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by skulk 9mo ago
> Ranking posts/comments by the exponential of inverse IPAddress-post-frequency Doesn't this just incentivize posting a bunch of comments from your residential proxy IP addresses to launder them? This smells like a poor strateg
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by skulk 9mo ago
People cannot live without money. A huge swath of illegal immigrants work for money. Wouldn't it make sense to target the individuals who are _hiring_ them rather than the actual laborers themselves? This logic seems to work perfectly
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by skulk 9mo ago
Like that law that says it's illegal to HIRE workers that cannot show work authorization? IIRC that carries pretty steep penalties. And if enforced, will have a huge chilling effect on the whole illegal immigration thing. But, as sibli
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by skulk 9mo ago
> There has yet to be any peer-reviewed research on the topic. There is an Ig Nobel prize waiting for whoever gets to this first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize
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by skulk 9mo ago
IMO the whole point of KISS is to _not_ have desktops and access all of your apps via search. If I want to open my Hacker News app, I open the search, press "h" and click the first app. All apps I use frequently naturally float to
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by skulk 9mo ago
I have been using this launcher for longer than I can remember, perhaps 10 years now. I don't really remember using anything else (hazy memories of the KitKat AOSP launcher). The only thing that annoys me a little bit is if I typo an a
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by skulk 9mo ago
Interesting use of macros to get a generic "result" thingy: https://git.sr.ht/~willowf/beebo/tree/master/item/src/result... I think it's cool that stuff like this works in C but
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by skulk 9mo ago
You can already do this if you just open up your change in magit and repeatedly commit pieces of it. I agree it's not super ergonomic since it leaves an old change behind and it requires using magit on top of jj-mode but it's 90%
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by skulk 9mo ago
I used to think like this, but then I realized: jj-mode.el exists[0] and you can still use magic since it's still a git repo underneath. Seriously, don't let this hold you back. [0]: https://github.com/bolivier&#x2
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by skulk 9mo ago
The FireStorm Phoenix! > Can't recall why, it dropped something useful but not that useful The flaming sun gem got a new use pretty recently, sometime in 2020 +/- 2 years.
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by skulk 9mo ago
Aardwolf does not have, and has never had, any content gated on payment. You can "donate" (legally purchase) money for in-game currency but it doesn't really affect game balance (you still have to grind for a billion hours to
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by skulk 9mo ago
same here! I eventually quit because I can't control myself enough to not grind for 8 hours a day instead of working but this game got me interested in writing code (to make text based games)
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by skulk 9mo ago
I don't want them to see my blunders in the chess game I lost against the 40 year old computer program.
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by skulk 9mo ago
Not really. You can simulate a probability of 1/x by expanding 1/x in binary and flipping a coin repeatedly, once for each digit, until the coin matches the digit (assign heads and tails to 0 and 1 consistently). If the match happ
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by skulk 10mo ago
> This is an excellent resource for people who are less militant about open source and just want to make music. What a strange jab. People are militant about _freedom_, not getting things for free. If you don't care about freedom th
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by skulk 10mo ago
MUD clients and servers use MCCP which is essentially keeping a zlib stream open, adding text to it, and flushing it whenever something is received. I think this has been around since 2000. https://tintin.mudhalla.net/protoc
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by skulk 10mo ago
> Sauron is also appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy. Recent high-profile incidents include a November armed robbery at the home of tech investors Lachy Groom and Joshua Buckley in San Francisco’s M
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by skulk 10mo ago
This doesn't pass the sniff test. How could a civilization supposedly far more advanced than the Inca vanish without leaving the Inca a single shred of evidence of their existence? No tools, no records, no memory at all? Oh, except the
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by skulk 10mo ago
Randomized algorithms are so damn cool. They really feel like cheating your way out of NP problems. I highly recommend that anyone interested in algorithms studies them.
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by skulk 11mo ago
yes, if you want ordinal numbers in ZFC you need to take the axiom of infinity. Other than that it's a pretty straightforward construction. If you reject the axiom of infinity you also essentially reject all of standard analysis (using
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by skulk 11mo ago
> There is no infinity at the end of a number line. There is a process that says how to extend that number line ever further. Sure, but ordinal numbers exist and are useful. It's impossible to prove Goodstein's theorem without
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by skulk 11mo ago
I wonder if it's possible to encode self-replication with these building blocks. Like very simple RNA-like molecules that, if given enough time in a "nutrient" rich environment, can create copies of itself.
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by skulk 11mo ago
> Besides the functional approach Nitpick, but emacs and emacs lisp don't seem remotely "functional" to me insofar as expressing computation in terms of pure functions and immutable datatypes. The core datastructures that
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by skulk 11mo ago
Google didn't censor covid-related conspiracies or whatever at the behest of the government. YouTube can censor whoever it wants but the US government cannot. Also, do you have any actual evidence of political debanking in the US? I ca
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by skulk 11mo ago
> I personally don't see why one would ever want personalized results. The same short combination of words can mean very different things to different people. My favorite example of this is "C string" because when I was a
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by skulk 1y ago
Got any recommendations on what cameras to get? The market is absolutely flooded with cheap shitty cloud-connected all-in-one cameras making it hard to find good, simple products.
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by skulk 1y ago
Even treating it as a purely optional reward didn't work, at least for me. I remember doing AR and treating it like a game -- find the most points-dense book possible in the school library (for me it was The Hobbit, a whopping 70 point
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by skulk 1y ago
what do you think about OP's 40% VPIP? It seems to me that in low-stakes online play you'd want to play tighter than that, but I know very little about poker strategy beyond what I've absorbed from seeing people talk about it
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by skulk 1y ago
> teleports the founder and his wife to the same location so they can be together in person holding hands - they're already in the same same city and want to meet immediately, so they are 99.98% of the way there! They're both w
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by skulk 1y ago
I thought HN caps negative score at -4?

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