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by danmaz74 3y ago
I started developing software as a kid on a Commodore 64, and I thought we were pretty clever if we were able to accomplish interesting things using only 32KB of RAM. But the idea that somebody was able to develop a full chess engine using
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by danmaz74 3y ago
Slightly OT question: I need to integrate payments on a new service I created[+], and for now I need to use a "merchant of record" approach. Currently I'm choosing between Paddle and FastSpring; any suggestions why should I c
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by danmaz74 3y ago
AFAIK the cost of a new solar installation is already dominated by installation, inverter, and other expenses that don't follow the reduction in cost of solar cells.
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Ask HN: Should I call my newest feature “AI Chess Coach”?
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by danmaz74 3y ago
It was very clear from where? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
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by danmaz74 3y ago
Hindsight is 20/20
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by danmaz74 3y ago
"Couldn't be real" is a complete misinterpretation of the paper. The "medical establishment" asserts that many diseases are transmitted by aerosol (ie very small droplets), but many more - and especially those simil
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by danmaz74 3y ago
> Healthcare in Europe is not free. You're taxed for it quite highly. Healthcare isn't free, but the visits to your GP are free, which is what I said.
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by danmaz74 3y ago
This is so skewed towards the US. Eg here in Europe people go to their GP much more often because those visits are free, and hard data says we live longer than in the the US. So the problem isn't "doctors" or "medicine&q
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by danmaz74 3y ago
As things are now, anything that needs to be factual or reasoning seems like a bad match for LLMs. Where I find them very useful is at rewording things, or at continuing something repetitive enough along a given pattern (eg in programming).
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by danmaz74 3y ago
I've been using Rails for over a decade and worked on lots of different Rails code bases. Contrary to what you're saying, my experience is that the philosophy of "convention over configuration" usually makes it very easy
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by danmaz74 3y ago
Thank you for the suggestion, will take a look!
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by danmaz74 3y ago
I'm not sure; that could be a reason for this. I've got a personal company so I can be paid B2B, which is very simple, but probably this could create some uncertainty and doubt, and could be a good reason not to take risks.
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by danmaz74 3y ago
I stayed in London for three years, then moved back to Italy because with the pandemic I had gone to the office only twice in 18 months, and because my wife and daughter didn't like London a lot; I was able to keep my job as a hands on
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by danmaz74 3y ago
> You can have perfectly predictable software development -- if you know exactly what it is you're going to build. That's not enough - you can have pretty good predictability if you know exactly what you're going to build,
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by danmaz74 3y ago
Yes, predictability is better for business, but business also needs to accept that there are limits to the amount of predictability you can achieve in software development, and trying to force too much process is only going to predictably i
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by danmaz74 3y ago
More expensive than "solar or wind +" which amount of storage? The amount of storage which would put wind/solar on par with nuclear in terms of reliable baseload is huge.
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by danmaz74 3y ago
For "large projects" there are merits to microservices, but large projects are the exception - most projects aren't large. Unfortunately, a few years ago the consensus seemed to be that microservices should be applied to ever
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by danmaz74 3y ago
> We only bring up state because of how closely all of our languages are tied to stateful CPU designs I would rather say that we bring up state because almost all practical applications of computers have state to manage - to be honest, I
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by danmaz74 3y ago
How is this different from good (non-cheating) players joining a new website and having to get to their realistic rating? This happens, but as a percentage of games you play it has a very low impact; moreover, platforms usually tell you tha
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by danmaz74 3y ago
Yes, the rating system is fundamental to be able to enjoy the game, and also to lower the impact of cheating: if my rating is 1500 and I play against other players around 1500, I don't care if they are at that level thanks to cheating
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by danmaz74 3y ago
This a meta comment. Many other comments here talk about a correlation between wealth and programming early in life, which really surprised me. I started programming on a commodore 64 in the early eighties, and I don't understand menti
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by danmaz74 3y ago
I built a Chrome extension to be able to use spaced repetitions for chess puzzles/exercises that I found online. Used it for a couple years and gained at least 200 Elo rating with it :) Recently I built a public facing website for that
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by danmaz74 4y ago
https://chess.braimax.com Puzzle rush integrated with spaced repetitions to improve tactically at chess. I hacked a solution for myself during covid to combine those two, and achieved very good results reaching 2000 on lichess (
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by danmaz74 4y ago
Regarding chess, another one is https://chess.braimax.com
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by danmaz74 4y ago
Well, I do work from home, so I worked all winter at 18.5 without issues. People are different.
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by danmaz74 4y ago
We set ours to 18.5 and we felt fine al winter by simply using warmer clothes at home than what we were used to. Your mileage will vary, but for the environment warmer clothes are much friendlier than warmer houses.
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by danmaz74 4y ago
> The Onion can publish satire because it's a satire site. The NYTimes can't publish something that sounds like a serious NYTimes article and then claim, if sued, that it was actually a satire article and that 100% of readers j
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by danmaz74 4y ago
My totally-not-a-lawyer take: * If somebody asks ChatGPT to generate some accusation, doesn't check if they're factual, and then publishes them anywhere, then the responsibility lies with somebody. * If a company directly publishe
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by danmaz74 4y ago
The frame captures what happens during those 40 milliseconds though. It's not as if it needed an instantaneous match.

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