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by bkanber 7y ago
Yes, exactly! Everything old is new again.
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by bkanber 7y ago
I've settled on a compromise in this debate. Halfway between monoliths and microservices is the shared-library model. Instead of creating a microservice for your image processing, break it out into a standalone NPM or Composer or whate
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by bkanber 7y ago
I, like many hobbyist gamedevs, have: 1) built fully bespoke games, 2) built my own game engine, 3) built games using low-ish level libraries (like phaser.js), 4) used game engines. I offer this history to show that I too enjoy writing my o
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by bkanber 7y ago
Actually, the key point is that they aren't using perplexity. They built a chatbot that aims to maximize "SSA" (Sensibleness and Specificity Average), and then found that SSA is correlated with perplexity.
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I finally get to use Genetic Algorithms in production(hallie.io)
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by bkanber 7y ago
I've been on Royal Caribbean multiple times and the food is very good.
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by bkanber 7y ago
Those piles of food are feeding a small city for a week, and probably more efficiently too.
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by bkanber 7y ago
I practice surgical teams because of TMMM .
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by bkanber 7y ago
These are hilarious, thanks for sharing.
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by bkanber 7y ago
It is confirmed that it was due to the aerodynamic load. Without a nosecone, the craft decelerates hard. The fuel sloshes towards the front of the tanks, ruptures them, then explodes. It all happens very fast.
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by bkanber 7y ago
PG defined haters as being obsessive and uncritical . By definition, someone who actually investigates is critical, therefore not a hater.
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by bkanber 7y ago
No, Baremetrics is a Stripe-et-al analytics service.
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by bkanber 7y ago
I'm in a program in NYC called https://www.venwise.com/ , it's a moderated CxO peer group that meets for a long session every month and does exactly this.
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by bkanber 7y ago
I've been a Godot hobbyist for years. Big factors for me at first were that it's open source and that it's lightweight. I started using it for those reasons, and then I found that the node system "clicks" much faste
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by bkanber 7y ago
I've often felt this way myself. Representatives should be more local, and should really know their constituents so that they can represent them. I wonder how it would work in practice, though. That's a lot of Representatives to m
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Buy Like You'd Build(burakkanber.com)
3 points by bkanber 7y ago|0 comments
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by bkanber 7y ago
It's really just a phrase used nearly-rhetorically in order to convey the vast scope of a thing. Everyone understands that the number of atoms in the universe is a huge number, so it's a good benchmark. When people use this phrase
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by bkanber 7y ago
How do you fly?
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by bkanber 7y ago
This is a toy I built a few years back. No special tech, no machine learning, no server, just a little JS app that you can complain to or curse at and get an affirming response from.
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Show HN: A Private Place to Vent(burakkanber.com)
5 points by bkanber 7y ago|1 comments
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by bkanber 7y ago
I would bet that there's more unsprung mass in this configuration, but it's hard to say without knowing the details of the motors themselves. If each motor is, say, 80 pounds or heavier, then this configuration would likely increa
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by bkanber 7y ago
There's no claim that the cells are operating at 26% efficiency; they just claim that, in aggregate, the system is 20% more efficient than traditional systems. There is an important distinction there.
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by bkanber 7y ago
The weight is saved by using in-wheel motors, no axle, no differential, and so on. It's definitely a gimmick, but I'm not willing to dismiss them out-of-hand. I've designed and built several hybrid and electric cars with team
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by bkanber 7y ago
Yes, the in-wheel motors are at the center of that tradeoff. Several major auto companies have played with using in-wheel motors but they aren't proven in production yet, as there are still several problems to solve there. I assume Tes
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by bkanber 7y ago
I agree it's a gimmick -- a very expensive one. That said, it can offset the energy required to run climate control, and if you're leaving your car parked in the sun daily, it can add up. So I'm not willing to dismiss the ide
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by bkanber 7y ago
There's this claim on the site: > In fact, our solar cells provide about 20% more energy than traditional ones. The numbers they provide are best-case. There's also this: > Someone driving the national average of 20,000 km&#
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by bkanber 7y ago
Because you can't really get that much solar power out of it. This car gains only 12 km of range for every hour it spends in direct sunlight.
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by bkanber 7y ago
I want them to succeed, but it will be difficult. Looks like they're following Tesla's model of starting with the top-of-market so they can "fundraise" via early adopter sales. Will they ever be able to hit mass producti
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by bkanber 7y ago
Counterpoint: I got a Pixel 2 while also switching from T-Mobile to Fi. Surprisingly only took like 20 minutes to transfer my number over and get the phone set up. The only problem I've had with the phone is the dumb USB to 3.5mm audio
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by bkanber 7y ago
Why are you horrified at a design that works well, scales well, is resilient enough for its use case, and is low cost? The whole point of an engineering design process is to find designs that meet these types of requirements. Honestly, this

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