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by bckr 2y ago
> and a service that can’t tolerate any downtime is (theoretically) a service that is worth a lot to a lot of people- which is perfect for monetizing. The connection makes sense but one must not think in this order. One must think “peop
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by bckr 2y ago
Government is a good one. Healthcare is another. Anything geography-locked. I’m not saying no one should create a highly available web service. I am saying that this is one of those things that techies assume, and shouldn’t, because it’s a
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by bckr 2y ago
> But websites need to be up 24/7, cron jobs need to run on the weekend and backend servers need to be up to support both Tech entrepreneurs should give more weight to choosing markets that don’t require this
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by bckr 2y ago
I’ll have to check that one out
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by bckr 2y ago
Don’t worry, we can create a priesthood caste with secret knowledge of technology whose purpose is to guide the human race toward a brighter tomorrow! Maybe someone could write a foundational science fiction novel about this.
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by bckr 2y ago
For a contemporary example, what is the message of a painting of a watermelon? It could be merely that watermelons are beautiful. Or it could be that the artist supports the people of Palestine. For a less extreme example, think about the p
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by bckr 2y ago
I actually almost fainted laughing when I read this and then some of the coping responses on X. I needed this today. What a good move.
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by bckr 2y ago
> Let it be art, not propaganda. My friend I have some news for you. Edit: almost ended it there but remembered what website I’m on. I don’t think there’s a material difference between art and propaganda. The art you like is merely the p
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by bckr 2y ago
> Ganon I was wondering what an action-adventure villain was doing in the dictionary > Ganot Oh, that sounds more like a real person.
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by bckr 2y ago
I'm not being flippant, actually. I would pay to have a reliable source of information. I'm also overwhelmed at the thought of how to make such a thing work.
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by bckr 2y ago
Might be time to go back to the encyclopedia business model
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by bckr 2y ago
Hype cycles ride on real progress that’s first blown out of proportion, then under-appreciated. LLMs are still magic AF. We are just so tired of hearing about them and how they’re going to change everything.
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by bckr 2y ago
It’s gonna require N more hype cycles (bearing in mind that usefulness is the expected endpoint of the hype cycle)
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by bckr 2y ago
This was wonderful. Extremely hackery. I did skim the last half, because it’s largely code.
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by bckr 2y ago
Hmm. Given that Textbooks are all you need, I’m not sure this holds. Maybe “don’t focus so much on organizing your inputs, instead focus on many quality input reps”?
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by bckr 2y ago
Drive it in larger and larger closed courses. Expand to neighboring areas with consent of the communities involved. Agree on limited conditions until enough data has been gathered to expand those conditions.
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by bckr 2y ago
This is different mechanism from the sound laser or SASER. The sound laser works like a laser, with a cavity where particles are bounced back and forth to stimulate a highly coherent beam of waves. I’m not sure if this new mechanism is defi
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by bckr 2y ago
Right. I considered getting a new game console. Then I decided to just get a controller and see what I could play on my laptop.
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by bckr 2y ago
DuckStation + $50 Xbox wireless controller + MacBook Air = I’m not buying a PS5 anytime soon
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by bckr 2y ago
Ah, I should keep watching that. I don’t think I finished the first season yet. Maybe because it’s horrifying and bleak
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by bckr 2y ago
Thanks! I’ll work from this going forward, maybe check it against Wikipedia as a popularity heuristic. One thing I realized today is that, if I’m doing an “ideal year of gaming”, there’s a limit to the hours I could spend in such a year, wh
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by bckr 2y ago
The thing that has stuck with me about monads is that operations which you can chain like // Python new_foo = foo.bar().baz() Work as / can be defined as monads, if you get a Foo out of each of them. This at least gives me so
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by bckr 2y ago
I’m doing a deep dive into the video games of the year 2000. The plan is to make a threejs site where I can display all my favorite games with models of their original packaging and instruction manuals. An interesting aspect of the research
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by bckr 2y ago
Tidy first! Make the necessary change easy to make Then make the necessary change I’m paraphrasing Kent Beck
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by bckr 2y ago
Would love to hear some perspectives on this. I worked at a YC company a couple years ago. They did not say they were 7-day-weekers, but the culture encouraged it. There were 2 planning meetings per week, one on Thursday and one on Monday.
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by bckr 2y ago
This seems like it answers its own question. In Flask or Django you add a route that does some health checks. I don’t understand what this is asking. Ask HN shouldn’t link out
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by bckr 2y ago
Yeah not sure if there’s a way to activate chat on mobile either. Some said hey “to me” but all I could do was tap around and hope they could see I was acknowledging them
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by bckr 2y ago
Another way of looking at it: Once you get specific enough about the problem you’re facing, the questions and their answers are no longer constrained to a single domain. Yet another, perhaps closer to what you mean: If you get so focused on
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Tell HN: Sometimes it just takes a long time
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by bckr 2y ago
Stimulate? Or simulate? My learning path went something like this: (The dark ages of data processing for personal use) - Use a text file: Fine, you have to write your own read & write logic, but for small amounts of data this works. - U

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