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Some funny anecdote, my fullname is relatively unique, two or three people have it AFAIK. On my upwork profile, they put the military veteran status because a completely unrelated military guy with the same name shows up in the google/linkedin search. I can't remove the status, I don't even look like the other guy.


In some countries, falsely claiming military status is a crime. I'd be very careful about accepting any jobs using that profile as you may be committing fraud. (Not a lawyer)


Thanks for the heads-up. Not aware of any law like that from where I live, but I should file a ticket to remove the veteran status just in case.


Forced valor


> Category Theory is easy because it starts from nothing, literally. You can learn it at any age and with no almost no prior education. Same with various formal logics.

I disagree, you need to have capacity for abstract thought for abstract topics, most especially with category theory. Normal people have quite difficulty understanding abstractness, you either have the aptitude for it, or work your brain hard enough that it becomes somewhat easier. Children and younger people especially have difficulty understanding non-concrete topics.


"Everyone has a meal plan until they get a fruit punch in the face." -Tyson?


This is useful for detecting file types of unknown blobs with custom file extension, when the file command just returns data. Though it doesn't correctly identify lua code for some reason, it guesses with low probability that it's either ruby or javascript, or anything but lua.


Thirded. Nice to see fellow self-unemployed folks here, makes me feel a lot less lonely and useless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261936

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261975

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39260479


it means puppy in filipino


Same experience as others, I see this job post every time, I applied at least two times with zero response.


Apologies, I've asked someone to check into your application.


Just talk to people with UDP, that way you don't have to do handshake, just speak without waiting for your turn. When they say "I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that, can you repeat?", you'd just go back to your little corner and drop all incoming packets, and wait until the party ends.


https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

  int function(void) {
      static int i, state = 0;
      switch (state) {
          case 0: /* start of function */
          for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
              state = 1; /* so we will come back to "case 1" */
              return i;
              case 1:; /* resume control straight after the return */
          }
      }
  }


Huh, I didn't know you could put case statements arbitrarily anywhere inside a switch block in C. Past the initial WTF, it's a nice hack for implementing coroutines.


Oh yeah, you can toss ‘em in just about anywhere. The most well-known application of this would be Duff’s device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device


As I understand it, they're kinda syntactic sugar for goto statements.


Personal preferences differ, but I would find this code so much cleaner if it was a goto.


I haven't read the whole paper, but isn't one reason MMA wins because it has less restrictions on what moves you can do? Other martial arts have strict rules on what kind of moves you do, so a practitioner of Taekwondo will be at a disadvantage against MMA practitioner, for obvious reasons. This doesn't mean one martial art is necessarily better, they just have different rules. It seems silly to compare them that way.

Imagine a hypothetical new martial arts that allows all the moves of MMA, but with biting and eye poke allowed, so practitioners of this arts is at a definite advantage against MMA. Would you say that this martial art is any better?


I think the generally accepted context most people evaluate martial arts in is "How well does it allow one to weaponize their body to defend themselves?"

In this context, some martial arts are dramatically better than others.

MMA + Eye-poking martial art: Yes.


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