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by myaccount80 2y ago
how do you feel about the resource waste of such return policies? Shipping all these items to then return most of them is an insane amount of waste. And sometimes returned items cannot be resold so they are thrown away. Imo there should be
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by myaccount80 3y ago
My fav sci-fi books are: Ubik by Philip K Dick Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Recursion by Blake Crouch Highly recommended
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by myaccount80 3y ago
Can anyone explain how do they make the antimatter particles and how do they actually know/analyze that they are making antimatter atoms ?
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by myaccount80 3y ago
You can encode every book and information in a small rod. Just take a 1 meter long rod and encode your book into binary, eg 01011110111. Now, take your binary string, and transform it into a decimal number in base 2 by prepending 0. , E.g.
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by myaccount80 4y ago
“Written in rust” but it’s just a raw call to ChatGPT.
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by myaccount80 4y ago
I used to listen podcasts on the Apple Podcast app but then I tried to listen to the same podcasts in Spotify and the audio quality was so much better. Anyone else felt the same? I mainly listen to Lex Fridman
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by myaccount80 4y ago
Reminds me of the story of Nasubi: “Tomoaki Hamatsu was challenged to stay alone, unclothed, in an apartment for Susunu! Denpa Shōnen (January 1998 – March 2002), a Japanese reality-television show on Nippon Television, after winning a lott
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by myaccount80 4y ago
Dancing links https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Links “ In computer science, dancing links (DLX) is a technique for adding and deleting a node from a circular doubly linked list. It is particularly useful for eff
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by myaccount80 4y ago
With this resolution, I’m wondering if we could see some artificial structures made by Type 3 civilizations, or some side effects of them. Or maybe we will feel even more lonely.
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by myaccount80 4y ago
Wow. Back in high school (~2011) I made this game as an ios app. I remember I published a video on YouTube and a few months later I found a copy on the App Store. Maybe it was just a coincidence. Unfortunately I don’t find my video on YouTu
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by myaccount80 4y ago
It’s called Devil’s algorithm but I believe it is not know yet whether it exists or not https://getgocube.com/play/devils-number/
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by myaccount80 5y ago
Personally, I use Instagram to see what my friends are doing and I’m not interested in the random addictive feed. So I just use Instagram from the web (safari on mobile) and use AdGuard to block the search feed thing. I even waste less time
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by myaccount80 5y ago
Once I unsubscribed from Audible I started receiving email every 1-2 weeks with 60-70% discounts for couple of months. So I’ve been subscribing/unsubscribing to keep getting nice discount
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by myaccount80 5y ago
I didn’t read the article yet but yesterday I was wondering about something: does gravity (the bending of space) bends the electromagnetic field? I guess they (spacetime and electromagnetic fields) are two independent fields but maybe they
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by myaccount80 5y ago
Very well written. Unfortunately I already tried all these kind of tricks in some competitions but others were still able to beat my code. Are there additional resources for improving it even further?
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by myaccount80 6y ago
Nice. Right now I’m using the following: print(f’{foo(123)=}’) Which prints: foo(123)=‘result’
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by myaccount80 6y ago
There was once ChatRoulette
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by myaccount80 7y ago
If you want to get rid of the ads without hacks, just contact amazon with the web chat and ask if they can remove them. They did it for me for free. (I’m serious)
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by myaccount80 7y ago
It is not reversible because you’re ereasing information. If you want to have a reversible addition you are not allowed to destroy the information. The same happens if you apply the standard AND operator to two bits because the output is on
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by myaccount80 7y ago
Are you considering “having cheaper stuff” actually progress in terms of humanity ?
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by myaccount80 7y ago
Why are there people investing so much money on these things, filling up the space, just for some stupid trading. Why is humanity doing this ??
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by myaccount80 8y ago
But LeCunn still works for Facebook. I don’t understand why such a smart person should spend his time working for such a company.
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by myaccount80 8y ago
Kind of unrelated but I would like to have HN opinion: what is the actual point in working as a trader ? At the end of the day you just made more money or lost money. But you’re not contributing in anything for the world. I really don’t und