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> you can never have the following contiguous string: WORDSAMPLE This kind of situation actually does occur, and you can then use the knowledge that the solution is unique to concl…

https://iographica.com/ is a similar application that makes prettier pictures. (Anti-aliased rendering, more sophisticated visualisation that maps ‘mouse stops‘ of different length…

I don't know about “McKinsey infiltration into many a large F100+” first-hand, but from context I'd guess it's simply getting consultants from McKinsey & Company[0] jobs in the ‘in…

Currently hugged, cache: https://web.archive.org/web/20220402000658/https://elektroni...

That's all correct. While researching, I potentially found another mistake: Not sure if others see it the same way, but to me, ‘Aldi brand groceries‘ means that the brand of those …

Depending on which style of literate programming you're going for, Sphinx[0] might be a good starting point. There are extensions that can fulfill a lot of requirements; for exampl…

2019. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871207

Aha, that's a good point! It was silly of me to assume that if any cheap dongle works, that should mean ‘proper’ interfaces would work at least as well. However, it seems like that…

> looked at it recently and was appalled at the amount of clicking required IMHO that's actually not a big deal. From a comment I made in 2020 [0]: > That's what I was concerned ab…

Interesting; can you or someone please elaborate? I thought that device-specific drivers wouldn't be needed for the vast majority of audio interfaces, because they're connected via…

Release notes: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3100/ In terms of language features, the stand-out highlight is structural pattern matching; see https://www.python.o…

The latter — each edge is parallel to one of three coordinate axes (X, Y, Z), which forces angles between different edges and surfaces to be multiples of 90 degrees. They don't nee…

> And two people outside shut the doors simultaneously No, they don't. I'd phrase it differently, e.g. “each door is shut for an instant when the end of the pole is just inside the…

> If there is no difference between reality and a simulation That's the crux, I guess. There's this ‘Matrix’ idea that the universe might be a simulation, but here we have a much w…

I'm going to criticise one particular aspect of this comment, but overall I find it very interesting because it generates so many fascinating questions, some of which follow: > The…

I agree with everything, except that this is something that can be polished into sth. usable. After trying Bonsai, I think it's a promising proof of concept that demonstrates what …

Those 2015/2016 numbers are tiny! I guess a lot of that is no longer representative; e.g. Iran having more downloads than China. Wikipedia has more up-to-date stats about total dow…

They could be (and even seem) much more self-evident (and valuable as a tl;dr) if they were one-sentence summaries instead of a copy-paste of a paragraph from the beginning of the …

Is anyone here familiar with Matomo? I noticed the linked page attempts to run it before seeing it mentioned, because Ghostery blocked it. It's a “Free software alternative to Goog…