herdrick

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by herdrick 26d ago
Well written. I have a similar background and I agree with most of your observations and conclusions. Not the part about prestigious universities catering to 'rich kids", though, at least not any STEM departments.
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by herdrick 2mo ago
Above? I don't know anything about these particular auctions, but how could any auction arrive at a price above market value?
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by herdrick 4mo ago
non-paywall link?
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by herdrick 5mo ago
So don't feel bad, is my point :)
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by herdrick 5mo ago
> Why does “as if the waters had but newly retired” mean there’s a lot of water (and thus mud)? It doesn't. It means there's a lot of mud. It might help if you had the rest of the paragraph in front of you. It sets the scene fo
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by herdrick 8mo ago
Good stuff. Are star count and forks etc. the criteria for inclusion of repos? Lots of repos result in "Repository not found".
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by herdrick 10mo ago
You: - can read Old English - find Beowulf, in Old English, dull ... how did this happen? Isn't reading Beowulf a primary motivation, if not the primary motivation, for the hard work of learning Old English?
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by herdrick 1y ago
From the parent comment: "Heck invite the regulars to the 2nd drink with that extra money that is coming in now if you want, or give them a discount." That could even be revenue neutral, if she wants it to be. Why not try that?
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by herdrick 1y ago
The chat in what tool? Not Cursor nor Windsurf, it sounds like?
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by herdrick 1y ago
No, you should always wait until the last possible moment to refill the leaky bucket, because the less water in the bucket, the slower it leaks, due to reduced pressure.
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by herdrick 1y ago
Candidate for hardest collective fall for an April Fool's Day joke in Hacker News history?
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by herdrick 2y ago
This is so sad.
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by herdrick 2y ago
(... in the style of his The Little Schemer et al. books)
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by herdrick 2y ago
Matthias Felleisen, architect (I think) of the current curriculum, explains to a hypothetical skeptical university administrator the virtues of it: https://felleisen.org/matthias/Thoughts/py.html
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by herdrick 2y ago
It's perfectly safe to eat rare pork in the United States. Trichinellosis hasn't been an issue in commercial pork for some time. Wild pigs and backyard pigs should be assumed to be infected.
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by herdrick 2y ago
Oh wow! Sorry about that. Empty aisles, i.e. a true shortage, only happens due to an artificially low price -- do you know what is holding the price down in this case? Perhaps price gouging laws? Or (misguided) big chain stores' polici
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by herdrick 2y ago
There is no rice shortage in Japan currently, at least not in the sense of the word 'shortage' in economics. Prices are not held artificially low (they are influenced by the state in a market-friendly way through restrictions in s
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by herdrick 2y ago
Strong points, but insults and emotion aren't how we do it on HN.
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by herdrick 3y ago
Normally an announcement like this would be based on a program of drilling. But yes there would be a lot of interpolation and I think some extrapolation.
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by herdrick 3y ago
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
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by herdrick 3y ago
Interesting. Sounds like the HN rules need a new clause, "No accusing other commenters of writing comments using LLMs".
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by herdrick 3y ago
Providers often just ban all crypto mining. I think it might be because of pressure from authorities fighting money laundering.
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by herdrick 3y ago
Wow! I’d love to hear it.
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by herdrick 4y ago
Could one of these help? https://www.google.com/search?q=locked+home+safe+that+can+be...
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by herdrick 4y ago
This works great for any Scheme, I think: https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/
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by herdrick 4y ago
It would seem like that's getting the types too late to be useful, but in practice most code goes into production in stages, so you could start getting this probabilistic typing data from code that has rolled out in a limited way, for
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by herdrick 4y ago
Correct, that's why you use the large dataset available to you -- tons of runtime data from production.
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by herdrick 4y ago
I used to work with medical terminology codes, specifically ICD9 and ICD10. I see this as something I would have liked to have back then. Thanks for making it.
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by herdrick 4y ago
Have you looked at Outseta? https://www.outseta.com/billing and https://www.outseta.com/demo . I haven't used it but it looks great. I'd love to hear what you think.
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by herdrick 4y ago
- Cement is extremely perishable. - Contruction projects need cement at very precise times. - When that precise time will occur is hard to predict -- construction projects have a lot of delays. - In a city there are a lot of co

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