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It's worse than that though -- the things that you are born enjoying, are loud oceanic white-noises and a deep thumping backbeat with occasional muddied high-pitched vocals. I had …

You are correct that the reference is a little obscure -- if my memory serves it's Plato's Phaedrus . Plato argues, in a book, in the voice of his mentor Socrates, that books will …

I mean people do make a living doing it, but my understanding is that it requires a lot of hustle—as a hobbyist you can just take your time and meditate and take a million pictures…

We must be very clear that this is very light rephrasing. Just to put it side-by-side in a form that will absolutely not work on mobile but might work if you're on desktop, here's …

It's worth pointing out that his M.O. was apparently to sometimes tweak the beginning of a sentence and then word-for-word copy some chunk from this source, some from that source, …

If you're a type purist then undefined looks nicer... It'd be like being upset at booleans because things get coerced to them or some 'ish. No: it's the type that has one inhabitan…

Yeah so all of personal computing—text editing, SVG antialiasing, etc, fits in 20,000 LOC (VPRI's STEPS project) so a million lines of code is 50 reïnventions of personal computing…

Back when people would read blog posts about the erosion of ownership in the face of intellectual property law, I used to blog about something similar... Of course the MPAA is agai…

The thing that Rovelli is arguing against (well -- not really arguing -- more, "stubbornly sticking his head in the sand" against) is not really a position that is held by a bunch …

It feels like half the problem in this blog post is dealing with memory access issues induced by QEMU and the VM boundary... it's probably something dumb I'm missing, but if you bo…

That's like 10% of the reason why people would commit CLAUDE.md… The number one reason is, you are on a 10-dev tea and it just doesn't make sense for everyone to waste their token …

Well that's where I thought this link was going to go before it went down the simd path... We have a way to beat binary search, it is called b-trees, it has the same basic insight …

This is simply false -- the literature is full of discussion about the health effects of social media. More generally you're committing I believe two separate fallacies of ambiguit…

Probably. But, the time when the laptop is taped off would be uniquely a good time to hit it with some polyurethane or something clear to protect it from that sort of damage? Just …

> That's not what's happening here. No, it is, the comment you're replying to is correct in what it said to you. > The Privacy settings applies only to access to the Documents fold…

So the advice here is (from my understanding, not a tax lawyer) sound, but it is "unsound-adjacent" -- so a lot of people will start from this basic understanding and then go off i…

This is just the weirdest thread. Like, the whole point of open source is that this thread is not a thing. The whole point is "if this software is taken on by a malevolent dictator…

That's unintentionally hilarious -- some of us remember 15-20 years ago when flaky support for wireless devices was the biggest reason people would decide Linux wasn't ready for de…

FWIW I like to explain it to folks like this: ignore all of your moral baggage around licensing and just focus on the fact that licensing is a legal tool of art that pretty much on…

Hopefully this does well just the way it is, but you might also want to tag the title with "Show HN:" next time? It gets you featured on a separate part of Hacker News that some of…

With a slide rule you can start from 92200 or so, long division with 9.22 gives 9.31 or so, next guess 9.265 is almost on point, where long division says that's off by 39.6 so the …

Why. Why would you want this. The only framework we have figured out in which LLMs can build anything of use, requires LLMs to build a robot and then we expose the robot to the rea…

That's only sort of true. The metagame within 1kbwc is that at the end of play people generally vote on which new cards to keep for seeding the next game, and which to discard. So …

pro tip: no longer necessary { let count = 50; const interval = setInterval(() => { addSnakeNode(); if (--count

I'm not entirely sure what algebraic property you would prove with this, but you probably could prove something about it. The issue is that they have repeating continued fraction r…