fernirello

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by fernirello 7mo ago
There's a very good Brazilian series "Desejos S.A."—literally "Wishes Ltd" but translated into English as "Whatever, whenever". People call a mysterious phone number, voicemail prompt tells them "At t
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by fernirello 10mo ago
Transparent attempt at whitewashing Boris's image to sell some books. When he got caught hiding millions in assets to avoid paying his creditors, first he tried to bamboozle the judge. Then, he bought a worthless diplomatic passport fo
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by fernirello 1y ago
When asked for his opinion about space travel, J. L. Borges replied “Is there any other kind?”
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by fernirello 1y ago
Has anyone seen publicly accessible content from the startup-ish MS&E courses? I think Coursera had a MOOCified version of “Startup engineering”, but that was over a decade ago and it didn’t last long anyway. It was great back then.
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by fernirello 1y ago
Thank you!
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by fernirello 1y ago
Clarification question, having read OP yet having missed some fine details: I presume you mean that software could set some CIA-II register to keep the NMI line to the CPU down indefinitely. Since what triggers the handling of an NMI is the
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by fernirello 1y ago
I've got valuable advice from SO over the years. There's overlap with LLMs, sure, but it's frequent to have questions that have no answers published anywhere on the web; SO brings people who know out of the woodwork, who crea
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by fernirello 2y ago
Arne has written, as usual, an excellent piece. Not only it argues its intended points, but it can also be followed by everybody-it brings readers up to speed without assuming any significant background knowledge.
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by fernirello 2y ago
A vast majority of the last names in this article are German. Seems like Project Paperclip all over again.
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by fernirello 2y ago
Sadly, same here: following the instrs works for Tiny Basic (which is quite basic!), but CP/M segfaults. Any idea to get past this?
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by fernirello 3y ago
That's a dangerous oversimplification. Say you are a US lawful permanent resident. CBP has the power to deem your LPR status as having been abandoned (e.g., if you've been spending too much of your time outside the US, or establis
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by fernirello 3y ago
In the U.S. system, no visa (including a green card==permanent residency) constitutes permission to enter the country. A visa only enables the holder to travel to a port of entry and request permission to enter the country. That permission
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by fernirello 3y ago
U.S. permanent residency is a visa. It's an immigrant visa, obviously, like several other categories; meaning that it's permissible to state that the applicant has immigrant intent.
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by fernirello 3y ago
This has to be the best HN comment in a long time.
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by fernirello 3y ago
This looks quite neat; it reminds me of TurtleSpaces, a great Logo-based environment. Question (and sorry if the answer's evident, but a cursory glance at the website didn't solve it): are there any examples with source code we ca
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by fernirello 3y ago
Much obliged for your help. Logo has the advantage of being immediately applicable to much younger learners (~7) than BJC (~16). There's a big mass of teaching resources (microworlds, etc) that are immediately usable at the beginning,
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by fernirello 3y ago
Hey, thanks for the pointers. Question: are you aware of any materials I can follow to teach kids how to program using Snap!? Snap! has indeed become quite powerful with time, but I struggle to come up with a lesson plan, examples, exercise
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by fernirello 3y ago
From a confidentiality viewpoint, isn't this equivalent to uploading my docs to ChatPDF? (Genuine question, I'm not well versed in LLMs.) Because I'm uploading the embeddings to OpenAI or a similar service provider-if their c
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by fernirello 3y ago
That’s why a perfectly understandable Ithkuil course is right over there, a couple hexagons away
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by fernirello 3y ago
If I wanted to develop games on the C64 itself, I'd use White Lightning Forth--a great compromise between expressive power and running speed. Vision Basic, requiring a 256 KiB RAM expansion, just feels weird. In any case, kudos to the
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by fernirello 3y ago
Shout out to empressplay and her teammate(s) (sister?) for their work on turtleSpaces, an underrated, solid implementation of 3D logo in golang that can run on the browser. I've used it to teach children, and they've quite liked h
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by fernirello 4y ago
How do you deal with updates (ideally, at a time of your choice)?
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by fernirello 4y ago
Argentina's economy is a self-similar process: when you look at snapshots taken days apart, nothing's really changed. When you look at snapshots taken a few years apart, nothing's changed, either. On occasion, there's (e
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by fernirello 4y ago
I've owned several pairs of aspherical lenses made of glass, ground by competent yet hardly exceptional shops. Only in the U.S. I found people uninterested in selling me glass lenses--exaggerated mimicry, "but they'll be so h
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by fernirello 4y ago
Thank you! I wasn't aware of OASIS. Reading up now.
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by fernirello 4y ago
Any good reference for that CDL? The idea seems quite useful for what I'm working on. All I found is a wishy-washy doc with poorly chosen examples [0] [0] https://www.riskdataos.org/html/HelpCenter/Content&#x2
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by fernirello 4y ago
Hi, I'm in NZ too--would you be able to recommend places where I can find remote (preferably contract) development work for overseas companies? For what's it worth it'd be data-sciency Python in my case. Thanks