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by ninkendo 3y ago
Right, it would be simpler to just say “I flip a coin and keep it in my hand, and you guess heads or tails, but before I open my hand I ask if you want to change your answer.” It’s the exact same probability but with less extraneous factors
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Now I want to hear a sample of this to know if any of the games I played as a child did this.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> source? It's right in the bill: > Congress finds the following: > (1) According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, from the third quarter of 2020 to the second quarter of 2022, corporate profits rose by 75 percent, and Fede
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Can’t let this comment go without pointing out that Li-ion was invented by a Mr. John B. Goodenough: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
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by ninkendo 3y ago
I don’t really see how Olbers’s paradox proves that the Universe is finite, merely that the observable universe is finite. The observable universe is finite because (a) it’s expanding and (b) the speed of light is finite. Both of these ca
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Not to mention that in order to properly start and stop such double-forked daemons, you need everyone to agree on how pidfiles work, where to store them, how to garbage collect them, where to write logs, their permissions, how to rotate the
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by ninkendo 3y ago
IME, SOLID is only an important idea because there are so many ways to do OOP poorly and you need a set of guidelines to help you not turn your OOP codebase into a mess. You get most of SOLID automatically if you just don’t do implementatio
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Edit: riquito is totally right here, I'm wrong. I'm leaving this for posterity, but this is all incorrect: stdout buffering by default will allow the "yes" process to write a lot of data even if you do a naive loop of pr
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by ninkendo 3y ago
It's a dumb tradeoff, IMO. The job of `yes` is to produce output only when it's being read, and this implementation copies the "y\n" until it fills up a BUFSIZ-sized buffer (8KB on my system), then outputs that buffer un
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by ninkendo 3y ago
My 2¢, as someone who tried using WhatsApp once and ran away screaming: WhatsApp requires you to give it access to all your contacts (your entire address book) in order to use it at all. This information is uploaded straight to Facebook’s s
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by ninkendo 3y ago
The virtual resolution is adjustable and you can fit a lot more contents on the screen than you can with a real monitor. It basically allows one more setting past the maximum “more space” mode you normally get from macOS. It does render a
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by ninkendo 3y ago
I wonder if using something like stage manager on Vision Pro would cause a lot of people to get motion sickness… I can imagine large windows flying around in virtual space three or 4 feet from you is going to cause a lot of disorientation f
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> There is no worldwide convention. Yeah, if only there were an authority that we could agree on to assign numbers for internet things like ports. Some sort of internet assigned number authority … https://www.iana.org&#
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by ninkendo 3y ago
You’re thinking about something else. There’s a thing called “Sign In With Apple” that is available when an app/website wants to offer it, that integrates with Apple’s authentication system. The email the app/website sees is a bun
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by ninkendo 3y ago
The auto-generated addresses also have dictionary names. They’re explicitly designed to look like addresses that a real person might come up with… typically a dictionary word, followed by some numbers and symbols. Just like other email add
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Ugh, and then you call the number and it takes you to an IVR menu where the only options are “billing” and “surgery” or other some such. I’ve had doctors call me with results and the only way I could get ahold of them was to call, pretend I
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by ninkendo 3y ago
iCloud’s Hide My Email is perfect for this. No “+” convention, it just generates a random @icloud.com email address specifically for whatever website/app you’re signing up for, and forwards it to your real email. The random addresses
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by ninkendo 3y ago
My 2¢, not an expert, etc etc... I think the key detail here is that each eye is getting its own set of pixels for looking at the same virtual content. This can lead to more detail, because the pixels aren't 100% redundant (they'r
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by ninkendo 3y ago
The mindfulness app that ships with Vision Pro has a similar 3D sphere thing made of what look like flower pedals, it’s definitely a nice aid to the meditation.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Makes sense, I misunderstood your initial post. Thanks for clarifying!
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> which is kinda like "seconds at 1g" if the fuel is a very small fraction of the total mass, which it really won't be in a practical rocket. I think you mean “a very large fraction of the total mass”… generally the best e
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by ninkendo 3y ago
It is, as of 15 November 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Eight_Billion
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by ninkendo 3y ago
I must have missed this honeymoon period with Quora, I only ever remember it being as “that shitty site that tries to make me log in to view answers”. I treated it like that old “Experts Exchange” site, and just visually moved past it eve
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by ninkendo 3y ago
(not OP) > Do you expect that everyone who uses a database should know all the internals of the data structures stored on disk, journals, ram cache, etc. before they try to do basic SQL? Honestly? Yes. Knowing the basic data structures s
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Yup, my names break up into two categories, each with a namespace: `wip/` and `deadend/`. deadend is my personal favorite. Every time I write some code that turns out to not work, instead of spamming undo until I get to a known go
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by ninkendo 3y ago
I’m a native english speaker and I view “hate” and “can’t stand” as being synonyms. I can’t for the life of me draw a distinction between what either phrase means.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
This is measurably false. Google’s IPv6 adoption graph has noticeable spikes on the weekends when people use their home internet, and decreases during the work week when people go to work: https://www.google.com/intl/en
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> Also, I’d like a button which allowed my kid’s music to be erased from any algorithm that helps chose me music. Preach. My “Replay 2020” music is the last yearly replay that’s any good. Because I had my first child in 2021 and everythi
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> The vendor specific ad hoc mechanisms for extending DNS in a site local context are not well supported DNS is one of those things that OS vendors think should be extendable and configurable. It allows VPN apps to redirect DNS only for
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Some of the time, companies think it works. I have no faith in how much/whether companies track the number of times a user simply closes the tab because they got a shitty popup while they were trying to _read about the product_. (It

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