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by skulk 5y ago
This project is a curiosity. It may help someone trying to build a quick one-off script (though, then I have the question of why curl wasn't good enough). In any real-world use-case, you can't just plop in some isolated code to ma
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by skulk 5y ago
it's even better, isn't it? next_permutation returns false once it rolls over and returns the sorted version so you can drop the negation.
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by skulk 5y ago
Given the "no-holds-barred, first-past-the-post" nature of this, the winner will be a group of people who split the test and each solved their part.
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by skulk 5y ago
This quote: > He compared the art of the Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic periods, all financed properly with sound money, to the decadent culture of the twenty-first century, with its “animalistic noises’’ and “immediate sensory ple
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by skulk 5y ago
The only interesting parts (to me): > the attacker used a Wasabi wallet, which mixes many transactions together ... in a process called a CoinJoin > Chainalysis is disclosing for the first time that it is able to de-mix such transacti
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by skulk 5y ago
> The number of times I've been bitten by the very specific semantics around async/await in JavaScript makes me wonder if I've hit some kind of a ceiling in trying to grok it. Got any examples? I've mucked around a fa
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by skulk 5y ago
Can you even ship highly concenterated (>50%) hydrogen peroxide? I'd imagine what you get in the mail will be less than what you ordered due to natural decomposition. In any case, it's not a good example, highly concentrated hy
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by skulk 5y ago
It actually is, because I'm focused on the slipping into toddlerdom part. Toddlers don't care about liability, but we do. Some mildly overprotective liability doctrine (won't someone think of the children?!) isn't enough
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by skulk 5y ago
None of the examples are particularly convincing. I'm not seeing any evidence of our eventual slip into toddlerdom. > This is a world that feels compelled to pass laws requiring the use of seat belts and motorcycle helmets in the ho
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by skulk 5y ago
> This is a world in which we have lost sight of the fact that constraining ourselves with ridiculous laws to protect us from anything that might conceivable harm us relegates us to the role of toddlers who don't know enough not to
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by skulk 5y ago
It's interesting that for some people, the pursuit of real-life activities is a fair opportunity cost of spending time on a computer (I won't claim I'm not one of them). Has there ever in history been a diversion that is able
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by skulk 5y ago
> Go through the effort of handwriting a letter is going to add quite a bit of weight to your message. Really? is there even a slight chance that Rep. XYZ actually reads my letter and it doesn't get filtered out by an aide as "
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by skulk 5y ago
I should have said "central authority for arbitration of disputes."
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by skulk 5y ago
> realistic hope to make the victims whole without the cooperation of the people responsible for the exploits? This is exactly the problem that hundreds of independent groups of humans had faced throughout tens of thousands of years of h
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by skulk 5y ago
Why life-threatening? Is Wormhole going to whack them or something?
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by skulk 5y ago
Image boards like 4chan are almost entirely free from adtech engagement optimization, so no. This is who we are when we are given a place to air our petty grievances with no accountability to prior postings.
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by skulk 5y ago
I was trying to square the existence of GP's mentioned "underpaid labor force" with the gigantic movie production budgets I hear about.
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by skulk 5y ago
It's fascinating to me that a movie production with a budget of 10^8 dollars can't slice off a tiny bit of that for the people that literally make the movie.
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by skulk 5y ago
The next iteration of code assistant needs to be able to parse responses like your comment and update the code accordingly. Once a human+computer pair can converge on a correct and admissible solution to _any_ tractable programming task thr
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by skulk 5y ago
I've seen dang post this link when something like this question is asked: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
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by skulk 5y ago
Since you're inspired by DF, are you going to do a similar macro/micro split simulation that DF does? I thought this was one of the most interesting aspects of the game and implementation: how do you give the illusion to the playe
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by skulk 5y ago
If anyone is wondering why field extensions aren't transitive, you can watch Fields medalist Dr. Richard Borcherds explain it: https://youtu.be/zAqVrdNE81g?t=798
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by skulk 5y ago
Medical services do not have price-elastic demand just because they are offered in a free market. It's the other way actually; I'd imagine medical services are some of the most price-inelastic things you can buy.
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by skulk 5y ago
How does any of that stuff relate to "stop trying"? It seems like doing something completely random out of the blue is the definition of "trying".
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by skulk 5y ago
You could use [trusted timestamping]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping ) to prove that you're the one who first created that proof.
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by skulk 5y ago
totally forgot about that part. Rolling resistance seems to be at least an order of magnitude lower than friction so that does bring the numbers into a reasonable range.
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by skulk 5y ago
EDIT: should have used rolling resistance, not friction, so the final figure here is at least an order of magnitude too big, maybe two. To me, the numbers just don't add up. Let's assume - 0.2 as the coefficient of kinetic frictio
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by skulk 5y ago
Right, but will this leave any room in the car for actual cargo? I'd like to see actual numbers (kg of battery / mile) here, my gut feeling is that lithium ion batteries are not good enough for this application, and they'll j
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by skulk 5y ago
I'm curious what the enforcement pathway will look like under this bill, if signed into law. Does it start with someone thinking "hmm, this ad is suspiciously specific to me?" How do you even know if you're being targete
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by skulk 5y ago
eh, perhaps, but I'd never use it. I used dwm because I loved staring at that code and modifying it to my needs, and all those preprocessor directives are frankly horrifying. I'm sure this would have been much more practical, but

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