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Asymmetric Intelligibility(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rococode 6y ago|1 comments
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by rococode 6y ago
We've really gotta adopt a new term for this stuff. It's fine to be pedantic and say "well 'UFO' doesn't actually mean aliens in the first place", but the acronym has clearly been co-opted by pop culture
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by rococode 6y ago
Yeah it's almost perfect, the only inaccuracy is that the district is just "Gudang" and "tang" is part of the road name (i.e. "Tangmiao Road"). If you check the location on Google Maps you can see it'
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by rococode 6y ago
My understanding is that most of their current funding is from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, who has loaned them $50-105m at 0% interest, to be repaid in ~50 years (I can find confirmation that Acton donated $50m and that their current a
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by rococode 6y ago
Enormous difference between having a margin account and trading on margin. A margin account simply means you're allowed to trade on margin, not that you have actually done so.
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by rococode 6y ago
Ironically it probably brought a lot more attention to Discord than they would've had otherwise. I didn't see a single news article mention the Discord group until it was banned. Why would they? It was just a minor subset of the m
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by rococode 6y ago
Here's another clip of him repeating that fear: https://twitter.com/OfficialCHall/status/1352971460206276609 Definitely more than just an off-hand comment, and, I think, quite a common fear among successful p
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by rococode 6y ago
The ones with text are so surreal. They feel readable and yet everything is just slightly off. I can read Japanese and this feeling is very different from reading a script that I completely don't know (like Arabic or something). Mayb
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Anders Hejlsberg(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rococode 6y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 6y ago
It's pretty new, released around June 2020 iirc. It's great, basically what I've always wished for.
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by rococode 6y ago
This list is cool, but I think it would be more useful with some quick notes on side effects. I think all but the most hardcore Linux lovers won't have enough breadth and depth to understand the full ramifications of many of these conf
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by rococode 6y ago
Always wondered how people get to those jobs, though. They pay well because they're niche jobs that most people don't have the qualifications for, but how do the people who do have those qualifications get there in the first pla
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by rococode 6y ago
There are people who like communities with codes of conduct, and there are people who like to be the ones in the community enforcing codes of conduct. I prefer to live in a country with laws, but I don't fancy being a police officer
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New Puzzles on Lichess(lichess.org)
1 points by rococode 6y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 6y ago
You could try extensions that remove tracking elements from URLs like this one (haven't tried it myself but looks nice): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/ A tangential answer
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by rococode 6y ago
I think if you're disciplined in your HN use - like, check the front page twice a day, not a few times an hour - then it's basically a community-curated newspaper. And while newspapers may not be particularly healthy, they're
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by rococode 6y ago
One particularly crucial difference, I think, is public knowledge about diseases in general. During the plague, people were blaming every minority they could find. Can't really stop the spread of a disease if the extent of your knowled
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by rococode 6y ago
That's what I thought too, but then the post says "That said, I do enjoy the occasional blast down the highway." and suddenly I'm not so sure...
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by rococode 6y ago
You can make it not reboot with group policies, not commonly known though - most people try the registry stuff which doesn't seem to work consistently. Been running Win10 Pro for a couple years, never had a single unwanted reboot, once
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CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)(cdprojekt.com)
304 points by rococode 6y ago|657 comments
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by rococode 6y ago
Yeah, nothing wrong with not having memorized how to do that - it's certainly not often useful in practice. But if you're given the definitions and a couple minutes to figure it out (which, in an interview, you are), and you actua
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Ask HN: How do you send custom notifications to your phone?
30 points by rococode 6y ago|30 comments
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by rococode 6y ago
Have you ever tried f.lux or similar programs? I wonder if those have about the same effect as the glasses. https://justgetflux.com/
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by rococode 6y ago
One common counterpoint here is that it's not unthinkable that a civilization would decide that it had enough stuff, but it does seem unlikely that every civilization would decide it had enough stuff, and it only takes a handful of
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by rococode 6y ago
This is a bit off on a tangent, but for anyone interested in this subject I highly recommend reading Stephen Webb's book "Where is Everybody?", in which he goes over and lightly refutes 75 possible answers to the Fermi parado
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by rococode 6y ago
My guess is that it's simply a tech challenge. Justifying text seems non-trivial, especially if hyphenation is used (which I believe is typically the case in print, otherwise you get huge spaces). According to caniuse `text-align: just
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China becomes second nation to plant flag on the Moon(bbc.com)
1 points by rococode 6y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 6y ago
Carbon emissions arguments tend to ignore the value of what's being done as well. BERT and other transformers were meaningful experiments that were valuable in furthering a major research direction and enabling more effective consumer
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by rococode 6y ago
Thanks for the tip! Will definitely look into how that works.
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by rococode 6y ago
FAST in China is basically a modern version of Arecibo, isn't it? (with some minor differences) Construction started in 2011 and it was declared fully operational in January this year. The wiki page actually has a section comparing it

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