Not always, it has generated cult classics that have built a valuable fan base of support for many cases. Downstream it can increase in person popularity that wouldn’t otherwise exist.
Ah, this is like the "trickle down" theory of piracy.
Readit NewsErwin commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
Counter-anecdote: I have a smallish build and have well-tuned satiety, but a consistent measured TDEE of 2400~2500 kCal, and would go hungry and waste away at 1.5k.
I agree there’s no substitute for measuring your numbers. But meticulous calorie and weight tracking is probably a big ask for the average person, even though it’s imo absolutely necessary for controlling your weight one way or another.
Spending some months with a TDEE spreadsheet can be helpful but requires logging a lot of CI and weights -- if you go to any online TDEE calc you might overestimate your activity level.
I was surprised that running 6h/week and 15k/steps a day gave me an TDEE activity level at barely above "Light Exercise" and I need about 2460/day.
The "Moderate" activity level is if you actually work construction and haul bricks all day!
I found the backslash as separator of multiple statements on one line curious. I guess that's because I was used to BASIC on the Commodore C-64/128/Amiga and later the magical Amos Basic, so there were more differences in some of the other dialects.
Erwin commented on How Copyover MUD Servers Worked jackkelly.name/blog/archi... · Posted by u/_jackdk_
That was an amusing post to see pop up here, as I believe I came up with the "copyover" name when I copied Melvin Smith (aka "Fusion") idea about "hot reboot" from his "MUD++" code base to the popular Diku-based MERC/Envy etc. bases -- that was 2000 or probably earlier. Whether Melvin originally got the idea from somewhere else I don't know.
That version just used exec, and closed all files but network descriptors already logged in, the mapping of fds -> login names was saved in a file. When the new copy started up, it would log the users on existing file descriptors. Today, using explicit file descriptor passing (so you don't accidentally keep files open) or a long-running proxy would be preferable.
Back then C/C++ were often used by the developers, and we were at best CS students. There were surprisingly few segmentation faults, but I remember a few mysterious memory corruptions...
Erwin commented on First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2k years bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/goodcanadian
Additional backstory:
First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37857417 - Oct 2023 (210 comments)
Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261861 - Feb 2024 (216 comments)
That CS student was Luke Farritor -- now part of the infamous DOGE team.
Erwin commented on FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices cnbc.com/2024/12/17/ftc-b... · Posted by u/LordAtlas
On AirBnB just check the "Display total before taxes" box on the search results page.
Not including fees in the nightly rate makes sense as some are fixed rate, and having the option to see the cost for the total stay (including fees) solves the problem.
In EU, you see the total and per-night inclusive all of fees and taxes when searching and comparing.
If you search for an area without dates, it comes up with some arbitrary dates and applies the fees and displays per night cost accordingly.
So it's technically possible. They just don't want to.
Erwin commented on Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative ibis.wiki/article/Announc... · Posted by u/chasingtheflow
Their significance in public life was been almost completely replaced by Wikipedia, though
Here in Denmark we have an online lexicon which is managed by (barely paid) scientists and experts. For every article you can see which scientist was involved in making it, what expert is responsible for the area etc. https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/
Erwin commented on XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta micahlerner.com/2024/01/2... · Posted by u/greghn
I'm curious whether their "Locality Groups" concept can be implemented using stock AWS. Imagine you have 1000 type of tasks that can be called millions of times by users; each node can do any task but resource usage would be better if same task was performed on a node that already has done it. Sticky sessions is not it, as the same task can be initiated by different users.
Erwin commented on 48-nation bloc to crack down on using crypto assets to avoid tax theregister.com/2023/11/1... · Posted by u/ljf
I’m not a crypto person, but I have always been curious - how does the tax situation actually work if you don’t want to commit tax evasion? I know that on US tax returns you need to tick a box if you’ve transacted in crypto, and you have to pay tax on the realized gains/losses. How do you actually go about doing that accounting practically given the volatility and the number of transactions? Are there special pieces of software that handle those calculations? Do they differ between jurisdictions (other countries particularly)?
I know the real cynical answer is that most people just don’t report correctly, but I’m curious how you’d do it if you wanted to be legit.
https://koinly.io/ is a popular recommendation here in Denmark. Denmark may have the worst possible taxation for crypto: every time you sell, use or convert your crypto, that's an event where you have to calculate your gains or losses. Gains are taxed like personal income (so up to 53% tax), but losses can only be deducted at 26% they do not offset the gains directly. A school teacher speculating in crypto ended up losing his investment and owing $400,000 in tax.
Erwin commented on The Svalbard fibre optic cable connection (2022) spacenorway.no/en/what-we... · Posted by u/perihelions
Svalbard is larger than I thought, but not as large as the projection tricks you to: it's 1/6th the area of Norway shown below. On thetruesize.com you can drag Svalbard around and compare it to other countries, it's roughly the size of all of Ireland.