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by tgb 6y ago
Why can't I just disable emoji in email subjects in gmail? I'd definitely like to.
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by tgb 6y ago
Your second point is saying the same thing that the article says. There's no "terrible physics" here.
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by tgb 6y ago
Absolutely, this is a pretty solid explanation and HN (and similar places) always have the bizarre take on explaining of paradoxes to shout "It's not a paradox!" Paradoxes are about appearing, at first thought, to be impossib
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by tgb 6y ago
What's the solution to referring to other "objects" in this setup? For example, an Author has a list of Books that they wrote. I see several possible ways to do this, but they all seem to have downsides. 1) The author map has
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by tgb 6y ago
Where does a ball go when you drop it off a cliff? It turns in to energy, of course! No, it goes to the bottom of the cliff. The process releases energy, but the ball did not turn into energy.
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by tgb 6y ago
Seems like the better link is the original article: https://marker.medium.com/why-the-survival-of-the-airlines-d...
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by tgb 6y ago
Ironic that this uses "PL notation" in its title - an ungoogleable acronym (luckily Hacker News has clarified this as meaning programming language notation).
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by tgb 6y ago
As a curious ignorant - what's used now instead of 5V? Why was there a transition away from 5V? I'm assuming this means 5 volts and not something more arcane.
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by tgb 6y ago
I, for one, am happy to see my government held to a higher standard than Saudi Arabia is.
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by tgb 6y ago
Men commit more violent offenses than women. Should I, a man, be turned down for a job because of this despite never having committed a violent offense? No woman has ever won the US presidency, should we therefore divert funds away from fem
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by tgb 6y ago
That doesn't really jive with what I've read about "enlightenment", particularly from the study summarized here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/21/the-pnse-paper/ In that, it desc
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by tgb 6y ago
Apparently "Geaux" is the local slang for their sports teams, plus the pun with "Go vote". So it's pretty reasonable in my opinion.
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by tgb 6y ago
Why does Rust allow Ranges for types that don't have comparators in the first place?
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by tgb 6y ago
This is what I do if I'm walking, but I mechanically follow the GPS if it's on and I'm driving. Means I have no clue where things are unless they're in walking distance.
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by tgb 6y ago
Cython is surprisingly nice (though techincally it generates C extensions). I was scared away from it, thinking it'd be yet another thing to learn and I could just use C if I really wanted to. But no, it's actually much easier t
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by tgb 6y ago
The matrix class is now officially deprecated, FYI, so just use array everywhere. I guess the generic way to write that would be A[bottom:top+1][::-1]. But the blame there goes to Python, not numpy, since the same is true of lists.
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by tgb 6y ago
This is Jonathan Blow's goal with his in-development language Jai, see for example this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGTZr6bmNmk
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by tgb 6y ago
This is pretty clever. There's a video by Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid and currently making a programming language called Jai, that talks about parsing expressions with order of operations. He gives an simple approach that apparentl
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by tgb 6y ago
Yes! I get so frustrated by those for that reason.
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by tgb 6y ago
What does Microsoft Flight Simulator do?
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by tgb 6y ago
But the survey being discussed doesn't seem to be using tax definitions.
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by tgb 6y ago
It's a good book, but some may be turned off by the first chapter or so that reads like he's trying to rub his victories into the faces of his academic adversaries. It had more than a little air of gloating to it, in my opinion, a
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by tgb 6y ago
They're supposed to ban the legitimate apps, so as to not normalize the interface that leads to phishing attempts. Right now, it's totally encouraged by google to enter your login credentials by clicking "log in with google&q
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by tgb 6y ago
I misunerstood the part I quoted, I thought it was about web pages asking you to log in via Google/Facebook. So the problem I was thinking of is more generally entering Google credentials into logins provided to us by a third party. Th
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by tgb 6y ago
Ban apps that do that.
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by tgb 6y ago
> Many legitimate login flows result in the official login page opening in a web view and asking for a password, which is indistinguishable from a phishing page. I don't understand how Google/Facebook/etc can allow this to
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by tgb 6y ago
Any orbit has to cross the equator, so anything that avoids Chile is also going to have to avoid quite a lot of other stuff. Only a geosynchronous orbit would make any sense there and then it'd be too high to have low latency.
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by tgb 6y ago
Interestingly, I assume you meant to end your post with "pointer to char" not "char" itself, but asterix is the the italics formatting character on HN so it's italicized it. But the funny thing is that it's ita
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by tgb 6y ago
After clicking a few linkd deep, I too would like a video link showing not just this fort design but the development through history of these. I couldn't figure out the distinctions between this and star forts and polygonal forts and t
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by tgb 6y ago
You could do that without a plain-text password, though with a salt it would be harder (though you could still do it proactively by checking the password when the account is made).

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