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by xmprt 5y ago
Looking through the rest of NYT games, I can see this becoming a pay to play thing pretty soon.
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by xmprt 5y ago
Really interesting research isn't done because of the risk of a negative result that can't be published.
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by xmprt 5y ago
Somewhat agree. If something is so long that it requires bolding or graphic design to bring out the main point, then it's probably better off shortening it or adding a TL;DR at the top.
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by xmprt 5y ago
If I heard this question, I'd be more confused than anything. The answer seems like it's just return x*x but I'd probably be more interested in why squaring numbers is so important that it needs a special function. Maybe I&#x
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by xmprt 5y ago
Easter eggs are fine if they don't conflict with regular use of the software.
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by xmprt 5y ago
In that same vein, here's my introduction to Unicode about 10 years ago from Tom Scott. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijmeoH9LT4
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by xmprt 5y ago
This is a cool article about Unicode encoding however I still feel like it should be possible to reverse strings with Flag emojis. I don't see why computers can't handle multi rune symbols in the same way that they handle multi by
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by xmprt 5y ago
The path has changed (link rot) but the article is still searchable and viewable: https://holly.witteman.ca/getting-access-to-paywalled-papers...
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by xmprt 5y ago
> You’ll sometimes see pundits declare that American workers haven’t seen their standards of living improve since the 1960s. Economists can and do debate the methodology underlying such claims It's an interesting article but I'
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by xmprt 5y ago
On the other hand, one could easily work at Facebook for 10 years and have enough saved up to retire immediately depending on what their living expenses look like. So taking a 30% paycut to work on something that you find more interesting i
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by xmprt 5y ago
A lot of Chemistry and Biology is full of exceptions (some might even say that exceptions are the only rule in chemistry) however people seem to have no qualms with trying to reason through those subjects.
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by xmprt 5y ago
Why is this not the default in Windows?! I've been looking for something like this since I installed Windows 10
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by xmprt 5y ago
The best feature from Android 12 is being able to update quick setting within the status bar. But that was a feature from Android 9 or 10 that they removed in Android 11.
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by xmprt 5y ago
For a simpler example, think of NDAs
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by xmprt 5y ago
Obsidian not going open source is a big reason I'm apprehensive to start using it.
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by xmprt 5y ago
That tradition hasn't died out yet. There are a ton of common sense things done in many European countries that aren't implemented in the US because of apparent links to "communism."
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by xmprt 5y ago
People don't become flat earthers because they actually believe the earth is flat. They start by realizing that there's something wrong with the current established systems in the world which is a fact. We're living with corr
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by xmprt 5y ago
2 things confuse me about this. 1. This was a normal auction and not an NFT one. How is a DAO enforced in this case? What happens if the nominated bidder decides to go rogue and bid more or less than the decided cap? What happens if the pri
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by xmprt 5y ago
I don't personally use Github Copilot but this article almost makes me want to. I can see how mindlessly pressing tab can get you into situations like this but if you already know exactly what code you want to write then Copilot probab
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by xmprt 5y ago
No. But you don't need blockchain to solve that. Things like BitTorrent work perfectly fine without the needless blockchain element.
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by xmprt 5y ago
I feel like even after zooming out and seeing the big picture, it's hard to imagine blockchain solving real world problems. Blockchains are good when there's a lack of trust and decentralization is absolutely necessary. There are
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by xmprt 5y ago
Missing from those analysis is the fact that not everyone has it in them to learn to code like that. I've genuinely tried learning to dance before with practice and I just sucked at it so I put it down and picked up another hobby. Yet
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by xmprt 5y ago
Exactly. I've seen plenty of YouTube videos that are excellent despite being made by tiny channels of just a few 100 or 1000 subscribers. Same goes for a lot of the posts on Hackernews. And TikTok has a massive userbase that's sti
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by xmprt 5y ago
At this point, the only reason I can think of is VC funding. But I also don't know why VCs don't see through this bullshit... They're supposed to be smart right? Even if they're shotgun investing and hoping that one comp
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by xmprt 5y ago
Try a game like Factorio or Satisfactory. Even just Minecraft can be good enough to train their problem solving and critical thinking skills. They don't need to start with redstone to learn to code. They should play the game and natura
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by xmprt 5y ago
People keep making excuses for cars but it goes the other way around too. Disabled people and kids may not be able to drive. Public transportation can give them more independence (also in other countries, disabled people use single passenge
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by xmprt 5y ago
That's not necessary. If you think of the PDF as a checksum then it's possible to have a one way function that generates the PDF (checksum) but that you can't retrieve the original JSON from. I do really like the idea of havi
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by xmprt 5y ago
The nice thing about viruses (although maybe not that nice considering we're talking about death) is that as fatality goes up, infectivity generally goes down. Also the virus will also quickly burn through the infected population and s
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by xmprt 5y ago
Do you have an original source for this set of images? I'm curious to find the original authors or publisher.
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by xmprt 5y ago
Maximum number of moves to solve any configuration. Minimum number of moves to solve for a given configuration.

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