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by aniijbod 4y ago
That darned movie again!
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by aniijbod 4y ago
> Ironic that CBDC systems are being built on a technology exclusively aimed at eliminating the C in that acronym. Thanks Pjkundert, you're correct I should have said 'first C". What I meant was that it was ironic that CBD
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by aniijbod 4y ago
Ironic that CBDC systems are being built on a technology exclusively aimed at eliminating the C in that acronym.
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by aniijbod 4y ago
Thanks Gus!
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Ask HN: Where are the Hacker News titles 'before they were edited'?
3 points by aniijbod 4y ago|2 comments
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by aniijbod 4y ago
I was inspired to post this by watching the following talk: "Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022) https://youtu.be/8Ab3ArE8W3s
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Ask HN: Has anyone ever used (or asked) AI to design a programming language?
2 points by aniijbod 4y ago|2 comments
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by aniijbod 4y ago
Eno's most celebrated musical experiments were not exclusively confined to ambient music. He was also involved in a project which asked the question: what would it sound like if you created an orchestra which used standard, established
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by aniijbod 4y ago
I agree with your claim that this was something that I posted as both facetious and sarcastic. I apologise. The word 'inland' in this context just seemed to be a wholly redundant adjective to use to describe a lake, such that it s
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by aniijbod 4y ago
> Pakistan's floods have created 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images Is an 'inland lake' different to an 'offshore lake'?
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by aniijbod 4y ago
Silly me, I saw that title and I genuinely thought this: "it's gonna be some ingeniously titled PR puff cunningly contrived to get me to read about what was behind Valve's decision to rename their 'Source' game engi
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by aniijbod 4y ago
But why?
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by aniijbod 5y ago
Most of the comments that I can see below are restricted to discussing the impact of announcement and demo on the Unity vs. Unreal situation. However, it turns out that here are other very relevant and important issues which arise from the
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by aniijbod 5y ago
They'll be here soon, Ziggy.
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Viewer grasp of nonexplanatory film affects character empathy and much more(dovepress.com)
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Truly Intelligent A.I. Must Have a “Theory of Mind”(psychologytoday.com)
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by aniijbod 5y ago
Maybe I should hesitate a little in calling Javascript an 'early' language but... NaN?
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Ask HN: Which features of early programming languages surprisingly survived?
4 points by aniijbod 5y ago|6 comments
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by aniijbod 5y ago
Has anyone here looked into the claim that both iconic works were inspired by ideas from the very same book, Bertrand Russell's 1931 classic "The Scientific Outlook"? Russell himself covers certain aspects of this in his &quo
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Sony Launch EV: Will Other Techs? Apple, Meta, MS, Google, Amazon, Netflix?(autocar.co.uk)
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by aniijbod 5y ago
In the crypto world, there seems to have emerged an (in my mind, quite socially healthy and highly commendable) institution/tradition/ritual of sending a text or WhatsApp message just saying "Gm!" (meaning "Good mor
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by aniijbod 5y ago
Why?
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by aniijbod 5y ago
I'm also curious about this. The pre-blockchain history of distributed ledgers sounds like it might be an important topic in this context: https://medium.com/blockstreethq/before-blockchain-there-was...
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by aniijbod 5y ago
"All Blockchains are “better” than one another" Yes, but are there any (other?) "non-blockchains" that are better as distributed ledgers"? I'm assuming here that you didn't count Google Sheets as being a B
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by aniijbod 5y ago
That's exactly why I put the word "better" in scare quotes.
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Ask HN: Is there Distributed Ledger technology that's “better” than blockchain?
6 points by aniijbod 5y ago|10 comments
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by aniijbod 5y ago
Americans would be utterly baffled as to why so many boomer Brits will see that (originally Carter and Reagan, now changed) headline and automatically think of George and Jack (rather than Jimmy and Ronald) before they click on the link.
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Nature paper: ‘compact’ cameras not dead yet? Some self-assembly required(eurekalert.org)
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by aniijbod 5y ago
The very first thing that Hal Abelson says and puts up on the chalkboard in his very first SICP talk (Lecture 1A 6.001 'Structure and Interpretation') in 1986 is that "Computer Science is not about either science, or computer
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by aniijbod 6y ago
"very quickly changes to vastly different terrain" I anticipate potential use-cases ('level/scene generation' in game content creation) where this actually turns out to be the most valuable aspect of the output. I c

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