mmcnickle

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by mmcnickle 5mo ago
> Fact of the matter is they’d like to personally profit off the same nonsense they complain about. Benn Jordan's YouTube channel is a registered Nonprofit https://www.patreon.com/posts/nonprofit-has-82858569
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by mmcnickle 2y ago
Linus once quipped "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."
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by mmcnickle 2y ago
One thing I'm not clear on when watching his videos is whether what he's describing is an established scientific interpretation, or his own thoughts as someone who has extensive knowledge on optical engineering (vs theory). Very e
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by mmcnickle 2y ago
If you want to avoid this kind of cheating, you need to approach the test as if it were proctored. Communicate the expectations up front: you'll be required to screenshare, have mic and camera on at all times, what resources they'
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by mmcnickle 3y ago
The same reason int(-1.999) is -1; The operation is different to integer division. I think of it as taking the "integer" part of the float.
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by mmcnickle 3y ago
Another vote for my Casio FX82. Ease and speed of use are why I prefer it to any calc apps. Though I'll admit that I have a bias towards physical, single purpose devices. I use a physical (digital) timer in the kitchen, and a physical
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by mmcnickle 3y ago
> It helps that refrigeration has always sort of blown my mind, so this was an interesting topic as well. Same! It's been in the front of mind because I've recently been watching Hyperspace Pirate's videos on building a DI
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by mmcnickle 3y ago
I like that idea of having it probe the reasoning as much as the content, I'll definitely add that to the mix next time I try this.
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by mmcnickle 3y ago
I was intrigued by this idea and decided to give it a go on a subject I have only cursory knowledge of. The conversation is here ( https://chat.openai.com/share/50fe7120-a4eb-4c01-80bc-43d8f7... ) You're correct tha
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by mmcnickle 3y ago
The linked security blog post[1] has a lot more of the technical details and can clear up some of the questions/confusion that people have added in the comments. [1] https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/so-l
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by mmcnickle 12y ago
The sky crane solves a very particular set of problems with landing a (relatively) small, functional rover on Mars. It's not really a general solution to returning a large payload intact to Earth.
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by mmcnickle 12y ago
I think this is the version they were referring to: http://evancz.github.io/elm-todomvc/
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by mmcnickle 12y ago
I imagine they're actually alluding to a Bannerman, the standard bearer in an army.
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by mmcnickle 12y ago
Neat tip: You can just do: meta = r.json() and avoid the json import.
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by mmcnickle 12y ago
It's a manual process, so can take a while.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Completely agree. I'm surprised that, especially on HN, the large number of people who won't apply Occam's Razer to the situation. I imagine that most air accident investigations begin like this; confused, competing informati
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
The developer addresses this in his post-mortem thread. It a fascinating read, starts about half way down. http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=29750.645
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Ross Anderson sums this up nicely in "Security Engineering": "I write ‘identity theft’ in quotes as it’s a propaganda term for the old-fashioned offence of impersonation. In the old days, if someone went to a bank, pretended
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
The user will enter their password on the provider's site via the phone browser. It relies on the user's trust of the system browser.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Not quite. The namedtuple will not have a per-instance attribute dictionary, so there is a significant memery saving when creating loads of them.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Attribute access of namedtuples aren't any quicker as you've surmised, it requires a hash lookup and an index lookup. Index lookup is as quick as normal tuple index lookups. The main reasons I reach for namedtuples is memory effic
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7189334
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Python 3.4 will have a pip installer bundled with it, which removes the easy_install pip farce.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
I'd actually prefer a linux version of the Unity WebPlayer before the editor.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
No, the output in the box is from the web console, which uses the GET-style URL as a concise way of showing POST requests.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
From the article: > Stripe POSTs at a /tokens API endpoint over https, which means everything is encrypted including the query params
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
And I would disagree. I think you're underestimating the time and effort required for a complete beginner to produce version 1 of any non-trivial product. As a developer what I'd be looking for before coming onboard is a) a clear
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VeloCityLight - The Intelligent Speedometer Bike Light(kickstarter.com)
2 points by mmcnickle 13y ago|0 comments
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
The people behind the reactive manifesto are typesafe.com Unsurprisingly, they have products to sell that are manifesto-compliant.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
So to clarify, you see WAIT as a replication primative. It can be used as part of a larger scheme with a strong coordinator to provide strong consistency.

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