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by omoikane 1y ago
Were there any bots that participated in One Million Chessboards? I remember people building some automation around One Million Checkboxes to do some crazy animation stuff, I wonder if that was attempted with One Million Chessboards. Also,
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by omoikane 1y ago
In a similar spirit, I knew someone who claimed to not pay for parking permits at our university, and just parked wherever he liked. The parking permits were $100+ per month and the parking fines were ~$300 per citation, so if he gets caug
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by omoikane 1y ago
What I have learned is that "new Date(...)" never throws errors, and you would have to do something like "new Date(...).toISOString()".
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by omoikane 1y ago
> https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/history-of-scie... > Estimate: 400000-600000 USD > Current Bid: 350000 USD Apple 1 sold for $666.66 in 1976, which is ~$3766 today after inflation,
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by omoikane 1y ago
Original blog post: https://bsky.social/about/blog/07-10-2025-age-assurance I was looking for more details on who is considered in-scope, e.g. if the determination is decided at account creation time or at content
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by omoikane 1y ago
This scheme skips over 80 through 9F because they claim it's never appropriate to send those control characters through interchangeable text, but it just seems like a very brave proposal to intentionally have codepoints that can't
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by omoikane 1y ago
See also: https://xkcd.com/1738/
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by omoikane 1y ago
I think having expiration dates is very reasonable and I wish their FAQ would cover this. Current FAQ entries seem to suggest companies must make the games playable forever, and suggest this is somehow possible without ongoing support or d
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by omoikane 1y ago
The dot counting tool is kind of neat, but I guess most people didn't need it because if they see a large enough pile of something, they assume it's roughly what they expected (as opposed to "does this bag of candy really con
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by omoikane 1y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37756656 - Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level (2023-10-03, 201 comments)
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by omoikane 1y ago
Under "animals being weird"[1] there is a "Cats Playing with WiFi Pet Toys"[2] tag, which contained various videos about toys but no cats[3][4][5]. [1] https://yourabbit.com/categories/weird-animals&
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by omoikane 1y ago
It's weird how it says "Thai and English Computer" on the front but the ports are labeled with simplified Chinese on the back.
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by omoikane 1y ago
> "Because there's a digital record of what mask was used, in 100 years, the next time someone is working with this, they'll have an extremely clear understanding of what was done to the painting" Reminds me of https
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by omoikane 1y ago
The person designing the database schema might have made a conscious decision not to support arbitrary track names and layout, since the added restrictions will make the client side software easier to implement. But I guess it is also pos
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by omoikane 1y ago
I wonder if these tables are telling us that it's more conventional to write "a < b" as opposed to "b > a". Is there a style guide for writing equations?
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by omoikane 1y ago
> unset HISTFILE I don't do this because I didn't know "unset HISTFILE" was an option. Instead I symlink .bash_history (and other history things like .python_history, lesshst, etc.) to /dev/null
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by omoikane 1y ago
Majority of users don't sideload any apps according to: https://zimperium.com/blog/the-hidden-risks-of-sideloading-a...
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by omoikane 1y ago
I prefer the versions hosted by archive.org: https://archive.org/search?query=sbaitso Especially the "no voice" one, which runs much faster: https://archive.org/details/SBAITSO_TDY
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by omoikane 1y ago
For Japanese readers, I have been following "Hamamura Nagisa no Keisan Nooto" (Hamamura Nagisa's Calculation Notes), which is a light novel mystery series. Most chapters contain some crime by a math-minded terrorist, and the
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by omoikane 1y ago
He had a longer blog entry for North Korea, but I like how the FAQ summarized it as "DPRK is a far more normal country than what we are lead to believe". The rest of the FAQ is great reading as well: https://www.onceupo
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by omoikane 1y ago
I think we are supposed to just gloss over those bits and enjoy the rest of the story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief
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Was it also commonplace to have insurances covering human errors? For example: > A tribunal last year ordered Air Canada to honour a discount that its customer service chatbot had made up. If a human sales representative had made that m
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by omoikane 1y ago
I find that the act of taking those pictures helps me remember the scene better. It's like back in school days when some professors allowed students to bring a small cheat sheet or card to the exams -- it's not so much the fact t
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by omoikane 1y ago
> an infinite loop of includes We can probably copy the specs for <frameset> and deal with it the same way: https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-frames-970331#:~:text=Infinite%20Re... Any frame that attempts to assi
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by omoikane 1y ago
An entry for the IOCCC ( https://www.ioccc.org/ ), which is currently open until 2025-06-05.
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by omoikane 1y ago
It sounds like you are asking whether anti-cloning or anti-piracy measures would survive in today's world, and that's something of an ugly arms race. The publishers know whatever scheme they put in will eventually be defeated, bu
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by omoikane 1y ago
Really excited about #embed support: > C: #embed preprocessing directive support. > C++: P1967R14, #embed (PR119065) See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201951 - Embed is in C23 (2022-07-23)
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by omoikane 1y ago
Offtopic, but I wonder why they have the umlaut in "reëvaluating".
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Link to paper: http://web.archive.org/web/20131101122512/http://ubietylab.n... Via "Accidentally Turing-Complete": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30189780
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In the "computations" page[1], the table lists the Netherlands computation as costing 97 CPU years with 6 months of elapsed time, while the Korean bars costs 44 years of CPU time and 3 months of elapsed time. I can't tell if

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