs is a bit of a shame. Are photos really enough to get a good result, though? I'd imagine e.g. internal bone structu
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by mckirk 6y ago
I feel you... I'm currently writing my thesis and need to catch myself in time when explaining what I'm doing to people blessed by ignorance. Or alternatively, make the joke right away myself, though that's probably a lot eas
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Worst case: Our planet ends up with Kessler syndrome and nobody will launch a satellite for quite a while... But in the bright side, I'm fairly sure your stocks wouldn't be alone in tanking if that happened.
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Fascinating! I'd heard the name in 'Paranormal' (an Egyptian TV show I would recommend), but didn't know it was an actual thing. Or used to be, anyway.
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Honestly, you get used to the name and just kind of abstract over it -- because it's your only option if your work is in the area. It can still be awkward to explain to people what you're working on though, so I welcome the change
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Given how heavily Adams struggled with procrastination, I wonder how he'd have fared in today's distractopia... he might not've gotten around to writing much. But what I wouldn't give to have him still around even just f
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That inline Python is the closest thing to black magic I've seen in a while. I guess I have to find an excuse to play around with Rust some time soon, it seems like such a cool ecosystem.
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No worries :) I checked the math so many times because I was starting to suspect my mind was glitching, lol.
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Not allowing a single digit to be 0 is a 10% reduction though, is it not?
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To be honest, I don't really know the rules governing US phone numbers and just did a cursory google search, which came up with the simple answer of "10 billion". That is very likely quite an overestimation. But if I'm n
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That is true in principle and I didn't take that into account when I thought about it. Though it would still be possible, in theory, to use a hash function that is cheap enough so it's feasible to hash all the leaked numbers once,
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True, hashes would be completely trivial to reverse, I didn't think that through :D And you're right, the only way to build a HN-friendly version would probably be to basically do the checking client-side, since any additional inf

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