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by praptak 2y ago
My friend rigged nibbles.bas so that he could beat his brother more often.
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by praptak 2y ago
The banana was indeed observably unrealistic. With speed above a certain level it could ghost through the opponent without harming them because the collision detection only checked subsequent positions, not the whole line segment between th
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by praptak 2y ago
They do hire in LCoL countries (hello from Warsaw). Whether this will make the dent I'm a bit skeptical though. Nobody flies candidates anymore. I told the last recruiter flat out that it's no longer ethical for me to work for a U
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by praptak 2y ago
Solitary confinement is torture: https://phr.org/our-work/resources/endless-nightmare-solitar...
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by praptak 2y ago
Something in between. Like "pushed to implement a feature without the safety measures". When outages started to happen implemented Outage Prevention Program, i.e. implemented the safety measures that should have been implemented f
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Entropy does not always align with what we perceive as chaos/disorder! Crystals are generally considered pretty orderly, yet the oversaturated solution actually gains entropy when it crystallizes.
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by praptak 2y ago
Competition between employers is supposed to benefit workers, yet when it actually does it becomes something outside the natural order. Again, the reality contrasts with how capitalism is being advertised.
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by praptak 2y ago
> It’s also hard to trust a short term dev who doesn’t really need the money. You have no leverage over them. They sort of just do as they please. On one hand I agree. On the other hand I cannot help but contrast this with how free marke
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by praptak 2y ago
Most of culture is (hopefully) new takes on topics which are much older than smartphones. "The topic is old" is not a sufficient condition to consider something tired/cliche/old. I'd say this one is different enough
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by praptak 2y ago
We need this on a device which is not a phone. It could be a simple mechanical device which presents the instructions on a slowly scrolling paper tape.
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by praptak 2y ago
Yes, providence is metaphor/personification of luck.
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It is, yet I still feel I'm better off having read it. A real life person having this kind of strength in the face of tragedy makes one more optimistic.
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by praptak 2y ago
Science is great but there are still plenty of diseases and lots of other stuff that leads to tragedies. If you happen not to have to deal with any of this, it is still just providence.
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by praptak 2y ago
Yeah it exists. It's probably time-gated and karma-gated to avoid abuse.
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I saw it [flagged][dead] and vouched for it but I also understand those who flag.
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From #1 to flagged in minutes. The times are not very peaceful.
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Painting things as "narratives" omits the fact that there are, well, some facts underneath the "narratives". Either someone jams GPS signal or they don't. The researches have some evidence that the former is true,
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by praptak 2y ago
Yeah thanks for the correction, I don't know Spanish, I just remembered this example from a long list of international sorting oddities.
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by praptak 2y ago
The pumping lemma debunks the myth that computers can parse nested parentheses. Yet for all the practical purposes computers can parse nested parentheses expressions.
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by praptak 2y ago
Sorting should probably have its own list. "Ordering of words follows simply from ordering on the letters in the alphabet" - nope, Spanish "ll" is not in the alphabet and is sorted like a single special letter. "It&
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by praptak 2y ago
My theory is that it's hard to create a usable tool in general and even harder if the domain is complex. Interactive animations are pretty complex.
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by praptak 2y ago
Are you working for the technology to benefit humanity, or rather to be ultimately owned by a super rich minority? Then right number of hours very much depends on this.
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by praptak 2y ago
It doesn't even increase productivity! These clowns do it purely as power play.
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Visual programming is stuck on the form(interjectedfuture.com)
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by praptak 2y ago
TBH I wouldn't expose unfiltered comment boxes on today's internet anyway. That's guaranteed web spam plus a small but non-zero security risk. Maybe one where comments only show up after I manually approve each one.
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by praptak 2y ago
I remember reading an early book on the topic where the author describes two kinds of electricity: "glass-electricity" and "resin-electricity". The experiments seemed to involve rubbing either glass or hardened resin (am
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by praptak 2y ago
> the rules you’re breaking are completely irrelevant. This isn't for breaking rules. And definitely not for breaking ones that say "explicit approval needed". Teamwork is complex and most of it is not covered by rules. If
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by praptak 2y ago
I'm 50 and I want to be doing this, minus the 2AM coding. Fortunately that part is optional! I am not doing it at my current job and nobody's complaining.
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From what I remember "things you can compute" splits into "things you can mathematically define" and "things for which you can construct a Turing machine which computes them". If we define "x is computable
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It's a tradeoff. "This meeting could have been an email" has an evil brother named "a meeting could have saved us all these emails". (I have also seen a merely scheduled meeting doing wonders for reaching consensu

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