djtango

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by djtango 1y ago
Feedback is better, but lack of confirmation didn't stop the Greeks from dreaming up a model of the atom... From my own experience, with things to do with social interaction some of the most successful people forge on running purely on
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While being bought a drink by a stranger is a rare treat, as a hyper urban person there's something humbling and grounding about the generosity you encounter from people in remote locations, especially if your GDP per capita is like 40
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How does the robot assess whether there is enough space available in each bin?
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by djtango 1y ago
Could you elaborate on how functional programming relates to people's relationship with Microservices?
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by djtango 1y ago
It's not clear to me whether dying by starvation is always worse than being eaten alive. Some modes of being alive are definitely horrifying but others would result in a fairly quick death...
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I'm probably not the target customer but could someone ELI5 what this is for?
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I've come around to the idea that anything and anyone can be interesting and enriching if you approach it with the right level of curiosity. Doesn't always play out but it adds to the spice of life when you can draw insight from p
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by djtango 2y ago
I have been quite skeptical of using AI tools and my experiences using them have been frustrating for developing software but power tools usually come with a learning curve while "good product" with clean simplified interface ofte
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by djtango 2y ago
I don't quite get how diffing frames allows you to find the scores. TFA mentions comparing a frame with and without - but how do you generate that frame without? If you can already do it, what's useful about doing that?
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by djtango 2y ago
This is a good anecdote and it reminds me of how Sony had cloud architecture/digital distribution, a music label, movie studio, mobile phones, music players, speakers, tvs, laptops, mobile apps... and totally missed out on building Spo
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by djtango 2y ago
In the abstract, they are totally fine but in practice sports has hundreds (thousands?) of years of tradition and culture imprinting into the fabric of society making it "normal". In the UK football is so deeply engrained they tal
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by djtango 2y ago
As someone who was gaming since the 90s I didn't understand streaming or long plays in the beginning but now I really appreciate long plays as they allow me to scratch an itch without getting too engrossed in a game. I find it a lot ea
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by djtango 2y ago
Most restaurants smuggle obscene amounts of butter and sugar into dishes to make them more delicious so you'll come back. It's not unreasonable to assume that every subcomponent of a recipe might have sugar added individually. In
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by djtango 2y ago
Interesting - I'm curious where your thoughts are now on using FP/Scala in 2025? I've always looked at F# with envy as it is a hosted ML that will have extremely battle tested bindings to the important day to day stuff via C#
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But within the same example its not as good as if you ate the exact same meal freshly served - things won't be as hot and certain textures will be lost in delivery (eg crispy things going soggy) You mentioned a chef which is less speci
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The example using an open record is an implementation of safe duck typing Checking type unions and inferring information about conditional branching isn't really duck typing
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by djtango 2y ago
This depends on the circles you move in. I have capital allocator friends warning me about vibe coding taking my job
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Wasn't Hollow Knight put together with a really tiny team?
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I'm not convinced the people of Doha or Alberta would consider their day to day lives adventures
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I grew up during the F to C transition in the UK and F is not intuitive. 0 = ice 100 = steam That is pretty intuitive if you ask me. And for gravy comfortable room temp is about 25
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by djtango 2y ago
Games back then were a bit of a dark art... I feel like I don't really encounter stories of heroics in making games work on their hardware anymore. Even at the end of PS1 with Final Fantasy their hand drawn backgrounds were too big to
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by djtango 2y ago
This is why I prefer to liken software to crafting a novel. You come up with a nice self-contained story, a clear story arc with a hero and a villain and a good ending. Then marketing come along and ask to make it a trilogy and a few weeks
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by djtango 2y ago
Not very long at all ago, people waged war over dynamic vs lexical function scoping. These days you are hard pressed to find a language that uses dynamic scoping as the default. The needle likes to swing back and forth between dynamic be st
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by djtango 2y ago
When they have separate names and are separate chemicals, why would 10g of sugar where the proportions could be any of those four be considered equivalent?
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I didn't know this and have always wondered why in the UK we didn't have something like the Chinese system for civil service. Ironically the civil service is full of intelligent people and it's a competitive grad programme, b
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Well yeah exactly! This starts becoming even more important as we start doing more and more unnatural stuff. Like if we started doing births in test tubes we may find out a whole bunch of edge cases arise because of "external" fac
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It's interesting that "external" entities like microbiota play a role in the host's lifelong development. But it's more interesting that this is interesting - life is emergent, whatever result we observe exists by a
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I miss manuals. I still have my FFXI manual lying around which is a mini tome and it still gets me excited
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My dad migrated to London in the 70s and bought his first property in London around age 26. He didn't have a degree but did get a professional qualification. I ended up getting a good degree at a top uni and started my career at Amazon
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by djtango 2y ago
You mean this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9125816

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