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by wcarss 5y ago
That was a good guess! Your comment provided some helpful motivation to go look into it. :) It seems to have actually been a typo-misuse of moment.tz's very similar but very different constructor patterns. To illustrate, imagine we hav
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by wcarss 5y ago
Cool! That makes sense -- it still felt incredibly clever and tricksy to us when we were about 16 and trying to map our 'beautiful algorithm' into NQC sometime past midnight, for a morning competition.
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I made a crappy little web tool[1] that lets me paste a timestamp into it, and will show me that time in my current timezone by default (I think that's just hardcoded haha), or in another one that I select. I mostly use it when reasoni
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by wcarss 5y ago
In case anyone else is wondering what an IMSI-Catcher is, let me save you a google: "An international mobile subscriber identity-catcher, or IMSI-catcher, is a telephone eavesdropping device used for intercepting mobile phone traffic a
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by wcarss 5y ago
A group I worked with in a high school lego robotics competition managed, if I recall correctly, to achieve 'recursion' by defining 2 very similar functions and having them just call each other. It was a frustrating device at time
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Unions can at the least increase the standard of pay for everyone other than those few top performers who also know how to negotiate well. Having to adversarially game out every interaction just to thrive in the world, especially those inte
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by wcarss 5y ago
Having fun with this: The elsewhere-mentioned "not making a big deal out of your success" might be a reasonable filter, because while a time traveler might almost unavoidably produce surprising advancements, they also wouldn'
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by wcarss 5y ago
"O Great Univac, why did you ever create the universe?" "Someone asked if it would ever end."
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by wcarss 5y ago
> each one more inaccessible than the next. This is a little off topic, but: I've always been curious about this rendering of this idea. If each thing is more _____ than the next , then the first thing is the most _____ in the set.
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by wcarss 5y ago
Read it again, it's phrased as being necessary but not necessarily sufficient. You're arguing it's not sufficient -- and okay, it doesn't have to be. Without a true and open reckoning of the costs of a path, people can&
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by wcarss 6y ago
Actually, the words 'force pushed' in the force push message on the PR (or very nearby to that), are a link to a diff between the pre and post push states of the branch. You can also construct such a diff yourself by going to some
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by wcarss 6y ago
Some people are so lucky, but let's say you each have university debt, and you have 2 kids, and you need to pay for childcare, and you have 2 cars so you can each get to your jobs, and your 3-4br apartment rent is 2-3k/month -- g
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by wcarss 6y ago
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be _gratuitous_, nor particularly insulting to you. I wanted to acknowledge the possibility that our respective political beliefs, whatever they may be, might lead us to look for different types of issu
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by wcarss 6y ago
The George Floyd protest and the Capitol Riot are each outpourings of rage, directed at "the system". One was directed at the ongoing and increasing seeming criminalization of simply being Black in America, and one was directed
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by wcarss 6y ago
Interesting -- "immiseration", as far as I know, originates with 19th century socialist theory regarding rising misery among the working class due to relatively lower wages as capitalists accumulate wealth and subjugate them[0,1].
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by wcarss 6y ago
I dunno about NZ, but Canada printed pretty hard for COVID relief[0,1]. Regarding inflation, anecdotally food etc prices in Toronto seem much higher this year than last, and did last year too, but the CPI data doesn't share my opinio
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by wcarss 6y ago
> you would see a gradual immiseration of the population good point, there's basically no evidence[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7] of misery across the american population. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protes
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by wcarss 6y ago
So many recommendations, but no Trigun yet. Starts off very silly, but goes to some good places over its single season run. At least, I sure felt it did when I was 13. It's a western/sci-fi set in a vast desert-dwelling society, f
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A toy function to sort JavaScript arrays with SQL-like syntax(gist.github.com)
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For anyone else wondering "what the heck is invidious?", from their github[1]: "Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube." Cool! But man, classic open source: the front page of those docs says nothing about wha
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by wcarss 6y ago
Interesting! I wonder when reading things like that about our resolution when discussing such grand scales of time, and the effects of generalization/abstraction on our personal conclusions. For example, it likely didn't really ra
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by wcarss 6y ago
I really wondered if this would be related to the mockumentary "Look Around You"[1]'s somewhat famous "Thanks ants... Thants"[2] line. If you're reading my comment and you haven't run across these, you mig
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by wcarss 6y ago
My knowledge may be out of date, but as of ~2012-2015, Apple generally made free-app-with-paid-subscription services choose between one of the following two options: 1. No sign-up/subscribe/payment buttons in-app, and no links in-
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by wcarss 6y ago
Thanks; I appreciate a lot that you qualified what you said, and gave a justification for why your perspective is broadly true, rather than just assert a negative as a universal. I was mistaken. I didn't know that FAANGs (and likely si
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by wcarss 6y ago
> That's not how it works. ...okay, uh, except for when what they explained is exactly how it works. Lots of people, at lots of companies, Google and Facebook included, get meaningful add-on grants, often larger than their initial
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by wcarss 6y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, some friends of mine worked at a startup that's entirely built around receipt scanning and itemization, and your comment aligns with what I heard from them ad nauseam: receipts are hard , in large pa
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by wcarss 6y ago
I've had friends work at Sensibill[1] which sells tools (mostly to banks) to build some of what you're imagining having right into banking+expense tracking apps. Not sure if they have anything à la carte but they might have somet
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by wcarss 6y ago
I read it as "I already have or can easily get a folder of JSON files (each representing a table); I want to open them up in SQLite with nearly zero effort." That should be hackable with something like json2csv[1], but I imagine t
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by wcarss 6y ago
It's about 27kWh/day, and according to the stats in the link fv6 provided elsewhere in this threadset, that's average for a northeast US house. Houses in the south tend to use more like 15-16k kWh/year, due to air condit
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by wcarss 6y ago
I just learned about the awful effects of iodine deficiency and how incredibly widespread it once was the other day from a youtube suggestion[1] about iodized salt. Previously I had thought iodization was mostly for preventing thyroid issue

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