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by crdrost 7d ago
This was also the subject of a brief sketch on That Mitchell and Webb Look: > Bank official: Sit down Mr. Coleman, I'm, I'm afraid I've got bad news about your account. > Mr. Coleman: Really? > Bank official: I'
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by crdrost 1mo ago
I just had a much smaller version of this experience yesterday in SF -- the goal was to climb the rocky peak at Corona Heights and then visit the Randall Museum, and as I was coming down Roosevelt not 500 feet from that first stop (around
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by crdrost 2mo ago
It's worse than that though -- the things that you are born enjoying, are loud oceanic white-noises and a deep thumping backbeat with occasional muddied high-pitched vocals. I had a similar dream as a freshman in physics, I had learned
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by crdrost 2mo ago
You are correct that the reference is a little obscure -- if my memory serves it's Plato's Phaedrus . Plato argues, in a book, in the voice of his mentor Socrates, that books will destroy knowledge. And the reason is precisely to
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by crdrost 2mo ago
I mean people do make a living doing it, but my understanding is that it requires a lot of hustle—as a hobbyist you can just take your time and meditate and take a million pictures, but if you're trying to make a living you have to foc
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by crdrost 3mo ago
We must be very clear that this is very light rephrasing. Just to put it side-by-side in a form that will absolutely not work on mobile but might work if you're on desktop, here's a "two-column form" of an example plag
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by crdrost 3mo ago
It's worth pointing out that his M.O. was apparently to sometimes tweak the beginning of a sentence and then word-for-word copy some chunk from this source, some from that source, maybe tweak the ending to create a lead-in to the follo
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by crdrost 3mo ago
If you're a type purist then undefined looks nicer... It'd be like being upset at booleans because things get coerced to them or some 'ish. No: it's the type that has one inhabitant—it's not that type's fault t
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by crdrost 3mo ago
Yeah so all of personal computing—text editing, SVG antialiasing, etc, fits in 20,000 LOC (VPRI's STEPS project) so a million lines of code is 50 reïnventions of personal computing. BUT: it is unlikely that humans would have solved thi
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by crdrost 4mo ago
Back when people would read blog posts about the erosion of ownership in the face of intellectual property law, I used to blog about something similar... Of course the MPAA is against copying, I would say -- the ideal situation for the MPAA
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by crdrost 4mo ago
The thing that Rovelli is arguing against (well -- not really arguing -- more, "stubbornly sticking his head in the sand" against) is not really a position that is held by a bunch of religious people trying to create a weird &quot
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by crdrost 4mo ago
It feels like half the problem in this blog post is dealing with memory access issues induced by QEMU and the VM boundary... it's probably something dumb I'm missing, but if you boot up Ubuntu in Docker, wouldn't the NVIDIA d
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by crdrost 5mo ago
That's like 10% of the reason why people would commit CLAUDE.md… The number one reason is, you are on a 10-dev tea and it just doesn't make sense for everyone to waste their token budget creating separate instances of this file, w
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by crdrost 5mo ago
Well that's where I thought this link was going to go before it went down the simd path... We have a way to beat binary search, it is called b-trees, it has the same basic insight that you can easily take 64 elements from your data se
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by crdrost 5mo ago
This is simply false -- the literature is full of discussion about the health effects of social media. More generally you're committing I believe two separate fallacies of ambiguity? Like one in going from the institution of social med
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by crdrost 5mo ago
Probably. But, the time when the laptop is taped off would be uniquely a good time to hit it with some polyurethane or something clear to protect it from that sort of damage? Just make sure you hit it with compressed air first so you aren&#
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by crdrost 5mo ago
> That's not what's happening here. No, it is, the comment you're replying to is correct in what it said to you. > The Privacy settings applies only to access to the Documents folder without the user interaction. Yes, B
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by crdrost 6mo ago
So the advice here is (from my understanding, not a tax lawyer) sound, but it is "unsound-adjacent" -- so a lot of people will start from this basic understanding and then go off into crazytown. So like influencers get to hear oth
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by crdrost 6mo ago
This is just the weirdest thread. Like, the whole point of open source is that this thread is not a thing. The whole point is "if this software is taken on by a malevolent dictator for life, we'll just fork it and keep going with
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by crdrost 6mo ago
That's unintentionally hilarious -- some of us remember 15-20 years ago when flaky support for wireless devices was the biggest reason people would decide Linux wasn't ready for desktop yet and avoid switching from Windows to Linu
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by crdrost 6mo ago
FWIW I like to explain it to folks like this: ignore all of your moral baggage around licensing and just focus on the fact that licensing is a legal tool of art that pretty much only becomes relevant in the context of threatening lawsuits.
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by crdrost 7mo ago
Hopefully this does well just the way it is, but you might also want to tag the title with "Show HN:" next time? It gets you featured on a separate part of Hacker News that some of us like to visit.
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by crdrost 8mo ago
With a slide rule you can start from 92200 or so, long division with 9.22 gives 9.31 or so, next guess 9.265 is almost on point, where long division says that's off by 39.6 so the next approximation +19.8 is already 92,669.8... yeah th
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by crdrost 8mo ago
Why. Why would you want this. The only framework we have figured out in which LLMs can build anything of use, requires LLMs to build a robot and then we expose the robot to the real world and the real world smacks it down and then we tell t
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by crdrost 8mo ago
That's only sort of true. The metagame within 1kbwc is that at the end of play people generally vote on which new cards to keep for seeding the next game, and which to discard. So you get a rush of joy if everybody liked your card and
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by crdrost 8mo ago
pro tip: no longer necessary { let count = 50; const interval = setInterval(() => { addSnakeNode(); if (--count <= 0) clearInterval(interval); }, 100) }
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by crdrost 9mo ago
I'm not entirely sure what algebraic property you would prove with this, but you probably could prove something about it. The issue is that they have repeating continued fraction representations, and large numbers in the continued frac
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by crdrost 10mo ago
There are a bunch of tricks like this. So for instance to make antibiotic-free chicken without a commitment to being antibiotic-free and organic, raise a bunch of chickens, take any who gets sick enough to need antibiotics and put them into
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by crdrost 10mo ago
I mean it's understudied, but at the very least you have [1], children given high doses daily of melatonin developed delayed sleep/wake cycles when measured by DLMO (the time of day that your endogenous melatonin starts to rise) a
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by crdrost 10mo ago
PSA that melatonin use was way out of control before this study was even published. Sleep aid melatonin is shipped in pills containing ridiculous amounts of the stuff—I’ve seen 10, 12, and 20mg myself, Amazon has a 40mg fast dissolve and 60

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