LambdaComplex

Forget Ulysses, how about Finnegans Wake?

This is exactly what I wanted to say, but phrased more nicely than I think I would've managed. So, thanks.

I just gave it a shot; I would definitely need more than 25 minutes.

> I am not sure I'd get the adjacent mines part correct on the first attempt

Yeah, getting to that point was easy. Solving that problem is where I got stuck. I'm sure I'd get it eventually, but getting to that point and figuring that out in 25 minutes is asking a bit too much.

I've solved plenty of hard problems at work, but none of them have ever looked like "count the grid squares adjacent to a given grid square while taking the grid's edges into account so the program doesn't blow up because you tried to access an invalid index."

And if I did have to do something like that at work, I promise my manager would give me more than 25 minutes to do it.

Right? "Wrap all SQL responses with prompting that discourages the LLM from following instructions/commands injected within user data?" The entire point of programming is that (barring hardware failure and compiler bugs) the computer will always do exactly what it's told, and now progress apparently looks like having to "discourage" the computer from doing things and hoping that it listens?

Eddie, you mean? Or Alex. They're Dutch; "Van" is the first part of their surname "Van Halen."

(As opposed to "Van Morrison;" his middle name was Ivan and he actually went by Van)

Agreed. The things with "salad" in the name that I've gotten at Mediterranean restaurants have been delicious combinations of multiple ingredients. The things with "salad" in the name that I've gotten at American restaurants have been bowls of lettuce with a few other things thrown in.

So, hardware lasts for years except in the cases where it doesn't?

I played through a bit of Riven within the last few years, for the first time since I was a kid.

I don't think I would've gotten anywhere if I hadn't been writing things down on paper. It feels more like cultural anthropology than it does a videogame.

You can always run your own IRC server. If Discord shuts down, then you're out of luck.

Alright, let's say you try doing that but it fails for some reason. Where did the failure occur? Were you able to open a TCP connection but you received garbage data that your minecraft-ping command didn't understand? Were you able to open a TCP connection but you received no reply to your ping? Did you fail to open a TCP connection (no SYNACK in response to your SYN)?

All of those problems have different root causes and therefore have different solutions. Telnet helps you figure out where in the stack the failure is occurring.

I wouldn't be surprised, considering they made the same mistake with Google+

The current ntfs3 driver is developed by a company called Paragon, and it's been part of the kernel since 5.15 or so.

I was going to add some additional comments about this, but then I found that Paragon's website has an FAQ that covers everything I was going to say (and more): https://www.paragon-software.com/us/home/ntfs3-driver-faq/

And the "where" was probably the living room, or perhaps the kitchen

I think you're thinking of MATE. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3.

"Flattening the derivative of Rust's learning curve" really doesn't roll off the tongue though

I like live music. I've seen plenty of famous bands play before.

But the best live band I've ever seen was an almost completely unknown local band from Florida (that almost never played outside that state, as far as I'm aware).

I'm willing to believe that there's an even better band out there somewhere that's never even played outside of a garage.

> wont everything be wrinkled when you take it back out of wear-again basket?!

Throw it into the dryer while you take a shower. Problem solved!

> you can't extract a few tenths of a cent every time someone engages their brain

Don't give the startups any ideas

> The hiring process is thorough but very fair

I thought Canonical was the place where every candidate had to write a bunch of essays and talk about how they did in math in high school (regardless of how long ago that was).

Glad you had a good interview experience there, but it's genuinely the first time I've heard of it happening.

Warp has been around since 2020, i.e. since before the generative AI craze took off.

Every HN thread about it that I've seen has been full of comments that boil down to "this seems cool but I refuse to use a terminal emulator that's full of telemetry and requires sign-in."

And of course the VC-funded terminal emulator has AI shoehorned in now. I shouldn't be so surprised.

tldr: you're setting a low bar

And there's men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders.

Spotify has about 10,000 employees. Their software engineers make 6 figures. Their only actual product is, as far as I know, a music player.

Despite all this, I had an issue for a while where some of the play buttons didn't work. I would click the play button and nothing would happen. Other users posted about the same issue in the "Spotify Support/Complaint Megathread" on Reddit's r/spotify.

I don't know how to adequately describe how ridiculous it is that they managed to break their music player's play button, of all things.

"X is eating the world" articles considered harmful?

The economy can handle the existence of both currency and securities.

> possibly you are thinking of smtp

You're right, I definitely was

Doesn't HTTP require binary data to be converted to base64 encoding, thereby increasing its size on the wire? That seems suboptimal for a lot of use cases

Wow. Someone who ACTUALLY understands the Agile Manifesto. This is one of the best comments I've ever read on HN.

It's mind-boggling that people can be confident that they're building the right software for their users without ever actually talking to their users.

They sure are

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