dhosek

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by dhosek 4d ago
Kind of reminds me of a college classmate back in the 80s made a Hypercard game which he had called Escape from Harvey Mudd but which the college asked (maybe demanded?) that it be renamed as it started to get distribution so the more commo
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by dhosek 7d ago
There’s also the depth. A crt monitor would have a depth at least equal to the diagonal measurement which meant a lot of desk space lost to the monitor. On the other hand that also meant some prime cat nesting space that was lost with the l
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by dhosek 7d ago
You’re absolutely right, but I need to go to the bathroom/get some coffee/take a smoke break/get back to this task now so we’ll have to discuss this further later.
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by dhosek 8d ago
There is a link to the paper in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05283
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by dhosek 12d ago
I have managed to at least momentarily create a stop in spam at my specialist mediawiki. I’ve had to do IP blocking against meta’s IP block (as well as much of the Azure IP space) because they were hammering the site with crawler hits that
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by dhosek 13d ago
There end up being some weird edge cases where there are some countries which have both the equivalent of .co.uk but also allow registrations directly under the two-letter country code as well. .mx is one such case where most business are,
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by dhosek 14d ago
In my twenties, I had decided that I didn’t want to have side projects or a job that followed me home. I wanted to just go to work, come home and be. Shortly after I made that commitment, there was a notice published that I was starting a t
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by dhosek 14d ago
He’s doing exactly what he said he would do when he ran. People who voted for him can very much be held accountable.
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by dhosek 16d ago
From what I’ve seen of what AI can do for coding, the part of software engineering that I like is going to be automated out of existence, much like the ability to do serious calculations by hand got automated out of existence with the devel
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by dhosek 16d ago
Yeah, I’m pretty much on a trajectory of building up as much retirement savings as possible before AI completely kills my career. The sweet spot seems to be about three years out. I honestly don’t know how to guide my 12-year-old son who lo
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by dhosek 16d ago
Presumably this is on their roadmap. The Jobs-era thing would be to come in with something that people on HN would say, “yeah, I could do this myself with open source tools” but in practice falls into the category of “I could build this $30
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by dhosek 16d ago
Apparently, yes: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/ivbwoo/cur/multimedi...
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by dhosek 16d ago
There’s a partisan floor¹ that’s in the neighborhood of 25–30% where people will vote for their party no matter what. The 2004 Illinois Senate election was a good test case where when the Republican nominee went down in self-inflicted flame
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by dhosek 16d ago
I was thinking that this was included in the Apple ][ Integer BASIC ROM, but when I checked it was Woz’s own special instruction set, SWEET-16 which gave compact (if slow) ability to do 16-bit coding on the 6502. These sorts of things are l
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by dhosek 16d ago
Sorry, no luck tracking down your ex-girlfriend, but we do have a line on an ivory-billed woodpecker.
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by dhosek 16d ago
Come on man, let us have a nice little alternate universe without peeing in our Cheerios.
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by dhosek 18d ago
There was a sentence early on in the article, “San Francisco has always been a place people came to re-create themselves — running from something, running toward something exciting and unknown, going as far as they could for a shot at a new
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by dhosek 19d ago
Yeah, there’s a tendency not to know with sufficient time, especially with heavy traffic.
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by dhosek 21d ago
His first wife too.
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by dhosek 22d ago
When I first bought my current car, I downloaded GasBuddy, intending to use it to find the best gas prices and the reported prices on the app were uniformly wrong. After the first couple times I used it, I gave up and stopped using it.
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by dhosek 22d ago
Costco has a reputation for treating its workers very well, probably the best option in the retail world.
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by dhosek 22d ago
There are some options, though, that you can’t even pre-order until October.
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by dhosek 22d ago
I figure at least some of it comes from the idea that mathematically, a singularity is a point (e.g., in the graph of z=1/w, there is a singularity at the point w=0, and in the graph of z=(1-w)²/(1-w) there is a removable singular
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by dhosek 26d ago
Hmm. I took a look at my claude output and I don’t see anything remotely like that in my responses. Occasionally a bit verbose, but none of this but “here’s the kicker” thing that the post claims, although I also notice that I’m using Sonne
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by dhosek 27d ago
I’ve been writing code for 46 years. Not once have I had to code a derivative. And for all the people who are concerned about how sin' 2πx = 2π cos 2πx, in actual code, it doesn’t matter. Let’s say that I’m writing a basic graphing fun
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by dhosek 27d ago
It depends on your context, and is mentioned in the article. The advantage of turns comes from the fact that the implementation of sinᵣ etc. is internally doing a conversion to turns, so by using sin_turns directly, you avoid calculating π&
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by dhosek 28d ago
I have at least one Knuth check¹ from the days when they were actual checks, but to be honest, I’m not 100% sure where it (they?) are. I’m on the mailing list where potential TeX-related bugs appear and it’s crazy the level of detail people
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by dhosek 28d ago
Stør was really blatant to the extent that they were successfully sued by IKEA for their duplication. They were eventually bought out by IKEA, probably for the real estate.
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by dhosek 29d ago
Pax is another one that violates the rule that someone pointed out lower. Also Malm is a surname which is another violation of the rule (one of the characters in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was named, if I recall correctly, Stefan Mal
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by dhosek 29d ago
Most likely. In the early 90s there was a knock-off of Ikea called Stør which used the ø for exoticism. I had assumed that it was a Danish company, but apparently, not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STØR (The store whe

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