mrpf1ster

9 ms·

61.
by mrpf1ster 5y ago
The engineering effort and scientific expertise this telescope requires is staggering. I really hope it goes well - not just for having a better look at our universe - but as a milestone, proving that humanity can still pull off the impossi
62.
by mrpf1ster 5y ago
This looks really nice! I’m working on a web app that this could be very useful for.
63.
by mrpf1ster 5y ago
Did you not read the whole article? The author explains why his defense of this study and the players involved is wrong, and why they are "furious about every aspect of this story"
64.
by mrpf1ster 5y ago
Where is the un-corruptible agency that is going to enforce these laws? Someone stealing a bag of chips has no recourse to get out of prosecution. A wealthy insider trader has the resources and influence to reduce or even eliminate any cons
65.
by mrpf1ster 5y ago
I searched "c strtok" and got one result saying '"strtok" could be spelled "stroke", "stork", "sarto", "strop"'. Cool concept though!
66.
by mrpf1ster 5y ago
These are fake internet points, I don't think that warrants potentially misleading future developers.
67.
by mrpf1ster 5y ago
Facebook is an entirely different kind of business than Walmart or Amazon. Facebook (and social media in general) is essentially a public forum and comes with the expectations of such since these companies control such a large part of inter
68.
This Is Water (2005)(fs.blog)
163 points by mrpf1ster 5y ago|75 comments
69.
by mrpf1ster 5y ago
What a beautiful memoir, I'm glad the journal could provide the author such closure.
70.
by mrpf1ster 5y ago
The statistic he is analyzing here is median revenue per content creator, not just median revenue. The numerator is the median revenue and the denominator is the number of content creators.
71.
by mrpf1ster 5y ago
DuckDuckGo allows you to do a Google search by prepending "!g" to any query. So usually I do that for the last 5% of queries that DDG fails on.
72.
by mrpf1ster 5y ago
I love this. Pico8's constraints really inspire a lot of creative solutions. I'm surprised they could get Doom running at all.
73.
by mrpf1ster 6y ago
What a very closed minded comment. Humanities and science are deeply intertwined, especially philosophy. Not to mention disregarding an entire category of human expression and experience as "dragging science down". Humanities is j
74.
by mrpf1ster 6y ago
Very light grey text on a white background is not a very readable color scheme :(
75.
by mrpf1ster 6y ago
I love the emphasis on user exploration. And your way of writing the documentation is very welcoming. Awesome tool.
76.
by mrpf1ster 6y ago
This tool is going into my workflow right away. I take notes in markdown (with latex) for all my classes but they're disorganized and searching through them for a specific topic is annoying. This solves so many problems haha. I noticed
77.
by mrpf1ster 7y ago
Pre-NLL made the language incredibly clunky to use, with a lot of code acrobatics required to do something you know should work logically according to ownership but the scope lifetime rules wouldn't allow.
78.
by mrpf1ster 7y ago
Your original argument was that the ease of dependency management doesn't change programming or the act of programming. I feel it encourages a compartmentalized approach to writing programs, pulling in dependencies as needed rather tha