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by ema 2mo ago
Please have a look at the Hacker News guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by ema 3mo ago
To gain more experience with Rust I'm implementing an interpreter for a Lisp-like language in it. As an additional challenge I've committed myself to record the entire development process and put it on YouTube. https://
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by ema 7mo ago
Read the reply you got more carefully, especially the last sentence is key.
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by ema 9mo ago
I think Gothic II did this really well. While there are some clear borders a lot of the transitions between the three categories are gradual and organic. You're mostly safe in the secondary settlements but go too far into someone'
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by ema 9mo ago
Centralized infrastructure is fragile and to the extent that the internet has become centralized unscheduled Internet shutdowns are bound to happen. The benefit of scheduled Internet shutdown is that people can prepare for it while at the s
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by ema 9mo ago
The reason you're not hearing any difference between the words in those pairs is because they are pronounced the same. At least according to Wiktionary and my own subjective judgement as a German native speaker.
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by ema 10mo ago
There has been open source before Linux and there will be open source after Linux. Yes Linux is a flagship project but the whole culture of open source is much broader than it.
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by ema 10mo ago
> prevent this scenario from ever happening again. Every additional nine of not getting hacked takes effort. Getting to 100% takes infinite effort i.e. is impossible. Trying to achieve the impossible will make you spin on the spot chasin
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by ema 10mo ago
While I'm always ready to throw away code when I realize that there is a better way to do things I found it quite difficult to write code with the intent to throw it away. However I often do write code with intent of modifying it once
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by ema 11mo ago
The paradox isn't that as a good becomes cheaper we're using more of it. The paradox is that as a good becomes cheaper we're spending more on it.
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by ema 11mo ago
While STM was a big selling point when Clojure in practice it's actually very rarely used. The persistent data structures are indeed the heart of Clojure. While for many applications Clojure's performance is good enough it's
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by ema 11mo ago
Maybe the result of NaN === NaN should be neither true nor false but NaB (not a bool).
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by ema 11mo ago
I've found that when I'm listening to recordings of me my accent really sticks out to me in a way that's completely inaudible when listening to myself live. This happens with both English and my native German.
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by ema 1y ago
One thing you can do is listen on a non-standard port.
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by ema 1y ago
I suspect that for someone who reads a decent amount reading speed is also bottlenecked by the rate by which we comprehend the ideas being communicated and not the rate at which we recognize the words. I recently did a bunch of reading spee
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by ema 1y ago
Depends on the length of the blackouts, if it's more than a day then solar panels will allow you to lower the amount of batteries you get.
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by ema 1y ago
I think half life already is well on its way to be considered high brow. I played it a few years ago and while I did enjoy it part of my motivation to play it was "this is what the people who have more experience than me think is good&
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by ema 1y ago
I mean even when I'm working on my own projects I'm cleaning up whatever code I wrote when I didn't yet know as much about the shape of the problem.
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by ema 1y ago
It doesn't only need to make economic sense now but you also need to be fairly certain that all the battery capacity that is likely to be added to the grid in the future will still allow this to be profitable until your expected break
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by ema 1y ago
There are many ways to get around this since it is trivial to write code that strips those tags.
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by ema 1y ago
It's not quite as effective as a real social connection but the para-social connection you get from say listening to a podcast in the language you're learning does work too in my experience.
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by ema 1y ago
I'm making a website for learning languages through comprehensible input: https://input.emanuelrylke.com/ The idea is to aggregate videos by language and then sort them by difficulty.
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by ema 1y ago
I always assumed that chess engines are dumbed down by occasionally inserting random moves but now it occurred to me that a way to get more realistic mistakes might be feed them a distorted version of the game state.
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by ema 1y ago
There's a big difference between being wildly over-optimistic about your odds of making it back and expecting from the get go you won't make it back.
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by ema 2y ago
If you had to choose between everyone dying and everyone except billionaires dying what would you choose?
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by ema 2y ago
No, if you start out with 5% probability it means that you have a 95% probability that further information will eventually downgrade it to 0% and 5% probability that it will eventually upgrade to 100%. So further information making a low pr
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by ema 2y ago
Speaking is use it or lose it[1] but understanding stays. If you spend on average twenty minutes a day listening to content that is at a level where you understand most of it for twenty years at the end of it you will have no trouble unders
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by ema 2y ago
I have no idea how this actually could be made to work but there should be at least ten thousand people on this planet for which a better desktop Linux experience would be worth 50 bucks a month. Would 20 fulltime devs solely focused on des
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by ema 2y ago
It's a question of degree yes people aren't going to move across the country for a slightly better job but if the difference becomes big enough they do.
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by ema 2y ago
You might want to add a small blurb at the beginning of the post explaining what Threlte is as presumably most people coming from HN have no idea.

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