nmyk

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by nmyk 5y ago
Just to add some color to your comment as I think the idea that philosophy can be therapeutic is counterintuitive for a lot of people: consider the loneliness of depression, a big part of which (at least for me) is the seemingly insolvable
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by nmyk 5y ago
It seems more likely to me that it's not a misspelling of "monjita" but rather just a naive application of the Spanish -ito/-ita diminutive suffix to "Mongo".
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by nmyk 6y ago
This is great! I recently built a similar thing because I wanted to learn more about WebRTC. Fun to see someone else's take. https://tmpch.at
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by nmyk 6y ago
The US will suffer if its international students can't get an education here without being told by the government to pack up and head for their favorite Caribbean island because we don't value their desire to contribute to our soc
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by nmyk 6y ago
> This mentality leads to systems that are a mess of callbacks, don't scale, and practically impossible to maintain. Why would it? I can put the same types of abstractions into my application layer in the form of a common library. O
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by nmyk 6y ago
Sure! To start, just fundamentally—why assume workflows are DAG-shaped? Why no cycles? Lots of real-world processes contain unscheduled repetition that arises at "runtime." Or what if I can only find out what the rest of the workf
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by nmyk 6y ago
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say any purported workflow tool that comes with a data model you have to memorize (i.e. "Before we start building a workflow, let’s learn a little about the components of an SWF") is too complex
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by nmyk 6y ago
Dunno if it was you or someone else who clicked your link but it was nice chatting with a couple folks just now :)
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by nmyk 6y ago
Source for the curious: server https://github.com/nmyk/nmyk.io/blob/master/pkg/tmpchat.go client https://github.com/nmyk/nmyk.io/blob/master/web/assets/
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Show HN: Tmpchat – minimal text chat over WebRTC(tmpch.at)
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by nmyk 6y ago
By "issues" I mean software defects.
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by nmyk 6y ago
Fair enough. I would say if the way someone uses the Go "enum pattern" is causing them to have issues with type safety then their code could probably use a refactor, but the point does stand.
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by nmyk 6y ago
FWIW, there's a slightly more concise way of expressing this in Go: type state int const ( on state = iota off )
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by nmyk 6y ago
A somewhat related idea: the discovery that light is an electromagnetic wave falls right out of Maxwell's equations in a vacuum. Simply rearranging terms yields two wave equations in 3D - one for the electric field, and one for magneti
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by nmyk 6y ago
Yeah this is where it would have helped if I had discussed what I meant by "new". AlphaGo is a supervised learner that outputs optimal Go moves given opposing play. It yields new discoveries in the same sense that a model designed
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by nmyk 6y ago
Yep, you and the user you're replying to are both right in different ways. One thing's for sure - machines don't generate "insights" on their own. Let's define an "insight" as "new meaningful kno
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by nmyk 6y ago
Reminds me of a quote from Picasso: "When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine." I can appreciate the type of concept
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by nmyk 6y ago
Welcome to NeverPivot.mvp! We're thrilled you decided to take the next step in your career as a NeverPivoter. Your job is to add features to the product, period. More features, better job title. That's all we can afford to do for
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by nmyk 6y ago
This is what I like to do. In my case, even the CI/CD host is just a systemd service I wrote. The service just runs a script that uses netcat to listen on a special port that I also configured GitHub to send webhooks to, and processes
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by nmyk 6y ago
Wait a minute, I thought software was the one emulating grunt worker functionality this whole time!
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by nmyk 6y ago
There are parts of SQL that are crufty by that definition. For example, COMMIT; and COMMIT WORK; are two different statements that do the exact same thing according to the SQL standard. Perhaps trivial cruft but cruft nonetheless.
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by nmyk 6y ago
Just saw this again - I listened to that track and really enjoyed it! I typically go for softer, more melodic stuff, but there is still a teenage metalhead in me that really digs this.
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by nmyk 6y ago
Minimal techno had a big moment in EDM circles in the '00s as the bombastic productions of the '90s started to be seen as cheesy and overcooked. See for example: https://youtu.be/daSid6Lh9Vs
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by nmyk 7y ago
484 is a perfect square. (22×22) Edit: I see you've updated your comment geocar.
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by nmyk 7y ago
> Believe it or not, there was once a day when Quik just made great boardshorts, O’Neill made great wetsuits, Oakley made the sunnies, etc. Soon, however, it seemed like all brands were in literally every category, unfortunately, not alw
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by nmyk 7y ago
> I decided to pack up and go, and left the USA on 11/15/2010, intending to retire at 56, play my guitars, read my physics library, live my life in very strange language and relax. This is someone who prefers solitude. It'
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by nmyk 8y ago
Interesting. There's another documented usage of the word 'greeble' to mean the little rolled up bits that tend to form when you overuse a facial tissue: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive
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by nmyk 8y ago
Ah, thanks. I didn't know that was a common term.
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by nmyk 8y ago
Richard Turner, self-styled card mechanic, can count and manipulate cards with unbelievable precision by feel alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwFIJyWKs1k He also happens to be blind.
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by nmyk 8y ago
I think they mean that the unedited, the stream-of-consciousness style you're employing, while "honest" in that you give the reader the the full paper trail of where your conclusions are coming from, has a low signal-to-noise

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