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sethhovestol

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About sethhovestol

Software dev who likes picking up new things.

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    Comment #47740808

    Actually this is true whichever interpretation you take, give or take some knowledge around black holes. I think hawking actually proved that this is true regardless of how black h…

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    Show HN: Jotter – A Note Keeping App

    My buddy spent the last few months working on making an app to take notes the way he wanted to have them. I'd love to see what you all think.

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    Comment #37750275

    It's actually the reason I applied about a month ago. The amount of thought and consideration was really impressive to me.

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    Comment #36280222

    I also have a very poor autobiographical memory. I've noticed it in other people with aphantasia as well. Have you heard of that/do you have it?

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    Comment #34973923

    Mr. G! I was just looking back at Robby the Robot stuff from my time at skyline! You should email me so we can catch up! Pick nearly anything at my lastname dot com to reach out!

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    Comment #32450038

    I originally saw this as https://www.sciencealert.com/robot-shows-its-possible-to-swi... but I prefer source articles.

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    Comment #31989724

    It is the case that particles always try to settle into the lowest energy, and the more options they have the faster. We may be able to engineer places where they're stable, like i…

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    Comment #29806768

    I also recently(~1 month) purchased one of these, (DIY edition + windows). So far my only complaint is the screen size. I was really wanting a 17" touch screen and a keyboard with …

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    Comment #29735948

    I actually work in a table oriented language, harbour, a child of clipper/xBase mentioned in the article. There are a few issues I've found with a table oriented architecture: 1. M…

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    Comment #29557927

    I am mind-blind in every sense, yet I got a 9/10 on that. It's still only checked by qualitative things, how a person self reports about it. I know it's not just a language thing t…

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    Comment #28010078

    The more likely (I'm not a physicist) is to watch the decay of the particle and trace it back from there.

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    Comment #27227407

    I think a ring of cubes wouldn't: xxx x x xxx To fill the hole they'd need to interlock, and I think that might make it too hard to tile

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    Comment #25388267

    A (not)compiler can be made to look for issues in your codebase that already exists. It would need all the tools of a compiler, just that the target is the same as the source langu…

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    Comment #24991641

    From the article this looks like it's not SARS-Cov-19, can someone confirm that? Does the weak immune response mean it's also novel?

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    Comment #9830963

    But you still need to recognise the 8, speed you don't even look for the number

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    Ask HN: Tips for undergrad internship seeker

    Hello, I am a freshman at University of Colorado Boulder, and I have been unsuccessfully hunting internships. Do you have any advise on good places to look? Or ways that I might be…

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    Comment #7188744

    The lisp example is actually exactly what I'm looking for!

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    Comment #7187922

    I'm impressed. What I'm thinking more of is what types of functions and specific functions do you need? So also add, subtract...

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    Ask HN: What is the smallest possible language?

    I've been thinking about languages recently, and I'm wondering what the most simple Turing complete language needs. By this I mean flow control (if/else) and recursion or loops (or…

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    Ask HN: Practice problems for dynamics in Python

    A feature I've known of in python but haven't really taken advantage of in python is the dynamic functions and classes. I feel like there's so much more I can do since I can have a…

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    Comment #6797861

    It depends on what you do, but the emphasis on SAW in weSAWit might fit your product well.