wenderen

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by wenderen 3mo ago
Thanks, it looks like it's only visible if you're signed in. When signed out, only a few of the FAQs are shown.
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Solving Project Euler #2 in J(loriculus.org)
3 points by wenderen 3mo ago|2 comments
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by wenderen 4mo ago
From the about page ( https://specification.website/about/ ): > Not a framework. Not a guide. A spec — what is required, what is recommended, and what to avoid. It's hard to tell how much of the site is LLM slop,
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Chained Assignment in Python Bytecode(loriculus.org)
20 points by wenderen 7mo ago|17 comments
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by wenderen 10mo ago
Neat! I translated my code to Rust line-for-line and the iterator approach significantly outperforms it. Rust newbie q - why use `x.wrapping_sub()` instead of regular old `x - 1`? Seems like we're never going to underflow `usize` for a
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by wenderen 10mo ago
To help debug - which browser are you using and on which OS?
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Solving Project Euler: Problem 45(loriculus.org)
9 points by wenderen 10mo ago|11 comments
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by wenderen 10mo ago
This article is a specific case of a more general piece of advice: ask questions well (provide context like clickable links, trim down your query to the minimal reproducible case, pose high-precision questions, etc.).
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by wenderen 10mo ago
In addition to the feature being auto-on (for me, at least) and unasked-for, you also need to perform multiple clicks through non-obvious menus (I think one of them was "Audio track"?) to get to the original audio. Another layer o
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by wenderen 1y ago
> I scrolled back, thinking I had missed where they described that The explanation of that phrase is in... the very next three sentences.
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by wenderen 2y ago
Lawrence => Law => Lawson
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by wenderen 2y ago
Anecdote to support your comment: The Chinese Remainder Theorem has featured in Advent of Code at least twice IIRC. Not an algorithm the average programmer (average is a very fuzzy term, yeah) would know.
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by wenderen 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
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by wenderen 3y ago
(genuine question) Were their ads being placed next to pro-Nazi content at the same rate a few years ago?
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by wenderen 3y ago
I'm seeing multiple examples of it in this thread at the time of writing! It's baffling. Do they not know how humans brain generally work or are they just being willfully dishonest?
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by wenderen 3y ago
I'm no adtech expert but I suspect that potential customers would form mental associations between two things that often show up together, like pro-Nazi content and the ads I'm sponsoring, and I wouldn't want that.
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by wenderen 3y ago
> The contrary is almost certainly true: picking fights with well-selected made up enemies is an effective way to promote a brand that is based on virtue. I concur. Anecdotally, I see lots of content from TikTok creators replying to nega
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by wenderen 3y ago
Another cool solver for the same game https://www.michaelfogleman.com/projects/ricochet-robot/
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by wenderen 3y ago
Merlin's pretty at good at identifying mockingbirds by sound alone but once in a while it outputs a bird that's not even expected in your area. It rarely makes the reverse error (identifying the call of a non-mockingbird as the ca
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by wenderen 3y ago
Caution for folks learning about the Merlin app from this thread: it's good at identifying bird calls, especially in North America, where there's a lot of training data, but it's not conclusive and can sometimes lead you astr
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by wenderen 3y ago
Collecting some of the points other posters made: 1. Languages don't always neatly map to country borders. 2. Linguistically diverse / multi-ethnic countries can have multiple official languages, and some of those official languag
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by wenderen 4y ago
Would you happen to have a link to your solutions (Github, Gitlab, wherever)?
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by wenderen 4y ago
https://twitter.com/jdjkelly/status/1598143982630219776/phot... I went and checked out the Borges fable mentioned here: https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf Looks like the Cha
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by wenderen 4y ago
Love this satire. Especially the ominous but completely unhelpful "be very, very careful with this one."
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by wenderen 4y ago
Yeah. "Twitter reverts back to the algorithmic timeline after you're away for a while. You need to perform the above steps again to see the chronological timeline." source https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-use-t
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A stochastic method to generate the Sierpinski triangle(github.com)
110 points by wenderen 5y ago|62 comments
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by wenderen 6y ago
Same here. This was on the second load. On the first load, I just saw a blue screen. Seeing lots of 503 errors in the console.
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by wenderen 7y ago
Norwegian in this case.
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by wenderen 7y ago
I got bit by "How's it going / How are you?" when I first came to the USA. Turns out you're not actually supposed to answer with how you really are, and if you do so, they look at you like you've said something
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by wenderen 7y ago
Yep, I came here to update my comment. Thanks for replying!

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