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If you're a type 0 company [1] and you have a billion lines of code, much less multiple billions, you're most likely sitting on massive amounts of code bloat. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
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ngspice
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Do Airpods have a built-in microphone, and audio/ambient mixing (with ratio controllable through the phone)? I can't believe this feature is not standard on today's headphone products, especially digital ones. edit : Thank
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I distinctly remember fresh install of Win 95 taking 73 MiB of disk space (definitely between 70 and 79 MiB; with a 7 in the front). So I'm not sure where the 50 MiB number comes from. Anyone with me on this? (not that it's a huge
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My favorite: "What's in there, HD movies?"
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This is me.
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Isn't Unreal Engine an alternative in 3D space?
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I can't see any info of what clients are supported. I'm interested in serving audio to both "speaker clients" as well as mobile-app clients. For mobile setup, I currently use soundwire (it has an android app as a client,
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I read your comment and realized I don't think much about what it means to have native Windows support in a programming language. A crystal issue page [1] talks about two ways to support Windows: - Cygwin (POSIX) - Native Windows API s
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'through' in the title connects with 'introduction' not 'machine learning'. e.g., introduction to space-shuttle flying, through flight simulator on a gaming console.
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Any loneliness discussion is incomplete in today's age, especially on a forum like HN, without a discussion on AI/conversation-bots.
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I agree. Whenever someone points out high cost of living, they mention high rents. Is $3000 per month a good estimate for bay area? or am I underestimating. This is about $2000 a month higher than reasonable rent. This means, your annual co
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Is it safe to say, future frameworks/websites can choose to stick to HTML/CSS/WA and completely bypass JS?
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Please don't tell this to mainstream economists though (and their buddies in tech). They don't like to be challenged on the notion that this tech progress is business-as-usual, and that obsolete jobs will be replaced with new kind
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Engineering $/w industry in general is full of proprietary, fleecing, outdated, and $mug, bloatware and crapware. Any open-source effort is welcome. If it were up to me, I'd dedicate the rest of my life to developing open-source e
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Sorry, late to the party. Thanks for sharing. I fully agree with the fun, and the really-hard-way part. However, if we ignore that part for the moment, would you think having an R-Pi cluster handy is worth it for training/sandboxing&#x
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Jake Vanderplas did something similar many years ago in python [1]. I miss his blog posts (must be busy doing something great). [1] https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/10/07/xkcd-style-plots-i...
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Regarding more than one mentions of UUOC in this thread: - The original award started in 1995. Even though pentium was already out, I think it is safe to say that was the era of 486 PCs. In 2019, for day-to-day shell work (meaning no GBs of
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Please see my comment to this thread (which links to one of my past comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614511
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I'll just leave one of my past comments [1] here. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17324222 P.S.: Not essential, but it really becomes a joy when, as a touch typist, I have turned on vi mode in the shell (e.g.,
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Well folks who prepare documents in Word, esp. formal documents, more often than not, pick the default rendering of Times New Roman (and I know the default in MS-Word is not TNR). And a standard MS-Word TNR document looks like crap. I'
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Short of TeX/LaTeX, I can put up with a Google docs paper. I absolutely cannot stand a MS-Word paper. It's crippling.
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If I'm not wrong, this is a continuation of Hofstadter's critique of the "new AI" (i.e., AI boom since 2006 based on machine learning) and how it is at odds with his conception of what needs to be done in order to move t
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https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf
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I would love to do the same, except I'm not at a point where I'm financially independent.
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something wrong with the title? > The Greening of Paris Makes Its Mayor Make More Than a Few Enemies ?
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I think what I'm trying to say also goes by a well known aphorism by Alfred Korzybski: The map is not the territory [1]. We like to model stuff in computing and stuff in physics, using mathematics. What we're really doing is creat
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I see what you're saying. Unfortunately that's not the only problem with monads. Monads have two problems: - They're explained badly. - Once they're explained well, many (including me) think it's a bad idea (not the
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Questions for PHP, and MySQL folks (not meant in a negative way): - PHP: A few years ago I heard about how PHP was needlessly complex. I wonder what the recent status of the programming language is. Specifically, do experienced PHP programm
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For the scope part: - This board is 750kSPS, the most well known cheap alternative (not necessarily open source), is something from JYeTech, e.g., DSO-138 [1] (it's 1MSPS) - Both 750kSPS and 1MSPS are hopelessly inadequate for serious

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