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by mttpgn 2y ago
In the late 1990s, my dad attended night classes with other adult learners to earn his MBA. Everywhere he went during those years, my dad had a beeper clipped to his belt for an on-call hospital rotation. During his first week of class, my
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by mttpgn 2y ago
Just because the number of abstraction layers can be reduced doesn't mean they need to be. You might gain back some CPU cycles, some milliseconds of execution time. But the tradeoffs of maintainability, legibility, and developer qualit
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by mttpgn 3y ago
Internet Archive to the rescue! It's still possible to download the liblzma source code from the Internet Archive's Github snapshot of the 5.4.6 stable release: https://web.archive.org/web/20240329182145&#x2F
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by mttpgn 3y ago
Many open source projects often already do receive US government funding, mostly through an onerous grant-application process. Nationalizing American open source projects could make them operate more like European open source where their EU
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by mttpgn 3y ago
Not apt the package manager-- it's an acronym for Advanced Persistent Threat
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by mttpgn 3y ago
There's a funny moment where she goes (paraphrasing), if you're a man stop reading right now, this part is not for you, ladies only.
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by mttpgn 3y ago
> Virginia Woolf wrote a famous essay, 'Shakespeare's sister', about how a figure like her could never hope to be a writer or have her writing preserved, so she has become something of a symbol for all the lost voices of e
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by mttpgn 3y ago
What has played out with RTO is a prisoner's dilemma scenario with astoundingly low defection rates. Return to office is a prisoner's dilemma for executives where "defection" means permitting WFH and "cooperation&qu
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by mttpgn 3y ago
I find that available LLMs have difficulty recalling instances in specific works by given authors. For example, if you ask GPT-4 "In which Philip K. Dick novel does the protagonist character consider converting to Judaism and moving to
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by mttpgn 3y ago
Python script using datetime crashed with a "ValueError: day is out of range for month" exception.
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Playing the Game of Decadence(captiveliberty.substack.com)
1 points by mttpgn 3y ago|0 comments
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by mttpgn 3y ago
So the clerk states prices in Russian but takes payment in USD... I can't figure out what country this is set it. Brighton Beach maybe?
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Something beautiful that generative text models will never allow again(medium.com)
11 points by mttpgn 4y ago|3 comments
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From Recursion to Very Large Numbers: The Ackermann Function(medium.com)
3 points by mttpgn 4y ago|0 comments
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Ten histories of Python, mimicking the writing styles of others(medium.com)
1 points by mttpgn 4y ago|0 comments
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by mttpgn 4y ago
This reminded me of an epigram from Philip K. Dick: > Another frame of reference which might help him would be the Doctrine of Original Sin. I wonder if he has ever heard of it. We are all doomed to commit acts of cruelty or violence or
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by mttpgn 4y ago
Ask it for a URL or a link to backup any claim that it's making. This URL may or may not point to a real web resource. Regardless, claim that the web page is down for you. It may well then admit to a contradiction, such as: > AI: Ye
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by mttpgn 4y ago
Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being . Kundera uniquely combines fiction and philosophy, often switching back and forth from a world of suspended disbelief in the lives of his characters, and a world where his characters
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The History of the ps Command(medium.com)
2 points by mttpgn 4y ago|0 comments
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by mttpgn 5y ago
The ACLU selectively deploys their limited resources only on cases which they believe can have a lasting national impact on constitutional interpretation.
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by mttpgn 5y ago
At 3:13 in the video, he says "The absolute tl;dr of this video is if you are buying devices from customers, you need to submit the information regarding that machine and the customer to a LEED's (sp?) online database[...] We don&
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by mttpgn 5y ago
> > where do you start from? My answer for this has been to scroll all the way through the git history of a repo structurally similar to something I want to do and read each of the first month-or-so of commits.
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by mttpgn 5y ago
> Using deft allegory, the authors have provided an insightful and intuitive explanation of one of Unix's most venerable networking utilities. Even more stunning is that they were clearly working with a very early beta of the progra
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by mttpgn 5y ago
Shells have not dramatically altered pipe character implementations since Dennis Ritchie introduced | into Unix V4. Most folk's use of the command line interface has changed so much since those days that |'s default "glue&quo
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by mttpgn 5y ago
I don't understand why so many bones could be found in the latrine. To me that indicates either that humans commonly ate bones during the middle ages or that latrines were used not just for toilets but as cooking-scraps dumps as well.
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by mttpgn 6y ago
Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585447
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by mttpgn 6y ago
Bought a new book or toy for my kids once per week. They look forward every Friday to getting something new. I enjoy seeing their anticipation and getting to read something new to them that weekend.
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by mttpgn 6y ago
Disney Plus has endeared the character to a new generation in America with the TV shows Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, and a reboot of DuckTales.
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by mttpgn 6y ago
Facebook and LinkedIn do as well (but Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, Netflix, Stackoverflow & Salesforce do not).
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by mttpgn 6y ago
Does it include any features that aren't present in ThinkOrSwim? Could be an advantageous tool for those who don't want to give their private information to TD-Ameritrade.

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