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Obligatory two xkcd's, but I'm super excited about this project! Definitely going to try it out.

https://xkcd.com/1987/ https://xkcd.com/927/

Yeah totally! Just not my preference.

I strongly disagree about Snow Crash. I abandoned it halfway through because the style struck me as cringily cyberpunk. Relatively cool plot but the style just wasn't for me.

However, Seveneves to me is everything I could hope for in a sci-fi book, and I Anathem had amazing world building. I can't speak for Diamond Age, but based on the four books I've read (Termination Shock being the other), I thought Snow Crash was wildly different from the rest.

In your example, 1 and 2 are twice as likely as any other number, because of the 22 possible results of n%22, 3 through 20 all only have one result that yields them, but 1 gets generated by 1 and 21, and 2 gets generated by 2 and 22. You could adapt your algorithm by adding "if the result is greater than the range of values you're picking from (i.e. 21 or 22 in your case), try again with a new number."

    >>> import collections, random, pprint
    >>> pprint.pprint(
      sorted(
        list(
          collections.Counter(
            [
              ((random.randint(1,10000000) % 22) % 20)
              for x in range(10000000)
            ]
          ).items()
        )
      )
    )
    [(0, 908920),
    (1, 908264),
    (2, 454167),
    (3, 456019),
    (4, 454551),
    (5, 455183),
    (6, 454127),
    (7, 454308),
    (8, 454939),
    (9, 454602),
    (10, 454963),
    (11, 453117),
    (12, 454046),
    (13, 453812),
    (14, 456243),
    (15, 455025),
    (16, 454101),
    (17, 455072),
    (18, 454409),
    (19, 454132)]

Neat idea, definitely going to use this! Thanks for sharing

Our American football fields are a standard size ;)

Here's a few more!

https://www.holcim.com/who-we-are/our-stories/striatus-bridg...

That’s what I always wonder too. If we assume an attacker can change the contents at example.com/app.zip, why should we assume the hash published at example.com/download.html is any more secure?

Could you elaborate a bit more? It seems to me like the note being played would always correspond to the fundamental frequency observed. When is this not the case? Maybe as the note rings out, the fundamental frequency and first few overtones lose power, and all that's still audible are the higher overtones?

Or Vital synth (free) with GarageBand (free) or Reaper (long free trial then $60)!

This is amazing, thank you so much for creating this!! I'm going to use this all the time. I have a huge number of books in my want-to-read list; have you thought about adding an option to sort by added date? (or by other things like goodreads rating?)

Some context on the acronym (which typically stands for "the fucking article"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756

I'm new to Rust so please interpret this as curiosity and not criticism, but why not just use tokio? I understand that it's nice to build applications against a generic interface so that you can swap out libraries if one stops working well, but at this point tokio seems fairly well-vetted, and there are plenty of other parts of a typical stack that require some degree of lock-in: which database you choose, which web framework you build on, which cloud provider you interface with, etc., so I don't see choosing a specific async runtime as a deal-breaker. Could you elaborate on why you do?

I used to have that instinct but lost it in the age of auto save. The applications (web or native) I use most often all do it for me: Google docs, Dropbox paper, notion, vscode. I don’t think I’m alone in this!

What do you mean? Wouldn't you still need a charger between the phone and the airpods case?

In a way this story is uplifting - that $500 stolen from a donation box on a climbing route is so surprising and infrequent for it to make international news. It’s something I’ve always loved about the outdoors/adventure communities: in general you can trust folks more than normal to not steal from your tent, ignore calls for help, or screw your over so they can have a better time.

What is the DMZ, physically? I've always heard of putting your bastion in a DMZ but is that a conceptual layer or some sort of physical box sitting between the firewall and the bastion, and the bastion and the office router?

As a software engineer with no research experience, I wonder if one answer may lie in more foolproofing of the most commonly statistical analysis software, like matlab and stata. They are hugely powerful tools but obviously require quite a bit of domain knowledge to use properly. Could many of the most common types of analyses be made into more easily runnable happy paths that also warn against common invalid conclusions and methods?

I don’t mean to imply any of this is easy, but I’ve seen other pro-level software successfully integrate happy paths for novices.

Whoa, wanted to drop a comment and thank you for that framing. This would be such a useful tool even for internal documentation. Thanks!

Not disagreeing but just curious, why can't money buy enough GPU's? OpenAI's prices seem low enough that they could reasonably charge 2x or more to companies eager to get on the best models now.

pprint won't work here because the output is a json string, not a python object, so pprint'ing it will just print the string as is. And plus, pprint doesn't output valid json (it uses single quotes, for example), so the output isn't usable for piping into other filters and programs.

And it's true that it won't scale well but it still has worked every time I've wanted it to :)

I have this shell function defined:

csv_to_json () { python -c 'import csv, json, sys; print(json.dumps([dict(r) for r in csv.DictReader(sys.stdin)]))' | jq . }

It converts a csv to a json list of objects, mapping column names to values. I find it way easier to then operate on json by filtering with jq or gron, or just pasting it into other tools for post-processing. The jq at the end isn't necessary but makes for nice formatting!

Such a simple concept. Not something I'll reach for every day but I can absolutely see myself using this a few times a year. Thanks for sharing!

That 's only if you can make multiple cuts (or slits), and it's actually 8x less because we're talking about bits, not bytes.

With only one cut as the parent comment describes, you can only store the log base 2 of 100 billion, which is 36, so about 4 bytes of info, or one long integer.

When I load the all page, I get an alert that just says "1", which feels like it's probably a successful XSS attack. Given that, I can't justify putting my credit card number directly into the site. If it took Paypal, Apple Pay, or similar I would absolutely give it a try for a few months.

Screenshot of the alert (imgur marked it as nsfw because it includes a thumbnail of a post that is mildly nsfw): https://imgur.com/a/TmwO1jg

The likely culprit: https://imgur.com/a/rJrLxfn

But in some (not all!) cases it is a lawful contract, so it's worth consideration.

Not unless you go through a kind of esoteric “install to Home Screen” process, which most users aren’t likely to do.

What does this mean? I tried adding .atom to the OP url and got a 404

What if the data is dynamic but small and low qps? What are the current easiest projects and services for authed data CRUD? Is firebase still good?

Fyi, the table of contents gets cut off (its box is smaller than its contents) at zoom levels of 90% or larger for me. Here's a screenshot at 100% zoom https://imgur.com/a/0t9cKs5

Great article!