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by yura 3y ago
>as reliable a source of randomness as the system as the system could give you directly Not sure what you mean by this. Which system?
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by yura 4y ago
It didn't correctly explain why it was funny though: which is that it's a squirrel "taking a picture of his nuts", nuts here being literal nuts and not the nuts we expect with phrasing like that. What is funny is neith
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by yura 4y ago
The vast amount of human literature is not worth a read. As long as you pick reputable sources, read great books and so on, they will be up to those standards. Of course, it's not a trivial task to find the reputable sources and the gr
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by yura 4y ago
That's true. I've also used it for these "unknown unknowns" questions with very good results. Basically talking with ChatGPT to find out what should I put on Google, and how we go from there is business as usual. But oth
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by yura 4y ago
> Stop drinking alcohol, as said elsewhere. It takes about 2-3 weeks of sobriety to regain 80% of the capacity you lost. Capacity of what? And have you got any source on that?
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by yura 4y ago
I always thought those examples demonstrated ChatGPT has a deadpan(1) humor, not that it's bad at humor. 1: I had forgotten the term for this and Google didn't help, so, of course, I asked ChatGPT: Q: "What is the used for th
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by yura 5y ago
You say it ruins it, but my in my opinion, that's exactly what makes SO valuable. Often, it's not just the asker of the question that's trying to solve X but asks how to solve Y. So when you search on how to solve Y, you migh
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by yura 6y ago
There are browser extensions that allow you to play YouTube videos (and others) past 2x speed. Very useful.
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by yura 6y ago
>I would say that, unless you're just starting your career, books like Clean Code, The Pragmatic Programmer and the like are not real "revelations". I agree, that's why I'm asking this question. I think these par
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Ask HN: Books that'll make you grok software engineering?
14 points by yura 6y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: How do you find high-quality materials for self-study?
3 points by yura 7y ago|3 comments
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by yura 7y ago
Isn't there a distro that's already based on the KISS principle? (Arch Linux) Is there something that the Kiss distro achieves that Arch doesn't?
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by yura 7y ago
Is that it? We are all going to die because one fiction writer said so? These kinds of claims only discredit the whole discussion. Climate change is a serious problem, but fearmongering doesn't solve anything. How about just stating th
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by yura 7y ago
"I don't like clickbait... The article starts to suggest that calculus is hard to reason about and "irrational". In the end all it is really saying is that calculus requires irrational numbers, well doh!" Agreed.
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by yura 7y ago
Did he ever mention the name of the class?
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by yura 7y ago
"You are not a product. Why use a browser that treats you like one?" And that's why I use Firefox. At the end of the day, Brave is another for-profit browser: you are still the product, but with extra steps. I'd rath
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by yura 7y ago
This theme is itself older than dirt. Socrates had already noticed this problem back in the day: "At last I went to the artisans, for I was conscious that I knew nothing at all, as I may say, and I was sure that they knew many fine th
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by yura 7y ago
This is good advice. Learning something of a higher level of abstraction (e.g. React) without knowing how JS works sounds bad in theory, but it appears OP knows enough JS that it'd be better to just dive into React. A pure, fundamental
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by yura 8y ago
Thank you!
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by yura 8y ago
I learned the basics of HTML and CSS from 'HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites' by Jon Duckett, that was enough knowledge for me to build websites with it and look up the rest on MDN as I go. I learned JavaScript from 'Ja
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Ask HN: How to learn front-end beyond the basics?
12 points by yura 8y ago|6 comments
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by yura 8y ago
>Of all the frameworks I've used, it's brilliant because it hardly takes any thinking away from the business logic, so I'm not bogged down, it stays OUT of my way, and it's rock solid. That's exactly what it&#x27
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by yura 8y ago
Yes, take for instance: "2.) When your amygdala is active, you can’t have empathy for others" Leo provides no source for it, and most importantly it sounds like an overly simple model ("your amygdala takes over, and you can&#
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by yura 8y ago
Have a look at this: https://hbpms.blogspot.com/
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by yura 8y ago
Yes, sorry, I saw it in Wikipedia too. I didn't bother to fact check too deeply since I was so happy about it. Looking at the Wikipedia page, as well as the conversations given in the proof: "Consolas used to have bad copyright bu
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Consolas is now open source(github.com)
60 points by yura 8y ago|37 comments
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by yura 8y ago
Personal favorites: Roboto Mono, Hack / DejaVu Sans Mono, Fira Code / Fira Mono, Source Code Pro. I like Inconsolata, but in my opinion, its 'l' looks an awful lot like a '1'.
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by yura 8y ago
"Privacy is both about "keeping things to yourself" and not wanting others to know everything there is to know about you for no good reason, as well as to protect yourself against potential abuses (from governments, but also
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by yura 8y ago
Indeed. Apparently the author didn't think that minimalism included simplicity of language ("Baroquecratic", really?) and not adding tangentially related and unnecessary quotations in every page.