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by bmacho 3mo ago
> I believe that's by design: applications are encouraged to upgrade often. I'm not sure what's your thought process here. I'm not saying they should have a release every 2 years instead of every half a year, but that
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by bmacho 3mo ago
The numbers have become meaningless noise already. This release should've been called 26.1, then 27.0, 27.1, 28.0 and so on. Year.version. How Canonical does it with Ubuntu. The current numbering scheme is annoying and distracting, bea
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by bmacho 3mo ago
> If you could time-travel back to your 5y old self, would you prefer to be taught by AI tutor given the current state o/t art, I don't know about Ello or whether is it better than human tutors yet. > How do you see peer-to-
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by bmacho 3mo ago
What about: > The Zig foundation had a continuing disagreement about how Bun was using Zig (their methods and the resulting code). Other projects that follow the advices of the Zig foundation more closely won't have the same problem
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by bmacho 3mo ago
In practice, yes. In theory a machines can do about everything a human can, but better and cheaper. One of the main constraint for education is available tutor time, see e.g. Bloom's 2 sigma experiment. Obviously there are many pitfall
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by bmacho 3mo ago
> It is. I think the professor here was being naive, but I appreciate his optimism. When I was in college (in the 90s), take home exams allowed a knowledgeable student to really shine. I’m not saying that they weren’t eminently cheatable
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by bmacho 3mo ago
I wholeheartadly believe that new generations can't be forever better in everything than the previous ones. There will come a time of stagnation or even decline. So there is absolutely nothing wrong in decline . It's mathematic
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by bmacho 3mo ago
Why would you care what the guy was thinking writing that comment? Do you know him? He might as well just be a stochastic parrot. Just like with other media (movie, book, etc), the product is the end product, in this case a joke or a thou
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by bmacho 3mo ago
Bad video, I noped out after 2 mins, it is annoying and has a very low information density. Anyone uses a yt video -> information service that is fast, free, reliable etc?
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by bmacho 3mo ago
You're wrong. You can't choose a random player and give them unfair advantage, and argue that it makes the game more enjoyable (for any type of game). It's not what audiences desire. It actually makes games less enjoyable, fo
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by bmacho 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Phillips
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by bmacho 3mo ago
https://knowledge-centre-translation-interpretation.ec.europ... > This style guide is intended primarily for English-language authors and translators, both in-house and freelance, working for the European Commission. It speci
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by bmacho 3mo ago
Human winter.
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by bmacho 3mo ago
what was it then
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by bmacho 3mo ago
Wrong decimal tho. Why isn't there an en-EU or en-ISO locale that has: - yyyy-mm-dd - SI units - 1,234.56 number format
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95%-ile isn't that good (2020)(danluu.com)
2 points by bmacho 3mo ago|1 comments
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by bmacho 3mo ago
Previous conversations 3 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38560345 110 points, 181 comments 4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30411160 166 points, 156 comments 6 years ago ht
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by bmacho 3mo ago
And here's an archive for that defunct web page https://web.archive.org/web/20210118175621if_/https://www.th...
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by bmacho 3mo ago
> But apparently you can buy things with promises Even better: if you buy things that don't lose their value overtime (mostly anything apart from food, car, electronics, services) and you buy them at price, they're free. You gi
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Clean Code: Second Edition Critique(bugzmanov.github.io)
3 points by bmacho 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bmacho 3mo ago
> This page seems like an actual critique while the blog post doesn't offer much of one, am I missing something? I meant to submit < https://bugzmanov.github.io/cleancode-critique/clean_code_se... >, but HN
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Clean Code: Second Edition Critique(bugzmanov.github.io)
4 points by bmacho 3mo ago|3 comments
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Clean Code – Critical Analysis(bugzmanov.github.io)
3 points by bmacho 3mo ago|0 comments
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Stroustrup's Rule (2024)(buttondown.com)
126 points by bmacho 3mo ago|35 comments
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by bmacho 4mo ago
It probably can't use all the truth in its content window, not yet anyway. E.g. you put a graph in its content window, and you ask it to find a Hamiltonian cycle, can it do it? Probably this could be a next step in the future for more
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by bmacho 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation_(book)
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by bmacho 4mo ago
@mods: the title or the URL are wrong. They either meant to post https://wizardzines.com/comics/no-feigning-surprise/ or https://wizardzines.com/comics/surprise/ with a title that has an
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by bmacho 4mo ago
You can flag malicious websites. You can even email HN moderators about them
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by bmacho 4mo ago
They have 2 options: - Put their ~1kb of text on a ~0kb website, make it cacheable, make hosting it free, make downloading and rendering it instantenous, make it accessible and let users read it comfortably - Set up a CAPTCHA and ma
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by bmacho 4mo ago
Some animals are cute and can simulate human children. Other animals are capable of some tasks, like dogs searching for drugs, bombs or people, or helping the blind. Most animals however are kept for their bodies: meat, milk, egg, fur, skin

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