akincisor

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by akincisor 2y ago
See the history of Reddit. It was manually curated sock puppets before bots were viable, and now that bots are viable, I strongly believe the bulk of comments and posts in the popular subreddits are bots (and many are run by reddit themselv
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by akincisor 2y ago
I've recently used a ruby script with a bunch of methods that I can configure with a few yaml files to generate a shell script which I can then run. Each run generates a timestamped folder with not only the bash script, but also a copy
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by akincisor 2y ago
Location: SF Bay Area Remote: Yes (willing to come to office occasionally) Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, C++, SQL, No-SQL, GraphQL etc Resume: https://srikanthak.name/files/srikanth_re
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by akincisor 3y ago
So you're paying them to not fix a bug in their system, am I reading that right?
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by akincisor 3y ago
The contract of the web is: - I ask for a resource - you give it to me - any linked resources (stylesheets, scripts, images etc) are up to me to request Therefore there is no "ethical" conundrum in blocking ads. The ad industry br
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by akincisor 3y ago
I made a simple one myself as a one file html app. https://gitlab.com/aksrikanth/flash-cards
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by akincisor 4y ago
Think of what happens to a fluid when exposed to a vacuum. The water surrounding the vacuum instantly vaporizes and creates bubbles of water vapor. Then these small vacuum bubbles collapse and create small shockwaves that create noise and d
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by akincisor 4y ago
Is there a firefox extension that can give me a GPT-3 summary of any given page? That would be super useful.
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by akincisor 5y ago
I'm now wondering if there is a time in history when this would not be seen as a coincidence? Like a time when there was no crazy ruler.
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by akincisor 6y ago
Uber and Lyft are betting that 7/8 threshold will never be hit organically, but they can buy a 7/8 share of the legislature ensuring that this measure can only develop in one direction.
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by akincisor 6y ago
CSS is declarative and not imperative. A lot of people have issues with a different kind of programming. Also the "cascading" nature of CSS makes it hard to reason about.
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by akincisor 6y ago
I love my Ricoh GR and bought it nearly 6 years ago. The camera is an amazing combination of an APS-C sized sensor in a pocketable form factor combined with a fixed focal length lens (which is superb) that is perfect for an everyday carry.
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by akincisor 6y ago
So any post that has "... a liberal amount..." or "... take the conservative approach ..." or "... replaced the right wing nut..." would be filtered. Political candidates also share names with other people. Nam
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by akincisor 6y ago
If you've ever used a firecracker rocket it has solid fuel in exactly the same way. It just burns from the inside out (I think) to ensure that the rocket's center of gravity doesn't change as the burn progresses.
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by akincisor 6y ago
Is it possible to have the hierarchical structure of tabs like in tree style tabs (so I can see which tab spawned which tabs)?
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by akincisor 6y ago
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF1mOTsYB0Q
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by akincisor 6y ago
No one, not even those who love me, need to see my face in High Def.
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by akincisor 7y ago
It would be a good choice to replace tablets that are used outside conference rooms to show the schedule and/or book the room.
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by akincisor 7y ago
Also missing optimal placement of scarecrows for larger farms.
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by akincisor 7y ago
The first time I was a new (post) grad and I didn't much like it and left for a startup within a year. I figured I'd give it another go with more experience, so the second time I was hired at L5 (expected to be leading teams). Lik
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by akincisor 7y ago
This may have been true 15 years ago when they were a small company. Google now employs ~60K engineers and the majority of them are "Bog Standard". Disclosure: I worked at Google twice.
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by akincisor 7y ago
> Too little (PHP, JavaScript) is suboptimal, and too much (Scala, Haskell, Rust) is also suboptimal. I find myself thinking the exact opposite. When you want to do something quick and dirty JavaScript or Ruby are my go to. When you want
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by akincisor 7y ago
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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by akincisor 7y ago
I would really love if the system76 laptops had hardware kill switches for the camera and the microphone. If the camera switch also physically occludes the lens, that would be great.
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by akincisor 7y ago
Not necessarily true: https://www.livescience.com/24694-identical-twins-not-identi... paper (PDF) : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Constantin_Polychronako...
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by akincisor 7y ago
Only on one of them: - Your "friends" are known and tracked - The content you view is determined by your browsing history, ad tracking and that of your "friends" - The composition of the audience that's voting is po
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by akincisor 7y ago
I use Firefox's Reader mode, and it fixes most of these "scroll all the time" sites.
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by akincisor 7y ago
Can we get a canonical url for this? It's a useful resource, but in its current form might disappear at any time.
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by akincisor 7y ago
Does this same logic apply to promote a Wealth Tax on people who have wealth that's being hoarded?
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by akincisor 7y ago
Funnily enough, when I do design interviews, I often ask them to design a chat client - not the whole design, but bits and pieces, like the db schema or the API of the service. What the interviews invariably show is that a chat client is no

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