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by nicklaf 5y ago
Any DOS adventure game from the 90s that maliciously threw impossible puzzles at you on a whim with no hints. The Dig is a fun one. In terms of board games, the game of Hex is mathematically interesting in that the impossibility of a draw c
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Is your friend a TNG [0] fan? :-P [0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Who_Watches_The_Watcher...
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by nicklaf 5y ago
PDF version of the paper: http://cmj4.web.rice.edu/mat_vec.pdf
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Type theory is like this in particular. My background is mostly in classical math, and I was initially thrown off by the amount of symbols with special meaning used in CS papers. An important realization was that most of the definitions beh
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Hmm, I think the RJ-45 fits well enough on my 2019 Acer Aspire laptop. With the spring-loaded flap shut, it ends up being no thicker than the HDMI port next to it.
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by nicklaf 5y ago
You know for a few confused seconds I didn't see the joke about the title and took your statement literally, assuming you were talking about some precocious student, who perhaps had been lucky enough to be tutored or concurrently enrol
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by nicklaf 5y ago
According to Peter Norvig, the correlation is actually negative! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdmyUZCl75s
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Have you considered donating them? I believe that public libraries can benefit from the proceeds of selling them should they not have a place for them in their own stacks.
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by nicklaf 5y ago
I'm not necessarily saying it's a good idea! Just that I would caution anyone considering running Firefox on vanilla Linux with less than 8GB of RAM. As for the 'hundreds of browser tabs' I mentioned, most of those aren&
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Yeah. The workflow I use for serious work actually ends up using less tabs because I tend to take care of stuff. I also bookmark/tag/close the important stuff. I talked a bit about my setup a few months ago in an HN post. [0] But
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by nicklaf 5y ago
You know what, you're right: I was looking at the VIRTual memory allocated instead of the RESident memory column in htop. RES says only 8.8GB. Of course it's well known that linux pretty aggressively allocates virtual memory to pr
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Whether or not a chromebook is adequate for cash-strapped students in my painful experience depends on whether or not your model has soldered RAM. Doing research in school will likely have you opening a lot of browser tabs. Running Firefox
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Actually, maybe I do. This thread explains it fairly well, I guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575002 A part of me still would prefer the Slashdot way of organizing threads: +1 funny doesn't boost your karma,
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by nicklaf 5y ago
I'll never understand why HN hates humor so much. You could say it's dumb humor, but a community that can't even tolerate dumb tongue in cheek mischief isn't much of a community at all in my opinion. https://e
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Conversely, this could also be one reason to read HN with showdead turned on....
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Perhaps the (non-fullscreen) user interface shouldn't be the only recognizable visual cue which the user depends on before proceeding to trust their computer. Maybe, instead, there ought to not be 'sacred pixels' on the scree
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by nicklaf 6y ago
Indeed. In particular, when OP said he wasn't moved emotionally by Glass's music, I immediately thought of the track "67 Cities" from Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by nicklaf 6y ago
Heh. The N900 was an amazing device and I cherish the time I had with it. However, it's also a painful memory, because I managed to brick the device after spending possibly hundreds of hours customizing it. The first thing I did was le
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by nicklaf 6y ago
(5) feature creep
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by nicklaf 6y ago
Ah, brilliant! Thanks for pointing that out to me (and for uBO).
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by nicklaf 6y ago
This is why I whitelist Javscript on a per-subdomain basis. I think NoScript does this but I use a simpler extension[0] and then rely on uBlock origin and multi account containers for privacy once I've whitelisted sites. [0] https:&#x
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by nicklaf 6y ago
I'd be curious to know whether a breakthrough in quantum computing that broke cryptographic algorithms that cryptocurrencies depend on could prevent this by making non-quantum cryptography obsolete. Or am I wrong to assume that there w
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by nicklaf 6y ago
> A friend of mine keeps basically infinity tabs open. I sort of rolled my eyes, but accepted his rare behavior. For those in the comments who are like myself (and parent's friend) and have hundreds or even thousands of tabs open, I
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by nicklaf 6y ago
Auto-completion of history is something I find annoying to start with. Firefox actually has the great option of removing history from auto-complete, leaving things like open tabs and bookmarks. Auto-completing bookmarks and not history crea
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by nicklaf 6y ago
> Many overtly social people I know seem to use social interaction as a sort of crutch for avoiding solving personal issues. Stalker / Solaris director Andrei Tarkovsky's advice to young people and being alone (video): https:&
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by nicklaf 6y ago
My analogy was meant to cut both ways, and serves as much as a criticism of the US constitution as it does a compliment! You'd certainly be wrong to assume that Americans are all in favor of our foreign policy, to say the least. Aside
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by nicklaf 6y ago
An overgrown masters level project, eh? You could probably say the same thing about the founding of the United States! "The US constitution is like an overgrown enlightenment dissertation. The founding fathers did a good job at growing
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by nicklaf 6y ago
Thank you very much for sharing. I'll definitely need to give the decision to take the drug more consideration before I go through with it.
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by nicklaf 6y ago
Hmm. I was prescribed Cymbalta and wrote about the reasons for that in a sister reply to yours, and your post reminds me why I have been hesitant to take it. If I may ask, did your wife's post-withdrawal symptoms eventually subside?
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by nicklaf 6y ago
Very interesting! I was recently prescribed Cymbalta as well for chronic pain in my first rib area [0], but until reading your post had some remaining skepticism about going through with it. In my case, chronic pain seems to be affecting my

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