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by vinaypai 3y ago
This looks great! How do blogs get into the "blogs" tab? I see the "suggest a blog" link... are they all hand-curated from there?
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by vinaypai 3y ago
Power screwdrivers in the hands of incompetent users who don't know how to set the clutch are bad. But hey, let's blame the tools.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
This is one of those opinion pieces that serves as a stronger argument for the opposite position. If this is the best the author can come with, it's a very weak position indeed.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
I went through a period where I'd wake up aboud 2-3 hours after going to bed and couldn't get back to sleep for most of the night. I used a related technique to help. I count backwards from 1000, and force myself to keep my eyes c
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by vinaypai 3y ago
The example the OP cited doesn't involve complex numbers. Atan(1) is pi/4.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
Okay, I was just wondering if there's something non-obvious here. I guess OP is just woefully misguided about languages other than scheme or "these languages can't handle it" means something more like "I don't
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by vinaypai 3y ago
What's the "aime problem" and why can't c/c++/java/js/python/rust/go handle it?
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by vinaypai 3y ago
It's not as interesting as keeping a bunch of carnivorous plants, but I wonder if the author considered just keeping the compost in the freezer. No smells, no bugs.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
I'm in NYC. The sky was a deep orange in the afternoon and you could easily look directly at the midday sun without discomfort. There is a visible haze indoors looking down a long hallway. It's cleared up a bit now but still quite
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by vinaypai 3y ago
Is it the Year of the Linux Desktop?
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by vinaypai 3y ago
Cool story, bro. Except for the part where it wasn't "deadly" in any way.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
I don't think the cost of living has anything to do with it. There was a huge boom in delivery services during the pandemic, and rapid transition from bicycles to far more valuable electric scooters. There's just far more opportu
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by vinaypai 3y ago
The universe is big, but we're only observing a miniscule fraction of it, especially at the level of individual star systems.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
It should be fixed now, thanks!
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by vinaypai 3y ago
Thanks for reporting this bug, I managed to track it down and it should be fixed now. You might have to hit refresh to make sure you have the latest version.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
Yeah, agreed. Mobile friendliness is definitely the next major update I'm planning on.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
Unfortunately there isn't a way to do that yet. I still need to figure out the controls on touchscreens.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
It's unrelated. Even though the prompt says to press C, pressing space actually has the same effect if you're standing up.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
That's a bug, but fairly benign. It's happens while trying to render the chart with no prior data, so the range ends up being Mean. It doesn't affect anything though.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
A Patriot can only intercept theater ballistic missiles, which are an order of magnitude slower than an ICBM.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
> But if the issue is merely scale, all you need to do is make more interceptors, Attackers can choose where to attack. Defenders have to defend every city. For example, THAAD can protect about a 200km radius, so for every ICBM and SLBM,
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by vinaypai 3y ago
Yeah, that's definitely in the plan. You actually can impart spin right now with an undocumented feature. Use WASD to move the bridge hand and/or IJKL to move the grip hand. You can even play jump shots by elevating the bridge han
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by vinaypai 3y ago
You don't need the whole world to be covered. There is no point dropping special forces into the middle of nowhere. The air force can certainly respond within minutes to threats to major cities and strategic targets. A starship wouldn&
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by vinaypai 3y ago
I know there are still bugs at this point, but it's weird that you couldn't even take q shot. If you don't mind, can you check the dev console in the browser for any errors?
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by vinaypai 3y ago
In real life adetachment of a couple of hundred soldiers with very limited support dropped into the middle of enemy territory, with their destination known 30 minutes in advance to anyone with tracking satellites will be very quickly overru
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Show HN: A web-based pool (billiards) simulator to improve your real-life game(millionballs.app)
35 points by vinaypai 3y ago|17 comments
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by vinaypai 3y ago
You've never lived in a place with endemic corruption. I grew up in India where corruption was a way of life. Every interaction with a government official of any sort came with the expectation of some sort of bribe being paid. We&#x2
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by vinaypai 3y ago
I used Neeva for a while as my primary search engine. They had good ideas but seemed to want to do everything (poorly) instead of committing to anything in particular. They had "spaces". They had an ability to demote (but not act
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by vinaypai 3y ago
I agree entirely, but a lot of people don't and just want to increase prison sentences and make prisons harsher.
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by vinaypai 3y ago
The root cause is that a huge portion of the US population sees prisons entirely from a punitive point of view. Want to reduce prison sentences? Improve conditions? You're soft on crime!

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