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by delhanty 3y ago
> C is almost LR(1), Does that include the C preprocessor? Somehow, I recall someone here (maybe it was user walterbright) suggesting that implementing a C preprocessor was a lot of work - maybe months - so one might consider using Faceb
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by delhanty 3y ago
My only point was that it’s misleading to compare power. I don’t have an opinion on whether mobile phone usage is more or less likely to cause cancer than working in a radio station.
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by delhanty 3y ago
Your analysis doesn’t account for the inverse square law. That is, wouldn’t we want to compare the radiant flux rather than the power?
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by delhanty 3y ago
Curious, what concrete progress have professional linguists made on deciphering Linear A?
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by delhanty 3y ago
Do you have to be nasty? That's a person you're replying to with feelings, so why not default to being kind in comments as per HN guidelines? As it happens, swyx has built notable AI related things, for example smol-developer h
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by delhanty 4y ago
> Is something in our diet, like processed meats and sugary drinks, to blame? Could this be linked to the rise in obesity? Dr Peter Attia on the Tim Ferris podcast in 2019 suggested it's the fructose in sugary drinks. > Sugar as
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by delhanty 4y ago
Also * Synalyze It! - Hex Editor for Mac: https://www.synalysis.net/ I am not affiliated Synalyze It!, but have been a customer for several years. Generally, I've been happy with it, though it crashes occasionally. T
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by delhanty 4y ago
As an aside, I wrote my previous comment in “stochastic parrot” mode. That is, I scattered commas where it felt natural to breathe. Then, I edited it. Maybe, there was a non-essential clause in there. Also, possibly, there was an Oxford c
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by delhanty 4y ago
Indeed It seems that, like ChatGPT, the author is also a bullshit generator, and therefore, by his own definition, unintelligent.
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Mitchell Hashimoto open sources Squire, his Postgres schema tool(twitter.com)
6 points by delhanty 4y ago|0 comments
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by delhanty 4y ago
Fairly neutral on Musk (pluses & minuses) here, but the most informational thing about this story is what it says about The Guardian and their journalists (who have to survive in the new level-playing field world of Twitter blue check-m
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by delhanty 4y ago
> There's software to help with designing these plans, which I guess must use parallel curves under the hood. Siemens PLM / D-Cubed PGM component is one example of such software. It's used for the offset function in the sk
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by delhanty 4y ago
> Just a feeling of exasperation when seeing the product. Well maybe you're not the target market then? It looks like a no-code rather than low-code effort, and I'm hazarding a guess that you're a dev and so ... > It w
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by delhanty 4y ago
>Yes, most new software in every category fails, but every once in awhile one succeeds, and that's how we make progress. +100 Also, I'm rather uncomfortable when a "Show HN" gets dumped upon - furthermore with no actu
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by delhanty 5y ago
Thank you - I appreciate the link. > from a paper whose name I don't remember. I guess it's the Loop-Blinn paper from my reply to the other reply. Resolution Independent Curve Rendering using Programmable Graphics Hardware ht
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by delhanty 5y ago
Thank you - sounds pretty straightforward. I found a reference on HN for anyone else following along: > In 2005 Loop & Blinn [0] found a method to decide if a sample / pixel is inside or outside a bezier curve (independently of
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by delhanty 5y ago
> For degree-two/quadratics there are a series of coordinate transforms that you can do which conveniently map all curves to one UV coordinate space; degree-three/cubics require a lot more attention in order to render correctly
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by delhanty 5y ago
Further confusing is that Open CASCADE https://github.com/Open-Cascade-SAS is also written in C++ and used to be called CAS.CADE before it was open-sourced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cascade_Tec
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by delhanty 5y ago
There's a summary of methods used on Wikipedia > A general scheme of geometric constraint solving consists of modeling a set of geometric elements and constraints by a system of equations, and then solving this system by non-linear
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by delhanty 5y ago
The big players nearly all use D-Cubed 2D DCM https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/global/en/products/pl... Siemens PLM - NX and SolidEdge Dassault - CATIA & SolidWorks Autodesk - Inventor & Fusion
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by delhanty 5y ago
Schrödinger's Apple because China's inevitable re-unification with Taiwan will take the U.S.-China cold-war to the next level ( assuming that there's not an actual short, hot war, which, IMO, the U.S. would loose unless it us
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by delhanty 5y ago
Can't we admire both Electron and Zig? Certainly I do ... > ... used by hundred of millions of people can't say the same about Zig or its future. I'd be completely unsurprised if in 10-years Zig was the toolchain of choic
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by delhanty 5y ago
From the article, link to the original paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03902 I was wondering whether there was a short statement that summarized how autodidactic systems differ from the Wolfram Physics proje
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by delhanty 5y ago
I did that and the response was > It is not mentioned directly that Ethereum is not allowed, but we write that "it is not limited to, ...." referring to >8.3. ... The operation of applications for mining cryptocurrencies rem
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by delhanty 5y ago
> I've been running both an Ethereum and Bitcoin node from my dedicated Hetzner box for years without issue. Informative thank you. > I wonder if you just got generic answers from a tier 1 support person who doesn't know muc
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by delhanty 5y ago
Thanks - yes I am a bit square w.r.t. rules.
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by delhanty 5y ago
Ah that's interesting thanks - particularly the bit about 15% of Ethereum nodes using Hetzner.
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by delhanty 5y ago
I read that thanks - it covers mining applications and I believe that change in May was triggered by Chia. In fact it was covered on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27212239
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by delhanty 5y ago
Fair point - "ask for forgiveness not permission"
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Ask HN: Hetzner dedicated and crypto – what have you been told is allowed?
11 points by delhanty 5y ago|22 comments

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