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Hello Everyone,

I was playing a game of solitaire one afternoon and got very close to sorting all of the suits. When I play solitaire I think about how the game is an elaborate kind of sorting algorithm and I think about what the conditions may be that place the game into a deadlocked state.

I wanted to share my experience of playing this particular game of solitaire with others. I've included a secret in the game that represents what happened in the actual game I was playing.

I ended up laughing after realising what had happened.

I've designed Impossible Solitaire for practising a particular skill. That skill is enjoying the process rather than focusing on the end goal. I feel it's important to remember to enjoy what happens regardless of what the outcome is and I wanted to share an opportunity to practise this in the form of a game.

Thanks
I have seen this happen (and in a few cases the cause for this to happen as well).
All code (or releases, for that matter) are not created equal. There are some teams which are working on something which is more critical to the business of the company, at that moment, and there are other teams which may be able to absorb some tasks to let the first team focus on what's needed. Not saying that this was the situation with the OP, but this usually falls in the "greater good" category. I have seen organizations where inter-team boundaries are fought over and defended vigorously and others where these are more fluid and accommodative. I am not sure that the firm boundary teams end up doing better work or be happier overall.
Alcohol also is a major contributing factor in most violent and domestic crime, it's the single greatest cause of deadly road collisions, etc.
>If they outbid everyone who actually wanted to live there, who were they planning to sell to?

other investors. housing is only "underpriced" because it's become a commodity market that investors play in. the people who want to live in the houses have no hope of affording them when they have to compete with all the various capital funds that are buying houses and hoping to flip them to other capital funds using a slightly different algorithm to calculate value.
No. Modern Mexico was founded by Conquistadors who came to Mexico to seize gold and return to Spain. The U.S. was founded by colonists who came to build a new world. One could argue that this accounts for the tendency toward short-term goals in Mexico vs the tendency toward long-term goals in the U.S. As someone who lives in both countries these tendencies seem obvious.
What’s your definition of modern? I don’t agree with it being modern looking unless a GUI is sufficient to make it so. LXQt was pretty, do you consider it modern?
I realize naming things is hard, but they confuse me. Are these due to historical quirks, or am I missing something?

E.g., why is it called a terminal emulator and not a terminal user interface? Why is there a "y" in pty if it stands for pseudo terminal? Why is it call it a "pseudo terminal" if it's acting like a communication pipe?
Was just talking to a coworker and he was just like "The market can't be positive forever like this."

We're just one major panic selloff from things falling apart. I'm almost concerned whether I should pull my money out or put it in gld.
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Note that sftp != ftps. sftp is scp. Rsync is better if you can get it, but I'm pretty sure that whenever I transfer stuff using WinSCP and File Explorer (Android) it's using sftp.
> Especially since the advent of much more powerful synthetics which addicts seem to prefer and demand

Do we know this? Certainly the driver for the ever more powerful opiods seems to be the ease of smuggling smaller amounts, with users preferring the 'safer' opiates.

(FWIW I don't think full, unrestricted legalisation of all drugs is a great plan, but there are various kinds of middle ground which may be better than either the status quo or a free for all)
Consider the quality of ones understanding.

To look at a thing, to think about what you see (or not). That's one way.

To consume words, interpret them, to create a metaphorical story. That's another.

That's a big difference. Fire vs fireflies.

It isn't a matter of truthiness but of substance.

The difference between menu and lunch. If the question is what to order, what course of action to take, maybe it doesn't matter so much. But for understanding it matters a whole bunch.
Maybe a deductible, but otherwise I have to assume yeah. That’s not cheap though.
Holding onto inventory is death. In auto and housing sales if you’re a dealership you’re leveraged in order to hold that inventory (paying interest on it, less friendly interest than you get as a government backed mortgage borrower) and you’re paying insurance and maintenance on that inventory. Vacant houses depreciate very quickly.
> My intuition is that this complexity is not actually needed if you remove all the cruft and think from first principles about what the actual problem is you are trying to solve.

Have you ever worked on infrastructure? This comment is wrong on soo many levels.
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> The hummus comment was to point out that there are foods which people might consider processed, but it doesn't mean it's less healthy than their unprocessed ingredients.

Nixtmalized corn is a good example here, too.
I think some kinds of global carbon tax + other green house gasses (GHG) done at a WTO type level.

Stop telling people what they can/cant do this and focus on pricing the damage points. Puts costs against goods like meat production, petrol cars, private jets etc. Rather than moralise, put a price on them and give people the choice. This will encourage farms to use seaweed to reduce cattle methane or bring in electric planes or goods that last longer.

Ideally this could be taxed at a national level. And for countries that wont, put export/import tariffs on them from the trading block to meet the cost they should have taxed. Monies raised must go towards environmental improvement measures e.g. buying land for forest regrowth or carbon scrubbing.

Obviously huge global plan with masses of detail and nothing is perfect, but generally I feel putting agreed globally consistent costs on GHG emission seems the best way to redirect the world to better behaviours.
I have 2TB of data but use a 1 TB drive and let the OS leave a bunch of files in the cloud, the one I don’t use.
Yes I agree with this. In fact, having already done this math myself I am basically maxed out in house loans, i even took a cash out loan on my rental and dumped it into the stock market… I have already made an absolute killing doing this. Unfortunately I am not that smart and like you say, everybody else can come to this same conclusion. It will not end well.
People smoked in opium dens, after all. Maybe bars succeeded and opium dens failed because alcohol's just been in Western culture longer.
It's not usually the main portions of food that's a problem. It's all the little things that are added to enhance the flavor.

The worst example I can think of is, one of my favorite sandwiches, Jersey Mike's Club sub. The "mini" is the size with a reasonable portion. It has Provolone cheese, mayo, bacon, and olive oil on it (if you get it "Mike's way") that takes it from 280 Cal to 640 Cal without changing size (visibly). But I don't always get the mini. Sometimes I get the regular which brings it up to a whopping 1,120 Cal.

And yes, there are plenty of times I'm not really hungry for dinner, but I'm so accustomed/habituated to eating dinner with my wife that I'll eat out of habit. I wasn't hungry, so I chose a small serving, but that still ends up being 500-600 Calories that I didn't need.

So that's 1,200 - 1,800 calories in two main dishes. It is way more food than I need? Do I feel stuffed after eating it? Not usually.
>since whatever failure damaged the SSD is statistically likely to compromise the reliability of the rest of the board. Any failure is grounds for "rework" of the board on a hardware level if necessary,up to and including repair/replacement of the onboard flash, and not just a simple workaround in my opinion.

This is entirely unfounded. Storage units are expendable, but the rest of the system lasts a lot longer.
I wonder if people would be scared away by a cap phrased in terms of entire hard drives.

That would still allow some pretty heavy users, but it would stop the people trying to dump hundreds of terabytes onto the service.
Conversely, I've seen overly complex but "normal" monoliths. Thousands (millions?) of lines of dead code. Three copies of a file, all 80% the same, but only one in use.

We say one or the other is overly complex, but I think both are knife throwing just with slightly different details. If you can grok system design, microservices are easier to reason about. If you maintain your monolith well, it's easier to reason about.
That is a very interesting observation because there is no one definitive version. For the modern reader in English, you could try Devdutt Pattanaik's versions - I really liked his Mahabharata, but haven't read his version of Ramayana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_Ramayanas:_Five_... can give you some insight into why there are so many different versions of these epics.
mRNA is naturally occurring and all the issues are from the adjuvants. It’s like complaining about amino acids, plasma or cells. The vaccine efficiency rate drops by about half in 5 months, it’s not a sturdy permanence. If you are so worried about mRNA, why are you not concerned about its natural occurance in your body since mRNA isn't provent to be safe?
I knew about the brake wave back in 1980, as I could see it on I405 on my way home from work. Due to a curve in the highway, I could see about 3 miles ahead. The wave heading towards me was pretty obvious.

I found I could "break" the wave by letting a gap grow in front of me that would absorb the wave, and I wouldn't have to brake to a stop (and so my clutch would last longer).

It never occurred to me to write a paper about it :-)
"Radar removal improved accuracy rather than harming it..."

Reference, please.

When more sensors don't perform better than less sensors, either your hardware or your software is flawed. Removing a sensor from design because your system doesn't work speaks poorly of your product.

Even following that simplistic logic, if autopilot isn't safe, How could they dare not remove it?
Devil's advocate; each class in the array has a consistent interface, making it easier to do common things every step like measurements and logging during iteration etc.

But I agree with you, it's simpler to just call the functions only giving them what they need. This prevents them from implicitly depending on context and makes reasoning about the code much easier....
I recall chatting with Brian when we started Zetta. It wasn’t a match in terms of tech/direction, but I’ve been a loyal customer as well for years.
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You zoom out in your browser and you'll be able to read 10 article headlines at once. Eb.dk works the same way.
The bonus is, if you aren't blocking ads; they'll be too small to notice.
>in addition to the housing and food we already give them?

In what US state do the homeless get housing? Or do you mean prison?

>Look, the simple fact is many people are not entrepreneurial. They work instead of doing drugs because they know they have to in order to have a decent go at life.

Is this from a study you've read or are you just making shit up? Isn't "Rat Park" psychology 101? This is an incredibly jarring point of view when you also consider many of the heroin addicts where onramped by doctors getting kickbacks from Purdue Pharma.
you don't need to shoot it. eat, smoke, boof. eating would have less bang for your buck but for a first time it's WAY cheaper than a night out at the club ;)
That was probably a reference to the fact that Trump has filed anti-SLAPP suits against people suing him as an intimidation tactic and to run up their legal bills.
Is there a page that documents this anecdote? I’d like to link to it next time i use this phrase. Ironically, googling for it doesn’t turn up anything relevant.
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I have the same argument for all drugs. Including opiates. Which do in fact do a lot of good. For a while. Until they don't. Similar to alcohol. The problem is it's way harder to be a casual opiate user than it is an alcoholic.
Great answer, and I think there are much broader reasons too:

International order is fundamentally anarchy. There is no power - no world government - that can enforce order (the United Nations is just an association, a place where sovereign countries can meet and make arrangements with each other). If the order breaks down, if 'might makes right', then international wars start; wars are bad or catastrophic for everyone. WWII was so destructive that the victors worried that the world could not survive another one (one reason they started the UN and what became the EU) - and that was 75 years ago. The 'US-led rules-based international order' strives maintain an order based on rules (laws), not on might.

(Yes, this is all very simplified; motives and actions are not so simple.)

A simple example is when Iraq invaded Kuawait in the early 1990s. They had the might, so they took it. The US, openly stating they would maintain international order, drove them out of Kuwait. To reinforce the point, they did it according to international law, and with a coalition of international partners.

China seizing the South China Sea is a serious threat to that order - what will China seize next? If the only way to stop them is to fight a war - if there is no rules-based way to do it - the world and the people in it are in big trouble. So the US and allies (which is not only western, but democracies all over including Japan, India, etc.) work to undermine that claim.
I'm not endorsing that solution, only pointing out how such "alloc[ation]" could take place.
Or *BSD.
Dr.John Campbell made a very good case about "injection aspiration".

https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuyAtvwP2H4

I personally feel its fairly compelling and I see no harm in performing this extra step to ensure its not being injected directly into a vein.

Not sure why the suggestion was turned down.
Some but not many. Pills are more likely. But yeah opiates for sure are far harder to be a casual user of than alcohol.
So, it is safer "in the event of a crash" for the people inside the car, but if crash rates are higher (statistics pending) it might be more dangerous for everybody both outside and inside of the car.
I think intelligence is more then just biology. Its a technology. In my experiance we can significantly improve our ability to learn just with aquiring different mental techniques. Theres no getting around that some peoples brains are already pre-wired or had experiences to cause this, and thus have a headstart (all these geniuses like von Neumann etc) but that doesn't mean you can't start treading in the same path.

Everyone's brain might be different, but that just means you might need different mental techniques then someone else. For example, I'm terrible at memorizing things, my working memory is rather small compared to the average person I've come to find[1]. To adapt, I focused on finding things that would let me compress memory, focusing on the 'core' of things so to speak and ignoring everything else. For example, in math and physics, I ignore pretty much all the equations and instead try to find the similarities that tie everything else together and use that to derive/figure out the rest as needed. This way I can get away with knowing much less. (I've also been lucky to have teachers that let us reference the equations on tests). Suprisingly, I found this acts as a great foundation for learning new things, letting them slot together much more readily. (I also got into the habit of using a notebook as both a reference and workspace for ideas, letting me refer back to things that dropped out of my working memory quickly)

The thing is though, if I didn't pressure myself to develop that habit in the first place, I would never have improved.

I think a huge part of mental ability is simply having motivation to go through the process.(admittedly a large part of motivation is biological/just how you are wired)

[1]This is a bit subjective, the important part I think though, was the pressure it caused me to put on myself to improve.
Really?

From where I'm sitting, the major negative externalities are overdose deaths' (which are mostly for spiked doses/things not not being what they claimed) and gang activity.

Legalization makes both of those go away.
When I was a child I used to "play" with my inner voice by trying to think faster than the voice was able to verbalize. It always amazed me that I could actually do that - I knew what I thought about even though I failed to verbalize it. Always made me wonder about what thinking actually is. Following a longer train of thought this way was pretty hard though (and my undiagnosed ADHD probably didn't help either).

Of course, I don't really hear any voice. It's clearly a thought in my head - yet it takes the form of a voice. It's what makes it actually a coherent thought instead of just a set of vague ideas.
this article seems way too political and not technical enough for hacker news, and IMO it should be flagged...

I welcome an article that dives into the scientific debate on the efficacy of dog testing or animal testing more broadly. This, however, is not that article.
Interesting paper, thank you!

The way things are phrased in the introductory sections makes me think "that's not even wrong", but external knowledge of the history forces me to add "but the assertions are broadly in line with what happened".

For instance, asserting that real wages affect conflict ignores the decision-making process and the decision-makers themselves when it comes to initiating conflict.

There was so much going on in Europe during this period that I still tend to the "not even wrong" end of things. I'll have to think about this.
When I saw Zillow doing this, I honestly thought it was for a different reason than pure profit on houses. I thought they wanted to take over the MLS.

The reason that local realtor groups will never get displaced by a Zillow is that in almost every area, those local realtors control access to the MLS. But...if a company like Zillow could come along and get a significant number of listings in an area that weren't represented on the MLS then Zillow could start to replace the MLS in that area without fear of being cutoff by the local realtor group.

To see that all they were trying to do was make money flipping houses...I'm honestly a little shocked.

But, this gets me back to my belief that Redfin is the only tech company in real estate with a real chance to be disruptive.
No it's not a joke. If the password is sufficiently complex, it can't be brute forced in a reasonable amount of time. But it's still a way for you to get your data back having only the SSD on which it is stored.

Or, well, fine, let there be an active element. But let me export the master key then. It's my device, I have root access to it, I should be allowed to do that. And, yes, do still put the SSD into a slot.

> I mean, why even encrypt it in that case?

Yeah because your time machine backup drive that's encrypted with "just" a password (you did encrypt it, right?) is somehow more secure than an internal SSD encrypted in the same exact way.
the answer is simple... either it's an employee for the marketing department who can turn anything into a positive or it's a fanboy. The page long responses that starts with textbook marketing BS ("No worries, the most important..") tells me it's from an employee because no one cares that much and actively wants people to lose data faster. The amount of buzzwords in his other response... ffs how can you guys seriously think that it's just a normal person who likes the service?! you should know better.
If 95% of people use Chrome then you’d expect 19x more complaints about Microsoft than Google, if the complainability factor is equal.
I actually don’t think you should be renting right now. Even if house prices were to fall by 20% tomorrow it would still be cheaper to own than to rent in most cities right now. That may not be true as interest rates move higher down the road.
Yea, that email made no sense to me. It read as

1) You are paying for a backup service.
2) We decided that the version of your software is too old, even though it backed-up data.
3) Since you are a valued customer, we will delete your data.
4) We are a HAPPY company! Have a great day!
I thought I didn’t have an inner voice for the longest time because I couldn’t hear it being vocalised. Then one day, while I was narrating how I reacted to an incident to my shrink, she exclaimed, “You have an inner critic!”

I thought about it and tried to develop awareness, because I was aware that my mind generated feelings of guilt, shame, fear, etc. out of seemingly nowhere.

Guess what. I found the inner voice. And it was harshly critical. It constantly contradicted things I did and tried to put me down.

Moreover, I recognised it as the “voice of my family”. I somehow likened it to the way my family members responded when they were at their most critical. While they are not always like that, my voice was always like that. It was like the worst of them in my head all the time.
VR is as inevitable as "AI".

Hint: we don't actually have anything like the AI you read about in the books in play - they're just algorithms that search patterns.

I expect the same for "VR"
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That reads a lot like "I'm surrounded by people who think there's no (non-Democratic) fascism and that's proof I'm correct when I tell you it's okay." Frog-boiling is a serious problem in US politics these days.
I love a good CSS trick. Very cool.
Yeah, all the other replies confuse me. Toxiproxy _is_ a TCP proxy. You can use it for Redis, MySQL, or anything else that runs on TCP.
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Well here is what they said two years ago:

A 9 TByte backup costs Backblaze about $35/month to provide in raw storage costs (electricity, rent for where to store the drives, etc), and that doesn't include the extra money we need to employ "G&A" people (General and Administrative)

I'm not sure why it's quite that high, but 1/60th of a server is another $150 and 1/60th of keeping that server housed and powered is going to eat another chunk of that $7 monthly fee.

And then add another 20% to all the costs to account for the capacity spent on parity.