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by nathanwh 4y ago
A couple of ones it got wrong "What is Hagrid's coat made out of?" - "Beaver fur" "What does Harry Potter's seventeenth birthday cake resemble?" -- "Harry Potter's seventeenth birthday cake
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by nathanwh 4y ago
Yep! https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...
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by nathanwh 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law You stated it almost directly.
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by nathanwh 4y ago
From TFA, “Now it was just a matter of what I like the most, hacking on Linux”. This isn’t a product for users, it’s one of this persons hobbies.
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by nathanwh 5y ago
I’m not trying to out myself as an unnuanced consumer of communication, but I literally did just that reading the parent comment. I wonder what is the percentage of the HN audience that did that
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by nathanwh 5y ago
Honestly this XKCD arguing that psychic phenomena don't exist because they're not exploited for profit is a comforting difficult to refute argument for me: https://xkcd.com/808/
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by nathanwh 5y ago
This is not a good take. If unconstitutionality was as simple as ctrl-f the constitution we wouldn’t need the court system. Read here for a description of how the bill of rights creates “zones of privacy” which are breached by restricting a
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by nathanwh 5y ago
How did you increase your typing speed so much? I’m sitting at around 70ish wpm and would like to increase it
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by nathanwh 5y ago
I get this as well with my 16” MBP at work, my previous work 13” and my personal 13” work fine. So it’s definitely the computer and not the setup
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by nathanwh 5y ago
Found the person who added all the special cases to the legacy code I’m working on :)
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by nathanwh 5y ago
I think the reason that it seems petty is that distinction is just not useful information for most people. It’s at best a historical asterisk on whatever is being discussed. I don’t use Unix, and I don’t know anyone that uses Unix. Linux to
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Ant and Slime Simulations(youtube.com)
2 points by nathanwh 6y ago|1 comments
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by nathanwh 6y ago
Admittedly I’m biased against that source already, but even then I don’t see how their evidence supports their conclusion. There’s three main points I can see 1. The proportion of the traffic to their site from google dropped. This isn’t co
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by nathanwh 6y ago
TFA will inform you of this though, it's intended to be a game of reasoning. Posting the answer is spoiling the fun for people who read the comments first
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by nathanwh 6y ago
Fun stuff, there's a few more on this page: https://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/falseProofs/fallacies.h... The last one in particular I thought was interesting
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by nathanwh 6y ago
Having done two sleep studies, the first time it took me 45 minutes to fall asleep, so they gave me a (low dose) Xanax the next time, you can share this concern with your doctor and they should be able to address it.
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by nathanwh 7y ago
http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt List of TLDs, large enough companies usually have one, I’m not aware of what the utility of having a TLD is to a non tech company
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by nathanwh 7y ago
Feedback: the site looks quite clumsy on iOS Safari (images and text content squished to fit on the screen). I clicked on the toolbox link and the page worked well enough, the tools didn’t quite fit all the way on the page though. I have a
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by nathanwh 7y ago
I enjoyed petulantly answering every question with “no” and the funding the final state to be “Consult Stackoverflow”
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by nathanwh 7y ago
This comment is hilariously on the nose for how a lot of math texts read (at least in my experience) $SIMPLE_CONCEPT that you’re trying your best to understand is easy if you think of it as a specific example of $MORE_COMPLICATED_CONCEPT th
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by nathanwh 7y ago
I use this approach a lot too, but I’ve found that some people consider it condescending so know your audience I guess.
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by nathanwh 7y ago
The example on the first screen could use some work. Both the color and the word are “Green” so it’s hard to determine if the correct answe is green because that’s the color of the text or that’s what the word is.
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by nathanwh 7y ago
For anyone who isn’t already aware, fzf[0] does this exactly (and more!) https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
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by nathanwh 8y ago
Does Ceph not have distrubuted metadata as well?