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by mhink 2y ago
> The dog in a park, the collar is obviously off. Interesting note: my wife works with dogs, and I just took that photo over and asked her what breed she thought it was. Her first take was "it really just looks like an old mutt, I c
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by mhink 2y ago
For AirDrop, at least, I've found it to be very reliable, with one caveat that always tripped me up before I realized it: *the recipient's phone needs to be unlocked*. This completely changed the game for me, and now me and my wif
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by mhink 2y ago
Honestly... I don't think there's much difference between games and other forms of media in terms of longevity in the public consciousness. "Singin' in the Rain" was released in 1952 and might very well still at lea
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by mhink 2y ago
That link is absolutely fascinating, and would definitely make for a great sci-fi concept!
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by mhink 2y ago
The trouble is when you have to deal with timezone-aware business logic. `date-fns-tz` does exist, but the amount of brain contortions required to keep track of everything is frankly exhausting, not to mention error-prone. Suffice it to say
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by mhink 2y ago
I got the impression that the comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek. The joke lies in the fact that saying "100% of real numbers" isn't *technically* the same thing as saying "all real numbers", because there's not
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by mhink 2y ago
I was thinking about this kind of thing. Another idea might be to introduce artificial latency and gradually increase it over time? Maybe dial up rate-limiting? I'm not really sure if this is a better or worse idea, though.
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by mhink 2y ago
> If I'm reading correctly the Florida waypoints referenced were renamed because a busybody NY Times reporter complained? Do you suppose that if a so-called busybody complained about a waypoint the FAA didn’t care about, they’d both
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by mhink 2y ago
While I think I agree with your definition of "engine", I'm not sure I agree with the idea of "motor" being a subtype of "engine". To me, a "motor" is a specific part of a system's powertrai
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by mhink 2y ago
I would agree if we were talking about, say, a team in 1970, but it's worth pointing out that we're talking about a team working during the very infancy of computer engineering (the late 40s/early 50s). Just off the top of my
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by mhink 2y ago
Yeah, I got these vibes too, but especially from the cinematography. It was kinda _lingering_ on all the little ways each item strained and broke under the weight of the press, almost like it was something to savor. It was weirdly voyeurist
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by mhink 2y ago
I don't think this argument holds water (pun intended), though, since this device is completely human-powered.
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by mhink 2y ago
> No. This transaction does not increase liability in any absolute sense. It increases liability only from the bank's perspective. From your perspective, it increases assets. What you're missing here is that if I were to keep m
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by mhink 2y ago
And the complaints hold less and less water each year. In 2015, people were still complaining about trying to build stable layouts using CSS. Congratulations, we now have Grid and Flexbox (and subgrids just stabilized!) but they still compl
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by mhink 3y ago
I've seen it used frequently in the context of data pipelines and stream-processing applications, which is even more applicable to the subject.
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by mhink 3y ago
That's not entirely correct- or at least, it's more complicated than that. The question of whether a debit/credit increases/decreases an account has to do with the kind of account you're talking about. When I deposi
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by mhink 3y ago
For what it's worth, my understanding is that it's generally not recommended to wash/dry different kinds of fabric together.
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by mhink 3y ago
> Some years later, when I finally got around to learning and using Node.js, I realized just how poor the async/await/promise design Node.js was (error-prone by design). But I highly doubt I would convince anyone to really give
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by mhink 3y ago
Looks like you'll be able to turn the feature off: > You can turn off memory at any time (Settings > Personalization > Memory). While memory is off, you won't create or use memories.
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by mhink 3y ago
They *have* come together. That's why we actually have several options built for purpose and native to CSS these days, as opposed to relying on hacks and Javascript (which was surprisingly common even as recently as 5-6 years ago. The
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by mhink 3y ago
One of the most surprising things (from a modern perspective) about reading that daringfireball article is that a game could be successful on the App Store at a $5 price point ($7 in 2024 dollars).
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by mhink 3y ago
If I'm being completely honest, I don't think the AVP itself needs to be as open as a Mac, but I'd absolutely expect it to be able to act as a window manager for a paired Mac. It's really, really surprising that it only
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by mhink 3y ago
> I almost hate to say it because it's antithetical to the Internet and Hacker News ethos, but it's a testament to how well networked applications could work with a central authority and no anonymity. You don't need passwo
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by mhink 3y ago
For what it's worth, the landscape of Web development was much, much different in 2014 or so. Ruby on Rails was still a huge player, and most major OSS projects meant to enable Web development took a lot of cues from it. Projects like
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by mhink 3y ago
Is this on Windows? Or maybe you're on an older version of Git? I make branches with slashes in the name all the time, never had a problem with it.
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by mhink 3y ago
> Look, I’m all for being clever when cleverness is needed but some of you JS/TS folks take it to the extreme. To be fair, this is very much a toy example meant to demonstrate tail recursion- although I do agree it's not a grea
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by mhink 3y ago
> Since there are ~5000 dimensions, in which of those dimensions are we moving k out ? > Is the idea you just move, out, in all dimensions such that the final Euclidean distance is k ? If I understand correctly, the basic idea is that
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by mhink 3y ago
The way I see it, if you're gonna have to tighten your belt during the holidays, it's probably best to know about it sooner rather than later. By early December, people have likely already made plans for the holidays, which can ea
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by mhink 3y ago
Actually, progress looks like it's been very steady. You're right regarding inductive-style proofs, but the ones for _all_ natural numbers greater than a certain value came surprisingly late. There appear to have been many more os
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by mhink 3y ago
So, I wasn't that big a fan of the Clippy story (probably not the target reader here) but the QNTM one was *fantastic*.

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