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by sunrunner 3mo ago
Looks like it might be continuing the well-known integer sequence A318360 [0], though I'm curious as to why it wouldn't also fill in the missed earlier entries, as it's not starting from the beginning. [0] https://
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by sunrunner 3mo ago
> Yet it didn't transform into a Blizzard or Epic. Now what was that thing about living long enough to become the villain.
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
> The question arises why are you even being hired for Oh that's easy. Someone needs to review and approve edits and commands.
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
Workslop [1] in seemingly every possible dimension: excessive wording in Slack, with entire messages clearly not written or fully understood by the person writing; Notion pages with the same pattern; vast piles of internal engineering docum
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
That looks like a whole lot of dimensions to measure without providing any clear way of actually doing so. Which I guess is the point? But what do management or less experienced devs actually do with the information in the standard after th
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
I still have Quantum Forge open in a tab. I think that probably says more about me than the game though?
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
I've found that adding "Make no mistakes." to my prompt usually helps with this kind of problem...
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
Which is, in Splash, just five colours away from HN orange. So close.
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
One could argue that it's RGB with 10 of the 256 values selected from each channel.
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
This is why I like the web colours list - there's usually something close enough to what I want that helps avoid the combination cognitive trap of a colour picker and choice paralysis.
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
I incorrectly assumed it was Brian Badonde (memory of old British sketch comedy resurfaced by the spelling) pronouncing diabetes, as in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYU6M8B1xxw
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
Actually reading the error message
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
I always liked the code Easter egg in Ex Machina. A scene with Caleb has a Python script visible on screen that, when run, prints: ISBN = 9780199226559 This is Murray Shanahan’s Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousn
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
I paused the film to catch Lisbeth Salander, brilliant hacker and investigator, doing exactly this kind of complex query. I guess the brilliant hacking was the bit you don’t see getting access to the super secure database in the first place
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
That earns you a special position as one of a pair of guards in a labyrinth with two doors, one of which leads to freedom and the other to... ba-ba-ba-bum - certain death.
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
It was either that or Casual Finance.
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
> Enough people didn't understand it even with C Yeah that's a good point, and perhaps explains why C was added in the first place. I was going to say that B also shows the literal protagonist not really understanding it either
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
Maybe I'm misremembering, but I'm sure there was something on HN a few weeks ago about an electric typewriter that someone had connected to (I'm guessing) a Raspberry Pi? My search-fu is currently failing to find anything par
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
How about printing a QR code for a randomly generated private key for Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin wallet, then every few days you get a tiny moment of excitement, hope, and then disappointment. It's still wasteful, but it could p
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
I like to get into heated debates with friends that have played SOMA about whether or not the events in the ending that is presented to you were all necessary and effective, or perhaps undermined the overall message in some way. Specificall
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
Just do the trick in reverse, surely? yes no > /dev/null
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
At least Boostrap pages were readable ;)
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
> this page is highly effective at conveying information Is it though? If the page is near unreadable? * Almost pure-black background rendering every not-pure-white colour barely readable * Dark-grey and low saturation colours used almos
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
There's also awareness of the basilisk...
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
I searched for "Hey Google" and got this in response: Hey! I'm here and ready to help. What’s on your mind today? Whether you need to look up information, plan a trip, or get things done, just let me know!
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
> We paged for every single 500. Assuming the existence of some kind of network (with zero guarantee of 100% reliability), how does this work in practice? Is each 500 treated as an event that needs investigation, even if the result of th
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by sunrunner 4mo ago
> A website that sells merchandise was hacked This is the least surprising thing I've read all year > It's merchandise for Kash Patel And this is one of the most
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by sunrunner 5mo ago
Really upping the stakes of "It works on my machine" with an escalation to "It works on multiple of my machines".
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by sunrunner 5mo ago
Steady on, I'd say it's at least a fancy CRUD app.
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by sunrunner 5mo ago
As long as the ground doesn't dip halfway across...

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