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by raddan 2y ago
Oh man, this brings back memories. Loved this game, Maelstrom, and the Escape Velocity series of games which augmented this style of gameplay with an open world. So much fun. I pine for games that don’t need half and hour of cutscenes and a
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by raddan 2y ago
Sanders correctly identifies the problem most of the time, and I mostly even agree with his solutions. However, he is one of the least effective legislators in the entire senate. https://thelawmakers.org/find-representative
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by raddan 2y ago
Interesting. I read this book over the summer (and also discovered in the process that my library also has a collection of Lem in Polish too! Too bad I don’t know Polish). I suppose as long as they are focusing on an “atmospheric retelling”
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by raddan 2y ago
> If your JavaScript uses a syntax or calls an API that is not supported in the user’s browser, it will error … Pet peeve: when did “to error” become a verb? Otherwise, I wish the rest of the web were designed this way.
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by raddan 2y ago
The short answer is that neither runs on my chosen Raspberry Pi (the Zero).
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by raddan 2y ago
I also have a rare genetic disorder (alpha-1 antitrypsin disorder) and discovered it using 23andMe. I am in the process of working with a pulmonologist to manage the disease, and if they had not screened me for it, I would have written off
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by raddan 2y ago
I run a mail server on NetBSD. It’s refreshing to see how little is running on a NetBSD after booting it for the first time. I’ve also been tinkering with NetBSD on Raspberry Pi Zero devices; the built-in support for various add-ons over GP
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by raddan 2y ago
Wild! I don’t even remember this picture being taken, but here I am with my (future) wife. https://athikerpictures.org/hikers/9660
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by raddan 2y ago
It’s not that pie can’t be duplicated, it’s that there are real costs to the duplication. And making pies precisely the same is surprisingly hard (pie is my favorite treat and I make them all the time). Not so with software. Duplication and
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by raddan 2y ago
FWIW, as a regular user of login.gov, from the outside, it looks like a well-designed system. I am able to add strong forms of 2FA (e.g., security keys or biometric authenticators), it requires strong passwords, etc. It also has decent de
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by raddan 2y ago
> Some people see it as an attack on their identity when you reject choices made by their society. Spot on. When I was a freshman in college, my then-girlfriend and I decided to become vegetarian. My parents responded with some puzzlemen
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by raddan 2y ago
She has another post where she talks about being an introvert and how difficult it is to make friendships when you are an adult. I have observed this myself. I suspect—-and this jives with her observations—-that as adults we tend to feel li
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by raddan 2y ago
I noticed the same thing, and look forward to the anti-coffee articles to come. I have significantly toned down my own drinking over the last decade (for… complicated reasons), but I am as steady a coffee drinker as ever. I just plain do no
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by raddan 2y ago
It can be a lot. Christmas, Christmas Eve, Thanksgiving, etc, were for a long time excuses for my family to drink to excess. As a teenager who finally had their driver’s license, I remember being proud of finally being old enough to drive m
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by raddan 2y ago
On the other hand, asking anybody for help is probably better than asking nobody. I applaud this person’s courage and willingness to reach out.
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by raddan 2y ago
Amen.
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by raddan 2y ago
I made a much worse mistake once. We wanted to use rsync to snapshot one of our file servers every evening because the tape backups we did took a long time and could only run them weekly. My boss asked me to develop an rsync script. So I sa
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by raddan 2y ago
Also, crucially, dB is a logarithmic scale. So 100 dB is MUCH louder than 70 dB.
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The C# compiler has an MIT license and is available on GitHub, which is about as FOSS as it gets. https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
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by raddan 2y ago
I haven’t seen the talk but I think about this comparison all the time. Knowing how to use hand tools makes you keenly aware of your material. I was recently surprised to learned exactly what “against the grain” meant while trying to plane
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by raddan 2y ago
I second the green woodworking comment. An axe (and wedges) are a good way to hand-split logs into boards. And easier than doing it with a saw in some cases. Hand tool woodworking really makes you appreciate the multitude of weird old tools
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by raddan 3y ago
I would love to see a reference to the claim that Wittgenstein regarded Tractatus as a joke. I took an analytic philosophy course as an undergrad that featured Wittgenstein prominently, and that prof certainly did not regard it unseriously.
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by raddan 3y ago
This is sad. I teach an upper-level undergraduate course on programming language theory, and one major component of the course is reduction proofs. Many students find proof by contradiction (reductio ad absurdum) to be a confusing concept.
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by raddan 3y ago
It was on every major news network I follow. Maybe most people on HN thought it was already old news.
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by raddan 3y ago
You’ll enjoy this: https://hitchhikersguidetoearth.fandom.com/wiki/Sirius_Cyber...
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by raddan 3y ago
Spectrum also sells business internet service, where you can have static IPs, speak to real engineers, etc.
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by raddan 3y ago
That's a strange way of viewing this. The OP is asking whether there are laws that protect them. If people are happy with Apple/Google, great, but if they are not, there are few alternatives. We should allow people who don't
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by raddan 3y ago
I regularly program in both Scala/Java and F#/C#. Interoperability in both is excellent. But I would not call it “trivial” in the Scala/Java case. Calling Scala code from Java is occasionally a pain (the converse is easy); ho
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by raddan 3y ago
That may be the case in practice but it is not literally true, since semantically, inheritance is effectively a form of copy-and-paste in the compiler. It is literally about reusing components written elsewhere. I would argue that both are
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by raddan 3y ago
This is great! Thanks for the link.

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