jlarsen

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by jlarsen 2y ago
I've had exactly the same thought, after hitting walls repeatedly with limitations in single-language ecosystems. And likewise, I've had the same concerns around the complexity that comes with Bazel/Buck/Nix. It's b
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by jlarsen 7y ago
Not what I said. I said that, sub-dividing days is not really simpler with base 10, and that sub-dividing time is pretty important practical aspect of time-keeping.
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by jlarsen 7y ago
I do. I sleep 8 hours, wake up 2 hours before work, work 8 hours, and spend 6 hours in the evening afterwards. That's 1/3, 1/12, 1/3, and 1/4 of the day, or 3.33, 0.83, 3.33, 2.5 decimal hours. You have a good poi
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by jlarsen 7y ago
Fun little snippet of history =), but something that seems to get missed often in time-keeping is that 12, 24, and 60 are not accidental, they're used for a good reason - they're highly divisible numbers. 12 is divisible by 2, 3,
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by jlarsen 8y ago
I'd like to throw my two cents in here: strength training. I started having problems with RSI about five years ago, and I tried and failed to get relief from quite a few different things, including the Mindbody Prescription, but what u
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by jlarsen 9y ago
Good article! I find CPS rather refreshing to work with in JS; so much so, that I prefer using it for asynchronous code over promises or async/await. It turns out 'callback hell' isn't so hellish with a few simple conve
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by jlarsen 9y ago
If you want to get excited about UBI again , consider the opposite action: Take the US, and instead of giving everyone in the country 10,000 USD/year in UBI, take 10,000 USD away: add a new 10,000 USD/year flat tax. Do you still t
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by jlarsen 9y ago
Yes, its a living language. But, it makes everyone's life just a little bit harder when you try to co-opt a very old word, with a very clear definition, for your latest fiat currency. Don't be a dick to mathematicians around the
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by jlarsen 9y ago
You really ought to read the paper. 1. They do control for demographics. 2. They do account for temperature, by comparing geographically close cities with different activity inequality levels. 3. They do account for "cost". They
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by jlarsen 10y ago
Native install for me. I can't compare it with crouton, as I've never even really used ChromeOS. The first thing I did was replace it with Debian. I'm pretty happy with what I have now, though. Everything works out of the
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by jlarsen 10y ago
I've been using a Chromebook Pixel (64GB version) as my primary work machine since I received it in 2013, first running Debian and now Arch. You'd be surprised at how well it's held up: -It only has 4GB of RAM, but that'
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by jlarsen 11y ago
Hey, I used to work with their CTO! Hopefully he'll respond himself, but in case he doesn't: > (384-bit prime) - Why not just use X448 since that's now an Internet Standard? I believe they started working before X448 was
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by jlarsen 12y ago
I agree! There are quite a few provably insecure algorithms in the project. That said, I do think they are useful to keep around: As a reference, for legacy systems, or to practice cracking. It'd be a little silly to not add AES-256
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Show HN: The Lua Lockbox(github.com)
35 points by jlarsen 12y ago|7 comments
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Show HN: I'm Open-Sourcing My Book(github.com)
6 points by jlarsen 12y ago|0 comments