FrankyHollywood

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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
This is a nice read too (the whole blog actually) http://igoro.com/archive/volatile-keyword-in-c-memory-model-... It's a bit old by now (2010), but I always remembered the mental model Igor created.
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
Oh yes this is hard... When the kid has a strong opinion, raises voice or just tries to lure you into a discussion or fight. That's the moment where the parent is easily tricked. Staying calm in such a moment can do wonders and de-esca
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
> But I don't see a lot of that nuance from many gentle parenting advocates I see friends taking parenting courses, and raising their kids 'by the rules'. It seems so mechanical, and, from the behavior I see it isn't
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
Great to hear you still making software! I assume because you still like it :) Just out of curiosity, what kind of development are you doing at the moment? Can imagine after so many years it gets harder to find a challenging project.
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
it's a different kind of 'beauty' :) In some strange way it reminds me of Koyaanisqatsi, now 40 years old ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764584 ) I saw it in a movie theater a long time ago, the image
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
never heard of it, very stimulating! https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/most-beautiful-b...
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
Oh and don't get me started about the latency all the trash causes to the start menu. I had this routine, computer starts, you press win-key type 2 letters hit enter and the program you want starts instantly. Since Windows 11 this is h
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
There is Sailfish OS, been using it for a couple of years now... works pretty great. Not free, but that's kind of the point, you pay for a product so they don't have to get your money in some hidden way. There are native apps, and
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
I much agree (not with literary having a war of course...) Burnout rates are higher than ever, many people use painkillers daily, 10% of today's children are diagnosed with adhd and are often drugged [1]. Like drugs are a solution to e
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Oxford Electric Bell(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by FrankyHollywood 4y ago|0 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
I cope with various strategies: - Mobile is always disconnected. I have a few moments per day I check my WhatsApp and other apps, just like you would actively check mail in the old days. People get used to the fact that I'm not a quick
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
> fall asleep right away if around someone this... with my first kid I didn't know how to handle, advice was 'to leave it cry to sleep', but it felt like torture to me, inhumane, letting it cry for so long. A little baby j
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
Indeed, the 'perfect path' in life is not perfect. Life has so many paths, everything is a trade off. Spent more time with your kids? You loose time with friends etc. Whatever you do or choose in life, it means you can't do a
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
Not read it yet, but the title suggests a "Love, Death & Robots" scenario :D
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
I also thought this is misleading, I can still read the 30 year old txt files I have in backup (copied from old floppy disks). As long as data is not stored in some obfuscated proprietary format you will get along just fine. Either software
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
Can neural network tensors be seen as an encoding? If I copy source code and save it in an UTF-8 text file it is subjected to licensing. Now if the same information is represented in a neural network all of a sudden this 'trained data&
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Electrolyser development: 200 times less iridium needed(tno.nl)
142 points by FrankyHollywood 4y ago|99 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
A little late to the party, but my biggest regret is not making choices earlier in life. Always had many interests. In high school I did many extra extracurricular activities, I was programming at a local software company, I played piano in
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
oh wow, it's a bit off-topic, but I'm on a desktop now and the mobile view of Wikipedia looks so much better, never realized!
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
> Automation is coming This has been said over and over. In the 1980's people worried automation would leave lots of people unemployed. And long before in 1931 Keynes [1] predicted we should now be living in a world of abundance. He
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
I always loved adventure games, with Grim Fandango (1998) being one of my favourites. Nowadays Amanita design still makes great adventure and puzzle games, some are point & click. Really enjoyed them, and most are without text so my non
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Ask HN: What podcasts do you like?
2 points by FrankyHollywood 4y ago|3 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
exactly my experience, a reasonable deadline defines the design and scoping, and makes you give right expectations to a customer. I left 2 jobs because of rigid scrum, couldn't handle the insane discussions. "how many complexity p
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
I just finished 'Hackers & Painters' by PG, it's a really nice holiday read. The tone is light, but he gets you thinking about the world. The book is from 2004 so the chapter about 'the modern web' was not very
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
Ah never knew meat contains vitamin c, seems to be mostly in the liver. Well it's an interesting experiment going on meat and see how the body responds.
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
So no vitamine c intake? Wouldn't recommend it on the long term https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
The question is often 'how long does it take to implement'. Engineers know if it is more or less clear what the functional requirements. In practice, workdays are constantly interrupted by meetings. An 8 hr workday is effectively
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
The book would be an anthropological study. Having worked as a freelancer for more than 15 years, seen many companies from startups to large finance I see these patterns over and over again, it's like human nature. Totally unrelated co
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
I'd say it is mostly about expectations. There are various kinds of challenges in life. If you approach them with an unrealistic mindset you get disappointed. Some things are easy and you just do it. Then there are the more challenging
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Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today(github.com)
289 points by FrankyHollywood 4y ago|68 comments

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