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by pgt 7y ago
I had never considered it like that, but it feels true. Do you have some reference material for the statement that gravity and quantum effects are “negative energy”?
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by pgt 7y ago
Excel is the most popular functional programming language in the world. Its killer feature is that you don’t have to name your values before you can use them.
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by pgt 7y ago
What is a route leak?
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by pgt 7y ago
Personal SSL certificates? I don't see why original media can't be signed by the creator. We'll see similar measures as we do for entering passwords into non-SSL web pages: "Warning: this video is unsigned and claims to
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by pgt 7y ago
Prediction: Sqreen will be acquired by New Relic or GitHub/MSFT in 12-18 months.
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by pgt 7y ago
If enough heretics have your name in their social network, your visa will be denied. Requiring social media on visa applications is like enforcing everyone to use Truecaller (don't use it!). This feels like the start of a U.S. social c
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by pgt 7y ago
Yes. I am suspicious of any company that has written diversity into its corporate structure. Here in South Africa, racism is economically sanctioned by well-intentioned BBE (black economic empowerment) "diversity" laws, which made
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by pgt 7y ago
Definition of politics: anything that doesn't have the product's best interests at heart. My central point was not that Google only hires PC engineers (although the James Damore debacle seems to support this), but that engineers l
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by pgt 7y ago
A valuable lesson I learned from @dhh was: never put your customer back in a buying position[^1]. For example, if you discontinue your legacy[^2] 1.0 product, and force them to switch to your shiny/better/faster 2.0 product, whe
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by pgt 7y ago
What is the difference between what you are describing and a language?
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by pgt 7y ago
It would be cool to see the same map for people worldwide, not just in the US.
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by pgt 7y ago
> "Once we build a generally intelligent system, that basically we will ask it to figure out a way to make an investment return for you.'” When the crowd erupted with laughter (it wasn’t immediately obvious that he was serious)
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by pgt 7y ago
I had not considered that initial life, which created enzymes and oxygen would inhibit subsequent biological genesis. This seems to contribute to the Fermi Paradox.
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by pgt 7y ago
I don’t want to work at a place where my projects will get shut down.
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by pgt 8y ago
The 3dfx Voodoo1 was the first hardware I bought with my own money to put in my 200Mhz AMD K6 machine, which I kept cool with two industrial fans. I paid R450 (~$30) for my Voodoo1 and have fond memories of multiplayer Half-Life 1 and Alien
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by pgt 8y ago
I recently had to parse string-based temperature readings coming in over UART (e.g. 25.4C), and I forgot to include the leading minus character in my regular expression. I think generative testing is a great option here if you run the regex
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by pgt 8y ago
As per HN guidelines, assume the poster read the article and respond to the strongest interpretation of their point: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by pgt 8y ago
This would be cool tech for finding single people you are attracted to based on a reference image.
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by pgt 8y ago
I would.
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by pgt 8y ago
The killer feature of containers is immutability at the file-system level, not scale.
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by pgt 8y ago
A customer base has value. Consider that Google bought YouTube for $1.65bn. There is little doubt that Google could build the necessary video streaming tech, but they still bought YouTube, and it was their best acquisition to-date.
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by pgt 8y ago
Fasting can increase awareness. The rationale behind it is that, 1.) your immune system isn't bogged down by foreign matter, plus 2.) your mind needs to focus to find food in times of scarcity and avoid predators.
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by pgt 8y ago
Thanks for pointing me toward SBSK. Fair warning to others: have some napkins handy.
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by pgt 8y ago
Summary of Video: In a microwave oven, resonance between two grapes can ionize the air, creating plasma. The wavelength of 2.45GHz microwaves = 12cm, but the grape's refractive index of ~10 slows down the wave 10x, decreasing the wavel
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by pgt 8y ago
Every year Stallman sounds less crazy. I used to think it didn't matter what tools I chose as a lone developer making consumer tech products and DSP audio applications. But over time, I saw that consumers rely on frontier-makers more t
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by pgt 8y ago
Would universal basic income reduce crime by making it easier for employees to decline immoral tasks?
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by pgt 8y ago
Maximising comparative advantage keeps popping up as a wealth creation strategy. Wrote an essay about it: http://petrustheron.com/posts/vision.html
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People with Schizophrenia Have Increased Antibodies for Epstein Barr Virus(sciencealert.com)
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by pgt 8y ago
It seems plausible that the complex set of control systems that govern our survival became intimately intertwined with various alkaloids over a few million years, "outsourcing" production of raw building blocks to plants. One exam
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by pgt 8y ago
Location: Cape Town, South Africa Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: Yes. Technologies: Clojure/ClojureScript, Datomic, Rust, C/C++, C#, Swift, iOS. All web technologies. Résumé/CV: http://petrustheron.com . BEng El

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