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by rmunn 10mo ago
> In the process I also learned that the cover of Kirby Air Ride changed between the Japanese and international releases. The Japanese cover art features a smiling happy Kirby where the international cover has Kirby with a furrowed brow
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by rmunn 10mo ago
> I paid $50 plus shipping on eBay for this PNG. This is the closest I'll get to NFTs. Buying a cartridge of an old game just to preserve a non-blurry copy of the sprite. Now THAT's dedication.
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by rmunn 10mo ago
Looks like iceberg lettuce to me, which I (facetiously) argue isn't really lettuce, so... shrug . :-)
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by rmunn 10mo ago
I should add that for me, when it comes to LLMs telling me "facts" that are the opposite of reality, "too many" equals ONE or more.
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by rmunn 10mo ago
The other tricky part is emojis made up of multiple codepoints with zero-width joiner characters and variation selectors, or other symbols. E.g. is made up of U+1F1FA REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER U followed by U+1F1F8 REGIONAL INDICATO
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by rmunn 10mo ago
That's how it should work, and does in terminals that are doing it right. Browsers, however, are looking at the monospaced font and saying "Okay, Source Code Pro doesn't have the U+2192 codepoint," (the → arrow) "
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by rmunn 10mo ago
Emojis mixed with ASCII-era characters are hard to get right. Some terminal emulators get it right nearly all the time (e.g. Ghostty, which has had a lot of thought and effort put into getting it right) and yet there are still open issues i
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by rmunn 10mo ago
I've had too many LLMs tell me that software product ABC can do XYZ, but when I actually read the ABC documentation I discover that that hallucination was the opposite of reality: the docs say "we cannot do XYZ yet but we're
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by rmunn 10mo ago
AlphaZero playing games against itself was useful because there's an objective measure of success in a game of Go: at the end of the game, did I have more points than my opponent? So you can "reward" the moves that do well, a
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by rmunn 10mo ago
Had not come across renovate before; thanks for the tip. I see on https://www.mend.io/renovate/ that they have a "Community" edition that includes both cloud and self-hosting, but the cloud hosting is free. S
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by rmunn 10mo ago
If it's a loan, it must be repaid. At that point, the debtor is going to either sell some stocks, thereby actually acquiring real income (and paying capital gains taxes), or use some other source of cash and not touching the stocks. In
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by rmunn 10mo ago
I feel I should also mention one more thing. The fact that you don't have the money until you sell the shares is also why "net worth" can be a highly misleading concept. (All numbers in the following example are fictional a
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by rmunn 10mo ago
Not an accountant, so if I get it wrong someone please correct me. But index fund shares are an asset: something you own. So is your car, your house (if you own it), and your computer. When you buy an asset, you paid a certain price for it.
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by rmunn 10mo ago
It's not really a checksum. It can sometimes function as one (everything should sum to zero, if it doesn't then you have a math error), but since most records you make will just have two entries (spent $25 on groceries, remove $
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by rmunn 10mo ago
This is indeed a great technique. The only way it could be improved is to expand on step 3 by keeping a list of the random mutation functions called and the order in which they were called, then if the test passes you throw that list away a
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by rmunn 10mo ago
> All world languages are a deviation from Arabic Spouse of a linguist here. That is absolutely not true. To summarize a LOT, there are multiple languages that share common roots, which linguists classify into language "families&quo
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by rmunn 10mo ago
This hardly needs to be said here , but there should have been human review of the AI output before taking any drastic action. That would (I assume, though since I can't read the original article I don't know if that assumption i
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Art Deco has always been one of the best architectural styles, IMHO. I also like the pseudo-classical Greek design often found in American government buildings in small towns (city hall, the public library, and so on). They're very dif
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Funny story on porn blockers. Back when I attended college, the college I attended blocked porn sites at the DNS level. It was pretty good at its job, but I did notice one false positive: I was trying to access the website for the Extremely
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by rmunn 11mo ago
I don't know of any studies yet comparing the two approaches, but https://www.tauday.com/a-tau-testimonial is the story of one student who finally "got it" when using tau instead of pi. I strongly suspect she
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by rmunn 11mo ago
The gain is pedagogical: giving kids a good intuition about angles is so much easier when the constant you're working with represents an entire turn around the circle (360°) rather than a half-turn of 180°. The advantage of using tau i
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Yes, though more broadly my point was that the radius is the natural measurement of the circle for most things since most things are center-based. But for some physical measurements, mostly based around pipes, "what is the width of t
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Oh, pi has its place: in engineering, for example, it's much easier to measure the diameter of a pipe than its radius: just put calipers around the widest point (outside or inside depending) and you have the diameter. In fact, you prob
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Personally, I prefer the version with tau (2 times pi) in it rather than the one with pi: e^(i*tau) = 1 I won't reproduce https://www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto here, but I'll just mention one part of it. I very muc
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Could you link to how that measurement was taken? Because I very much want to know whether it counts things like mutual funds, or whether it only measures direct ownership of stocks. E.g. I have a bunch (though not all) of my retirement sav
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Oops. Double-checked everything (I thought) before submitting but missed that one. Well, that explains why I didn't see it on the https://news.ycombinator.com/ask page. ... And I don't seem to have the ability to
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Ask YN: What CI do you use instead of GitHub Actions?
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Lawmakers making laws about technical matters don't realize that they don't understand those technical matters well enough to make intelligent laws about them. Shocking! Unprecedented! Film at 11!
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Definition of "Content" in their Terms of Service: Content on the Service The content on the Service includes videos, audio (for example music and other sounds), graphics, photos, text (such as comments and scripts), branding (inc
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Counterpoint: the idea that your project will be the one to scale up to the millions of users/requests/etc is hubris. Odds are, your project won't scale past a scale of 10,000 to 100,000. Designing every project to scale to

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