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Fang_

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About Fang_

building urbit. ~palfun-foslup

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    Comment #46161299

    Is there any reason besides merge commits ending up in history to not do this with merges instead? ie merge main into feature-1, then feature-1 into feature-2. Sounds like using --…

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    Comment #34267974

    Nice web ui aside, if I'm not mistaken youtube-dl already supports this kind of usage. You can `youtube-dl --download-archive archive.txt https://youtu.be/your-playlist ` and it'll…

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    Comment #32256733

    I appreciate the "just the current day" angle, but would gently remind about timezones. A 24-hour rotation isn't super friendly towards people who are online at the edges of that w…

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    Comment #28426312

    > Black to move, and in the final position, the pawn at h4 can be captured en-passant. > They're all legal. But then, looking at the final position[1], black is in check by the kni…

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    Comment #24324881

    10.12 reporting in. Wondering how hard it would be to backport this... I'm not too familiar with ~macdev.

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    Comment #23508855

    Been using a Gergo for well over a year now. I think I might own the first one that was made with the low-profile Kailh Choc switches. I can't imagine going back to anything else. …

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    Comment #23232714

    Not sure what nootropicat is on about. The language itself is not coupled to the PKI. The PKI ("azimuth") is implemented as a contract on Ethereum. The OS ("arvo"), implemented in …

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    Comment #23229106

    Having this on Urbit seems like a great way to start an Oekaki community.

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    Comment #21673250

    Urbit does not run on or via blockchain. Its PKI lives on a blockchain. Urbit itself doesn't care about how packets get from A to B. You run it on a machine you own. Social communi…

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    Comment #18705653

    > One of my leisure time pursuits is to find interesting old books on cavalry Woah, that sounds cool! Do you have anything publicly available?

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    Comment #17838009

    Future generations will have people named after this thing.

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    Comment #17579412

    But then what would be the point? Are we going back to old hunting tactics?

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    Comment #15304607

    Full disclaimer: I recently started working for Urbit, but have been involved in its community for about a year and a half now. It pains me to see people paint the project and its …

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    Comment #15304233

    The reference docs honestly aren't the best place to start when learning Hoon, as backwards as that may sound. I've found the tutorial docs[0] to be much more helpful when first ex…

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    Comment #15302147

    Hi, member of the Urbit team here! There was definitely a feeling of "holy shit they're doing our thing!" going around, but we can't be entirely sure if they got the idea from Urbi…

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    Comment #15302137

    > Would this violate the terms of service of a system like Facebook? Yep. As far as I'm aware they don't allow you to display Facebook content next to content of competing sites, l…

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    Comment #15267209

    Surely "sleeping barber" sounds like a much more attractive problem to work on than "sleeping dentist". The point of the analogy is to assign the described traits to the discussed …

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    Comment #14952030

    > women, whom he has decided are inherently incapable of working at Google. But that's not at all what he wrote?

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    Comment #13425297

    You can only search data if you can read it, so it needs to be unencrypted. With end-to-end, this means only the data you have locally, so you can only do local searches. In the Sl…

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    Comment #12985381

    Slightly related, there's Wikiwand: https://www.wikiwand.com/

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    Comment #12908934

    >Get out of your bubble. Would it be a stretch to say the "bubbling" that happens on the internet plays a role in causing these divides?

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    Comment #12876494

    >an AI that TEACHES the user to improve their play Wouldn't you be able to do mutual training that way? By mutating the AI's "strategy" only after losses, the player would continuo…

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    Comment #12659510

    >I still feel this ideal will eventually be realized Quick shoutout to Urbit here.

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    Comment #12551794

    As a student doing his graduation internship in a large corporation, I'm starting to see these things in real life. Is this going to be anywhere close to the norm? I'm starting to …