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FatalLogic··on Protecting Against Browser-Language Fingerprinting
Yes. 'Breaks' is quite judgmental. It would be like saying "Gloves break fingerprinting for more anonymity"

We could replace 'breaks' with 'fixes', and we'd have the same kind of problem, but with the opposite bias: "Brave fixes language reporting in browser for more anonymity"

FatalLogic··on Show HN: The Coinbase FOMO Calculator
There's a confusing bug for longer time ranges. It's impossible to select a real start date before 2015. The start date is effectively limited by the period you chose, whatever start date you tried to pick.

There's no warning of this, but if you look at the start date of the chart you'll notice it may be much later than the date you thought you had picked

edit: With that bug, choosing a period of 1 week is the way to get the longest possible time range for the chart, about 7 years

One observation: The volatility is terrifying, but the multimillion dollar gains are interesting

FatalLogic··on How Street Dogs Spend Their Days
This is a very strange piece of research because they admit they only observed the dogs during daytime, but they've still made broad statements claiming the dogs exhibit friendly and docile behavior at all times - despite a reputation for aggression that the researchers casually dismiss.

The reality is that street dogs in India are often more active, and sometimes far more aggressive, at nighttime. They often rest quietly during the day to avoid suffering from the extreme heat

FatalLogic··on “I think the vast majority of developers still debug using print() statements”
A 'Print 1/0' is the People's Breakpoint

(it may also be the best choice if you're debugging a language that you hardly know, so you just want to throw an error and halt)

FatalLogic··on Ask HN: How can I play TENET backwards?
Yes, you're right. But I wanted to warn him that this fish might not be worth catching.
FatalLogic··on Ask HN: How can I play TENET backwards?
Search on Youtube for "Tenet Reversed"

But those scenes were not meant to be watched or heard unreversed, so you'll notice that the audio is still hard to understand, and even see some small mistakes in the stunt work and effects

This might be the easiest to watch, if you only want to see the reversed scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32zVGZoXJs

FatalLogic··on “I think the vast majority of developers still debug using print() statements”
Please be aware that Paul Graham's original tweet, which wouldn't fit in the title, is:

"I think the vast majority of developers still debug using print() statements."

— email from a founder

FatalLogic··on Trial diary: A journalist sits on a Baltimore jury
That's interesting, I wasn't aware. I had guessed the reason was that the lawyers looked at the journalist's background and writing, and both the defense and the prosecution concluded that he was more likely to be favorable to their own side, and that their arguments would not be harmed by having a persuasive domain expert on the jury.

edit: and as you suggest, I'm sure my opinion is impacted by high-profile mistrials I've seen in the media

FatalLogic··on Trial diary: A journalist sits on a Baltimore jury
It's remarkable that a local journalist covering urban crime didn't get bumped off the jury by one side or the other, but it means we get this very well written inside story
FatalLogic··on Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
Reducing the Undos to about 3 could be enough to make that strategy less of a certain win

But you're smart to be generous with the Undos while introducing the game, because it helps users get familiar with it

FatalLogic··on Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
Great game. Doesn't it push players towards a strategy of working out the solution 'offline', though?

I mean, you start by playing almost the same as standard Wordle, just to guess the answer, without entering it. Then undo everything. Next, figure out a solution which avoids that word. Finally, type in your entire solution.

This could be a bit grindy, and not in the spirit of the game, but it seems like almost assured to win, or am I wrong?

Edit: If there are fewer undos allowed, this strategy gets more difficult

FatalLogic··on Billion-Dollar Crypto Loan Is Easy to Get, but Gone in a Flash
>let’s say you were an employee of a retailer with the power to set a discount on certain items ...

No, not the employee, but the owner. Isn't that a more accurate metaphor for this situation?

FatalLogic··on Tether now offering 30% interest on USDT deposits
But isn't it important that the person highlighting this APR rate is Paolo Ardoino, who is CTO of Tether and Bitfinex?

And Ardoino didn't even explain what he's trying to say. He's the CTO. What is his point here?

https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1525412379269513218

This "Bitfinexed" Twitter persona has ten years of history of never ever saying anything positive about Tether, but Paolo Ardoino's tweet is not clear or particularly trustworthy either

FatalLogic··on Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring
Probably the deciding factor is he owns a relative large portion of those: Almost 20% of Tesla and almost 50% of SpaceX

Compare to Jeff Bezos, for example, who owns 10% of Amazon

FatalLogic··on Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
>Tether is much more entwined with the whole crypto system than it was 5 years ago?

That is uncertain, because the degree of entwining has always been unclear. News reports 5 years ago also contained a lot of worry about Tether's risks, maybe even more than today.

What was obvious 5 years ago, and remains unchanged today, is that Tether claims to represent an enormous amount of money, which is a difficult hole to fill if Tether turned out to be far from fully-backed, as many suspect

FatalLogic··on Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
That looks bad. The worst previous fall of Tether/USDT was down to about $0.90 in mid-2017, during which it was substantially below $1.00 for over a month
FatalLogic··on Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?
>I think I should have politely terminated the interview myself

Yes, do this. Walk. The behavior is unacceptable and tells a terrible story about the company culture.

Perhaps if the remaining interviewers apologized immediately, you could reconsider, but probably not.

FatalLogic··on Crypto Is Dead
Obligatory: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
FatalLogic··on Star Citizen is doing 'bedsheet deformation' physics now
The saddest thing about Star Citizen is that so much money and human effort is being burned for creative development which is almost certainly going to end up buried, unappreciated, in a failed project
FatalLogic··on When negotiating a price, never bid with a round number (2016)
That extra $0.64 could lose you the job, because you'd appear to be insane and obsessed with tiny unimportant details
FatalLogic··on IBM's Asshole Test
Yes, exactly. If quick obvious troubleshooting isn't making progress immediately, then unrack it is the smart real-world answer, which is different from the fantasy interview-world answer.

A service outage can be a lot more expensive than new hardware costs. The team can troubleshoot the hardware later, offline, when they have time.

FatalLogic··on Is Crypto Remittances a Scam or Revolutionary?
You might find it helpful to compare this to 'move fast and break things' business models, especially 1 & 2, because it can be very similar

Think about Airbnb, Uber, Bird, Lime, DoorDash, and many similar startups. Legal pain points are moved outside the organization as much as possible. There may be positive disruption and benefits, but there may also be social ills and incentivization of bad behaviour

FatalLogic··on Aimbot Does It in Hardware
That is a better idea. Or maybe it's possible to simulate movement completely with a small LCD panel underneath it?
FatalLogic··on Aimbot Does It in Hardware
Showing how real-world AI projects that can master higher-level tasks sometimes discover the biggest challenge is low-level factors, like inertia and torque. The aimbot was very successful, but still burned out a motor before it could beat the performance of a highly-skilled human
FatalLogic··on 1974 Sinclair Scientific Calculator Repair and Restoration
There's a wonderful online emulation and analysis of that calculator by Ken Shirriff:

http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simul...

(which was discussed previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302364)

The ability of the designers to do more with less is reminiscent of Steve Wozniak's work on the Apple I/II and other projects

FatalLogic··on My Taipei Quarantine
If someone said to you in February 2020, "Your country can start dealing with Covid right now and continue suffering from it for two years, or you can close the border and continue your normal life for two years while we develop vaccines and effective treatments for Covid", which option would you choose? That's what we're talking about.
FatalLogic··on My Taipei Quarantine
>I went to the Netherlands recently and COVID was almost a non-issue.

But due to this 'draconian ridiculousness' described in the article, Covid has almost been a non-issue inside Taiwan for the last two years, unlike in the West. No lockdown. Few deaths. Economy has been booming.

FatalLogic··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
It might be caused by words that are compounded from two words that now have similar meanings, such as Wolfhound or Taxicab? Those words could sometimes get translated to two separate words in another language

For instance, Google Translate from English to Chinese and back to English does wolfhound > 狼狗 > "wolf dog"

FatalLogic··on Bitcoin becomes official currency in Central African Republic
CAR is already using a multinational currency, the CFA franc, which is used in about a dozen nations.

If they want additional currencies, then it's difficult to understand why they don't add the US dollar before Bitcoin.

FatalLogic··on Is it the “New York Review of Each Other’s Books”?
Sounds like peer review? It's difficult to find people who can provide an informed analysis of an activity unless you choose from amongst people who can do that activity themselves
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