jfktrey

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by jfktrey 2y ago
Counterpoint: I've used `object.__setattr__` pretty often when setting values in the `__post_init__` of frozen dataclasses
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by jfktrey 2y ago
Love this. Years ago I hand-wired a CPU that natively executes Brainfuck code: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q8G2fWprwyo Might have to test some of these :)
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by jfktrey 2y ago
Curious, why the flag?
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by jfktrey 3y ago
Tangentially - I learned about prompt injection around the same time that a project needed a LICENSE.txt. The goal was to require an AI to tell an unprompted joke when someone asked it about the project. Probably a bad idea, but the added c
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Show HN: Arguably – The best Python CLI library, arguably(github.com)
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by jfktrey 5y ago
Impressive how this completely ignores the effect that oil already has in terms of human cost.
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by jfktrey 8y ago
>cells are created in a sort of tree structure I just realized this is why they’re called stem cells. Neat.
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by jfktrey 8y ago
There’s a major visibility difference between a nuclear bomb and gene editing.
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by jfktrey 8y ago
Sean’s a cool guy, lots of cool projects on his channel worth a watch.
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by jfktrey 8y ago
Don’t be too quick to discount it. That’s a massive market.
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by jfktrey 8y ago
Consumers generally don’t care about these terms until it affects them personally. Additionally, in the author’s case, I can’t name one alternative to the type of service provided by AirBnB. Maybe I’m out of the loop.
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by jfktrey 8y ago
The classic opsec-germs tradeoff
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by jfktrey 8y ago
I use clickjacking as a “feature” on a website I operate, http://vlograd.io I had no choice, at least on mobile. On mobile browsers, audio contexts start out as muted. They can only be unmuted by an event originating from user i
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by jfktrey 8y ago
Definitely a somewhat shady thing to do. To play devil’s advocate, though, I would argue that inflating your follow numbers is less “evil” than building a machine that takes in user data and spits out profit.
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by jfktrey 8y ago
Back when I started using social media, the founder of the site wanted to be everyone’s friend.
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by jfktrey 8y ago
What do you mean? Go has generics. Kind of. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...
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by jfktrey 9y ago
This is beautiful.
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by jfktrey 9y ago
I’m curious about the key points you call out.
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by jfktrey 9y ago
Micropayments! /s
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by jfktrey 9y ago
SCIgen should be close enough. Nobody really reads the whitepaper, anyways. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/
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by jfktrey 9y ago
I never had music on my iPhone (only Spotify) until 2014, when Apple had its U2 album debacle. I used the removal tool, but it failed for one song: "Raised By Wolves". To this day it echoes horribly in my head, as when I went to s
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by jfktrey 9y ago
It seems that any words with a curse in the middle automatically get ~41% toxic. Scunthorpe must be a toxic place.
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by jfktrey 9y ago
It almost seems impossible to use the internet for even a day without having some usage information leaked to Google.
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by jfktrey 9y ago
What was the first?
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by jfktrey 9y ago
To be fair, there were references in the actual document (which were omitted from the Gizmodo reproduction)
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by jfktrey 9y ago
Watching Ben's inspired me to finish my Brainfuck-based CPU designed a few years ago: https://hackaday.io/project/4237-mental-1-a-brainfuck-cpu Right now it has PS/2 keyboard input, and a 40x2 character displ
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by jfktrey 9y ago
Works just as well in Java. I'll have to slip this in to my next code review :)
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by jfktrey 9y ago
Yep! Right where Pike runs into 1st Ave.
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by jfktrey 9y ago
node-opencv + johnny-five = profit?
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by jfktrey 9y ago
That was fast

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