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by xen0 1mo ago
Thanks to modern playback technology, you can pause it and resume play later at your convenience.
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by xen0 3mo ago
The reported average of 20 days is likely skewed by a small number of long leaves and I suspect* is nowhere near typical for the median worker (it's nearly taking a day off every two weeks). Longer leave already requires a doctor'
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by xen0 5mo ago
And yet I would still stop and wait before walking out. The law will not save me against 1.5 tons of metal hitting me by accident.
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by xen0 5mo ago
Indeed, at 3 pieces per second (I don't have a good sense of how fast good tetris players play, but I've seen some videos and it looks like they can average more than one a second), it's 10 hours of constant play. Playing at
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by xen0 6mo ago
> Also: in Europe everybody normally takes paracetamol and not FANS as a first reach to minimize adverse effects. So this article looks like very US centric. This is not my experience. After moving to Germany from the UK, I feel like peo
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by xen0 6mo ago
As a fencer watching these, I've never felt like I've not known where the blades are. Just from the hand positions and knowing what people do. So I find the constant lights a little distracting. But I can imagine non-fencers don&#
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by xen0 7mo ago
I've never grokkeed suffix trees, but isn't possible for them to be O(n) in space (n total length of all strings)? Is there just an unacceptable constant factor overhead? I can imagine the pointer overhead being painful.
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by xen0 7mo ago
That is... amazing. I think my favourite part is the fact that '1' isn't even one of the supported values.
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by xen0 7mo ago
As an Englishman that has been transplanted to another country, I find myself making them more in Germany than I ever made them back home. But that's because my wife requests it. It would never occur to me to up the egg ratio so high t
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by xen0 8mo ago
I am not a fan of Github's interface. But my point is, is that I believe the important thing to preserve in history is whatever your unit of review is. If you could stack PRs and each were subject to the individual review, I would not
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by xen0 8mo ago
I want every commit to represent a buildable state in which I have confidence automated tests pass. Bisecting is made unnecessarily difficult otherwise, and it's nice to be able checkout any commit and just build something for testing.
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by xen0 9mo ago
Thanks for pointing out what I was missing. Please consider a variable `List{int}[3] x`, this is an array of 3 List{int} containing List{int}. If we do `x[1]` we will get an element of List{int}, from the middle element in the array. If we
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by xen0 9mo ago
The closed intervals for slices caught my eye as well, but I simply filed that under 'that's a weird quirk' rather than 'wtf?'. It would require more thinking on my end to change that to either 'this is an acce
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by xen0 9mo ago
Reading through, something small caught me by surprise. https://c3-lang.org/language-common/arrays/#fixed-size-multi... Multi dimensional arrays are not declared in the same way they are accessed; the order of dim
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by xen0 9mo ago
Looking at those in my extended family that have reached retirement, this does not appear to be a given. End of life care* is highly variable in duration and costs and many people do not adequately prepare for expensive endings. * this is t
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by xen0 9mo ago
An unfortunate reality is that you're never going to have such services until there are children for them to service. Decline like this is difficult to reverse, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
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by xen0 9mo ago
Your real commit history is irrelevant. I don't care too much about how you came to a particular state. The overall project history though, the clarity of changes made, and that bisecting reliably works are important to me. Or another
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by xen0 10mo ago
I work on a build system (Bazel), so perhaps I care more than most. But maybe it does all just come down to equality comparisons. Just not always within your own code.
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by xen0 10mo ago
It's sometimes nice to be deterministic. I don't often care about a specific order, only that I get the same order every time.
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by xen0 11mo ago
Open source projects? Maybe less so. But there are definitely companies that use Bazel in a major way.
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by xen0 1y ago
At least in British English usage, there is no distinction between Jail, Gaol, and Prison other than at least one of these is a dated word. I believe only the US has a strong distinction between Prison and Jail.
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by xen0 1y ago
Part 4c (this is quite a long series) goes into some detail here. https://acoup.blog/2025/09/12/collections-life-work-death-an... My own interpretation is that it's difficult to precisely compare how pea
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by xen0 1y ago
This may be because the 'headshot' multiplier is lower than the regular multiplier (1x vs 2x) for the prod and baton. For most weapons the headshot multiplier is 8x (or something). So torso hits from behind are the way to go.
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by xen0 1y ago
Erm, yes. Yes it is...
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by xen0 1y ago
Those are not the same; one is a bit less than an hour, another is 3 and a half days. A microcentury is 100 nanoyears if you prefer that.
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by xen0 2y ago
Set comprehensions are normal in mathematics and, barring very long complex ones, I find them the easiest to parse because they are so natural. They're just a tad more verbose in Python than mathematics because it uses words like &#x27
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by xen0 2y ago
Feels weird to call it a 'bet against' when the other side can (potentially) benefit from the tighter spread you offer. But yes, the market maker doesn't run the risk of trading with someone with knowledge and a lot of capita
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by xen0 2y ago
I highly doubt market makers are in the business of betting against retail traders. I suspect they're in the business of collecting the spread on lots of small trades that they can assume are largely random.
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by xen0 2y ago
Your perception of Fencing and HEMA aside; I can promise you that if HEMA was an Olympic sport: * The same money problems that Fencing athletes face would apply to potential 'HEMA athletes'. * You would hate what HEMA becomes beca
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by xen0 2y ago
I routinely read HN on my phone. I'm doing it right now. I think I've only accidentally flagged about posts by mistake...

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