amptorn

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by amptorn 3y ago
Is fiction not allowed on HN?
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by amptorn 4y ago
I gave up on Clean Architecture after about one chapter. There's a section where he's graphing the number of lines of code in a hypothetical company's codebase over time - it grows rapidly at first and then it levels off, and
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by amptorn 4y ago
This is kind of like a recipe book opening with a disclaimer saying "Some of these recipes might make you ill."
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by amptorn 4y ago
Can it execute code?
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by amptorn 4y ago
The story's name is "Lena", not "MMAcevedo".
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by amptorn 4y ago
I think that observation just lends further weight to the argument that the relationship between atomic time and universal time is a dynamic and unpredictable thing, which we need to handle correctly rather than pretending it doesn't e
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by amptorn 4y ago
The offered price to buy Twitter is ~220 times its net annual cash flow? Something about that does not compute.
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by amptorn 4y ago
The more surprising thing about `Array.prototype.sort` is that it both sorts the array in place and returns the (now-sorted) array. You can go a long time writing `const arr2 = arr1.sort()` without realizing that what you're doing is
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by amptorn 5y ago
Yes, actually it is negative, due to the emissions and waste involved in setting up energy production in the first place. That negative has to be offset by using the energy to do something useful.
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by amptorn 5y ago
> Bitcoin can use energy in places you couldn’t get to before You're suggesting a scenario where, instead of using energy at point A to do useful work, we use energy at point B to generate Bitcoin to buy energy at point A to do th
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by amptorn 5y ago
It's not free! You have to pay for the electricity and the expensive mining hardware! And it's less energy efficient than heating your house using conventional means.
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by amptorn 5y ago
> There is a world of untapped energy that is only restricted by isolation. So you could entirely run bitcoin without increasing global energy output, if that makes sense. No? Using previously untapped energy for Bitcoin, or for anythin
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by amptorn 5y ago
So by "move energy" you mean "move energy demand".
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by amptorn 5y ago
No, the creator of Dordle has not put his code on GitHub.
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by amptorn 5y ago
Octordle directly stole Dordle's code, so, yeah, not a fan.
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by amptorn 5y ago
Yes? Per the "History of Quordle": https://www.quordle.com/#?overlay=tutorial > It all started on January 29, 2022 when I saw an article mentioning Dordle by Guilherme S. Töws and we all started playing it as a
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by amptorn 5y ago
This feels like a cheap ripoff of Dordle: https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle If you're going to put your own spin on Wordle, have at it, many others have, but at least demonstrate some creativity.
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by amptorn 5y ago
That's stopped working! Google is just ignoring them from time to time now. Did you even read the article?
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by amptorn 5y ago
Can a smart contract make a wire transfer with your knowledge?
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by amptorn 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...
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by amptorn 5y ago
> Unix filenames are just sequences of bytes, not defined as strings "Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface except for filenames which are opaque binary"
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by amptorn 5y ago
Why in the world does Unix allow newlines in a filename in the first place? That's just such an obviously brain-damaged idea. There's not a single rational use case for it, yet it breaks nearly every text-based tool you could poss
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by amptorn 5y ago
> Computers are the same thing Uh, no? Computers aren't people.
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by amptorn 5y ago
This is a very bad idea because it's going to rotate ordinary characters to code points where Unicode normalization has an effect, including combining characters, whitespace, control characters... After normalization, rotating back wil
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by amptorn 5y ago
I've no doubt that it's happened before... Maybe what's really changed here is that we no longer need to convince the human impersonator that this is an acceptable thing to do, because we can just have a machine do it.
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by amptorn 5y ago
You just described a second, older/easier way of violating the same ethical norm of not lying about someone having said something they didn't.
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by amptorn 5y ago
> Is there some kind of limit at which we value the right to personal privacy and the right to peace-of-mind over the right to advertise? Who's "we"? The advertising companies? Then no.
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by amptorn 5y ago
Yeah. These figures are completely irrelevant. The problem of increased CO2 concentration in the atmosphere isn't drowsiness, headaches and eventual suffocation, the problem is global warming. The figures seem to imply that once CO2 co
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by amptorn 5y ago
Mauna Loa is not indoors.
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by amptorn 5y ago
The SCP Foundation wiki is hosted on Wikidot, which provides free wiki hosting. It can be accessed either via a Wikidot subdomain or via the dedicated domain. Annoyingly, it seems like both alternate routes into the same content have about

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