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by ofalkaed 3mo ago
Presidents signing stuff into law is almost always a publicity stunt (politics), once passed it becomes law in 10 days regardless if the president signed it. The exception is if it passed during the last 10 days of a session; president has
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by ofalkaed 3mo ago
That is not something inherent in guitars themselves, it is the norm in steel string guitars and the fan-braced/Spanish guitar but mostly because that is the norm for all those mass produced guitars which make up the bulk of guitars. O
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by ofalkaed 3mo ago
Related read; a first hand account by one of the 2012 Pulitzer jury members giving a good account of the process and attempting to explain why no literature prize was awarded that year. https://www.newyorker.com/books/p
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by ofalkaed 3mo ago
I have no idea about gaming but in the music world you start noticing latency when it is above 5ms and the difference between 5 and 8ms is tangible. For the most part anything under 10ms is workable and you will quickly adapt as long as the
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by ofalkaed 3mo ago
The human scale is often the source of the square, the 1. The height of common chair seats such as most dining chairs is ~elbow to finger tip of the average adult male, effortless to measure on the workbench and it will get your chairs into
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by ofalkaed 3mo ago
>True, 12 doesn't match the number of fingers or toes... but have you ever considered it does match the number of spaces around our fingers and toes? We used to learn to count on our fingers instead of counting our fingers, our four
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by ofalkaed 3mo ago
TFA does not quite explain the logic of this and somewhat suggests it as unique when it was the norm. If you are building a church, what better metric is there than the church you are building? There is no reason to measure, you can just su
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by ofalkaed 3mo ago
>Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. >Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. >Please don't pick the most pro
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by ofalkaed 3mo ago
Am I weird for not wanting to see this same discussion and variations of it in most every thread including in ones that it has no place? I don't see it having any effect on the trend which only seems to be increasing, but I do see an e
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by ofalkaed 3mo ago
>If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by ofalkaed 3mo ago
K4 is the K programming language, Q is a language built on top of K. They are the practical over achieving members of the array family of programming languages.
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
There is no time that I would normally have my phone other than when I am at home; the data point that I provide would be the rare times I take my phone out of the house and most of that time it is off, I only turn it on if I actually need
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
Cellphones broadcast their location, not ours. We can leave our phones at home.
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
Flashback had the bulk of Prince of Persia's mechanics but developed story and the puzzle aspect to a far greater extent and was less action based compared to Prince of Persia's race against the clock. There are times in Flashback
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The Alchemist of Flesh: The Man Who Turned Humans into Stone(2025)(medium.com)
17 points by ofalkaed 4mo ago|4 comments
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
It worked on my Android tablet but I can't scribble a note and draw a picture/diagram with the stylus. I don't know anything about iPads but on Android you have the USI pen and for any app that understands the USI pen, it int
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William Gass and John Hawkes (1971)(92ny.org)
2 points by ofalkaed 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
This would be fantastic on a tablet; stylus for entry and fingers for navigation would make it very efficient and a great improvement over the standard infinite page. I would probably pay for a non-web tablet version, it is rare my tablet i
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
I was not suggesting that it would be a false positive, I was suggesting that this will filter out many submissions that would be of interest to those that want less AI on HN. This would flag a blog that has nothing to do with AI if some ra
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
I got a partial load and what it looks like it does is just search each submission for a list of key words and discards any that hits, so it would discard this submission.
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
Most of the shareware I got was downloaded from BBSes and the internet and even these central repositories that are the norm now are nothing new, in the 80s I went to a local BBS that was dedicated to shareware and in the 90s a handful of s
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
A fair amount of software follows the model but does not use the term, everytime I go on the play store to look for an app I encounter many that offer a free version with limited features.
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
It has worked this way since the days of the vacuum tube, so there probably is some legal precedence somewhere. I think part of this with the NE5532 is just that these days most EEs spend most of their time with digital where the data sheet
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
Using the three plots of Infinite Jest as the vertices doesn't really work, there is nothing fractal like about the plot itself and plot is not the structure. How I see it is that the vertices would be family, education, and society, w
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
>Insurance can be tricky for no really good reason It is very expensive to prove a ferro hull to be sound, which is a requirement for getting insurance.
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by ofalkaed 4mo ago
Seems to miss the real reason, which is that AI is terrible with subtext. This is what the author is hinting at with "It often looks perfect but bothers me for reasons that aren’t immediately obvious." Most people have an intuitiv
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by ofalkaed 5mo ago
>A lot of smart people only engage with APL via toy puzzles I think part of this is because that is how most (possibly all) sources teach APL and array languages, solving puzzles and manipulating arrays. If you learn to write programs in
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by ofalkaed 5mo ago
https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN/tree/master/src
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by ofalkaed 5mo ago
I switched to Vivaldi years ago because I got sick of dealing with extensions; an update broke a few of my long relied on extensions and a search for alternatives showed hundreds of options. A few hours into my search for replacements I fou
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by ofalkaed 5mo ago
I use dried fruit, much less messy, you don't end up sticky. Raisins work very well, chopped dates are quite nice as well but a pain to apply so I generally buy whole dried dates and halve them. Sliced or chopped figs are quite good, a

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