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Re:A website to destroy all websites on Friday January 02, 2026 @10:07AM (#46465459)
Re:Confusing Git Terminology on Saturday November 04, 2023 @02:42AM (#38138717)
"under the hood git rebase main is merging the current branch into main (it’s like git checkout main; git merge current_branch"

This is wrong. 'git rebase main' doesn't affect main at all! If you are on main and check out a new branch, then add commit-one, then switch back to main and add commit-two, then switch back to the new branch and 'git rebase main', your new branch will have commit-one and commit-two, and main will still only have commit-two.

it's much more like simply 'git merge main' with some extra magic to avoid a separate merge commit.

Show HN: A 'map editor' for Forbidden Island. No database required

https://sunkenatlas.com/

A side project of mine just for fun.The island shape is fully determined by the URL; there's no database behind this. Compressing the islands into sharable URLs was quite a fun challenge.At the moment I just munge together each row into one long binary string, chop that into 6-bit chunks, and then convert each 6 bit chunk into a single letter chosen from a 64 character alphabet (because...

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Re:Quake's lightning gun bug explained on Thursday June 15, 2023 @11:27AM (#36341906)
> I discovered that some were playing Q3 at ramped up physics speeds in single player. When going back to playing at regular speed, it feels like you're playing in slow motion.

That's amazing, like training at altitude but for e-sports.

> just preparing for and attempting the interviews at [better companies]

This really rings true, I attempted and utterly failed an interview recently and was a real kick up the arse to improve myself - I'm no longer the hot shit I was 10 years ago.

Re:Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit? on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:33AM (#18629045)
Very funny, you almost had me.
Re:Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw on Friday October 21, 2016 @04:25AM (#12758970)
There's a fair bit of Hieronymus Bosch in there too.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016) on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @07:49AM (#12634840)
If you can't find a job title, why not put the whole first line of the original posting. Better to have that than a sea of "no job title found", imho.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016) on Monday October 03, 2016 @05:46PM (#12631615)
Growveg.com | Remote, based in UK | Full time JS Developer needed! https://www.growveg.com/recruitment.html

We are a small, profitable company who build edible garden planning software. Our iOS app Garden Plan Pro was featured in a WWDC video, and we are now looking to rebuild our flash based planner in JavaScript. We're also working with the university of York on a research project to create a machine learning driven pest prediction service.

We are seeking to hire a new developer to help us deliver the next generation of garden planning software, and you'll be joining a small highly tech driven team and given autonomy and ownership over a brand new project.

I personally have been working here for 2.5 years and can attest to the fact that it is a really great company to work for, so feel free to chat informally to me (@user24 on twitter), or contact us directly via the website above!

Re:Show HN: Primitive Pictures on Friday September 23, 2016 @10:49AM (#12565001)
> image recognition algorithms would probably find this kind of input quite hard.

I doubt it; they could just run it through a blur filter and then apply normal CV to it.

Very cool. I was thinking of expanding mine to work with other recipe sites, so this may come in handy, thanks!
I'd love them to release it as open data so that I'm not in murky waters.

If they move the recipes I can update the links. If they take the recipes down (which they've said they won't, now) I have got all the data so could rehost them.

edit: but, if you want to do some fun ML work, my scraper should help get you started!

nice idea. Eventually, if I add more recipes, I'll need to move the search serverside too.
On Tuesday the Guardian reported that the BBC (fondly aka Auntie) would be archiving their recipes, so I quickly scraped the site and wrote a search engine for it.

Not sure how the site will evolve, if at all, but it was a fun side project!

Code is here if you want to play: https://github.com/user24/auntiesrecipes

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775174.0

Discussion at the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zrshb/real_satosh...

The consensus is that it was not from the real Satoshi.

In fact the reaction to that forum post are the same as the reaction to CSW's claims: Sign it or it's worthless.

> The only time Satoshi spoke out was to help the poor bloke who was mistaken to be Satoshi

no, the forum account was hacked to make that claim. It wasn't by Satoshi.

Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:41AM (#11628233)
I get the connection, I don't get the joke...
Re:Amateur ISIS Investigator Ends Up in Prison on Sunday April 24, 2016 @10:34AM (#11559803)
Holy Moly.

> Without access to his records, prison psychologists assumed his tales of talking to Islamic State members were fiction, symptoms of a mental illness that made him incompetent to stand trial. Prosecutors sought a hearing to decide whether he should be forcibly medicated.

Re:ASCII Art Weather on Thursday April 14, 2016 @09:35AM (#11496521)
Use a postcode instead: http://wttr.in/cb1
Re:Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer? on Monday February 01, 2016 @07:21AM (#11011321)
> jobs that are regarded as satisfying and challenging are approached by so many talented people that they don't have to pay very well and the conditions are usually not great.

Agree! If I could be a florist on a developers salary I would jump at it and never look back.

not entirely sure of the distinction ;)
Re:Amazon Flex on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @09:08AM (#10295950)
And fuel, and vehicle maintenance, and maybe the personal liability insurance.
Re:Amazon Flex on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @09:06AM (#10295938)
I've had the same experience, also in the UK!

But as to it not being the greatest experience, well, yes they are not always as professional as real courier companies. And a lot of the time they've just said "User24?" while handing me the package, so Amazon probably need to put a bit more effort into training. And I wonder how easy it would be to provide fake ID to Amazon and just steal a whole load of admittedly random packages? But, maybe that was the point of this possible trial, to identify issues like that so that the launch experience would be better?

Re:Twitter Contest Winning as a Service on Friday August 07, 2015 @07:31AM (#10021869)
oops, missed that.
Re:Twitter Contest Winning as a Service on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @07:29AM (#10002677)
What did they do with the things they didn't claim? Just seems a shame to have let the unclaimed prizes go to waste.
Re:Windows 93 in JavaScript on Saturday March 07, 2015 @02:34PM (#9162823)
I... didn't even know there was a Windows 93.

edit: oh, right.

Re:The Man Who Quit Money: An Interview with Daniel Suelo on Friday February 20, 2015 @12:05PM (#9081372)
Great explanation of priviledge.
Re:Lords Sneak UK Internet Snooping Law into Bill on Friday January 23, 2015 @10:28AM (#8935272)
Me too, but in the back of my mind is always the knowledge that it's a slippery slope argument and therefore technically invalid.
Re:US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @01:40PM (#8724694)
I dunno, 59 degrees seems quite chilly if you've just been stripped naked and soaked with ice cold water. Note no mention is made of whether the detainees were dried or clothed first either.

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