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gsagaon Differences between expert and novice brains in mice: study

When given a problem, an expert might be able to solve it by recalling the solution to another problem he solved earlier, while a novice has to actually solve the problem.

gsagaon Coreboot 4.11

The about page of blog has 1 paragraph description of coreboot.

gsagaon MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown

What is it going to do with 64GB of ram? Load the whole OS in memory?

gsagaon A Black Hole Threw a Star Out of the Milky Way Galaxy

It's just freefalling. So there won't be any significant forces on it unless it gets very close.

gsagaon Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network

>No Birth Control Creampie for Violet Myers

>Bad: 0.0000 - Good: 1.0000

gsagaon Historical Computers in Japan

Same

gsagaon Nostalgia for Minecraft

It's a lot like an atomic simulation. All the items are quantized and can be combined to produce new items.

They follow very simple rules and their interaction with each other can produce amazingly complex machines.

It's the most realistic game we have.

gsagaon LineageOS Android Distribution

Pixel 1 came out in 2015, right?

gsagaon A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux (2015)

'pkill screen' should do it.

gsagaon What should have been an IMG element became this

It is possible:

https://imgur.com/gallery/8zv0AJ7

https://i.imgur.com/vjdfNOe.jpg

gsagaon Electron 7.0

I agree, imagine not having a 32gb workstation in 2019.

gsagaon What should have been an IMG element became this

If you right click on an image you get an option named "open image in new tab". You can just share the direct link to the image.

gsagaon California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving

https://xkcd.com/723/

gsagaon Why Richard Stallman Doesn’t Matter

You should try meeting up with him. Let us know how that went via HN.

gsagaon Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules

Well you can serialize tweets into text and then tweet that:

  Leader tweeted:...

gsagaon PyPy's New JSON Parser

>This is completely transparent to the Python programmer, the dictionary will look completely normal to the Python program but its internal representation is different.

Shouldn't it be opaque.

gsagaon Pigs recorded using tools

>One of the Visayan warty pigs—a critically endangered species

It's a rare species, what they saw might be genetically coded behaviour, previously unseen because not much behavorial data is available.

gsagaon Cars and the Fourth Amendment

Don't see how these two things are related.

gsagaon Show HN: Beating the Turing Test

looks a lot like minecraft.

gsagaon How Much Air Pollution Is Produced by Rockets? (2017)

That "water waste" requires molecular hydrogen, and producing that requires energy. The real waste is coming out of some power plant.

gsagaon JSON for Modern C++

Yeah, that's probably what they meant.

gsagaon Be wary of functions which take several parameters of the same type

  Window XCreateWindow(Display *display, Window parent, int x, int y, unsigned int width, unsigned int height, unsigned int border_width, int depth, unsigned int class, Visual *visual, unsigned long valuemask, XSetWindowAttributes *attributes);

gsagaon Object Oriented C

I'm making an attempt to acquire a better understanding of object-oriented programming with this series. Let me know if you have any suggestions or advice regarding the series.

gsagaon Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects

I remember my mother telling me that black clothes attract mosquitoes.

gsagaon Ask HN: Is it worth learning SmallTalk?

>An object-oriented operating system, to boot

Isn't that what android runtime is?

gsagaon Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week

How do I get this game working on my device. I have chrome on android lollipop.

gsagaon Announcing unlimited free private repos

Isn't that 3 contributor limit just a virtual limit. Assume there are 5 contributors (A, B, C, D, E) for a project. The organization could do this:

1. Create two private copies of that repository

2. A, B, C contribute to the first repository

3. C, D, E contribute to the second repository.