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the star battle interface diverges from penpa, puzpre, and puzzleteam in a number of basic ways that actively make the solving experience worse imo: - having to switch between "sta…

i never really liked CDATA but i'm not buying the argument here since you can do the escaping with replaceAll("]]>", "]]]]> ") instead of four replaceAlls. (assuming you are writin…

trying to figure out if this is a joke about stack allocations

fun idea but "perfect pitch" is a little off the mark imo, as other people have mentioned. i think this sort of exercise would be good for training transcription skills and relativ…

apparently wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit just in case, like me, you had no idea what the heck it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

the author invented a definition of "flow" which is different from another common definition which roughly means "getting in the zone" and the result is dangerously clickbaity imo …

New performances might show up, maybe

I've heard good things about the new DOOM remake, which seems to be in that direction.

the importance of console verification is to make sure a TAS isn't relying on any emulator bugs (such as timing, uninitialized memory, etc) and would theoretically be possible on t…

I like using cumulative distributions because they make small changes in the data a little more obvious. e.g. if all the buckets are 10 but there's a section where they're 11, that…

I lucked into this pattern when I used ratpoison. Window 0 was always my terminal emulator (running tmux), window 1 was always Firefox. Additionally, tmux window 0 was always my IR…

or instead of relying on the domain name existing, look at the contents of the web page

I'm certainly no expert in motivation, and can't give you advice on your specific goals, but I personally find that reframing long term goals into short term goals can be a big sou…

I would add QuickSight to that list https://quicksight.aws/

to clarify: it's not the dam itself that's at risk of failure, but the emergency spillway. while this scenario would be catastrophic, it's far less catastrophic than the entire dam…

the way JS does closures, and the mandatory async nature of everything, leads to a world where you're working with functions a lot more than you would be in languages in the same f…

and ^I for tab, etc

Kafka, Samza, Databus, etc. LinkedIn is pretty capable when it comes to engineering. From what I've seen, most people's beef with LI tends to be product-related

Agreed. He has the following to say: >The easiest strategy in a case like this is usually to back in time: If the problem was caused by the unorthodox checkout-add-commit, then res…

Does it matter? If your email client doesn't understand enough of the markdown variant being used, then you should still be able to read the unrendered text. That's one of the grea…

it's obviously just a fun thought experiment. and we'd probably dust off the old PDP7s and stuff that are more suited to this kind of bootstrapping, instead of jumping straight to …

Apache Samza, also from LinkedIn, is built on Kafka and I think could be used to do something like this

this one was linked by ars elsewhere in the comments here. references the paper as well. very cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnn21smGVrQ

there are certain experimental results in quantum mechanics that only make sense if you accept things like superposition and entanglement. for example: https://www.youtube.com/watc…