Uehreka

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by Uehreka 4y ago
His list of hobby projects includes QEMU and ffmpeg. I'm sure Amarisoft is a fine company, but mentioning them before those two would be burying the lede.
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Oh come the fuck on. People on HN need to get over this: At a certain point people and organizations need to stop pretending that “both sides could in theory have a point” and actually take a stand. “But what if the stand they take is oppos
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by Uehreka 4y ago
I remember back in 2012 or so someone made a really clever karma-farming bot on Reddit. Here’s how I (foggily) remember it working: - It subscribed to subreddits like /r/pics and /r/funny that largely consisted of postin
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Not GP, but I frequently start comments like this if the comment I’m replying to isn’t just slightly off, but reflects a deeply unexamined prior. It’s a signal that “The thing that’s wrong with your comment isn’t even in the text of the com
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by Uehreka 4y ago
I mean like, this is fun to say, but y’all know this isn’t actually true right? (Well, the free software part is, but the implication in the first sentence isn’t) The past 10-15 years has seen enormous growth in eCommerce productivity as
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Any time you spend trying and failing to quantify the EV of luck surface area is time you could be spending building your luck surface area.
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by Uehreka 4y ago
In trademark law, the owner of a mark (Nvidia in the case of CUDA) can usually make someone stop using a mark if it would lead to “consumer confusion about the source of the goods” (i.e. people seeing “CudaText” and assuming it has an assoc
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Actually neither, it’s “Guh-doe”.
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Hopefully the incentive schemes help with this: part of the reason for Unity’s feature churn is that they’re more incentivized to create new features (to acquire new customers) than maintain old ones. You’d think this approach would backfir
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by Uehreka 4y ago
We have a ton of evidence that the catastrophic outcomes are more likely than the innocuous outcomes, so “equally weighting” their likelihood and commissioning research on that basis seems misguided.
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by Uehreka 4y ago
> When running for office in most places, being considered wealthy or coming from a wealthy family is a considerable hurdle to overcome I wouldn’t call it a major hurdle. Many voters have inconsistent beliefs: They may think wealth is a
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Part of the problem is that if the job doesn’t pay well, it attracts people who are independently wealthy and who are more likely to represent the interests of the wealthy. For most wealthy politicians, the bulk of their wealth comes from a
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Can we just chill on the whole “using this single word incorrectly breaks your whole argument” thing? A lot of folks on HN end posts about a company with a sentence like “Disclaimer: I used to work for X”. This language (probably taken from
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by Uehreka 4y ago
I agree with you on this, but I don’t think it’s being underestimated or underappreciated. WASM comes up in almost every design discussion I have with people where we’re considering doing heavyweight data processing or graphics stuff in the
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by Uehreka 4y ago
So I clicked that link, saw “open source” and went “Oh crap, there was an open way to write, compile and run Flash and we ditched it?!” But then I read on and realized: No, this is an open source tool to compile C/C++ code to run on Fl
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Yeah, elites really feel like a sort of “Schroedinger’s enemy”. If people oppose the argument you can claim that they’re standing up for billionaires who don’t care about them and don’t need their support. If the reception is friendly it mi
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by Uehreka 4y ago
It is outrageously painful. Half of the craft of working in Unity is knowing which kinds of operations will trigger a 15 minute re-import and basically scheduling your day so that you have other things you can do while that’s happening. It
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by Uehreka 4y ago
From the known issues tab: > iOS Safari is reported to not support multiple background-blend-modes Since iOS Chrome is really just an iOS Safari webview, that means it won't work there either.
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by Uehreka 4y ago
If your company (or personal LLC) is only making $3000/year in revenue, you can use Unity for free (the threshold where you need Unity Pro is $100K/year). So even if fewer people are doing those kinds of “nights and weekends passi
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by Uehreka 4y ago
The problem is, it is to the advantage of every manager who is not laying people off to say “Absolutely not”. Every employee is aware that managers have this incentive, so anything other than “Absolutely not” is likely to mean “Yes”. There
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by Uehreka 4y ago
I’ve had a lot of fun playing with Disco Diffusion prompts, but I agree that the people excited about “a generation of prompt artists” are a bit misguided. Soon an AI will emerge that can come up with “better” prompts than you, and the “art
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by Uehreka 4y ago
He was right, but he was also years early. It took Apple 5-ish years after that (I’m assuming this conversation was around 2009) to ship iCloud Drive, and then some more years to add things like shared folders (it took them two tries I thin
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by Uehreka 4y ago
I get the desire to ask that question, but it also feels like the main thing Copilot saves me is energy, which can’t be quantified in a very useful way. You’ll just have to take our words for it. Like, writing a really boring unit test migh
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by Uehreka 4y ago
It would be super silly and probably against every spec ever written, but I’d love to be able to plug a digital signage Raspberry Pi into a TV and not need any other cables thanks to Power-over-Ethernet-over-HDMI.
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Ehhhh… I think it’s good (for us) that they do this, but I don’t think it’s a free ad (contrary to popular belief, not all news is good news, and this is bad news) and any sort of conversion rate on recruitment is probably vanishingly small
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by Uehreka 4y ago
As a former teacher who is currently by all accounts a fairly capable software developer, this saying drives me up a wall. I took 2 years out of my life to work for almost nothing so I could share my love of math and programming with the ne
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Sounds awesome! Punish the people benefitting most from the fraud (the actual fraudsters as opposed to the people being paid a commission to advertise) and provide an incentive for them to police their ad agencies and influencers to not let
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Not really. If you could be sued for putting back a shopping cart the wrong way, no one would put them back at all, and everyone would understand why.
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by Uehreka 4y ago
We already have laws for this and they work, so no need for hemming and hawing. They’re why ads for stock brokers and such have to say things like “investment carries risk” and “past performance is no indication of future returns”. It’s pos
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Given that Miegakure has been “coming soon” for over ten years (maybe the dev initially planned it as a 10-year-game, but if so I wish he would’ve said so when people asked when it was coming) I’m going to suggest putting a hold on deciding

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