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by boesboes 3y ago
I've been reading into this today coincidentally. It seems the main idea was that register based machines are faster, mostly due to the use of local variables in many languages mapping to register and memory latency when the stack is i
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by boesboes 3y ago
At this point, I feel twitter & musk no longer belong on HN. Unless there is some technical story atleast.
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by boesboes 3y ago
I liked the post. as a novice with fpgas and hdls, I find posts like this very approachable. Refreshing tbh
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by boesboes 3y ago
Maybe you are not the target audience? I found it a decently informative read myself. Why is it necessary to understand how verilog is exactly transformed into gates? Sounds like gatekeeping to me, but please enlighten me. I have in the pas
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by boesboes 3y ago
Nah, they want us to think they do. But bot clicks are clicks and can be charged. I read somewhere that 80-90% of facebook ad clicks were bots. That seems inline with the traffic I see on some commercial website I work on. Most traffic is f
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by boesboes 3y ago
The only non-functional cookies are from google.com. If they got rid of the captcha, no cookies, no warning nescesarry. This is either just lazy or a dick move.
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by boesboes 3y ago
Also being discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864319
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by boesboes 3y ago
Also being discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864319
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by boesboes 3y ago
Are there even humans involved? I mean, I've seen some interactions with YT 'support' which clearly was just a bot pretending to be a human. Anyway, this won't stop until we stop using youtube. Not sure how to do that th
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by boesboes 3y ago
I loved Redmine. Best issue tracker and planner I've ever used. Even the git integration was servicable! But these days everything (work related) is on Github and while it is pretty mediocre for issue tracking, it is better then having
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by boesboes 3y ago
It was the endless login popups and constant rerouting when in traffic that did it for me. Google maps just suck because, first of all, it is a Google product meant to harvest data and trick people into making accounts if you ask me..
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by boesboes 3y ago
It's the natural evolution of content marketing & SEO. I work at an IT company where we have ~15 ppl building and managing a few SaaS apps for the travel industry, and we have 50-60 ppl doing marketing as a service for our customer
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by boesboes 3y ago
Wow, 3 years, that's a long way. Congratz on making it this far and good luck on the road still ahead. 39yo here, just stopped shy of a full burn-out & after a month with a lot of confusion, crying and panic decided to hand in my n
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by boesboes 3y ago
Works well, looks good, but the comment section makes me sad. It's like a weird mix of reddit, hackernews and linkedin comments.
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by boesboes 3y ago
I've tried using PG FTS in a real application, it didn't scale very well. It worked well for 100s-1000s of records, but after that queries would quickly go from a few ms to like 500ms. And another 400ms for highlighting. Mind you,
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by boesboes 3y ago
This is an important point, real life performance looks nothing like benchmarks in most cases. From my personal experience: benchmarks showed Jruby was MUCH MUCH faster the 'normal' Cruby. But try running a basic rails application
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by boesboes 3y ago
The actual benchmark: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... EDIT: fwiw, classic Fortran is twice as fast as java :P As is Rust, but that's less funny to me
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by boesboes 3y ago
And even fine-tuning using AI causes the models to quickly degrade I've seen here previously. Perhaps we are already at peak of these LLMs now and the next gen won't come because all training data will be poisened with AI generate
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by boesboes 3y ago
That's not quite the same. I'm not required to make an account with Google to go to the library. Being registered by a government agency and being tracked by multi-national that is famous for abusing tracking data are on a differe
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by boesboes 3y ago
I've recently come to the realisation that this happens in the streets too. Every shop in my town is shouting at you to come in a buy crap with flashy signs and displays. Then recently I was in Münster (Germany) where they have some ol
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by boesboes 3y ago
yeah, hard disagree. Once you burn out, you are way too late to just find a new job. I'm currently going though something close to a burn out, things like making coffee can make me cry. Haven't slept more than 3 hours in a month a
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by boesboes 3y ago
The reason this comes up so often, is that this kind of advancement is mostly owned by the few and used to further increase the wealth/power gap. For instance, at my current employer we have about 30 content marketeers. Their job could
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by boesboes 3y ago
yes, but the point they make is that it is getting worse due to the warming climate. Tropical fungi in England for instance.
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by boesboes 3y ago
Ha, you'd think that. I get 100's of 'report' daily from people reporting booking confimations & invoices as spam :)
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by boesboes 4y ago
None? Any VPN provider _will_ be subject to law enforcement in their jurisdiction.
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by boesboes 4y ago
They still have plenty of time to cripple their UI though
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by boesboes 4y ago
This is not news, nor is it 'hacker' content; I don't think this has a place on HN.
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by boesboes 4y ago
love it
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by boesboes 4y ago
Based on the crap they have been reselling thus far, I don't believe system76 can deliver quality hardware. I hope I'm wrong.
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by boesboes 4y ago
I haven't seen a 'normal' bulb in over 10 years. I only have LED lights and they are great. They used to be a bit shit yes, but over the past 5 years they have surpassed my expectations. I can't even find any that don&#x

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