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by saulpw 3y ago
None of those tools asked me to cite them. Bram asked that I give to his Uganda charity, and I didn't complain that his software wasn't "free" enough.
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by saulpw 3y ago
"Free" has several meanings: free-as-in-speech, free-as-in-beer, free-as-in-puppy. I release my software under an open source license at no cost, but it means that I get to set the defaults on the version I distribute. And if my
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by saulpw 3y ago
This game is a dopamine trap that has been bad for my brain (since 2020). I have a bogus entry in my /etc/hosts to keep me from playing it, and yet I too often disable it because I can't help myself. It's like crack.
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by saulpw 3y ago
You paid for your Kinesis keyboard and your electricity. "Reliable plumbing gets no respect." And yet you find it offensive that they would ask for some academic cred in exchange for thousands of hours of development on a free t
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by saulpw 3y ago
Inertia: the energy required to change direction is proportional to the size of the organization.
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by saulpw 3y ago
Your kid will be grown up in less than 20 years, not 100. But even still, in 100 years, will there be 4x as many people? Will humanity be consuming 10x the energy that we do today? Will we have computers that are a million times faster?
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by saulpw 3y ago
It's a necessary but not sufficient condition.
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by saulpw 3y ago
That's definitely happening for some people, like yourself and others here on HN, but it's also pretty clear that there is a large % of people, whether MAGA or older or dumber or less educated or something else, who aren't ev
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by saulpw 3y ago
And what algorithm did you use to find that? As per the comment you replied to, the greedy algorithm no longer works, and you have to exhaustively search through all possibilities of coins.
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by saulpw 3y ago
Taylor Swift is a personality, not a musical genius.
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by saulpw 3y ago
I don't miss those early days of programming. It's fun to optimize and it's amazing what you can do with minimal resources, but it took an incredible amount of effort to get a 70s-era computer to do elementary school arithme
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by saulpw 3y ago
I tried a split week with a similar rationale, it wasn't that great. Too hard to get momentum, either at work or at home. I also tried Mondays off instead of Fridays, but for cultural (US) reasons, 3-day weekends with Fridays off is
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by saulpw 3y ago
So if a friend has their one copy of a legally-purchased epub on a USB drive, they can give that USB drive to me legally, right? and I can read the book and pass the drive onto someone else?
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by saulpw 3y ago
The original US copyright law was 14 years with a 14-year extension if the author was still alive. Certainly financial interest (Disney) is to blame for that incrementally becoming 70 years after the death of the author.
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by saulpw 3y ago
Copyright infringement is about publishing, not consuming. If I copy a friend's legally-purchased .epub that's like borrowing their legally-purchased printed book. Same as if I take a book from a Little Library in my neighborhoo
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by saulpw 3y ago
Well, the puzzles are the same, only the clues and dataset are different. But you might want to do them again anyway, to polish up your scripts--on the last day of Hannukah, we'll be posting a more challenging dataset for you to try t
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by saulpw 3y ago
You did a great job on the text animation code, Adi! I've found myself falling into a trance watching the flickering candles.
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by saulpw 3y ago
Thanks! It'll stay up past the end of Hanukkah.
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by saulpw 3y ago
For sure! Just be sure to include a spoiler warning :)
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by saulpw 3y ago
I think it should be more of a Department of Growth and Global Scale. Most things are fine to make thousands of, maybe even millions. It's when you start shipping billions of units, or when it becomes part of the social infrastructur
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by saulpw 3y ago
Sorry, that didn't render. They're U+258C and U+2590. So you put them on either side and each square is rendered across 3 cells, and the 2 outer cells are half-blocks shared with the adjacent squares. https://en.wikip
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by saulpw 3y ago
You can be clever and use half-blocks: ♘
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by saulpw 3y ago
Matrix has some usability hurdles. I invited people to join our Matrix and a few did, but when I switched to inviting them to Discord, 10x more people came by and are still there. I prefer Matrix for several reasons but you go to where th
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by saulpw 3y ago
I like this model too, except it should function (maybe pro-rated?) at lower number of hours/week--not everyone should work "full-time"--and also include volunteering. Maybe also other unpaid labor like child-rearing and ope
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by saulpw 3y ago
We didn't put another one together this year. But I'm hoping to do another data game sometime in Q1--ideas are brewing.
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by saulpw 3y ago
On the other hand, I've spent weeks with a team looking for a bug, and by the time we found something that appeared to fix it, we were way behind on everything else that really needed to get done. How long would it take to find the ro
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by saulpw 3y ago
It wasn't the Grammarly extension, it was the desktop app.
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by saulpw 3y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/fifth-c... > The Fifth Circuit is the federal appeals court covering Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas (where I live), and it has in recent years b
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by saulpw 3y ago
Not quite. A moat is a reason that you can't/won't leave the company/product. An unapproachable feature set might be a moat, but generally a moat is something other than product, that prevents your competitors from succ
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by saulpw 3y ago
The universe is so vast, that I think even self-replicating probes traveling via wormholes would not be able to cover even a tiny fraction of the existing planets before their suns die out. The universe is really really really big.

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