arcastroe

It's my first time hearing about Gastown and Wheelhouse.

Gastown seems to be open source, but Wheelhouse seems to be closed source and used by one person only?

https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/

Is this the right Wheelhouse?

I believe they are referring to preinstalled Windows as an OS when you buy a PC. The PC price itself already includes the price of the Windows License. And the article advocates requesting refunds if you intend to install a different OS.

Woah. I was surprised to win on the first try: cramp, ghost, blind, bulky, bevel, bezel

On mobile, you just swipe in the direction you want to move (e.g. swipe up to go up). You can also queue the move ahead of time. So even if you are nowhere near the intersection yet, you can swipe up and trust that the ghost will automatically turn once it reaches the intersection.

I'm using Gitea itself as my coding agent interface. I simply tag @codex or @claude on an issue and ask it to open a pull request. Or ask it to reply back on a comment thread, etc.

The Gitea interface is already a pretty good interface that can be accessed from any browser on any device.

> Is there only one consciousness in the universe, or multiple?

This sounds similar to the "how do you know you're not dreaming?" question.

When you are in a dream, you really are the only single conciousness of that world. Any other person you interact with inside your dream is not performing any thinking of their own. Instead, dream interactions are just your single consciousness interacting with itself.

I think it is obvious there are multiple consciousness in the universe and not just one. Unless you're in a dream right now ;)

I remember being amazed when I saw this as a kid and told everyone I had seen a "rainbow around the sun". I've never seen it again in person. Maybe I've learned not to stare in the direction of the sun. But thank you for teaching me it's called a sundog!

Does this imply that most people who sign up for frequent flier programs end up losing money in the long run, rather than benefitting from them?

Is satellite internet going to become a crowded space that no other company can ever hope to enter due to skies becoming literally overcrowded with sattelites? Seems like a somewhat unfair winner takes all scenario.

> how do you propose the polymarket betting mechanism is able to clean the money?

I would assume that dirty money (from dirty wallets) is placed on the "losing side" of the bet. And clean accounts take the "winning side" of the bets.

> Around $700,000 of the stolen assets were frozen thanks to intervention by a security firm called ZeroShadow

This represents only a small portion of the stolen funds. But my understanding was that the holder of the keys owns the crypto. How can the funds get frozen?

Especially since it requires creating an account to use.

Does everyone's phone compass just work reliably? For me, it seems like the most unreliable part of navigation. I traveled to Italy recently and heavily used Google Maps with walking directions, and it was frustrating the number of times I started walking in the wrong direction, due to the compass saying I was facing a direction I wasnt.

If this device uses a similar technology as your phone, then I don't see it being reliable.

The hardest part _by far_ is texturing. I found matching the texture of the surrounding area near impossible during my DIY

Same at Amazon. Bezos often talked about "work life harmony" which he liked to say instead of "balance." His reasoning was that balance implies a zero-sum tradeoff in which more dedication to one takes away from the other (a characterization he didn't like).

But simply calling it "harmony" doesn't magically make those tradeoffs go away.

I suppose you're correct. Even if you find a trivial congruence, you do get some information. Mainly: "It's not that one!" :)

The same information as trying two bases that don't form a quadratic congruence at all

If:

a^2 = b^2 (mod m)

Then:

a^2 - b^2 = 0 (mod m)

(a + b)(a - b) = 0 (mod m)

So, (a + b) must be a multiple of one of the factors of m. And (a - b) must be a multiple of the other factor of m.

> I've often wondered what each congruence in the quadratic seive reveals.

Each congruence reveals that the sum of the bases (a plus b) contains a factor of m. And the difference of the bases (a minus b) contains another factor of m.

The only thing you have to watch out for is the trivial case when one of the factors you find through this method is "1" and the other factor is "m". That case isn't very helpful.

It's not that each congruence gives you new information. You only have to find one single non-trivial congruence. But the other (trivial) congruences you find along the way only reveal that 1*m=m, which you already knew.

It is my go-to vector editor as well. But a large pain point is that text elements cannot be vectorized or converted to paths or shapes. So your designs cannot be exported meaningfully because there is no guarantee that the receiving end will have the same fonts you designed with.

Exporting to svg may look completely different when opened elsewhere if your designs have any text elements.

For those less informed, such as myself. Could you provide a quick summary of those project 2025 successes achieved by DOGE?

hmm.. if you reduce latency from one second to a hundred milliseconds, could you celebrate that you've made it 10x faster, or would you have the same quibble there too?

Edit: Thinking about this some more: You could say you are saving 9x [of the new cost], and it would be a correct statement. I believe the error is assuming the reference frame is the previous cost vs the new cost, but since it is not specified, it could be either.

Article appears to be (missing) a word. I see what you did there.

I don't know anything about the Iliad. I asked generative AI how the name fit in, or why it was appropriate for the project. Adding the response below, in case it helps others.

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The name “Project Iliad” is almost certainly a reference to Homer’s Iliad, the ancient Greek epic poem about the Trojan War.

The connection works as a kind of corporate in-joke or metaphor:

The Iliad is long, complex, and arduous — much like the cancellation process Amazon designed. By naming the project after an epic full of prolonged struggle, the team was signaling (perhaps ironically) that customers would have to endure an "epic battle" just to cancel.

Conflict and attrition are central to the Iliad’s story. The war drags on, wearing down opponents. In Amazon’s context, Project Iliad’s design was to wear down users’ will to cancel through friction.

Forgejo is a fork of Gitea, which is a fork of Gogs, which is a clone of Github

What is f''(now) looking like?

Plot twist: In addition to the cutout paper, the prover also brings their OWN picture of waldo, which they always place behind the cutout.

I remember this being news two years ago [1]. What changed between then and now? Seems like dejavu reading about the same missing matter being found again.

[1] https://www.astronomy.com/science/half-the-matter-in-the-cos...

The line `str = ch + str` is itself a linear-time operation, with time proportional to the length of the new string.

That linear-time operation is then additionally repeated `len` times

The package's original implementation[1] also seems like it would have resulted in O(n^2) operation rather than desired O(n).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident

> Watchlistarr: syncs your Plex Watchlist with Overseerr.

Overseerr already supports syncing your plex watchlist out of the box.