Matumio

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by Matumio 3mo ago
How people play those games has to do with cultural norms and expectations, not just mathematics and logic. Same for age verification.
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by Matumio 3mo ago
For the joy of building your own thing? People also keep knitting clothes despite how cheap they are to buy. They solve math problems that have been solved before, to get better at math, instead of starting with an unsolved problem. They wr
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by Matumio 3mo ago
Not a grid of dots, a ring! https://earthsky.org/human-world/kessler-syndrome-colliding-... It's a tragedy of the commons situation. And given how well we are able to regulate those kind of situations globally, I&
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by Matumio 3mo ago
No, it's not an arbitrary choice. You can convert any energy form into thermal energy. When you boil water with an immersion heater, what happens if you use two heaters? Right, they add up. But not if you think in Squenergy. Or you can
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by Matumio 3mo ago
The article scrutinizes the viral headline. They conclude that it is mostly true, despite major statistical blunders. As you'd expect from any viral headline there are things that invite misinterpretation. From the article: > when [
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by Matumio 4mo ago
Not sure if that's fair. Sometimes the sun actually does shine, and while you won't get rich selling energy during that time, having electricity available essentially for free during some of the peak hours is worth something. Some
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by Matumio 4mo ago
They do and it's a problem, but it's a minor issue compared to, say, cars or rat poison. Both kill lots of birds, but somehow when it's wind turbines people suddenly care about the birds. See also: https://www.zmes
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by Matumio 4mo ago
Sure, if you're working on problems that are trivial to evaluate. If your goal is to find good algorithms or parameters then you can pick a problem that evaluates fast. But for many interesting problems evaluation will be the bottlenec
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by Matumio 4mo ago
I recently saw a reportage about emergency call-takers. As you watch them work you'll notice they get an automatic call from the crashed car long before any human calls them, presumably from that modem. I'm not arguing that the m
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by Matumio 4mo ago
> of course, emacs does not work reliably in windows, so that is another issue No, it's the same issue. In a Linux shell (say, bash or fish) ctrl-c is not "copy" but "terminate program". Most emacs editing keys (
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by Matumio 4mo ago
Original quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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by Matumio 4mo ago
Not quite, at least 50% of rescue costs will be paid via normal mandatory health insurance (just like when you need an ambulance car). Or 100% if you have a supplementary health insurance for transport. For CHF 40 you can become a Rega patr
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by Matumio 4mo ago
> That's a slime mold, not a fungus Now you sound like Pl@ntNet identify: "This is not a plant! Maybe fungi?" (Edit: It doesn't seem catch amoebae in the same way. It suggested Goldmoss instead, with 1% confidence.)
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by Matumio 4mo ago
Your post looks AI generated and the rule is not to do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 Also, you have to admit that when your first interaction on HN is posting a self-promotion it seems like bad manners
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by Matumio 4mo ago
I found this a bit odd. The intro seems to assume the reader doesn't know what "I/O" stands for. Okay, everyone has to learn this from somewhere, but... what is the audience for a "deep dive" article? It goes o
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The AI Layoff Trap and its UBI economic model(briefing.forwardfuture.ai)
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by Matumio 5mo ago
They are selling hardware. You'd think removing friction on the software side for someone who already bought their hardware would be in their interest. Especially for students and hobbyists, who will want use what they already know onc
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by Matumio 5mo ago
Why care about continuous sync? When I was in small robotics startup we had a separate motor controller driving each axis. A customers complained that the precision was getting worse after running for a few days non-stop. Guess what? Each a
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by Matumio 5mo ago
The more interesting question is, how many issues will this prompt report to you in random code that is perfectly fine?
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by Matumio 5mo ago
Happened to me twice (a decade ago, though) that I had some niche project (one a serial terminal, another a laser cutter firmware) that was on github with users left but the maintainer long gone. I was able to pull the graph and collect pat
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by Matumio 6mo ago
I know some European "automatic scribe" projects of the government sector. Their IT buys a physical GPU server hosted locally. Pretty sure it wouldn't be accepted otherwise (or maybe I'm just naive, but it sure is a topi
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by Matumio 6mo ago
Well said. There is a social context, there is a process and a struggle that can be more important than the result. It is sad to reduce art to the final product, or to approach it with an industrial mindset: maximizing commercial value whil
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by Matumio 6mo ago
My doctor probably thinks we software developers do a very narrow job. And she is kind of right, we always turn up with those back problems from sitting too much, or RSI or whatever. While doctors have all those medical specializations and
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by Matumio 6mo ago
If it can go online, I'd prefer to use an android work (or user) profile with only auth apps in it, and nothing else. As a separate device, it should be offline always IMO, and perhaps the size of a passkey. Or one of those banking dev
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by Matumio 6mo ago
I don't know if it will work, but Pl@ntNet Identify (which I use often) seems to have an API: https://docs.plantnet.org/en/reference/api-plantnet/
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by Matumio 6mo ago
Saying how many lines of code you can write this way is also a bit like bragging that you are building world's heaviest airplane.
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by Matumio 6mo ago
Say you have an ad-blocker and you don't allow it to touch your forms. Five years later, the ads have moved all into form fields. Never mind the technical challenge to allow doing anything with the DOM but disallow reading the forms. L
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by Matumio 7mo ago
AGENT SMITH: And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is DRAM if you are unable to boot? The question unnerves Neo and suddenly he feels his phone vibrate as it unexpectedly reboots. The standing Agents snicker.
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by Matumio 9mo ago
In Switzerland, on some trains there are trilingual announcements: German, Italian, French.
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by Matumio 11mo ago
Disagree, Linux is too big to fail. Too many people depend on it. It may get chaotic, but worst-case distributions will start collecting patches, as they already do for many unmaintained projects. Eventually one or two of them will emerge a

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