talyian

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by talyian 8mo ago
It makes you a paradoxer if you stopped after the step of finding the consequence that feels absurd.
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by talyian 7y ago
It's true that Trader Joe's in Manhattan are jammed with lines going out the door and shopping there is mayhem regardless of whether there's an ongoing pandemic.
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by talyian 8y ago
In Go, there's a lot of common terminology reflecting the concept of "evaluate your own move independently of your opponent's move", from direct terms like "tenuki" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by talyian 8y ago
Plants can be weirdly resilient to smashing -- various bits of plant fragments can decide to grow new roots.
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by talyian 9y ago
the requirements are easy to meet - you just need to be able to time operations at a suitable precision. The exploits are possible in Javascript running in a browser.
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by talyian 9y ago
Fair enough. In this case, "Road Neutrality" protects the consumer's access to a restaurant or bank. However, in reality there are civil rights laws that in turn forbid those restaurants and banks from refusing service to cus
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by talyian 9y ago
If only Net Neutrality went both ways...
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by talyian 9y ago
There's this great book on a similar topic, "The Origin of Species," if you're interested in the phenomenon.
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by talyian 9y ago
Sadly, the machines I don't want people running commands on happen to be also the machines I don't want to rm -rf everything on as well.
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by talyian 9y ago
If it makes you feel any better, silk is still the preferred standard for smoothness, and even baby bottoms are slightly more smooth than butter: https://trends.google.la/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=s... htt
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by talyian 9y ago
I wasn't convinced about the value of Paul Graham's recent "General idea, small delta" essay until I noticed how easily you can just use those 4 words to justify these things. Even the obviously laughable stories like Ju
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by talyian 9y ago
Learning math isn't "really, really hard", but it is unforgiving in a particular kind of way: you're basically required to internalize a concept fully before going on to later concepts. (This is coming from being mostly
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by talyian 9y ago
You comply if you think the request is reasonable and lawful, otherwise you don't. Maybe you get your nose broken and United allegedly pays you $140 million in damages. Maybe the incident causes all warrantless police offices to be ban
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by talyian 9y ago
Compared to say Python, it does act a bit like importing free functions without explicitly naming them, but you do get the bonus of type-based dispatch and overloading. using System.Linq; foo.Select(x => bar); from itertoo
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by talyian 9y ago
The value of a high-throughput network interconnect slot from your peers is tied to the current value of all the cryptocurrencies the DHT routes, not just the cost of running the server and the physical links.
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by talyian 9y ago
My apologies for the machina ex machina. I needed a clean end to the post and got lazy.
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by talyian 9y ago
The year is 2050. You are reading this comment from a compatibility layer in your open-source browser that translates HTML from the 2010s into Thought-Interface Language 3.2, which was an open standard ratified in 2045 by a global consortiu
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by talyian 9y ago
The first class IDE for F# is VS Code + Ionide. The language service backend for F# is also very well supported for emacs.
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by talyian 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idem
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by talyian 9y ago
http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-2015-reading-list/ http://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-winter-reading-list/
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by talyian 9y ago
> can I use this for 'real life' code as part of an existing C# desktop application .. without tons of hassle Yes. Your standard OOP features like inheriting from C# classes, implementing interfaces, etc are supported natively
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by talyian 9y ago
In some competitive games like Dota and LoL, the random distribution for critical hits is weighted so that it ramps up over time, resetting after a successful crit. ( http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Random_distribution ) This bot
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by talyian 10y ago
This kind of 3D is a lot more accessible (via Tilt Brush) than mesh-based 3D.