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by spirographer 11mo ago
It would be great to register this in downdetector to make sure it is up.
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by spirographer 2y ago
You mean "Losely", right...
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by spirographer 2y ago
This is a great article! Funny about Yugiri (39), because your version is a mirror image to Eawase (17), and the traditional Japanese Yugiri breaks that symmetry. Every Genji-mon that is not self-symmetrical should have a mirror image, whic
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by spirographer 4y ago
Brilliant synthesis: Globally humans have transitioned almost overnight from information/knowledge scarcity to information flood. Once we had plenty of time to forage information to construct narratives and share them and agree/di
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by spirographer 4y ago
Loved the article! There are so many great details such as the standardization of UTC happening after UNIX time invented, UNIX itself being born before the epoch, and all the great insight into the morass of 64 bit time across modern OSes.
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by spirographer 4y ago
I was a teenager, desperately looking for the cheapest possible system (because I couldn't afford any of them). And I would longingly read all the ads hoping a miracle wold happen. Later on I learned that one of those companies was nam
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by spirographer 4y ago
Null island is like the opposite of the Bermuda triangle. In fact, maybe they form a portal...
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by spirographer 5y ago
Also, very relevant to discussions of whether we live in a simulated universe!
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by spirographer 5y ago
The whole discussion of whether we live in a Matrix-like simulation falls into this category as well. There are so many layers of oversimplification at play in most peoples' conceptualization of a simulated universe that it is hard to
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by spirographer 6y ago
Companies fill ecological niches. When new technologies emerge there is room for a new apex species/(company), and a few smaller wannabes. There just isn't unlimited room for large companies to emerge, and that is the principal r
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by spirographer 6y ago
Here is the reference for the most recent work (2019) of note in this domain. Ulf Adams extended his 2018 Ryū algorithm to implement Ryū printf which is 4x faster than the best other implementation tested on Linux, Mac and Windows. https:&
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by spirographer 6y ago
The reason Instagram's founders are no longer there is because they could not stomach being forced by facebook to publicly make these kinds of statements.
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by spirographer 6y ago
At a meta level, Category Theory requires some comfort with abstraction, which really only comes with a mathematical education. So while it may stand apart from much math, it relies on your strong mathematical foundations.
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by spirographer 6y ago
Rob Pike's rules of programming simplified : - Start with stupid code built on smart data (after Fred Brooks) - When in doubt use brute force (Ken Thompson) - Premature optimization is the root of all evil (Tony Hoare)
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by spirographer 6y ago
I would recommend this method for documenting all functions, processes, APIs. It can be seen as making explicit what intended inputs, and outputs are, and adding layers to describe input validation to eliminate (buggy behaviors), and testin
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by spirographer 6y ago
This article gives the more detailed explanation of the chart's data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleosynthesis BTW, image search of nucleosynthesis gives about 10 different versions of this infographic, with
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by spirographer 7y ago
My 2 cents is that I can ask just about any question I can think of and absorb and internalize an amazing answer in 5 minutes of reading. Many of those same questions can be automatically asked and answered too. The web and search engines
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by spirographer 7y ago
You can actually use the google ngrams data set to determine that the long s was eliminated from print over a 25 year period roughly from 1795 to 1820.
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by spirographer 8y ago
An earlier version of the paper that is not behind a paywall: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5759bc7886db431d658b7...
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by spirographer 8y ago
List of 57 airports with lat/long between -1 and 1 from ourairports.com data set: id,ident,name,latitude_deg,longitude_deg 18539,K22W,[Duplicate] Transylvania County Airport,-0.7,0 324674,PL-0142,Erase Me 11,-0.3,0 324675,PL-0143,Erase
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by spirographer 8y ago
if there aren't any 0 0 coordinate airports in the data set, maybe there are some strings that are not parsed as numbers and thus coerced to 0, a space or a non printing character (like a carriage return) can make something that looks
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by spirographer 8y ago
I'm looking forward to every update that pops up. Really inspiring! I made a small error in my explanation for the date line: I meant to say "voronoi border with the cells just to the west" (instead of east) By the way if y
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by spirographer 8y ago
Gorgeous! I did notice that the international date line is marked as a voronoi border from north to south pole. If you can do some modulo math trickery you should be able to fix this. You can find all of the cells/airports forming t
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Ask HN: Easy to learn JavaScript workflow supporting Git and containers?
1 points by spirographer 10y ago|0 comments
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by spirographer 10y ago
Is there any way to determine exactly when this document was written? I've read accounts that indicate that it took some time (weeks, months, years?) before the metaphor of mushroom shaped cloud entered into the vocabulary used by wit
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by spirographer 13y ago
I was in the Boston suburbs (Newton) for 6 years, during which my dad went to MIT for a graduate degree, and I myself went to Stanford for a PhD in CS. When I was an undergrad I sat in on a couple classes at Harvard. The caliber of studen