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by yongjik 10mo ago
> This is the type of thing that I sort of rely on HN to inform me about. Umm... flagging issue aside, this story is currently at the top of CNN, NBC, ABC, BBC, and Google News, as I just checked. What part of information do we rely on
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by yongjik 10mo ago
Why let them walk away? I can't imagine it happening either, but if it happens, they are enemy combatants. EU should arrest them and treat them as prisoners of war.
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by yongjik 10mo ago
> Centuries in the Gregorian calendar start from 00 with their last two digits - 1800, 1900, and 2000. Umm, wait, what? No, Gregorian centuries most definitely start at year xx01! The first century was from year 1 to 100, the second fro
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by yongjik 10mo ago
For fun, let's say you have a 20-ton container, and you raise it up the rail by 100m. The stored gravitational energy is about 5.5 kWh. According to Wikipedia, Tesla Powerwall 3 has 13.5 kWh of capacity: more than two 20-ton container
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by yongjik 10mo ago
I doubt that. Takaichi has (IMHO needlessly) angered China and China is lashing out - because China is much bigger, the economic pain will be much greater for Japan. It's theoretically possible that Takaichi had a plan and decided the
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by yongjik 10mo ago
Also, it starts with > Microservices didn’t scale our startup. They killed it. ...and then at the end, > We lost 6 months. We lost some good engineers. We burned through money we didn’t have. But we survived. ...So did microservices
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by yongjik 10mo ago
Trump emboldened a lot of racists. You don't need to make any logical sense, just show off your true racist inner self to the world. I guess having a hyphen in your name is woke now.
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by yongjik 10mo ago
Well yes, that would be UB, but even if the C++ compiler had no concept of UB, it would still be wrong code.
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by yongjik 10mo ago
I think UB doesn't have much to do with this bug after all. The original code defined a struct with two bools that were not initialized. Therefore, when you instantiate one, the initial values of the two bools could be anything . In
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by yongjik 10mo ago
Easy, Satan.
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> sophisticated curve-fitting (numerology with constraints) lol ChatGPT feeling sassy today, though I think it was well deserved.
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by yongjik 10mo ago
I've browsed reddit long enough to know that human drivers don't just stop in the middle of traffic for no reason, they will stop in the middle of a railroad intersection, block a highway exit, reverse from a highway exit, drive i
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by yongjik 10mo ago
Don't we all?
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Ehh... I was just making a crass joke that MAGA might end up making America so poor that Americans would be willing to work for terrible factory jobs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by yongjik 10mo ago
> As a taxpayer I'm tired of funding everyone's project. Some Americans took a hard look at the state of America as the world's leader in science, technology, and industry, with a ton of cutting-edge research attracting th
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by yongjik 10mo ago
Have been in California for 10+ years and I've never seen anyone describing California's electricity infra as reliable. It shows the same kind of failure that's too familiar to many Americans: a vital service is managed by a
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by yongjik 10mo ago
Chomsky Hierarchy pertains to "languages" defined in the theory of computation: i.e., it is a subset of the set of all finite sequence of alphabets (for some fixed notion of "alphabets"). If a sentence (a particular fin
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by yongjik 10mo ago
That's like complaining at names like Jesus, Paul, Moses, or Peter (with their English pronunciation) because that's not how those biblical figures pronounced their own names.
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by yongjik 10mo ago
Korea is stuck in a funny middle ground, where names like cities or railway stations all follow the standard without exception, while personal or corporate names are in a state of total chaos. So the cell phone maker is Samsung, but the su
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by yongjik 10mo ago
> Turns out that somehow Midjourney is so commonly searched for, that Google has started serving them in search results for a meaningless English phrase that just means a Korean forgot to switch off of their English keyboard when searchi
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by yongjik 10mo ago
These kind of "all the experts are retired" take are getting tiresome. When you think about it, until recently there were no experts in stabilizing the electric grid on a continental scale using renewables, because it was literall
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by yongjik 10mo ago
> there were about 31 million excess deaths across the 2020-23 period ...am I missing something, or are you saying there were 31 million excess deaths during which the world had COVID ??? I'd say, yeah that tracks ...?
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by yongjik 10mo ago
Off-topic, but it always amuses me that the sleepy town of Livermore, CA, known locally for its vineyards and an outlet mall, is immortalized in the Periodic Table, instead of the other greater places like New York or Chicago. Chicago even
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by yongjik 10mo ago
Less consumer demand means fewer jobs. When people can't find good well-paying jobs, they become pretty unhappy, and they won't be magically enlightened and out of misery by being told it's the capitalist wheel turning. Capi
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by yongjik 11mo ago
Wow, just half a dozen comments from why we're not saving North Koreans to "we could've nuked China and solved a lot of problems." Some Hacker News threads are on their own level.
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Well, they did persuade HP to ditch their own homegrown PA-RISC architecture and jump on board with Itanium, so there's that. I wonder how much that decision contributed to the eventual demise of HP's high performance server divi
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by yongjik 11mo ago
This blog post could have been better without the long intro featuring Timnit Gebru. It just reads as a boring "someone finds a mistake in a book, someone else quotes it sarcastically, a bunch of others call it out with 'bro why
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by yongjik 11mo ago
Yeah, I'd express doubt. I do agree that South Korean feminist movement contains some batshit crazy elements, but those anti-feminist young Korean men aren't much better. Both sides love to fixate on crazy crime stories to make t
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by yongjik 11mo ago
I remember someone on HN complaining that there were places selling authentic Polish sausages in London, and somehow it sounded they were deeply unhappy about it. I don't know if average Londoners can still afford authentic Polish saus
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by yongjik 11mo ago
FWIW, I think focusing on healthcare was the right strategy. It apparently worked for the election! (Too bad the Democratic "leaders" folded immediately; it's as if they're deathly afraid of actually winning.) The aver

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