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by atonse 2y ago
A lot of it will be a nothing burger. I’ve read that due to the abundance of natural gas, it’s simply not economical for companies to mine for coal or burn it. So I doubt many companies will be firing up new coal plants. But then again, was
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by atonse 2y ago
That was the Roslyn project! Yes they were also excited that it would allow more devs to hook into the computer and also enhance it.
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by atonse 2y ago
Yeah funny to watch the mechs slide, all the kinds of things the young whippersnappers nowadays will never witness. Plus all the weird behavior with packet loss. You could see each player's ping and PL numbers in the server player list
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by atonse 2y ago
I played in Tribes 1 tournaments ... I never had a computer powerful enough for Tribes 2 – it had a very bumpy launch, remember? A lot of C++ exceptions, etc. But Tribes 1 was incredible in how smoothly it handled "larger" servers
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by atonse 2y ago
When I bought my new MBP, I was wondering whether to just upgrade the memory to 48GB thinking that it will become more likely that I will run local models in the next 3-4 year cycle of this laptop. So I took the leap and just upgraded the m
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by atonse 2y ago
This was also surprising to me – C# is a really awesome and modern language. I happened to be doing a lot of C# and .NET dev when all this transition was happening, and it was very cool to be able to run .NET in Linux. C# is a powerful lang
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by atonse 2y ago
I used to play games like Starsiege (the mech game) on dialup. With our 250ms pings, your brain just learned to compensate for the delay and click that much earlier to shoot. But yeah, those lucky people with their DSL modems and 60ms pings
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by atonse 2y ago
Is there anything inherently noble about programming if not to solve a real world problem? If they were doing it for an exam where their skills were being evaluated, that’s one thing. But if they were doing it as a means to an end, does it
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by atonse 2y ago
This is exactly why I describe HN as “my home on the internet” These are my fellow people that will happily watch a 20 or 40 min video about how dishwashers work, or his more recent video about replicating old style Christmas lights.
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by atonse 2y ago
Yeah I get a little excited when I see an overripe banana in my house cuz I know my wife’s going to make banana nut bread and we’re gonna finish it all in an hour.
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by atonse 2y ago
My roast: Roast You've spent so much time discussing Apple vs Microsoft that Tim Cook and Satya Nadella probably have a joint restraining order against you. Your comments about HTTPS everywhere suggest you're the kind of person wh
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by atonse 2y ago
Probably prioritizing their revenue generating products over ones that may have had very little revenue.
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by atonse 2y ago
Just set it up and it was incredibly smooth. As you said, it's a fork. So it even offered to copy over all my settings/extensions. Let's see how it goes.
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by atonse 2y ago
Is there a particular use case where you'd need the extra (I'm assuming you're wanting this for on the go use cases, otherwise you'd probably use a hub at your "home" location)
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by atonse 2y ago
Does cursor support vscode type extensions and LSP etc, or am I thinking about this the wrong way?
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by atonse 2y ago
Am I just using the wrong model and stack? Because the Copilot story with elixir leaves a lot to be desired. At best, it will complete the occasional map keys or 2-3 lines here and there. It very rarely writes a whole function correctly But
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by atonse 2y ago
Yeah for a while I felt that a valid counter-argument was "modems are iterating faster than laptop cycles so you don't want to be stuck with an older modem" – but with 5G modems and all the architecture changing over to IP wi
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by atonse 2y ago
But neither does your dismissal of OP’s point help those people either. The damage has already been done. This is an internet comment thread at best. Understanding that people aren’t 100% evil also helps you understand “how are ANY of the l
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by atonse 2y ago
Yeah I miss the Schmidt days!!
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by atonse 2y ago
I wonder if google discloses their search ad revenue vs cloud revenue etc. I have to imagine that their search revenue is declining with their search being nearly unusable these days, and with AI. This is a great way to milk all their payin
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by atonse 2y ago
AI can also answer any question in your own language. Imagine all of stack overflow seamlessly translated to, say, Thai or Vietnamese.
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by atonse 2y ago
Right and in this case the doc hadn’t called in many days which I feel was negligent on their part, leaving the patient to self analyze.
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by atonse 2y ago
I totally agree that we’re not the audience. But when a patient gets a result and their doc doesn’t call them for nearly a week, the patient is left to fill in the blanks in the worst way possible. In this scenario, the practice screwed up
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by atonse 2y ago
But take something like quantum computing… even “conventional” computing has gotten to a point where there are a vanishingly small number of companies that can do anything with it. ASML is the only company that can do EUV lithography, right
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by atonse 2y ago
How significantly could it actually change? Maybe the process model, etc but I doubt most of the layout algorithms etc have changed much.
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by atonse 2y ago
To an extent maybe. We were ready to invest in HC tools, but they were so damn brittle once we actually got past the smooth apple-like marketing and actually used them. Plenty of odd, not-well-documented behavior, random crashes, even the c
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by atonse 2y ago
Eh not quite. I switched off Chrome many years ago (on macOS) because it had gotten so bloated and was constantly running my fans. I remember reading that Chrome had worked on fixing a lot of that bloat (so did FF). But Safari was a breath
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by atonse 2y ago
Exactly, I am totally fine with us spending some tax dollars to try out these absolutely insane ideas. But this isn't a matter of "let's spend more" because the pool of people that can see an absolutely insane idea, and
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by atonse 2y ago
Just to answer your question (not lend any legitimacy), https://doge.gov has been publishing all the details. I've looked through it a few times to answer the same curiosity you have (I want more specifics, not just the stu
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by atonse 2y ago
This is (sort of) how many defense contractors already are run. Ones like Booz Allen, which are more like 500 small businesses (each one generally, but not always, mapping to one gov contract) and where the leadership work together but have

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