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yammajr

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yammajr··on Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper
I did have to guess. If I'd have known how many mines there were, I wouldn't have though.

https://imgur.com/a/idfj1my

edit: I'm wrong. Thanks steve.

yammajr··on Brave acquires search engine to offer the first private alternative to Google
From what I understand, DDG uses bing as a primary source, but they also pull data from numerous other sources, including their own crawler.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

yammajr··on DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
In December they acquired the name duck.com, maybe they'll do something with that. Right now it just redirects to duckduckgo.com
yammajr··on Something Twice the Size of Earth Slammed into Uranus and Knocked It Over (2018)
Possibly because that would explain its rotation being the reverse of the other planets(except Venus). If it started rotating the same way as the other planets and were rotated 82 degrees, it would still be rotating in the same direction as the other planets, where as by rotating 98 degrees, the rotation is reversed.
yammajr··on Poverty in America: Greater Than Statistics Indicate
> A car isn't a necessity

If you happen to live in a city. If you live outside a big metro area, at least in the US, a car absolutely is a necessity.

Where I live, there are no buses, no cabs, no uber, nothing. I don't have children or need to haul large loads frequently, so I might be able to make it work, but it would be a HUGE quality of life hit, necessitating taking a different job nearer me which almost certainly wouldn't pay as well as what I make now, moving closer to work - if I can find anything that's nearby and reasonably priced - and/or spending large amounts of time walking/biking. If I did have children or other dependents, there's just no real way I could expect to not have a car.

yammajr··on California moves toward permanent daylight saving time
And Cannabis is regulated by the DEA and the FDA, being regulated by a federal agency hasn't stopped them from doing their own thing in the past, why should this be any different?
yammajr··on Proposal: Go 2 transition
maybe not removed, but they certainly did make breaking changes to the language. here are some of the most obvious

python 2:

  print "foo"   # foo
  3 / 5         # 0
  apply         # <built-in function apply>
python 3:

  print "foo"  # SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
  3 / 5        # 0.6
  apply        # NameError: name 'apply' is not defined
yammajr··on ‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System
Ceres considered a dwarf planed because it hasn't cleared the neighborhood around it's orbit, not because of it's size.

I don't think the suggestion is that this object is planet IX, it's that this object provides evidence that there may be some other planet IX out there.

yammajr··on Pain27 keyboard
I use a kbp v60 (see manual[1], switches 1,3,6 on), caps lock is remapped to an fn key, then there are arrow keys both on the left and right hand. I haven't had any trouble getting used to it, and its wonderful not having to move my hand half way across the desk to reach the mouse.

[1]: https://www.scribd.com/document/227820785/KBP-V60-User-Manua...

yammajr··on After 6 years of lawsuits, we've won the war on magnets is over
So, I'm not a lawyer, but the 10th Circuit ruling doesn't read like this is over to me, it reads like this may be a temporary reprieve for Zen magnets.

> As a result, the FDO is vacated, the Initial Decision is reinstated, and the matter is remanded to the Commission with directions to provide an impartial tribunal for Complaint Counsel’s appeal from the Initial Decision. In particular, the Commission is instructed to conduct the appellate review without the participation of Commissioner Adler.

The court found no issue with the decisions of the CPSC, but with one of the commissioners having made a decision prior to the decision making process. So yes, Zen can sell their magnets, but the CPSC should reconduct its review - and I don't see anywhere that suggests that given the same data they have today, they can't or won't make the same decision.

yammajr··on US Supreme Court strikes down federal law prohibiting sports gambling
IANAL, but I'm not sure that's exactly true. As far as I know, in 49 states (not Louisiana), if there's not a law about it we fall back on some system based on english common law.
yammajr··on Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
I made a new account about a week or so ago. Their new user form looks very much like you need an email to create an account, but you can just press continue without adding one, despite there being no indication of that. If I hadn't already known I didn't need an email, I would have either given them one or left the site and not returned, depending on how I felt giving them my email address.
yammajr··on U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering with Election
I honestly haven't been following this very closely, but a lot of this feels like the kind of thing you'd see straight out of House of Cards, both what the contents themselves talk about and the decisions to release them. I wasn't able to find exactly what you're talking about, 100 page memo and all, but here's what I could find:

1) a 4-page memo[1] with a note from the white house on why they're releaseing this.

2) some text messages[2]

Some of it seems pretty damning, but I haven't personally done enough research to make a really informed opinion. I just wanted to put these links here to save anyone looking some trouble digging around for a starting point.

1: https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/memo_and_white_...

2: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-senator-releases-handful-of...

yammajr··on Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website – News – The Harvard Crimson
(2004)
yammajr··on [dead]
Not sure where this title came from. The article linked is "The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India". It's about 19th century Britain trying to enforce their taxes through the use of a living wall.
yammajr··on The Person in the Ape
discussion from a couple weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15916978
yammajr··on Portland’s Disgraceful Anarchy
As a non-local, I had to look it up, but presumably you're talking about the Mission District ("The Mission") and South of Market (SOMA) neighborhoods in San Francisco, correct?
yammajr··on Stripe is down
Also comcast.

    >tracert news.ycombinator.com
    ....
    Tracing route to news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net [104.20.43.44]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:

      8    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  be-10563-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.82.158]
      9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
     10     *      161 ms   149 ms  104.20.43.44
yammajr··on Stripe is down
Reddit, Hacker News for two more here.
yammajr··on Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity
You should enjoy this then: http://www.rustacean.net/
yammajr··on MasterCard Ending Signature Requirements
Probably because that's called forgery, and if they were caught doing it it would be a much bigger deal than not getting their money from that transaction.
yammajr··on Enabling Rust on Embedded Platforms – Linux, RTOS, Bare Metal
I did exactly the same thing, but I'm not totally happy with it. Good for fooling around with, but not convinced I'd want to push something using it into production without a bit of further investigation.
yammajr··on Enabling Rust on Embedded Platforms – Linux, RTOS, Bare Metal
I was disappointed when I tried to use svd2rust for the atmel-provided svd's. They unfortunately do not provide reset values for some registers, which causes svd2rust to panic.
yammajr··on Pence: “America Will Return to the Moon–and Go Beyond”
The original op-ed actually addresses this. Sounds like the plan is to get SpaceX, Blue Origin, et al. involved.

> To achieve these goals, the National Space Council will look beyond the halls of government for insight and expertise. In the coming weeks, President Trump and I will assemble a Users’ Advisory Group partly composed of leaders from America’s burgeoning commercial space industry. Business is leading the way on space technology, and we intend to draw from the bottomless well of innovation to solve the challenges ahead.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-will-return-to-the-moon...

yammajr··on “Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches
My understanding is that Duck Duck Go uses a whole bunch of sources, including but not limited to Bing.

https://duck.co/help/results/sources

yammajr··on Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens
Except that not every country belongs to the EU. If you have customers globally, you'll still have to deal with conflicting requirements.
yammajr··on Rivers have filed a lawsuit against Juno for securities fraud
Title should read Drivers, not Rivers
yammajr··on Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality
That's a little misleading. On the Obamacare question, only 11% said they didn't know what that was or that they didn't know enough about it, whereas on the Affordable Care Act question, 30% said that.

If you normalize those results to people who claimed to know about it, there is a small difference, but it comes close to falling within the margin of error (3.4%).

  ~~~  Obamacare   ACA
  ++     15.9      14.2
  +       17       17.1
  =      14.7      15.7
  -      12.5      18.5
  --     39.7      34.2
yammajr··on Terms and Conditions, the Graphic Novel
Just looked that one up, it's book 3/3 in a series, first two being Singular Sky and Iron Sunrise. Do they all touch on this topic? And if not, does Accelerando stand alone well enough to be read without the other two?
yammajr··on Japan's Universities Are Failing
No go on incognito, but switching browsers did it. Thanks
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