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It probably has more to do with the fact that formalizing chess in such a way wouldn't be particularly interesting. Chess is mostly studied because of its historical significance, …

I mean... is it not obvious that in a he said she said scenario like this they have to simply side with the buyer? I struggle to understand your mentality, assuming that you have n…

The first half of the article says "namespaces, cgroups, and seccomp aren't 'security boundaries' because if the kernel had a bug it could be used to escape from a sandbox". Then i…

If the successful people you meet in real life are nice and you see lots of meanness on the internet, it probably just means that anonymity causes meanness.

> We already know many useful things to do; there are already 10,000 startups (9789 out of YC alone, 4423 of which are coding-related) doing various ostensibly useful things. I don…

See also, for comparison: https://www.val.town/

Learning homological algebra is a long way away from learning about varieties and ideals in any sensible order in which to learn material. You have to do a lot of work in between i…

Why not read the source and decide for yourself? Here's a blog post linked in the article, as a start: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

> Well, dhh considers torrents outdated (I’m not kidding, check the tweet), so it’s only officially being offered as a single download from a Cloudflare server. Which sounds cool u…

Asahi is useless to me, and I would assume many others, without USB-C display support.

Don't you think that the vast majority of dangerous human drivers would be perfectly capable of changing their behavior during a driving test? Even without any malicious intent mos…

> targeted specifically high ticket items (jewelry, luxury) My immediate instinct upon reading this is "of course those businesses wouldn't be interested". They are selling a brand…

At least this is a topic that the average HN reader is likely to be able to understand and which is closely related to software. Several years ago there was a period where there we…

When something costs $1/year, the primary barrier isn't being able to afford it, but having a valid payment method. Depending on the requirements, it can be an issue if you don't h…

- Doesn't allow installing multiple versions of packages at the same time - In practice, requires being installed to /usr/local - Hard to uninstall in practice, leaves files scatte…

On the other hand, the F key has a bump on it on every keyboard I've recently come into contact with, which could provide an anchor.

I suppose with ESDF you have the two keys Q and W where otherwise only tab would be.

You could also just find a way to rebind caps lock, which would accomplish more or less the same thing.

> Another bought a laptop by taking out a stablecoin loan on a DeFi platform when no bank would lend to him. Could someone explain this to me — I thought that loans on cryptocurren…

That is almost certainly possible with github actions.

IMO symbolic math is Mathematica's strength and I wouldn't recommend it unless you are using it for that.

> If you use open source you are accepting the license that says that there is no liability. The article directly contradicts this: > What if an open source project is used directl…

- Truly open source, presumably without the caveats that VS Code has such as a few "features" (extensions) being closed source and the extension marketplace being closed to de-micr…

In the "on top of WASM" case, I imagine that the advantage of Python and JS will be exactly the same as the "not on top of WASM case". Namely, mainly development convenience at the…