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by smrq 3y ago
What did you expect? It's obviously unsolvable under standard rules--it's proven that a classic Sudoku requires a minimum of 17 given digits, and even if you didn't know that, it's fairly obvious with a little thought th
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by smrq 3y ago
Hacker News:California::Internet:USA It's assumed that everyone comes from California unless proven otherwise.
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by smrq 3y ago
I just wait for them to explain their problem. If they don't, guess it wasn't that important...
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by smrq 3y ago
Can't be Myst as they have their own base 25 numbering system :) (Ok, that originated from the sequel, but it's still canonical to the universe.)
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by smrq 3y ago
The J. Paul Getty Museum, not to be confused with Getty Images. (I made the same mistake reading the headline.) Don't worry, you can continue to hate on Getty Images at your leisure.
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by smrq 3y ago
You can make the same argument that March 1st makes no sense, as that is the day of your birthday hangover, the day after whenever your birthday is.
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by smrq 3y ago
Slight divergence of topic here, but is there a word for this phenomenon? Namely, when you know of a person through two very different channels and find out they are the same person. It happens to me frequently enough that I feel like it de
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by smrq 3y ago
The pricing on Humira in the US feels like a scam, although I'm not totally clear on who--the insurance companies? My insurance covers some % of the astronomical price, I put the rest on a credit card, and AbbVie deposits that money ri
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by smrq 3y ago
I guess the lesson here is that PR damage can be permanent.
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by smrq 3y ago
>The least [metal words] are [...] girl I hate to say it but this made me laugh. I know it's not what the author is saying, but it certainly aligns with my experience of the gender ratio at metal shows... I listen to a lot of genres
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by smrq 3y ago
I was on a jury last month for a case with this exact scenario. Dude had a lot of weed and the prosecution tried to use the quantity as the sole proof that he was distributing. Searched his phone, nothing, asked the neighbors about suspicio
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by smrq 3y ago
Other replies are going hard on the initial assertion but missing the point, on which you're totally right. There is no reason where it's theoretically advantageous to give the government an interest free loan (overpay on your tax
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by smrq 3y ago
I have a theory that jam bands appear more popular than they actually are, because they seem to have a higher percentage of fans willing to follow them around on tour. (Assuming a metric of popularity where selling Bob 3 tickets means less
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by smrq 3y ago
So humans are supposed to be able to do it (within five minutes) with the sensor data already available to them, but it's not easy to make a sensor do it automatically? Maybe this is overly optimistic, but I'm confident they could
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by smrq 3y ago
I don't know if this is hard in their codebase (although I have a guess), but I have worked on a code formatter before and easy-sounding things were often an unimaginable nightmare.
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by smrq 3y ago
I hate how I have to plug in all 104 wires to make my keyboard work.
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by smrq 3y ago
Seconding this. It's how I got into electronics myself. I'll add that you can complicate the software in much the same way-- the basics are pretty trivial, but you can go nuts with customization. For one of my keyboards, I impleme
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by smrq 3y ago
I haven't read each section, but just from the outline this appears to cover everything you need to know to do 99.9% of modern CSS development. (And then some, for good measure... I don't think I've ever used blend modes, for
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by smrq 3y ago
It seems like you're not comparing apples to apples. Investigating someone else's code to alter it is always going to be harder than writing new code, even on paper in several languages. I do think that CSS has enough footguns to
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by smrq 3y ago
You can ask those questions, but you won't get the same answers. It's not a question of "is the output always correct". Nothing is so binary in the real world. A well hand-maintained solution will trend further towards c
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by smrq 3y ago
In my experience, the stranger your weird keyboard, the less it impacts your ability to use a normal keyboard. Learning the guitar doesn't make you worse at piano-- your brain is capable of understanding how to use multiple tools, and
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by smrq 3y ago
I feel like many (most?) people who used Pandora extensively have a similar story, although curiously it never seems to be the same band. My fixed point was Radiohead's Karma Police, specifically. I wonder if your personal Pandora fixe
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by smrq 3y ago
I was thinking about this in the shower the other day. Circles don't "exist" because they are a pure abstraction; as an element of mathematics they are simply a bag of conclusions that are inevitable if you are willing to acc
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by smrq 3y ago
That would execute the command `file` and put the output into the file `command`.
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by smrq 3y ago
As I've matured in my career I've gone to SO less and less, to the point where I mostly avoid it now. I use tools, languages, and libraries with which I am now highly familiar--perhaps more so than the average SO answerer, althoug
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by smrq 3y ago
I find this argument unconvincing for the same reason that the answer to the musical loudness war isn't "turn your speakers down". When contrast is maximized 100% of the time, there's no room for emphasis.
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by smrq 3y ago
You're almost certainly thinking of Phil Fish, who did indeed leave the games industry after creating Fez, being featured in Indie Game The Movie (alongside Jon Blow of Braid, which might be the source of the confusion), and getting in
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by smrq 3y ago
That doesn't seem to be the thesis of the linked article at all. All it says is that memes with dated references are increasingly considered uncool. (I had little to no familiarity with the discussed memes, so it seems that the author&
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by smrq 3y ago
If you haven't experienced RSI to the point where you understand that reaching for distant keys is literally painful, then I can see how you might come to the conclusion that it's just for e-peen points.
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by smrq 3y ago
It's marketing nonsense, obviously. The basis for this claim is that an electric engine can generate torque at an arbitrarily low RPM, so given low enough friction on the load it can move an arbitrarily massive object. That particular

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