MattConfluence

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by MattConfluence 6mo ago
> There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what U+237C is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which stat
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by MattConfluence 3y ago
I was recently at the kiosk at an Odeon cinema in Norway and I noticed that their popcorn buckets were helpfully labeled S, M, and L. Stor, Middels, Liten. No X-sizes in that case though. At least with popcorn you can plainly see that S is
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by MattConfluence 4y ago
It's a fun read in a fan-fiction sense, but when you look at the out-of-universe story of the events of Tolkien's life and his writing process it becomes clear that Tom is not meant to be any kind of evil. Tolkien wrote a silly wh
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by MattConfluence 5y ago
[1] is a video from a couple decades later (1914) that shows more of the urban middle or lower class folks of Kristiania (it wouldn't be called Oslo until 1925). [1] https://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/5d19ec53f24eb590
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by MattConfluence 5y ago
That's a neat observation, the cities do have a similar history. The medieval town called Oslo burned down in 1624, and a new city was founded on the other side of the bay. It was named Christiania after the monarch Christian. It kept
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by MattConfluence 5y ago
That street in particular has been closed for all traffic except buses and trams (and necessary service cars I guess, like the parked van on street view). On [1] you can see Stortingsgata labeled in blue as "kolletivgate" (collect
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by MattConfluence 5y ago
The original photos are in the collection of Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and can be viewed digitally at https://digitaltmuseum.no/search/?q=Carl%20St%C3%B8rmer&aq=t...
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by MattConfluence 5y ago
One time I was using my laptop to remote desktop into a computer I was hundreds of km away from physically, I discovered that if I hit the power key on the laptop (yes, the laptop had a key on the keyboard for power, not a separate power bu
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by MattConfluence 5y ago
I rediscovered the joy of working with databases while working on an Elixir application with a Postgres/Timescale DB. Elixir's Ecto library (doesn't really fit the definition of an ORM) lets me compose queries in a functiona
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by MattConfluence 5y ago
This looks very interesting! I only skimmed the abstract now, but I will look more closely tomorrow. Back in 2016-17 I did a master's thesis on a combination of (much simpler) cellular automata and neuroevolution, and had some thoughts
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by MattConfluence 5y ago
Something that makes this extra interesting is that two of the major telcos of Myanmar are subsidiaries of companies from other countries: Telenor from Norway and Ooredoo from Qatar. Both of which are majority owned by their respective gove
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by MattConfluence 5y ago
This is a difficult problem indeed, but thankfully it is just as difficult for the malicious actors as it is for the "good guys". Since various bad guys have presumably been scanning public repos for years already, Github and PyPa
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by MattConfluence 6y ago
I'd say it's not a very useful model on it's own, but it's a great teaching tool that illustrates emergence [1] well. It's easy to get started and it gets you into a mindset that you can then bring along to other mo
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by MattConfluence 6y ago
> SQL doesn't compose all that well. On that topic, I really enjoy working in Elixir because Ecto [1] lets you write "SQL" with Elixir's composable functional syntax. It sits somewhere between "the language is c
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by MattConfluence 6y ago
This video by Captain Disillusion [1] and this bonus clip [2] seems worth mentioning in this thread. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO3JgPUJ6iQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=807rSw8wyGA
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by MattConfluence 6y ago
> How does someone moving schlep their furniture around the city center? It's still possible to get just about anywhere with a car, it's just made less convenient. The roads aren't physically blocked, ambulances and such h
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by MattConfluence 6y ago
"March 14th 2020" is perfectly fine both when spoken and written. It's not easy to sort lexicographic by programs, but that's not the most important aspect. The problem is that the existence of both MM/DD/YY an
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by MattConfluence 6y ago
Lately, Elixir has dethroned Python as the language that I get the most joy from using. Pattern matching in one of the big reasons. Great to see that Python core contributors (including Guido!) wants to see this feature in Python as well! H
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072748
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Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence(troyhunt.com)
532 points by MattConfluence 7y ago|97 comments
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
> We removed any page that contained any word on the “List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene or Otherwise Bad Words”. [ https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and... ] Looking at that list, I wonder what th
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
Yes, but if you are logging the IP for spam prevention, security tracking, etc , then you are in the clear per Article 6, section 1, point f [1]. However, you can't also use the IP for fingerprinting, ad targeting, etc, without acqu
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
A bit off topic, but I find it amusing that the two top posts on the HN front page right now are "Open Vim" and "How to Exit Vim".
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
That's not how I read it. Some others, with job titles similar to him, speak of "giving 110%" and how their employees are so dedicated to the company, they gladly take on overtime and crunch and whatnot. This seems refreshing
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
> To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika. This seems quite ignorant of history coming from a Norwegian. The red "santa hat" was a symbol of resistance during WWII, so much that it was actually banned by the Nazis&
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
https://blogg.bekk.no/introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccad... Is there a rule against authors posting their own content? It's not some grand conspiracy, it's just an christmas campaign by a company that has aske
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
The linked post is titled "Hacking GitHub with Unicode's dotless 'i'.", but this submission is in title case "Hacking GitHub's Auth with Unicode's Turkish Dotless 'I'". I think this is
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
The Dune movie isn't due until December 2020, but I figured I'd get started with Dune the book, which has been sitting on my bookshelf for a while. Maybe if I enjoy it I will get my hands on the rest of the Dune series.
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
An incredibly useful tool. I started using it in university for coursework, I used it to create figures for my master's thesis, and now I use it in my industry job. I would give it the highest statement of praise you can give any softw
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
> it's also understandable if a user wouldn't want to be tracked by 3rd parties, at all. For what it's worth, the author claims that Simple Analytics respects the Do Not Track (DNT) browser setting, so that user would be a

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