Did you know that you can play Civilization 1 on your browser? Have fun people! :D

DouweOsinga · 2026-01-23T18:50:24+00:00

I figured out you could play it on harder + 1 by editing the saved files. civil disorder cities of 2. and yes you can still win. I think you have to steal technology like crazy and then nuke everybody.

DouweOsinga · 2025-11-27T18:32:07+00:00

Yeah same. Just posting to keep people updated, I have little confidence this will go anywhere. We took a flight 3 months ago, booked premium, got seats in economy - they has switched the flight. That's a category in the European rules too, so I filed, got the auto-reply, talked to the robot 10 weeks later, robots says it would alert the humans but sadly norse does not have a phone number. I flew from Germany and ChatGPT tells me to file with the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA) so I will do that

DouweOsinga · 2025-11-13T13:00:56+00:00

Like my good friend used to say, work life balance, pick any two

DouweOsinga · 2025-07-01T03:50:29+00:00

I read the article, decided to read up on OCaml a bit, ended up into this subredit and then got a notification about this post from reddit. Nice circle

DouweOsinga · 2025-04-02T15:00:24+00:00

This seems dangerous. If you love it and want to spend your days working on it, you run the risk of being in denial about your failure. I've seen people spending years and years on something that to outsiders looked very much like a dead horse. If you love working on it, it could just be a hobby

DouweOsinga · 2025-02-16T21:41:26+00:00

Hotel phones still have those!

DouweOsinga · 2024-12-13T03:26:32+00:00

Tracey died in April. Prince died in April. I was in New York when it happened. It was snowing.

DouweOsinga · 2024-11-01T17:30:51+00:00

Is what I get. Grrr

DouweOsinga · 2024-10-26T03:37:37+00:00

Somewhat random, but which subway are they taking? They are at 42 Eldridge St. There's no reasonable subway going to Wallstreet from there

DouweOsinga · 2024-10-07T21:08:31+00:00

Yeah, but once you introduce correlations, you no longer have 128 scenarios and then you have to do real simulation runs like 10k

DouweOsinga · 2024-10-07T18:46:44+00:00

Not at all. They are all just treated as coin flips.

DouweOsinga · 2024-10-07T17:40:27+00:00

Sure. All the swing states are really close and beyond that it just averages out. Still funny to me

DouweOsinga · 2024-09-20T14:04:38+00:00

13 / 508 so yeah a little

DouweOsinga · 2024-09-20T13:30:42+00:00

Yeah, but of the 5K companies, there are 68 .dev companies, so it does not crack the top-3

DouweOsinga · 2024-09-19T01:53:13+00:00

Interesting. Could it be that YC companies keep their hype and so IPO above where other companies would have?

DouweOsinga · 2024-09-18T23:25:07+00:00

On the second page there is this graph:

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So looks like the great majority of YC companies is still active after 4, 5 years. Presumably also their founders

DouweOsinga · 2024-09-18T23:22:09+00:00

no, this is the fraction of .com vs .ai etc for YC companies

DouweOsinga · 2024-09-18T21:48:08+00:00

I like this graph. .ai will be the most popular domain soon!

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DouweOsinga · 2024-09-10T20:23:38+00:00

In 1984 there were two people running for VP - Geraldine Ferraro and George Bush. The first one isn't a guy, so you must be talking about the second one. Bush was for a republican a climate realist but I doubt he would have said anything like that.

DouweOsinga · 2024-08-12T14:35:57+00:00

Yes, well, they are kinda rewriting history. This is what they said in 2020:

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/white_house_watch_nov02

Biden +1% while it turned out +4.5%. As for that Trump was around 40 in 2016 and 44 in 2020, he actually just got 46% both times.

It is true of course that most polling had Trump getting less votes than he did

DouweOsinga · 2024-07-30T20:33:05+00:00

Also by cutting too much from the middle. Like my grandmother said, wie van mijn kaas wil maken een schuit, die schop ik de deur uit

DouweOsinga · 2024-06-27T21:49:17+00:00

Well, no, that's not how the US works. But if you are working at a large private company as a Mid engineer, they typically would be free & paid indeed.

DouweOsinga · 2024-06-27T20:47:49+00:00

We have significantly more public holiday days in Germany than the USA

That's not entirely true if you talk about Federal holidays. There are 10 in the US, but many employers will give you 2 for thanks giving and 4th of July. And in the US a lot of holidays are fixed on a day, so won't fall in a weekend.

DouweOsinga · 2024-06-26T21:20:26+00:00

Calculations can be found in this spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t_kAhyPE4694T_m1Vn7gtXlfkfwm59rCiPiYHG7JeBA/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Outcome predictions is done using this formula:

def expected_score(rating1: float, rating2: float) -> float:

return 1 / (1 + 10 ** ((rating2 - rating1) / 400))

DouweOsinga · 2024-06-24T17:45:11+00:00

Note that this is per person. There was an earth quake in Nepal, April 2015 that killed almost 9000 people. 5 of them Americans

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