praptak

26 ms·

511.
by praptak 3y ago
It's interesting that the rule added to limit Black's offensive capabilities gets gamified to give White some pretty sneaky offensive capabilities of their own (I'm referring to trapping forbidden points).
512.
by praptak 3y ago
I can speak of Poland which had a discontinuity of 123 years. For most practical purposes Poland 1918 was not Poland 1795. It had none of the military alliances nor administrative obligations, just a new country out of nothing. The only c
513.
by praptak 3y ago
Stanisław Lem wrote a story about a trio of scientists who recreate Sun's environment in a lab and discover it supports life & evolution which goes zero to sun-worm in the time it takes for the experiment to blow up, implying exist
514.
by praptak 3y ago
A single current source for multiple receivers means the receivers have to be connected in series. This implies that the light switches would have to work as bypasses. Also all LEDs would need to be rated for the same current.
515.
by praptak 3y ago
I don't see how you can make computing the offset faster than just parsing the number.
516.
by praptak 3y ago
Relevance to HN is debatable. The spirit of the guidelines is that typical "front page news" is generally off topic unless there's evidence for a new phenomenon. Maybe being shanghaied into an army is not new but it is new
517.
by praptak 3y ago
Those old timers are just jealous of the incumbents.
518.
by praptak 3y ago
Have you considered applying for an AI Prompt Engineer job?
519.
by praptak 3y ago
Author: describes a simple setup which probably puts him in the top 0.1% of personal users in terms of resilience to data loss. HN: nitpick about potential problems which are present even in some industry grade data loss solutions.
520.
by praptak 3y ago
German IT is weird, German bank IT doubly so.
521.
by praptak 3y ago
I don't have a problem with very small probabilities as long as they stay within math and kind of "cancel out". What I do have a problem with is lack of conceptual framework for dealing with small probabilities of real life e
522.
by praptak 3y ago
Organisations make it very hard to be that manager. On top of the human tendency to overmanage there's often push from top for "more visibility and accountability" which results in forcing stuff rather than facilitating.
523.
by praptak 3y ago
This isn't a trivial problem to solve. If you stop sending SWAT after multiple fake calls, then it's "killer makes 47 fake calls and then shoots up a place unbothered by police". Finding and punishing the callers is the
524.
by praptak 3y ago
You would definitely get different results in another language. My best known language is Polish and the best translation of "vehicle" (pojazd) carries different connotations than "vehicle". For example a plane or a boat
525.
by praptak 3y ago
Hearing a political joke and not informing authorities was enough to get sent to a labor camp. Same goes for lagging behind in public condemnation of "enemies of the people" (your neighbors and coworkers). The moral choices came w
526.
by praptak 3y ago
It is a good enough lubricant. In my experience with door hinges they stay non-creaky for much longer with technical vaseline though. Btw, about a year ago I read that copper grease is absolutely the best for this purpose but I'm still
527.
by praptak 3y ago
On top of this there's a negative feedback loop. The ball whose territory gets smaller has less distance to travel between hits. This means that even if there was anything resembling a "win" condition it would be hard to achi
528.
by praptak 3y ago
Is there at least a law to deprive the rapist of parental rights? Otherwise it is a very evil loophole allowing one to benefit from a very serious crime.
529.
by praptak 3y ago
Nice one! I wonder how much work would it take nowadays to set up emulation capable of executing these loaders on an emulated tape :)
530.
by praptak 3y ago
I also remember that there existed cool loaders that were able to paint the image in arbitrary order. It was pretty impressive because it required doing calculations in the tight loop which calculated the delay between slopes of the signal
531.
by praptak 3y ago
A relevant quote about the lenghts they went to to assure stuff not getting broken: "Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he
532.
by praptak 3y ago
Biology sometimes "jumps into the middle of instructions" when decoding DNA/RNA. The "instruction" length is always 3 nucleotides and the sequence usually has only one valid "entry point". There are except
533.
by praptak 3y ago
That's the typical half life. The record is ~2 million years, obviously just tiny fragments https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/unlocking-the-oldest-kn...
534.
by praptak 3y ago
DNA doesn't last that long. I think the record is about 2 million years, tiny fragments of DNA recovered from samples drilled from under Greenland ice. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/unlocking-the-oldest
535.
by praptak 3y ago
Every JS program is enrolled by default (they used to make this joke about Perl and C++).
536.
by praptak 3y ago
This is an insightful example because it's kind of "wrong at the higher level". It follows the spec. Every formal verification method will confirm that. It's the spec that is wrong. Obviously I mean the "replaces di
537.
Non-explosive demolition agents(en.wikipedia.org)
58 points by praptak 3y ago|26 comments
538.
by praptak 3y ago
You'd probably call me accomplished and maybe even confident (I learned to muster enough confidence to give a public talk) but I still have phone phobia.
539.
What Is Nightshade(nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu)
3 points by praptak 3y ago|0 comments
540.
by praptak 3y ago
And a few ones from people whose problems are so dissimilar from the original bug that the only way they could have arrived at the thread is the 57th page of Google search for the word "problem".

More ›