GuB-42

33 ms·

661.
by GuB-42 1y ago
I don't know much about Asian train stations except in Japan but the thing is that in addition to being massive in terms of traffic, the stations are also malls. If you go to Shinjuku station, it is hard to know what is the station and
662.
by GuB-42 1y ago
The conclusion is (emphasis mine): Although the results of the study have yet to be published, scientists are already reporting a decline in insect cognition in the contaminated area of Fukushima Prefecture. "We can see correlations,&q
663.
by GuB-42 1y ago
Most of what you are talking about is physical effort. Exactly the part I dislike. I want sport to distract me from physical effort. I love it when I end up completely drained (proof that I did work out) but didn't feel it coming bec
664.
by GuB-42 1y ago
Is 21 bits really a sacrifice. It is 2 million codepoints, we currently use about a tenth of that. Even with all Chinese characters, de-unified, all the notable historical and constructed scripts, technical symbols, and all the submitted em
665.
by GuB-42 1y ago
> If this is true, life may be extremely common in the universe It should be observable. Planets with life as entropy generators should absorb light from their star and reemit it as thermal radiation. More so than a lifeless planet of th
666.
by GuB-42 1y ago
A 1:1 replication of the original Pokemon (1995) would be safe from all patent claims as it is obvious prior art and patents filed during that time would be expired. Copyright would be another story though. It looks like here, they picked m
667.
by GuB-42 1y ago
> My biggest problem with leetcode type questions is that you can't ask clarifying questions. What is there to clarify? Leetcode-type questions are usually clear, much clearer than in real life projects. You know the exact format of
668.
by GuB-42 1y ago
That's why I don't really get the gym. What is enjoyable in a gym? All activities you do there feel so useless and mindless. Running on a threadmill, lifting weights to put them back down, etc... For the journey/destination a
669.
by GuB-42 1y ago
And cable companies, and magazines. This is not something from the 2020s, it is a centuries old thing. But these are entertainment. For all the time advertising has been present, work tools have been relatively immune. I don't remember
670.
by GuB-42 1y ago
Anthropic seems to want to make you buy a subscription, not show you ads. ChatGPT seems to be more popular to those who don't want to pay, and they are therefore more likely to rely on ads.
671.
by GuB-42 1y ago
SSD wear is almost never an issue in a typical use case scenario. I don't know anyone who has hit the limit, even when very large applications are installed (ex: AAA games). It may be worth considering if you are hosting a database or
672.
by GuB-42 1y ago
I think that science museums being places for kids is a good thing. The are the ones who benefit the most. If you want science for grownups, you have conferences. Also, that it is for kids doesn't make it impossible to enjoy as an adul
673.
by GuB-42 1y ago
I actually thing that millenials (i.e. the parents of 2025 children) read more than any other generation. Just not books. Until recently, the internet was mostly text, we didn't have the bandwidth for anything else. And it meant readin
674.
by GuB-42 1y ago
First time I saw this, I didn't realize these were other people cursors, I really though the point was to be an annoyance (some people actually do this!). I thought the movement was random, and that it was a way to make it harder for p
675.
by GuB-42 1y ago
By that definition, is there a single "engineering state" in this world?
676.
by GuB-42 1y ago
Maybe, maybe not. But it makes a lot of sense as for why it was discussed in the context of tariff negotiations. Tariffs are also an "unfair advantage" and letting American companies compete on mapping is likely to be part of the
677.
by GuB-42 1y ago
I prefer the death per people metric as I am more interested in how likely I am to receive some bad news than some metric based on distance. Both measures have bias, the "per people" metric doesn't take into account when peop
678.
by GuB-42 1y ago
> We're the last generation of people who translate ideas into code by hand. Our children will describe what they want and watch it appear on screen, the same way we describe what we want to search engines and watch results appear.
679.
by GuB-42 1y ago
> Doing something smaller, but more often, is how you get good at most things! And yet, for most things, we see the opposite trend. We build big factories, big ships, big warehouses and yes, big power plants. We tend to make things as bi
680.
by GuB-42 1y ago
Now that I think of it, when a professional YouTuber shows their browser, more often than not, there is no ad-blocking. But as professional YouTubers, there is no way they are not aware of ad-blocking. I wonder if they actually watch the ad
681.
by GuB-42 1y ago
Maybe you are used to read high quality code. I suspect that the simple fact that you are auditing some code means that someone actually cares, making it higher quality than average. High quality code is generally hard to write and easy to
682.
by GuB-42 1y ago
Tests in legacy code... LOL From my real life experience with legacy code: - There is usually a "test" folder, but what they test look nothing like the actual code, they often don't even compile, and if they do, they fail, an
683.
by GuB-42 1y ago
And yet, judging by the number of comments, it is definitely not a solved problem :)
684.
by GuB-42 1y ago
Why should information on Signal be ephemeral on Signal? Signal is one of the few "privacy-first" services. But it is not just about privacy, it is also about having as many users as possible, which is actually important for priva
685.
by GuB-42 1y ago
But then, why not just sell straight out fakes? Why bother with all the business of acquiring genuine parts and harvesting them. Just make it all fake and don't bother with harvesting. Harvesting is only worth it if genuine parts are d
686.
by GuB-42 1y ago
The reason for that scam is that Apple doesn't make it easy to get genuine parts, so they have to be harvested from existing devices. I am sure that if the parts were available to anyone from Apple at a reasonable price (like Fairphone
687.
by GuB-42 1y ago
People care about the performance. There are numerous studies about that, showing, for instance a direct correlation between how fast a page loads and conversion rate. Also, Chrome, initially, the pitch was almost all about performance, and
688.
by GuB-42 1y ago
I think one of the difference between stamp collecting and the demoscene is that while stamp collecting was quite big for a time, the demoscene has always been a niche thing. For a time the demoscene looked bigger than it was, mostly becaus
689.
by GuB-42 1y ago
"The scene is dead" has become a meme by now. For example the "new talent" Meteoriks award is introduced with "For a scene that has been dead since 1999, our walking dead are pretty fresh". It is well alive. Su
690.
by GuB-42 1y ago
> If Maschine offered official Linux support That's exactly the reason why people use Windows. Hardware and software support.

More ›