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by beachy 2y ago
No blog posts coming but yes, a port of lotus 123 that worked beautifully on terminals of the day particularly3279 colour terminal. The premise was that people were already pushing the limits and building incredibly elaborate systems on spr
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by beachy 2y ago
Say what you will about MS (and I said a lot when I worked at Lotus on the mainframe port of Lotus 1-2-3) but they knew what was important for success. A spreadsheet on it's own is a thing of technical beauty but for market domination
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by beachy 2y ago
> The only upside of storing blobs in the database is transactional semantics. Plenty more advantages than that. E.g for SaaS you can deep copy an entire tenant including their digital assets. Much easier copying with just "insert i
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by beachy 2y ago
Pure anecdata - I bought a hyundai instead of a Tesla because of Elon. And I know 2 people who hate EVs because of Elon. Brands matter and when the brand is tightly bound to someone who emits untrammeled narcissism that can't be other
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by beachy 2y ago
Which contributors would get the money? Would you allocate it according to number of commits? Would it include corp contributors?
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by beachy 2y ago
> 50 years of Moore's law improvements and we're back to batch processing. It never went away. I did some consulting years ago for a large telco. They had an overnight billing batch process that was obviously critical to the co
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by beachy 2y ago
Foogolf.com, golf simulation on the web.
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by beachy 3y ago
I'm working on a golf startup atm, so this is relevant. These are certainly generated, as virtually every golf club has an insane and unworkable head, just like Midjourney. AI doesn't seem to focus on that level of detail. Take th
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by beachy 3y ago
Seems like you'd want a special purpose Google account then, rather than your personal one with your financial spreadsheets in it.
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by beachy 3y ago
Some kind of electromagnetic sensor does seem like a way to go. Not sure of the practicalities of magnetising/ keeping magnetised a golf club head though. And ideally it would work with all of your clubs or at least all your metal club
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by beachy 3y ago
> persuading people to work for little or no money for the experience and the greatness of the purpose and the final result seems like the common pattern between Kubrik and others like Jobs. Peter Jackson got started the same way, making
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by beachy 3y ago
Yep, the sensor would need to be buried/encased in a mat. The club needs to make contact with the mat realistically (i.e. like taking a divot on a real grass surface). Most launch monitors today use high cameras or doppler radar. Neith
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by beachy 3y ago
The opportunity is for something that can accurately measure your golf swing without a ball. Optishot is not that: > Since no ball data is recorded, the OptiShot 2 cannot accurately read how your club impacts the ball, so if you top the
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by beachy 3y ago
I've been looking for a sensor that can accurately detect a golf club sweeping over the top of it (how close, how quickly, arc of swing). The idea being to create a golf launch monitor that doesn't require hitting a ball, so you c
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by beachy 3y ago
Ha ha, it came from Wikipedia so possibly.
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by beachy 3y ago
> Mark’s idea didn’t replace Ethernet—and that was its brilliance. By allowing store-and-forward switching between existing CSMA/CD coax-based Ethernets, bridges allowed easy upgrades of existing LANs. This reminds me of John Carmac
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by beachy 3y ago
We had a single apple II at our school. It was responsible for me failing most of my classes and getting into programming. Since there was only a single machine, mostly we had to submit our code on cards. Not quite punch cards with chads bu
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by beachy 3y ago
That's not usually how business works. Many reasons, but talent is still hard to find and employers don't want to piss off someone who can find staff for them. And it's likely against the agreement the recruiter has with the
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by beachy 3y ago
I don't think it's a fuck off message at all. That would be just "fuck off". Why encourage recruiters if you didn't want to deal with them? To me it says "don't just shotgun me with every rando candidate y
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by beachy 3y ago
I particularly love this: > Are you an excellent recruiter? We get a lot of inbounds. To help us qualify your ability to match our needs, please send us your strongest candidate, a singular champion, as an exemplar of your talent hunting
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by beachy 3y ago
Makes sense. And with LLMs training on what is publicly available, this becomes self-fulfilling, because you'll get better answers from AI about what is popular - not what is technically superior.
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by beachy 3y ago
For historical precedent see Xerox Parc.
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by beachy 3y ago
Why does the web page presenting this complaint take 140 requests to serve and transfer 10Mb? Same reasons - bloat over time, developers with powerful machines and network connections who don't notice the impact, users with huge device
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by beachy 3y ago
I was up cleaning a wasps nest out of our panels yesterday (not because it was affecting the panels, just causing trouble for the people sitting under them). The panels are still working fine but 10 years of accumulation of leaves and organ
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by beachy 3y ago
Flying 50 years ago? Rows of people (much/most of the plane) smoking, with a flimsy curtain dividing them from the on-smoking section. Getting off with your clothes smelling like an ashtray.
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by beachy 3y ago
I don't know jack about crypto but surely we shouldn't expect a distro provider to be vetting financial instruments?
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by beachy 3y ago
I feel the opposite is true. Individual reviews are ever closer to marketing, astroturfing on today's internet. This is an honest view of multiple products, distinguishing them on price rather than subjective/anecdotal factors. I
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by beachy 3y ago
Go and look at Reddit again. Every post has a little avatar of the poster right next to it. Some of them are quite funky and some are offensive. The text of the username is bold - bolder than the post content itself. In HN the username is s
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by beachy 3y ago
Oops. I was really meaning no badges, karma etc. showing next to people's posts but forgot you can see it by clicking in.
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by beachy 3y ago
Downvoted but true. HN's pedestrian design makes for a much better experience. - no flair for usernames - means people concentrate on the message not the messenger - no visible karma for anyone but the top few - means people don't

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