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by posix86 4y ago
> I think it's trivial to see it "works" in the sense that it costs nothing and generates at least some positive revenue. How does it cost nothing??
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by posix86 4y ago
Check out the github graphical client for windows, it's pretty easy to understand and use the basic features. It also shows graphically what's going on: Changes of each commit, history of commits, merge conflicts, who did what, an
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by posix86 4y ago
What are parasite words, and what exactly does this tool do? I read the readme but couldn't figure it out.
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by posix86 4y ago
Isn't... isn't that the core idea of liberalism? Letting people do their thing? Which, naturally, leads to some people getting more than others? What am I missing?
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by posix86 4y ago
Yes :) The exact probability for having 50%/50% is (100 nCr 50)/2^100, or about (as you found through experiemtation) 0.08. The more often you run the experiement, the more likely you'll get a result close to 50%/50%, by
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by posix86 4y ago
I disagree. You want people to click numbers s.t. if you asked them 10k times, a uniform distribution would emerge. But that is not what's happening. They think all numbers have the same probablity, but if you click only 1, then the pr
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by posix86 4y ago
Could be. Though if you think long enough, with this worldview you can't decide anything, ever. And it's irrational. You can't say for sure which is random, but you can say for sure on which you should bet your money if you h
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by posix86 4y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with pseudo random numbers :) PRNG are not perfect but their imperfections are impossible to detect by hand.
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by posix86 4y ago
What does that mean, "you can tell this sequence is not random"? If you show me a blue hat, and ask me if it's blue, I'll say yes, I can say it's blue. But there is always a chance it's not actually blue. It&#x
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by posix86 4y ago
You're wrong. Mathematically. Here's why. When you throw a coin 100 times, each sequence you get is equally likely. However. You can look at properties of the sequence which are more likely to be one way than the other. For instan
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by posix86 5y ago
Sounds a lot like ADHD to me tbh.
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by posix86 5y ago
Hmm. I always considered HN to be one of the cleanest sites that displays dense info. Props for going through with the project though! I'm sure you learned a lot of useful things. If you want some feedback: I'm hvaing a hard time
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by posix86 5y ago
I agree with you that crypto often makes things unecessairly complicated sometimes. Every heard of hypercore protocol? They're a force against that. Ethereum should take note there.
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by posix86 5y ago
I think you don't recognize the power of an universal function approximator. You you seem to underestimate the possible number of ways that problems can be abstracted as functions to and from n dimensional vectors. It's a very non
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by posix86 5y ago
As it should be, in my opinion. A connection should be between hosts, and anything path related on a different abstraction layer.
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by posix86 5y ago
Agreed on the last point but isn't that the case for all improvements? From an application layer, all you see is a set of datastreams that are now less interrupted/delayed than before....
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by posix86 5y ago
I'm surprised that a major feature of QUIC isn't mentioned at all: Identification of session solely through connection IDs, unrelated to IP addresses. When you travel & change network, from WIFI to cellular, from one cellular
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by posix86 5y ago
I haven't made that bad an experience with Discord. I remember having an issue with Svelte and simply not finding the answer even though I thought that should be a fairly common problem (disabling SSR). There were threads on Github wit
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by posix86 5y ago
...Gauss is one of the most important mathematicians who ever lived. The gaussian distribution is the single most important random distribution there is. The standard 2d coordinate system is often also referred to as the gaussian plane. I&
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by posix86 5y ago
Extremely unlikely. Tom Segura, Theo Van are comedian friends of him. Michael Malice is an anarchist!
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by posix86 5y ago
The stock market price today is based on the value people EXPECT the company to have at some point, not the one it has. If people expected it to grow much more, and it doesn't, the value falls to the level it possibly should've ha
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by posix86 5y ago
I disagree on the author's definition of "real". I see two ways they can be defined in the context of movies: Real could mean that the objects portraid look like they were actually filmed through a camera; but it could also m
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by posix86 5y ago
Arguments for compactness: - Namespace system strongly favours single-word names - Type embedding allows for single-dot access (not this.path.is.long()) - Zero-elements allow for elegant, zero-line initialization and existance checks, allev
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by posix86 5y ago
The same thing can be extended to any product to an extent: You must always improve, or no one will know that you even exist. MS Windows, MS Office, and recently twitter with their NFT profile pictures are some of the things where developer
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by posix86 5y ago
The fact that they try to sell you an alternative to Minecraft is a bit ridiculous, who do they think is their target audience? Seems like a scam.
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by posix86 5y ago
The primary purpose of emojies are to add emotion to text that would otherwise be hard to convey, and for that they're useful even in documentation, in moderation.
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by posix86 5y ago
True. That's actual a market gap! Build a mobile browser so good it can replace apps.
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by posix86 5y ago
You're the first person I see that also has this position! Anti-alias makes the difference between an image looking like it's a rendered set of datastructures by a computer, or if it's a virtual world you happen to have an im
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by posix86 5y ago
This isn't solving the problem at all, in my view. It's translating human speech into programmed code; it's sympy that actually solves the problem. As you said, this can be very useful, but knowing how to type the problem int
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by posix86 5y ago
Not yet, right? This is a topic of active research.

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