frutiger

Off topic: you didn’t use y.

> I finance world maybe they win most of the trades.

Every trade has two participants.

But unfortunately HN comment threads are still about AI or about other comments even when the OP is not.

What’s the morphism here?

> solutions to isomorphic problems

“Isomorphic” is a word that describes a mapping (or a transformation) that preserves some properties that we believe to be important.

The word you’re looking for is probably “similar” not “isomorphic”. It sure as hell doesn’t sound as fancy though.

> That's like reviewing thai food when you've only had Chinese food.

What's the implication here? That Thai food was invented 1 year after Chinese food?

All the heavier elements were created in a former star that went supernova. The solar system formed from the gas/dust after that.

The heavier elements being formed in our sun now are going to stay there until something can tear it apart.

Heh, very strange to see someone mention this online. (I grew up in the non-Brutalist but nearby Aberfeldy Estate, and now live a few thousand miles away).

> These encounters feel worlds away from anything I've experienced in Western countries. I recall one time offering to buy kumis (a traditional fermented mare's milk drink) from a nomad, and he genuinely refused to take any money for it, simply offering it as a gesture of hospitality.

I guess no one has ever bought you a round?

> without taking interest rates into account

I’m sure you know — but you mean inflation.

> It's August 2, 216 BCE

Did August exist before Augustus?

Isn't the halting problem about knowing all future states and not a future state?

Wow. Both of these things happen to me all the time, and somehow exactly as you’ve described.

It won’t be just one space that’s been replaced with “.”s but several in a row.

The trailing “m” is something I often hit as I do the double “ “ to get the “.” and then backspace over the final space but often hit the “m” and tap “send”/“submit” without reviewing.

Speaking of which, it would be nice if it could trim the last trailing “ “ when leaving focus of the text entry if it had been entered due to a doubled “ “ to obtain a “.”.

> if you work in tech, you must know how to fix printers, right?

You kid, but it turns out the assumption was correct in this case. I suppose the truth is that by working in tech, you are likely very methodical and rely on deduction, which are both essential in fixing printer issues.

> how many drunken ragers can a 1 bedroom apartment really handle?

Depends on how they were built. For some college halls in the UK, maybe a few hundred years worth?

A hash is not globally unique. I'm not sure what more explanation is needed.

GUID and UUID are different.

> The GUID can certainly be a hash.

It can’t be, because a GUID is supposed to be a globally unique. The point is, it needs to instead be the hash of the content.

This can’t be an afterthought.

Your description (including the detailed description in the reply) seems to be missing the crucial difference that git uses - the hash code of the object is not some GUID, it is literally the hash of the content of the object. This makes a big difference as you don't need some central registry that maps the GUID to the object.

Obligatory: https://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/docs/NYC_full_track...

Detailed track/junction map. (Not my own content).

Read the commit sha prefixes as English

Yes, and in particular that it's in all the "ordinary stuff" around you - wood, air, glass, sand. Reality is truly extraordinary upon any closer examination.

Did someone actually do this experiment? Maybe there’s some data from the London Blitz?

I used to feel the same way but watching a flock of birds spend 30 minutes picking at every wriggling thing they see crawling in the dirt changed my perspective.

This is also a `bash` (or rather any `readline` app) builtin.

    $ cat .inputrc
    set editing-mode vi
    set keymap vi-command
    k: history-search-backward
    j: history-search-forward

Type any prefix, press `<esc>k` (or `<up>` in emacs mode) and it'll prefix match on history. Keep pressing `k` for older matches.

In keeping with the theme - on horse or foot.

> I feel strongly that any future digital travel credentials that are offered by governments should be able to operate entirely offline

How offline is the current system today, where officers swipe/scan our paper passports into a machine?

Isn’t it actually a Standard ML and C/C++ hybrid? The window dressing is C/C++ sure, but the lack of statements, semicolons, the presence of enums, etc are quite reminiscent of SML.

> pointers are just indexes into the big array which is system memory...

I’m sure you are aware but for anyone else reading who might not be, pointers actually index into your very own private array.

On most architectures, the MMU is responsible for mapping pages in your private array to pages in system memory or pages on disk (a page is a subarray of fixed size, usually 4 KiB).

Usually you only get a crash if you access a page that is not currently allocated to your process. Otherwise you get the much more insidious behaviour of silent corruption.

I mean sure, since we don't know what GR + QFT could look like, the result could be just about anything and somehow give us nice closed solutions to QCD problems. But I don't feel like that line of reasoning is particularly useful.