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by wdrw 4d ago
As a person who always eats the whole apple, stem and all (have done so for years), I'll object to your "apple seeds do not taste good" statement - tastes differ, to me they are delicious, certainly on par with other "no
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by wdrw 3mo ago
I would not be at all comfortable, with a human server, making them wait while changing my selection multiple times (no I want it with the ginger sauce... no, without... no actually the sesame sauce... no actually I don't even want tha
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by wdrw 3mo ago
I always found this particular Recurse Center rule strange. I understand how not feigning surprise can be a good rule, as in you should not pretend to be surprised when you genuinely aren't. (e.g. a web front-end dev saying "I d
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by wdrw 5mo ago
At least in North America (and the author seems to be from Canada), having a company give you any sabbatical at all is pretty rare, and 6+ months is pure fantasy:) And not everyone likes travel, the post actually explains his reasoning pret
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by wdrw 6mo ago
I understand there may be an emotional desire to get rid of something unpleasant, but some descendants e.g. 5 generations down the line may feel very differently about this. Given how easy scanning is these days (there are literally compani
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by wdrw 7mo ago
If it's for 95% if students who aren't interested in being scientists, then it shouldn't be an extracurricular science fair, but a part (maybe a big part) of the regular curriculum in science class. Science fairs are for the
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by wdrw 8mo ago
Dependence on a secure client is generally a bad idea. Security should be server-side.
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by wdrw 10mo ago
This gives a pretty good explanation, although there is a slight difference from the translation in the original post: https://chatgpt.com/share/69136c44-94b0-8000-a564-ce55f92a14... Use it together with this: https:&
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by wdrw 1y ago
In Canada there's MyDoh, which is specifically a debit card you can give to kids including in that age range. One of the major Canadian banks runs this. Can only imagine that it's more advanced in Sweden.
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by wdrw 1y ago
I was trying to submit some feedback using your "Feedback" button on the top right, but got an error when trying to submit it :( Anyway, the model used doesn't seem to be very good, it did not understand a basic "OR&quot
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by wdrw 1y ago
There is a surprising amount of detailed childhood memories you may be able to retrieve by making a prolonged, conscious effort. I would guess that many people who say they don't have very many childhood memories have never taken e.g.
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by wdrw 2y ago
https://cerebras.ai/press-release/meet-jais-the-worlds-most-...
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by wdrw 2y ago
But in scenario (B) you're spending money in Japan, basically you're directly injecting US money (your US salary) into the Japanese economy. Don't see why it's "amazing" for the US and not for Japan.
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by wdrw 2y ago
This makes no sense... consider these scenarios: A) You work for a US company, earn money from the US company, pay income taxes in the US, live and spend money (and thus sales taxes) in the US B) You work for a US company, earn money from t
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by wdrw 2y ago
Oh, I built something like this as a hobby project a few years ago! Still online (with a now-expired cert...), but very likely to go down with even a bit of usage : ) Still, here it is: https://fasterbadger.com
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by wdrw 3y ago
I remember actually looking forward to new OS versions as a teenager. DOS 6.00 was genuinely exciting! What a contrast to the forced updates of today.
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by wdrw 3y ago
Hindenburg jokes aside, how do you ensure safety? Even if you only inspect infrastructure away from human habitation, there's still the risk of forest fires and such if there is an accident.
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by wdrw 3y ago
For me, the intuitive way of understanding it is, "how badly would a gambler lose in the long term, if they keep betting on a game believing the probability distribution is X but it is in actual fact Y". It also explains why KL di
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The Gravity of Glacial Melt(harvardmagazine.com)
3 points by wdrw 3y ago|0 comments
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by wdrw 3y ago
It's great at log pocessing (generating commands for awk, sed, complex grep regexps, shell scripts to combine it all). Anything where I'm not an expert but need something very basic done quickly (e.g. the bulk of my day job is in
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Ask HN: Reputable Domain Marketplace?
4 points by wdrw 4y ago|3 comments
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Brinicle(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by wdrw 4y ago|0 comments
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by wdrw 4y ago
The Mosh SSH client for intermittent connectivity ( https://mosh.org/ ) has definitely saved me at least 100 hours. Too bad that it's only available for Windows as a Chrome extension, and Chrome will discontinue suppor
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Andromeda, a 13.5M Core AI Supercomputer(tomshardware.com)
2 points by wdrw 4y ago|0 comments
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by wdrw 4y ago
I disagree that "supporting the manager's career" is necessarily at odds with creativity. Once you reach a certain level of knowledge in a workplace (problem domain knowledge, codebase knowledge, etc), different options appea
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by wdrw 4y ago
In my ~20-year career I have never once been in a workplace setting where creativity wasn't valued. This is especially true of "technological creativity" (finding a new way of solving a complex technical problem, or better ye
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by wdrw 4y ago
The parallel port was wonderfully hackable. Having your PC control an LED light, or even a motor (with some effort), didn't take a whole lot of electronics knowledge. Or 8 LEDs, one per pin. And controlling it was as easy as sending te
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by wdrw 5y ago
Interesting, the image seems to contain characters from a Russian childrens' cartoon ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikoriki )
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by wdrw 6y ago
A must-read on translation is Le Ton beau de Marot by Douglas Hofstadter
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by wdrw 6y ago
But how do you get new loyal readers, if not by repeatedly proving your value to new occasional readers?

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