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by pvillano 4y ago
for those who haven't seen it https://webtoons.com/en/slice-of-life/bluechair/owlturd-69-v...
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by pvillano 4y ago
grug write clever code once, grug need to be clever every day forever. grug write readable code instead. readable code maybe need clever now, but no need clever in future
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by pvillano 4y ago
I think you need a little of that to make it worth it
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by pvillano 4y ago
can't that all be done speculatively with de-optimization /s
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by pvillano 4y ago
I thought the trick was going to be indirection. sorted-list/bitmap/runs, in a two level tree. cool. it's technically missing sorted compliment-list, i.e. only the items that are missing, although worst case runs only use twi
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by pvillano 4y ago
I'm reading this on a runaway with terrible internet and the figures slowly load to reveal... text :/
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by pvillano 4y ago
grug think hard to make simple code => grug think hard once grug write complex code to look smart => grug have to think hard every day forever
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by pvillano 4y ago
it was a poorly explained parallel to "anything profitable and technically legal is fine."
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by pvillano 4y ago
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_excepti...
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by pvillano 4y ago
ha! Generative art is an image search engine with fancy interpolation. Would it be tractible to find a list of nearest training examples? Then you could cite the stolen art. Imagine that as a Twitter bot.
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by pvillano 4y ago
Private companies are allowed to do a lot of immoral things because lobbying prevents the law from accurately reflecting the values of the voting public. Nazis shouldn't get a website, even if the law permits it, and everyone has a mor
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by pvillano 4y ago
would you clarify your intent
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by pvillano 4y ago
Even an arsonist should be rescued and treated for burns. They should also be arrested, tried, and inprisoned. Only combined do public services execute the moral values of the people. An arsonist should also probably not be sold gas. A gas
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by pvillano 4y ago
The business strategy for social media moderation seems to universally be "offer the least support possible without breaking people's addictions or losing advertisers." In no particular order: misinformation, foreign influenc
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by pvillano 4y ago
mosquitos evolved naturally, within the rules of the universe. doesn't mean they shouldn't be eradicated
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Ask HN: Is it possible to get an 18-year-old to spend less time on the computer?
69 points by pvillano 4y ago|162 comments
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by pvillano 4y ago
The hard part aside... Some cool optimizations are possible if the size of each row doesn't change. * Rows could be done in parallel. * The simplest method would be to copy the row to a scratch buffer, and then copy over data to their
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by pvillano 4y ago
> The current problem with implementing this lies in that currently postgres uses the same identifiers for both the logical and physical position within a table. The current hot plan for solving this would be to change the system to refe
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by pvillano 4y ago
so right now we have process thinks it has a linear memory to itself, imagines it can write anywhere. writes trigger the expansion of a complex sparse tree data structure transparently converts virtual linear address space to non-contiguous
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by pvillano 4y ago
Some software can be written on a raspberry pi. Truly accessible software should be able to run on anything, for example, government web sites. Someone on here developed a site that a homeless person was able to submit a form using a PSP.
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by pvillano 4y ago
I just want my hobby server to shut off at if I spend over $XX in a billing period. Is that so insane?
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by pvillano 4y ago
what would (does?) a government run electronic payment system look like?
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by pvillano 4y ago
You'll find many interesting videos and articles if you search "netcode". It is easy to underestimate the complexity of domains you're not familiar with, but that just means more fun when you find out how unexpected prob
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by pvillano 4y ago
DbC moves the specification of what a function should do out of doc-strings and test cases and into machine readable code! With fuzzing today, you send one stream of input into an entire program, hope for a crash, then figure out where in t
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by pvillano 4y ago
plastic beads are also infinitely reusable, although probably have a much higher environmental impact than grains. Gravel could work.
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by pvillano 4y ago
a mitm could just completely impersonate both parties decrypting and re-encrypting in both directions... unless at least one of the public keys was published through a secure channel like a certificate authority.
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by pvillano 4y ago
could you correct anything wrong in my understanding? so we can create an isomorphism(?) between the field (Z_61, +, *) and points on a modular elliptic curve with a base point P using function g:= g(k) = k * P g(k) is fast to compute with
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by pvillano 4y ago
esp w/ jetbrains and their yearly (?) releases that appear to add whatever features they finished since the last release. I've also seen yyyy.increment.build
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by pvillano 4y ago
small (optionally 3d printed) caveman on desk, with removable club for small bonks
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by pvillano 4y ago
code can be thought of explaining to a computer what do you want it to do. In general, explaining without managing complexity is easy and makes you look smart. However, explaining so anyone can understand is very hard. Grug author good at t

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