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by mrslave 5y ago
Exercise very close to bed affects many (myself included) as it can take a little while for your increased circulation/elevated core temperature to return to normal. Otherwise a few hours before bed shouldn't be a problem.
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by mrslave 5y ago
> Furthermore, I expect approximately zero economists to not "wrap their head around the idea that being a front line worker being exposed directly to sick people during a pandemic seems to be worth more money than when there wasn&#
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by mrslave 5y ago
Book recommendations are especially high points for me. Thank you GP.
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by mrslave 5y ago
We loved reading this at work yesterday. Other gems posted to HN in the last year: Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii (reuters.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543742 Reconstructing the Me
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by mrslave 5y ago
And yet you haven't corrected your original post, I have read it, believed it, and told everyone I know that the nice green leaf is propaganda.
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by mrslave 5y ago
ePub all the PDFs! Book looks good though. Thanks for posting.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Interesting. So a CPU at version N is updated by a sequence of N patches applied in order, where each patch is a pair of location and code-as-data, plus noise (gotta confuse the competition, and hackers I guess).
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by mrslave 5y ago
When microcode is so small (2K according [0]) how can it work to enable/disable specific instructions, or even change how they work? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Microcode
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by mrslave 5y ago
I thought this originated with the Romans because of the high frequency use of barbarians to refer to Germans to the north that couldn't be conquered and were often a thorn in the side of Rome. But this could be a borrowed word, and my
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by mrslave 5y ago
>technology companies generally don't make political donations or engage in lobbying I'm pretty sure they do, but their primary concerns are getting their piece of the foreign worker visa pie, resisting further industry regulat
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by mrslave 5y ago
IMF recently reported that China's economy has already surpassed USA by annual GDP when measured in purchasing power parity (PPP) - as opposed to market exchange rates (MER). [0] I don't pretend to understand this much further so
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by mrslave 5y ago
Agadmator covered Kramnik v Leko 2002 (in 2018) titled "Invisible to Engines | One Of The Greatest Moves Ever Played" [0] which is worth a watch. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGnpewUKP88
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by mrslave 5y ago
Sensitivity vs specificity. The dog that always indicates drugs is always right when drugs are subsequently identified.
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by mrslave 5y ago
My memory isn't good enough to remember how to bootstrap a game. I believe TetriNET didn't have a forum to play against strangers, but I could be wrong. I played only with friends who would initiate the game with an instant messag
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by mrslave 5y ago
TetriNET was huge back in 1998.[0] And gtetrinet[1] still runs on Linux. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TetriNET [1] http://gtetrinet.sourceforge.net/ (no HTTPS unfortunately)
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by mrslave 5y ago
Some of the people profiled in Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World look like they might be suffering at least a little isolation sickness or cabin fever.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Slightly off-topic from someone who hasn't touched Erlang in almost 20 years: if my app is distributed with Erlang/Elixir, I kind of feel like my choice of database should be something with excellent horizontal scaling too. Can so
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by mrslave 5y ago
WRT NixOS: 1. There might be slightly more convenience for the desktop user because installing applications in their user environment doesn't require root permission. You can set the system to a full Gnome with it's networking&#x2
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by mrslave 5y ago
I haven't used Flakes yet. Any customization is done by giving the packages import an overlay. What am I missing?
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by mrslave 5y ago
Except with NixOS the whole point is system configuration in one file. Assuming you're comfortable getting on a network and partitioning a disk, there's not much need for a GUI. At work, with multiple machines with little differen
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by mrslave 5y ago
> less people having their own untested "PPAs" everywhere This is not my experience with Nix. 1. My system configuration pulls in a couple of programs in from unstable for my convenience and it was incredibly easy. 2. I don&#x2
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by mrslave 5y ago
Disagree. We clearly benefit from identifying patterns, and statistics is a powerful tool. Do we sometimes misclassify? Sure. But if we stopped to talk to everyone in the city we'd get nothing done.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Good explanation. Firefox has had `dom.security.https_only_mode` for a while and it's amazing.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Post WWII their birth rate has plummeted.[0] This coincides with the victor's rewriting of Japan's Constitution, including women's rights that are a radical deviation from their cultural norms.[1][2] [0] https://ww
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by mrslave 5y ago
Thanks for calling this out. This is not something I would have thought to check myself. It's unfortunate the most common use of the word toxic is in a very abstract sense, but the behavior you identify is just plain unnecessary rudene
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by mrslave 5y ago
Second. My last project from hell was all "let's just get it done," with a deadline that shifted from January to May one month at a time. Eventually I pulled the pin. Pretty sure that subsequently there was a lot of "the
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by mrslave 5y ago
> A perf improvement that takes something from hundreds of minutes down to 1.2s does make the person who did the original implementation look bad. But does it have to? I've worked at both ends of the spectrum, from quick-to-pounce (
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by mrslave 5y ago
The hindsight bias makes this a little unfair. To my mind consultants have carved out a niche whereby through experience, research, and by the virtue of having already visited everybody's offices, they can tell you what the "best
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by mrslave 5y ago
The idea of classic literature always reminds me of the idea of a classical education but yet I find myself unable to find a satisfactory definition of what this means, and an example curriculum. Perhaps it is really the study of the Engl
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by mrslave 5y ago
My favorite is Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by Peter van der Linden. I started it as soon as I encountered C at university and could only get through about a chapter at a time. By third year when the assignments in C got hard I was

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