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by scott_s 4y ago
I’ve been playing games most of my life, and it quickly became an all-time favorite. Exploring that solar system and piecing together the story was an incredible experience that I still think about, over two years later. The ending was also
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by scott_s 4y ago
Outer Wilds. (Not to be confused with Outer Worlds which came out around the same time.) While the game is non-violent in that you never actively harm anything, your character will die, a lot, in maybe concerning ways (crushed, out of air,
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by scott_s 4y ago
Some of academia’s preeminent database researchers have made a similar hypothesis: DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System, https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p21-skiadopoulos.pdf and https://dbos-project.gith
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You'll probably enjoy his writeup (and a video) on his process: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-crafti...
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by scott_s 4y ago
I wrote about something similar many years ago, “Traces vs. Snapshots: Print Statements and Debuggers”, https://www.scott-a-s.com/traces-vs-snapshots/
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Basically the same scenario as this HN submission: "I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30869427
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by scott_s 4y ago
As others point out, that does happen sometimes with homes. There's a British tv show, Grand Designs, where it happens constantly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Designs But, in support of your point, it usua
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by scott_s 5y ago
Interesting; I have never heard the term Primarily Undergraduate Institutions, although it's clearly an established term. During my PhD program, when folks were on the job market, we called them "teaching colleges." Most peop
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by scott_s 5y ago
No. They're saying that a Jewish Israeli citizen is less likely to marry a Palestinian than a Muslim Israeli citizen. And given public statements from the lawmakers advocating for this law, they agree.
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by scott_s 5y ago
Something I tell training partners when they start competing: “Competing in a sport is a skill independent of the skills of the sport itself.” What I mean is that through training, you learn how to do the sport. That’s table stakes. In orde
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by scott_s 5y ago
Live examples of running programs that users can interact with would go a long way to helping to make the examples concrete. Were you inspired by the Actor model ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model )? Or am I mis
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by scott_s 5y ago
I am confident you will be interested in this series of articles: “Let’s not dumb down the history of Computer Science”, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25907481 The top comment links to a bunch of papers.
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by scott_s 5y ago
The EuroSys paper on Borg is a good place to get the background on Borg, how it influenced Kube, and how it relates to other systems: https://research.google/pubs/pub43438/
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by scott_s 5y ago
Think of it this way: we can experimentally figure out what the probabilities are; they are an observed thing. The only way to make sense of these probabilities is if all protons are indistinguishable. In my statistical mechanics course, we
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by scott_s 5y ago
Check on Etsy.
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by scott_s 5y ago
You're begging the question; you are assuming all transactions will happen on chain. That's not reasonable. Most transactions will happen with normal currency, using normal means. This company then needs to track all of that and d
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by scott_s 5y ago
Agreed agreed. The problem with The Hobbit was not the visual effects. The problem was that it was made without a plan, under duress. Lindsay Ellis has a three-part video essay series ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTRUQ-R
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by scott_s 5y ago
This may be the same thing as what you call the whitelist, but in case it isn't: on iPhones, you can mark some contacts as "Emergency Bypass On." Even in silent mode, you will always hear calls and texts from them. You can al
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by scott_s 5y ago
You made an implicit argument: it took a similar amount of time (13 years) after the invention of the transistor for them to be used to solve real problems. That is clearly wrong. What argument are you trying to make now?
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by scott_s 5y ago
That’s beside the point. This company does not need NFTs to do it.
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NFTs don’t do that for you. The company linked still has to do that.
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by scott_s 5y ago
You’ve described a share in a private company. Not only do you not need an NFT for that, using an NFT provides you no additional guarantees.
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by scott_s 5y ago
The transistor was invented in 1947. By 1960, 13 years later, transistors had replaced vacuum tubes as the dominant technology for electronics.
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by scott_s 5y ago
BitCoin is 13 years old. The blockchain is not a new technology, and it is not extremely early days. We have over a decade of people trying to use blockchain and cryptocurrencies to solve real problems - and not just from startups, but also
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by scott_s 5y ago
HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29435263
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I don't know what your needs are, so I can't help you finding a classification system.
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by scott_s 5y ago
The Articles of Confederation were more like the EU, yes. The current US government as established by the US Constitution was definitely not, as it establishes a strong, central federal government with ultimate authority. The makeup of the
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by scott_s 5y ago
If your primary concern is that of the physical characteristics of the plant, then you don't need to use the classification system based on the phylogenetic tree. You can choose different classification systems based on need!
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by scott_s 5y ago
Yes, engineering PhD students get paid significantly better in the US. It's still very low compared to what people can get with a normal full-time job, and few people would be comfortable supporting anyone but themselves on it.
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by scott_s 5y ago
During my time in a computer science PhD program at an American university (2003-2010), my stipend maxed out at $23k a year. That was not competitive compared to having a normal job, nor would I have felt comfortable supporting anyone else.

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