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by creamyhorror 2y ago
Yep, 75% coverage is too low for significant comprehension. You normally need 95% for decent comprehension and 98% for comfortable reading. The coverage required in Japanese (my target language) seems something like the most frequent 15,000
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
I think the era of solo indie devs releasing apps on Google Play is likely over (and the Apple Store might not be far behind). It's a burden even for companies. The days of the early 2010s when solo devs could make viral apps are long
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The Gombe Chimpanzee War(en.wikipedia.org)
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
The point is to pick a candidate from a big bunch, even if it's just through narrow trivia that tests recall and speed of thinking. So what if computers can solve leetcode problems? The companies that use leetcode never cared to switch
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
> the tools from computer science were useful for deciphering the more complex laws and regulations. I've sometimes thought that certain aspects of law (e.g. contracts) are very similar to the strict rule-based thinking required in
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
Karma aside, "having connections"/being "well-connected" is pretty much the equivalent in English. It's not bastardised at all; terms don't need to have the exact same cultural implications to be basically
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
"Seven at One Blow" is certainly not a proverb that everyone knows in English; it's the name of the fairytale in English, but not something that people use to mean "bamboozle". It's simply the case that Chinese
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
Yes, Taiyo Yuden discs were great. They actually pioneered CD-Rs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiyo_Yuden If only we had more high-quality companies like them that didn't get bought out or enshittify their produ
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
Alongside their general mismanagement under their President Yamaga[1] e.g. giving their management unsecured loans of company funds[2], they've been doing random crap like tomato farming.[3] They wouldn't have lasted so long witho
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
I think Google may just no longer want small/indie apps on the store. Only apps with sufficient monetary or corporate backing to have people test and maintain them. It's the end of an era for small developers. They can go submit t
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
- Ping Pong (not underrated, just less mentioned) - Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed - Kamichu! (set in Onomichi, very strong sense of place)
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
> the required governance norms: if you offer freemium services to people, you have an obligation to implement real-person interaction on account suspension, and a mediated access path to your effects inside the locked-down digital store
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
> small fractured markets, low salaries, high cost of living relative to wages...A big issue is there's a lack of mega successes high margin software businesses that pump knowledge and money back into the startup ecosystem. Honest
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
I think for my next project I'll be trying out using Laravel's prebuilt user auth/login system, then building the business APIs in Node+TS (interfacing with the same relational DB). Developing not-so-dynamic webpages is just
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
Seems like almost no Node framework has this out of the box. Maybe AdonisJs, but I think you still have to create login and signup page templates yourself (and password reset forms, etc.). It's probably because Node is used to back sel
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
You need to see Samurai Champloo if you haven't. It's twenty years old but absolutely timeless. Reposting my comment from elsewhere here: For something more fantastical, To Your Eternity , an adventure that makes you feel and h
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
Give Vinland Saga a go, for some gripping historical drama. Or Bartender: Glass of God (the ongoing 2024 series), for stories in a real-world setting. For something more fantastical, To Your Eternity , an adventure that makes you feel
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
There's nothing like being able to write backend code directly in HTML files, without even having to start a new server process. It's literally just a .php file executed and served to the user. It starts as the ultimate anti-struc
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
Mecha was a 1960s-1980s war-inspired fascination that maybe, if anything, we should be surprised at the longevity of. We haven't really been getting that many giant robots or pilotable mechs in popular media outside of Japanese animati
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
What we need is a return to idealistic projects again, to rebuild Web 1.5, by the fortunate among us who can afford it.
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
The Nigeria video is a masterclass in subtle comedic scripting and acting. Old favourite.
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by creamyhorror 2y ago
Oh gosh Milkman Dan, what a blast from the past. All the good memories of early edgy net absurdism.
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by creamyhorror 3y ago
I'm surprised to find this so far down. The Gervais Principle is the cynical cousin of the Peter Principle, and even if it isn't actually accurate for some workplaces, it makes for a compelling read.
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by creamyhorror 3y ago
They mean near-0 marginal cost of goods sold (software service), presumably.
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by creamyhorror 3y ago
With the concurrent rise of reasoning AI, we'd be getting ready to launch the Second Renaissance! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix#The_Second_Renai...
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by creamyhorror 3y ago
UCC has had black unsweetened canned coffee for quite a while (UCC Black 無糖 sugarless). Sugarless Japanese canned coffee tends to taste rough because it often includes some robusta beans, which are cheaper and more bitter-tasting. Which is
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by creamyhorror 3y ago
Look out for AdonisJs's v6 release, Coming Soon (TM). It's a batteries-included Typescript framework inspired by Rails. It's not as sexy as RedwoodJS or t3 and isn't as popular overall, but it sticks more closely to trad
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by creamyhorror 3y ago
This is wisdom.
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by creamyhorror 3y ago
It's because they're not only talking about everyday visible inflammation. My understanding is that "inflammation" is a phenomenon in which cells release chemicals telling other cells that there's an injury, pathoge
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by creamyhorror 3y ago
Back in 2012, partly to address the non-US HN audience and bring them together as a community of startups, "N Combinator"/nReduce launched: https://venturebeat.com/entrepreneur/nreduce/ It shut down

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