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Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007)(swtch.com)
3 points by malingo 1y ago|0 comments
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by malingo 1y ago
"when you ask him anything, he never answers 'no' -- he just yesses you to death and then he takes your dough"
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by malingo 2y ago
No "level set"?? Booo
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by malingo 2y ago
Miles Davis, 1953: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEfofdhwpc
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by malingo 2y ago
Just this morning when I couldn't sleep I was reading the Wikipedia E-M algorithm page with its illustration of clustering the bimodal eruption distribution of Old Faithful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectat
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by malingo 2y ago
I've always loved Penn Jilette's account of attending a space shuttle launch: https://web.archive.org/web/20221026023636/https://www.tumbl...
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by malingo 2y ago
> Decisions should be made by those with the best information. Sounds a lot like the Chevron Deference doctrine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820949
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by malingo 2y ago
Obligatory link to "The Really Big One" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
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by malingo 2y ago
Reminds me a little of hammock-driven development [1] > the background mind is good at synthesizing things. It's good about strategy [1] https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/H
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by malingo 2y ago
PSA tests are easy and cheap enough that any concerning single result should be followed up with several more to see if there's an increasing / accelerating trend. An elevated but flat trend could be BPH, and as others have mentio
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by malingo 2y ago
The story of Daniel killing the dragon with hair cakes is also pretty good: https://biblehub.com/catholic/daniel/14-26.htm
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by malingo 2y ago
Ha I did the same thing after that apple was on our fridge a few days. I wondered "how does it know which letter tile is inserted?" Looked at the back of a couple of the tiles, sure enough, binary. Good catch on the ASCII values!
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by malingo 2y ago
git diff-tree [1] is also super helpful. I've use it a lot to ensure the codebase after a complex rebase is in an identical state as before. [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff-tree
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On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV(museum.seiko.co.jp)
349 points by malingo 3y ago|259 comments
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by malingo 3y ago
"Sand is one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r...
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by malingo 3y ago
I had heard of this before.. >Sergey [Brin] wrote an app that lets you throw phone up in the air, measure how many seconds until you catch it or it hits the floor. https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/9/our-favo
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by malingo 3y ago
Still remember seeing the first episode of Æon Flux on late night MTV when I was 13. Good stuff
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AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video](youtube.com)
4 points by malingo 3y ago|0 comments
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by malingo 4y ago
Similar in spirit to the `until` loop.
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by malingo 4y ago
I think it's the certain markets that determine how useful CL is--I'm also in LA. I've mainly dealt in furniture & electronics, and CL in other cities, particularly Minneapolis, was a dream, so good in fact that I didn&#x
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by malingo 4y ago
Reliance on the federal government, by state: https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal...
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by malingo 4y ago
I agree. The same problem (different devs with different settings) is solved by specifying line endings in per-repo .gitattributes files instead of global autocrlf settings. And we all know how much confusion that causes.
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by malingo 4y ago
GMV | Senior Engineer | Los Angeles / Houston | Hybrid or Full Remote GMV Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) North America is a small group within GMV and a leading ITS provider across the US, serving public transit agencies, uni
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by malingo 4y ago
> I refused to believe Wordle would be so evil as to have two repeated letters. I remember VIVID which was pretty tough.
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by malingo 5y ago
Payphones are still a thing in northeast LA. It's incredible. Most have been vandalized or destroyed but many still work. See https://www.instagram.com/payphonesoflosangeles/
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by malingo 5y ago
Harmonization is the proper term. For a simple set of harmonization rules, check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-part_harmony Old hymnals are a wealth of examples. Take a listen to this guy's YouTube chan
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Physical activity and the evolution of extended human healthspans and lifespans(pnas.org)
1 points by malingo 5y ago|0 comments
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by malingo 5y ago
Along a trail in the southwest corner of the Angeles National Forest there's a piece of T-rail stuck in the ground [1]. A closer look reveals the words "Scranton steel" and "'78" [2]. Funny to go for a hike out
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Updated WHO global air quality guidelines(apps.who.int)
166 points by malingo 5y ago|53 comments
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by malingo 5y ago
If you're feeling listless...

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