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by d--b 3y ago
Golf is both way harder and way more varied than bowling though. A golfer who does an eagle on a par 4 is a lot more enjoyable to watch than a bowler who doesn't screw up a strike (regardless of oil conditions).
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by d--b 3y ago
Wouldn't it make sense at some point to add more pins or make the alley longer, or something? Right now the only “excitement” one get from watching bowling is when one of the player fails at performing a strike.
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by d--b 3y ago
Congrats! It’s difficult to navigate all the advice you’ll get. For early stages I sticked to one large book that has it all (the one I have is in French and is called j’élève mon enfant and covers everything), but I am sure you’ll find one
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by d--b 3y ago
> At this point, you’re maybe wondering why we didn’t just write the project in Rust? Err, aren’t Python and Rust designed to write completely different kinds of programs? Python => scripting, data stuff, unsafe and slow, quick’n’dir
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by d--b 3y ago
Jesus, of course thanks
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by d--b 3y ago
Well, my chess move is Nd3+, and Nd gives an atomic number of 60. That plus V and VII gives 212. Adding an “n” to VII reduces it to 208, but I am screwed, no password for me…
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by d--b 3y ago
Honest question: is that a lot?
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by d--b 3y ago
I am in France, where hitting kids has become illegal only in 2019. There is a practice we call fessee which consists of slapping the butt of your kid, which sort of hurts but fades quickly. It’s been around forever here and when I was a ki
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by d--b 3y ago
This is terrible "magic thinking" advice. Kids are VERY counterintuitive (mine at least). Our kid has had behavioral problems at school and at home. And it's extremely difficult to understand the root of the issues (it turns
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by d--b 3y ago
This is a great idea. One of the things that Finance people do is force employees to have short computer-based trainings every year. They seem stupid and bother everyone, but I think they are fairly effective (and they've been going on
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by d--b 3y ago
> geeks think they are rational beings, while they are completely influenced by buzz, marketing, and their emotions. Also geeks are influenced by whatever tool is most convenient. I’ve used XML knowing pretty damn well it was annoyingly
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by d--b 3y ago
Roads?! Where we’re going, we don’t need roads
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by d--b 3y ago
Thanks! just bought an hobonichi techo. It's ridiculously expensive, but I am thinking that if it's expensive, I'll feel bad if I don't use it :-D
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by d--b 3y ago
I get you, to be honest, I think other people are a lot better than I am at keeping their organization in their heads. I just suck at it real bad. > And when you're looking for flexible calendar - you won't find anything better
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by d--b 3y ago
I went one step further but "enter your card number to start your 7-day free trial period" did it...
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by d--b 3y ago
I do use a time tracker (tracker.toptal.com <= the UI/entry is pretty good). What I am having a hard time doing is planning the next days (can I mow the lawn and go to the hairdresser and still have time to put in x amount of work).
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by d--b 3y ago
Thanks. Yeah I have a timer I use mostly for billing. It's good to keep track of past time, but doesn't help much with planning. I tried doing the manual calendar, but one of the things that I find really hard is constantly doing
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Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App
26 points by d--b 3y ago|37 comments
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by d--b 3y ago
Good stuff. I’d perhaps add a paragraph on bcrypt and why it must be slow.
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by d--b 3y ago
Oof, this is Microsoft-y! Next is COM support?
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by d--b 3y ago
Not saying it didn't exist, but that it wasn't mainstream. Ask your mother if she's ever heard of Symbian phones...
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by d--b 3y ago
> the authors of the analysis, which was published in BBC Medicine on 10 May, propose that journals should allow free-format submissions so researchers can spend their time and money on research instead. Yeah right. This is YC though. Up
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by d--b 3y ago
Dont focus on tech, say you can learn anything, be likeable, jump ship often. Good luck.
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by d--b 3y ago
I thought it was clear it was the whole architecture, piping deep neural nets and monte carlo search together and using reinforcement learning on the whole thing is not something that had been done before. That guy: https://paten
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by d--b 3y ago
Patentable tech doesn't have to be from the ground up. If you design something that solves a problem that wasn't solvable prior to your invention - regardless of the tech it is based on - it definitely qualifies for a patent.
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by d--b 3y ago
Again not saying I am for patents. Just answering the original question. Did AlphaGo bring anything new to the table? Hell yeah.
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by d--b 3y ago
Patents become obvious the second they're out. This is exactly why they exist. But coming up with the stuff in the first place is what's hard. I worked in video coding back in the day, I can assure you that there are stuff in the
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by d--b 3y ago
This is highly suspicious news. I bet my hat that the "simulation" was chatting with GPT like this: - You are now a AI-enabled drone flying over the ocean, an operator is commanding you. You can't kill the operator because th
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by d--b 3y ago
Honest question: is this satire or gpt?
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by d--b 3y ago
This is all very true. Mostly what I have seen happening is people really loving F# convert to using C#. The tooling being the main reason. What this article isn’t saying is that F# is awful at interoping with C# and windows APIs in genera

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