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You can already do that with OpenCharacters at https://josephrocca.github.io/OpenCharacters/ . You just need to set up an API key with OpenAI, and you can customize hidden prompts …

That's an interesting point. I would point out another problem with this article based on my own experience living in metro Atlanta since 2001: many people, especially those moving…

That's decidedly not what the article claims. It claims that there are people who live in the suburbs but would prefer not to, and provides evidence to support that claim. The same…

I've been thinking along the same lines for the last few years. If you did this, you could have a multi-user operating system in a single address space and avoid the cost of interr…

Why not define debug-req and debug-auth as atoms before this function, and set them with (reset! debug-req req) etc.?

The article points out that the phone-home domains this ransomware uses were generated by keyboard-mashing. Can we tell what keyboard layout was used?

I've had plenty of batteries swell, and none catch fire before I got them replaced, so I have to think it could help. In my experience Apple is not consistently good about dealing …

In case you're not joking, MINIX is much smaller than 100KLOCs.

But one of the most important features of Clojure is that it's hosted on mature, decidedly non-Lisp platforms with plenty of well-maintained libraries, and it has clean, concise in…

pascal_cuoq is correct. Here's an excellent introduction to the subject: http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

You are vastly overestimating how happy millions of dollars will make you. Google around a little and you might actually put a negative number on it. If you get the numbers right, …

That's a reasonable question. It's a shame this comment gets downvoted instead of the various people falling all over themselves to show off how smart they are by posting incorrect…

That's a design goal for cryptographic hash functions, which these are not.

It's "just" a business district within London, leaving aside a couple of millennia of history. London comprises the City and 32 boroughs, somewhat similarly to the way New York is …

What does it mean to say that "the 1/2-inch chuck/collet/whatever is really machined to 12.7mm"? 0.5 inches is exactly 12.7 mm, so what else would it be machined to?

This is the illustration I see (I think it might be European): http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64639000/jpg/_64639977... This is what very nearly every power outlet in the U.…

Compared to the last time Google switched mapping databases, which I think was about three years ago, Apple Maps (for my town at least) has been remarkably accurate. For several mo…

I would suggest the following mental exercise the next time you want to make a comment on HN: Imagine you are at a dinner party at Paul Graham's house. He's there, obviously, along…

This is hardly a JavaScript quirk. In Clojure: hackclj.core=> Double/NaN NaN hackclj.core=> (== Double/NaN Double/NaN) false hackclj.core=> (= Double/NaN Double/NaN) false hackclj.…

send should never be used in a function that will not keep the CPU busy, such as one that calls Thread/sleep. send-off, which will allocate a new thread rather than taking up a slo…

Probably a lot of people hitting the up arrow to save the link to try out this evening. I plead guilty to doing that. I wish I'd read the comments first.

Ah, but PC Magazine has "9 things you need to know" about it, which includes an incorrect explanation of what a nanometer is. I think it's in a sidebar next to their "38 makeup tip…

Pick as many active users whose judgment you trust as you can find, train a Bayesian classifier on their votes, up and down, and use that to score the voting patterns of users. Set…

This is a vastly different issue from subprime home loans. The key difference is that depreciation of cars is reasonably predictable; car prices are not typically subject to specul…