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by alberth 2y ago
OT: it’s amazing how fewer bugs, inspects, etc exist today than when I was a kid. I still have vivid memories of car trips and the windowshield & the front of car - being completely covered with dead bugs. I have to imagine all those bu
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by alberth 2y ago
@nalgeon Do you plan to address the use cases in the SO post, or asked differently - what is the intended use case of this library? I tried to recreate it on your site (which is very cool btw in allowing the code to run in browser) and it s
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by alberth 2y ago
> Specifically relating to the Ryzen 9 9950X and the Ryzen 9 9900X, AMD has brought back their PPM Provisioning driver. Very interesting this driver is needed. Has there ever been a time in the past where a driver is needed just so the C
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by alberth 2y ago
Does this handle the special case of timezone changes (and local time discontinuity) that Jon Skeet famously documented? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtracti... And computerphile explains s
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by alberth 2y ago
I have a simple mind ... and I can't wrap my head around how they compensate for the huge lens flare from JWST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ieVkK-Cz0
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by alberth 2y ago
The two links below though, state otherwise: https://stripe.com/resources/more/merchant-id#:~:text=Since%... . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32855838
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by alberth 2y ago
> Most SaaS businesses today operate as their own merchant of record—Outseta included. We have our own Stripe account, and our customers purchase our products directly from us. Is that technically correct? I thought with Stripe, they are
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by alberth 2y ago
Is this effectively "Find My", but as a special purpose device?
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by alberth 2y ago
In tech, adoption follows a Power Law curve. If you’re not the top 1 (or 2) in what you do, your fighting for extremely small slices of market share.
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by alberth 2y ago
A corollary might be military special forces. The biggest most muscular individuals rarely make it through training eval. Even though you need to run with 70lb rucksack, it’s typically the fit & trim person (lighter body weight) who suc
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by alberth 2y ago
> Ghostty is still a private project. I plan to open source it one day and share it with more people but for now this is a private personal project. https://mitchellh.com/ghostty
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by alberth 2y ago
OT: I'm most excited by Ghostty (created by the founder of HashiCorp). https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh
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by alberth 2y ago
TIL about Dioxus https://dioxuslabs.com/
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by alberth 2y ago
No mention of ‘meter’ being the unit of measurement, make this like saying 3:14pm is related to pi. There’s no correlation between a continuous number and a unit of measure. That’s truly apples to oranges comparison. g can easily be express
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by alberth 2y ago
That’s why generics are allowed to be made 5-years later. It’s gives pharma those years to recoup the cost and make a profit. And then it can be mass produced as a generic by anyone.
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by alberth 2y ago
Isn’t the huge price to offset their upfront fixed cost? Similar to the old days when software was sold and delivered to you on a physical cdrom, and then saying “[your cdrom software] could be made for just $0.25 … why do you pay $1,000 fo
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by alberth 2y ago
Also consider you're asking this question to a forum of mostly developers. And developers love to build things. So be aware, you might be getting biased responses by people who don't have anything to lose if they are wrong.
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by alberth 2y ago
Perl dominated before Python, and had a massive library of modules via CPAN. Clearly Python eclipsed Perl. Just say'n.
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by alberth 2y ago
I've always wonder if our own human intelligence is limited by the language we speak and the base number system we use. E.g. Tonal languages allows individuals to express way more than Latin based languages. Sumerians used a Base-60 nu
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by alberth 2y ago
Take a look at Nim. You get C performance, with the readability of Python. https://nim-lang.org/
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by alberth 2y ago
Do you by chance know what LuaJIT does?
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by alberth 2y ago
No advice per se, but questions you'll want to consider as you read others posts: 1. why do you believe you can build it better? (even with the most amazing team) 2a. its easy to over-estimate the gains of a rewrite, and dramatically u
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by alberth 2y ago
Genuine question: how do you suggest for that code to be maintained long-term if the original team was just freelancers?
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by alberth 2y ago
> Apple is preparing two versions of the new Mac mini, both of which are codenamed J773. The first will use the base configuration of the M4 chip, similar to the component inside of the iPad Pro. A lot of reviewers were knocking the iPad
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by alberth 2y ago
Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41194045
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by alberth 2y ago
Why hasn't this always existed? I'm guessing because this topic is a "fractal". At a high-level, it appears super simple - but the more you zoom in, the more complex it becomes.
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by alberth 2y ago
Not being well versed in this area ... do you believe CHERI is providing any safety (or security) that macOS/iOS don't already have in place on Apple Silicon devices?
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by alberth 2y ago
> Integrated ad blocker, enabled by default. It’s the one thing Firefox can do that Chrome never will. How would that work exactly ... given that Google pays Mozilla $800M to be the default search engine just so that they can serve ads t
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by alberth 2y ago
Everything you described is extremely technical. Are you suggesting what you described above, 95% of global users care about? ... and that's why Firefox market share has gone down, because the general person wants a REGEX with live cod
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by alberth 2y ago
Why has Apple not brought this kind of hardware/software memory safety to their platform? They control the entire stack, even down to the silicon.

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