[compsci question about hash functions] I want to hash sets of values, and I don't care about security, I just want to check whether two sets are equal without comparing the full sets. is it fine to compute the hash as the xor of the hash of all elements? Or is there some secret mathematical […]

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the bevy discord used to be such a nice place 😅

been baking bread on the regular for about a year and a half now. surprisingly easy to do, it just requires some planning. not as good as the hipster boulangeries in Brussels, but pretty decent and much cheaper

oh how the gentle wind beckons through the leaves as autumn colors fall 🍂

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

finished Louise Penny's "Still Life" (2005) this morning. if you like murder mysteries, well, you've probably read it already 😄 but if not, I highly recommend! it's extremely character-driven and beautifully written. surprised me many times, and avoids a bunch of clichés. I listened to the […]

saw someone on HN say they will never contribute to Nura again since we ban LLM generated contributions (they had receipts too, they had contributed in the past) their argument was that having done device porting manually before, doing it with an LLM was something like 10x faster having seen […]

so far I've been having fun working on my lower singing registry. I'm trying to sing I'm Your Man, and also Why We Build The Wall, and I suck equally at both 😌

Also I'm quite grateful for speech to text today

I injured my wrist and cannot work, I'll take recommendations for things to do with one hand no not that

playing Dishonored for the first time reminds me of how "Immersive Sim" is such an unhelpful term to describe a genre of game 😅 if you think about it, pretty much all games are immersive simulations