kevhito

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by kevhito 6mo ago
Like freeways, it's not clear that increasing the baseline ram for basic laptops is an effective way to mitigate software bloat. Rather it likely creates bloat.
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by kevhito 1y ago
Ironic then that [0] (the first hit when I search "emacs org mode tutorial") says: You can make words *bold*, /italic/, _underlined_, =code= and ~verbatim~, and, if you must, +strike-through+. [0]: https:&#x2F
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by kevhito 2y ago
Me: tell me the current date please Chatgpt.com 4o: Today's date is March 11, 2025. Claud.ai 3.7 sonnet: The current date is Tuesday, March 11, 2025. gemini.google.com 2.0 flash: The current date is Tuesday, March 11, 2025. grok.com: T
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by kevhito 2y ago
I like the idea of users being able to pick their 3-hour window and timezone, and maybe only can change your window setting once per day (or maybe only pick a new window that starts at least 24 hours in the future). But crucially, each such
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by kevhito 2y ago
"This is completely wrong." Is it completely wrong? Or maybe "somewhat" wrong? Maybe just lacking nuance? I know nothing about the answer to this question, so this is an honest question. Using just a plain old search e
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by kevhito 2y ago
Maybe also need to show that there are no other naturals between 1 and 7? And also that numbers greater than 7 can't be a divisor of 7?
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by kevhito 4y ago
I have another fork that is still (mostly) maintained and used as well: https://github.com/kevinawalsh/logisim-evolution The REDS-HEIG version you link to has more development activity, support for a wider variety of F
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by kevhito 4y ago
What do you mean? All the inputs are continuous: light sensors, LIDAR, infra-red, inputs from mechanical sensors from the driver. Sure, the sensor package's hardware/firmware/software converts these to discrete inputs before
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by kevhito 4y ago
The paper specifically details several situations in which humans are the ones making the decision, and the result is the same. There is no bounded-time decision procedure that can take continuous (i.e. physical) inputs and render a discret
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by kevhito 4y ago
The missing piece of "just choose to always go left" is that this is a degenerate and uninteresting case. No decision is being made. The range must be discrete and at least 2 possible values. There is nothing about optimality at a
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by kevhito 5y ago
> Mandating vaccines (and now boosters) in young, healthy people who were already at small risk, including those who have already had the virus, is so absurd that I can't even characterize it as science. It is simply punitive behavi
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by kevhito 5y ago
Did you get the pattern wrong? From the screenshot, it really looks like the pattern is: close "x", then title, then icon, then a gap before the next tab. At least, that's what I thought it was, and now I'm not sure. Wit
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by kevhito 6y ago
> you can publish macOS software without paying $99 year. Can you point to straightforward apple instructions for doing so? I publish an open source project used in classrooms, mostly used by my own students but also others. Despite stro
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by kevhito 7y ago
And for those of us who do not trust these private, for-profit (and imo corrupt and predatory) companies with our financial data? What then? There is a reason Intuit does not want me to be able to give my tax forms directly to the governmen
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by kevhito 7y ago
I was just recently at a gender-inclusivity seminar. The speaker asked everyone in the room to give their name, but specifically asked for NOT everyone to state their [preferred?] pronouns. Why not? Apparently the speaker is currently in a
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by kevhito 7y ago
Instead of adding 3 bits, maybe they should have dropped 3 bits. A rollover every ~20 years is just asking for latent buts to blow up. A rollover every ~2.5 years is just business as usual. Go big or go small. Don't design things to br
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by kevhito 7y ago
> I became an Software Engineer and now live in a major city, thanks to the affirmative actions adopted by India... You mean from reservations in school / university admissions? Or does that even extend to private employment? Is the
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by kevhito 7y ago
I'm very confused by your comment, and I hope you can clarify. I'm familiar with the colonial/European origin of the "cast system", but having been to India a few times and studied/read a bit, saying that the w
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by kevhito 8y ago
What is the difference between "the server I meant to communicate with" and a "server ... with authority to communicate on behalf of my intended peer"? This seems like a distinction with no meaningful difference, outside
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by kevhito 8y ago
From wikipedia, it says "limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and less than sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. It may also be used when there is inadequate evidence of carcinogenicity in humans but
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by kevhito 8y ago
My preferred solution for the err handling stutter would be something like "whenever". func Foo(x int) (int, error) { var err error a, err := whatever() if err != nil { return 0, err } b, err := whatever() if err != nil
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by kevhito 8y ago
Being charitable, I think the parent wasn't saying it should be. But even in some fantasy ideal-government world, the budget is finite and zero-sum. By giving money to some fishing expedition with no clear expectation of any result, we
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by kevhito 8y ago
I like the part where you skipped right over "a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person" so you could quote "an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay". It's okay to be wrong. I dis
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by kevhito 8y ago
Well, I suppose you mean: with the only moving part being the water itself. A hydraulic ram can move water uphill easily without any external power, electricity, etc., using basically only simple valves. If I could build a hydraulic ram of
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by kevhito 8y ago
Can you give me a citation for your first quote (from George Ward). Although it seems to show up on a lot of self-described "climate skeptic" pages, I can't seem to find any legitimate source for it. It shows up in wikipedia
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by kevhito 8y ago
Digikey can be intimidating. The interface is kind of clunky, and for a beginner (like me!) it's overkill when you just want a couple of 10uF capacitors but get 60,000 hits for every variation of exotic capacitor ever made, and pricing
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by kevhito 8y ago
Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly I agree, $18k for insurance, or $24k, is an enormous burden for most Americans. I was just trying to point out that that the ACA price the parent was calling an outrageous seemed completely inline
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by kevhito 8y ago
I'm not totally clear on the different situations here. I thought the tax penalty was only about $3k for even fairly wealthy families (family of 4, $150k/yr salary). It sounds like you felt you couldn't afford ACA insurance (
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by kevhito 8y ago
$18,000 doesn't sound large, relative to the high prices we all pay. I have a good solid job, and my family plan is $24k per year. That's the most basic family plan my employer offers, but it isn't a high-deductible plan. Of
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by kevhito 8y ago
You don't trust "anti-gun people" so you therefore don't want to enact policies that you think will reduce gun violence? You seem to be saying you'd rather have more gun violence than work together with "anti-g

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