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by fjfaase 1y ago
For earlier discussion see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869093
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by fjfaase 1y ago
If the Fed would change the rate to 1% that will result in inflation to quickly rise. People who live of savings, like pensioners, will be hit double. It will also result in a devaluation of the dollar, which in combination of the national
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by fjfaase 1y ago
Funny how they are using the Catalan 'punt volat' in the name of this language, which seems to be in English, or otherwise in French. Most programming languages are restricted to ASCII characters, except for string constants.
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by fjfaase 1y ago
Now that women delay their first pregnancy till their early thirthies, they often experience problems with getting pregnant when they are ready for it, especially when they are having a busy life with a job. Knowing when you are fertile, wh
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by fjfaase 1y ago
A little known fact is that some intel processors use 80 bit registers to store double values, which can result in programs behaving differently based on the optimization level, because if values are stored in memory, like when building for
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by fjfaase 1y ago
I fear that the general public in Germany will not be praising this achievement. The once efficient and punctional trains in Germany have deteriorated severely in the past years due to lots of delayed maintenance causing lots of delays and
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by fjfaase 1y ago
I wonder if the visible universe is large enough to write down the exact value of BB(6).
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by fjfaase 1y ago
Good question. Through the years, I have become more restrictive about what I write especially with respect to others. I am aware of the fact that I am more open to share about my personal life than many people around me. Maybe it is relate
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by fjfaase 1y ago
My personal website acts as my second brain in the sense that it helps me remember important events in my life and tracks my personal projects. I started it around 1995.
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This is an advertisement. Website generates some score with some tips and for indepth information, you have to make an account.
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by fjfaase 1y ago
I was just wondering this for myself, not something for you to figure out.
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by fjfaase 1y ago
I wonder how well it will work for generating certain street tile patterns, where tiles of different sizes are used and where it is not allowed to have four tiles meeting at one point and where there are no H-patterns. See [1] for a large p
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by fjfaase 1y ago
My earliest memories related to computers is decoding a paper tape by hand that I got from my cousin who was studying at a university. If I remember correctly it contained some lines of Algol60. I never worked with paper tape myself, but di
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by fjfaase 1y ago
As far as I can remember, I walked to school on my own every day since second grade. I can even remember that I occasionaly walked home from first grade when I went to a school that was about a mile from home. My daughter was about seven wh
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by fjfaase 1y ago
IQ tests gear towards measuring raw processing power, not depth of insight. One can be very fast with performing certain cognitive operations, but still not be a critical thinker. The extreme example of this are the autistic savants, who a
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by fjfaase 1y ago
There are other tools for prototyping the grammar for a new language. There are several online tools that can interactively parse input based on a given grammar. The one I developed is: https://fransfaase.github.io/MCH2022Pa
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by fjfaase 1y ago
Since 1990, I have developed software with C and later C++. Now that I am working on a C compiler, I am learning new things about the language. So, writing a compiler (or an interpretter) can really help to get a deep understanding of a pro
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by fjfaase 1y ago
The link for the blog with the title 'Lessons From 9 More Years of Tricky Bugs' is https://https://henrikwarne.com/2025/06/15/lessons-from-9-mo...
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by fjfaase 1y ago
Sounds interesting. Is there a link to a paper, a pre-print, a report, or at least a project description?
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The US might have been a the strongest liberal democracy, but it in 2024 it was ranked 28th on the Economist Democracy list. I am worried that people in the US are over estimating the strength of their democracy and that that might be an im
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by fjfaase 1y ago
I agree with the article, except for the last section, because many times the reason for me to quit was a manager who did not give himself, but was playing the game of pleasing upper management and not giving a shit about the hard working t
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by fjfaase 1y ago
Is there any hard evidence that using AI agents significantly improve the productivity in software development, excluding website development? I have been developing C(++) software for more than 30 years and I am still discovering things ab
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by fjfaase 1y ago
I just wanted to state that the right for due process is not restricted to people being legally in the USA, it applies to all people, no matter their legal status (as I am not mistaken). Several people, including teenage girls, have been st
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by fjfaase 1y ago
I understand that the consitution also applies to people who are illegal in the United States. This is very important for people who travel to the United States by plane and are rejected entrance for some reason, for example having certain
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by fjfaase 1y ago
It might have been more of Wilders chicking out, because of some other issues being on the table. Wilders has been making big promisses with respect to the poorer parts of society, among which there has been many of his voters, and not bein
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by fjfaase 1y ago
Discussed before on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38134935
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I am currently implementing a stack based language as an intermediate language for a C compiler that I am developing. I have developed a relatively straight forward compiler for the stack language to the M1 assembler from live-bootstrap. Th
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There are but a few classical traint artist that started to use computer programs to produce art. One of them is the Dutch artist Peter Struycken. See pstruycken.nl for his art works. In his last works, that focus on colour, he used softwar
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by fjfaase 1y ago
I did follow your suggestion to break it down in separate prompts, but that to did not result in any useful code. I did not try to compile it, but I get the impression that it does not even compile. There is nothing remotely related to the
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by fjfaase 1y ago
I was just giving it as an example of how there are domains where AI assistance have little or no benefit. Even if you used them for searching for resources or instructions how to achieve something, they come up with nothing useful, or lead

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