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by porkbrain 8mo ago
He quotes Václav Havel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless
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by porkbrain 9mo ago
Unfortunately, some apps don't support text selection and on some websites the text selection is unpredictable. I'd actually compare screen OCR to screenshots. Instead of every app and every website implementing their own screensh
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by porkbrain 9mo ago
Fair point, it does not on my device
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by porkbrain 9mo ago
Text selection used to be frustrating on mobile for me too until Google fixed it with OCR. I get to just hold a button briefly and then can immediately select an area of the screen to scan text from, with a consistent UX. Like a screenshot
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Colonial spider community sustained by chemoautotrophy(subtbiol.pensoft.net)
3 points by porkbrain 10mo ago|0 comments
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by porkbrain 11mo ago
Used for example to write GTA SAMP modes. I remember writing them in Pawno IDE. The scripts would get large as I'd export positions of many objects and paste them into the scripts to spawn in game. Makes for an okey "how I started
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by porkbrain 11mo ago
Exactly. In my region there are multiple tournaments a month (in season) where players from no ELO to 2300 play. Swiss system means you're going to be paired up/down. I'm ~1900 which means first two rounds are typically begin
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by porkbrain 11mo ago
I've promoted to rook several times in over-the-board tournaments. It's easier and quieter than stopping the clock and searching for a free queen piece if your position is decisive and your opponent stubborn. Or your piece to be c
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by porkbrain 1y ago
If you stacked them they would be about fifty thousand Popocatépetls high, give or take a few zeroes. UPDATE: as sibling pointed out indirectly, it's eight thousand Popocatépetls [0]. [0]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/i
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by porkbrain 1y ago
I imagine they would counterargument your proposal along the lines of: "the most endangered children cannot rely on their families to protect them online"
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by porkbrain 1y ago
No, according to Wikipedia Planet Nine is expected to have about 5 earth masses.
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by porkbrain 1y ago
You can cascade the deletes in db layer rather than in app layer
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Ask HN: What engineering trivia earned you the most cred
5 points by porkbrain 1y ago|4 comments
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by porkbrain 1y ago
1. Have a global append-only function key-value store. 2. A key of a function is something like `keccak256(function's signature + docstring)` 3. A value is a list of the function's implementation (index being the implementation&#x
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by porkbrain 2y ago
He was also into cryptography: https://www.cs.trincoll.edu/~crypto/historical/poe.html
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by porkbrain 2y ago
But the space of their effects on the Blockchain state is vast. You need software to translate those effects to a form human can interpret as "what I want"/"not what I want". Ie. engineering work needs to happen in
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by porkbrain 2y ago
Viewed through the lens of personal development I suppose one could make an argument that there wasn't much difference between rediscovering an existing valid or invalid solution. Both lead to internalisation of a domain's constra
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by porkbrain 2y ago
on average the "cleverer" ones get the degrees easier, hence there's a higher chance to pick a "cleverer" candidate if selecting by this criterion than when selecting at random
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by porkbrain 2y ago
Many reasons are already mentioned in other comments. I'd add the following nice-to-have. Sometimes you'd find it easier/preferable to run some scripts with some other shell. You can set the shell for some commands, for examp
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by porkbrain 2y ago
While I did not visit to the conference, I did attend the workshop the blogpost author mentioned. It was an excuse for a train trip to beautiful Vienna. Also, I met Jon Gjengset for whom I hold a lot of respect, especially his ability to th
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by porkbrain 2y ago
Equating cheaters to energy vampires is great comedy, I'm stealing that. I'd love to see Colin Robinson play CS 1.6 with wallhack in his basement.
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by porkbrain 2y ago
Looks fantastic indeed. I tried running it on Steam deck but I wouldn't call it supported. The default layout configuration is not working, only touchscreen.
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by porkbrain 3y ago
As for promotion: in a valid chess position you could promote a single pawn at three files simultaneously. One by moving forward and then left and right capture. Additionally, you could have two pawns promoting on the same square, again wit
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by porkbrain 3y ago
I'd like to see something like [dep-tree]( https://github.com/gabotechs/dep-tree ) 's visualization augmented with a keyword or LLM vector search. Your query would highlight relevant files and clusters.
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by porkbrain 3y ago
Your ego should slightly overshoot your ability.
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by porkbrain 3y ago
If you're staring a Rust project then make sure to check that your SQLite dependency supports txs. Without txs, inserts can take a ~15ms. The `rusqlite` crate supports txs, with `sqlite` I didn't find an ergonomic solution.
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by porkbrain 3y ago
A related discussion about number types: The Great Debate @ARITH23: John Gustafson and William Kahan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZAeZBVAzVw Kahan points out disadvantages of interval maths.
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by porkbrain 3y ago
Perhaps this is going to be the first step in Italy becoming real world Anathem. Jokes aside, I understand the fear of your own language erroding in front of you. I see how this plays into the sentiment of "these goddamn young people,
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by porkbrain 4y ago
> That's a nice watch you got there, want me to turn it into a webserver? https://youtube.com/watch?v=lE4UXdJSJM4
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by porkbrain 4y ago
Seems like a well sourced video. Here are some notes of what's discussed: - The factories are not joint ventures, they are fully owned by Taiwan. - Build-outs in US are not going to be the most cutting edge technology. - TSMC has ~$36b

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