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by fsloth 4y ago
I would claim the business benefit of F# would come from a more succint, legible and correct codebase that saves developer time, but I have no basis for that argument except intuition I get having developed both in C# and F#. Also I know mu
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by fsloth 4y ago
"hardly any more innovative than a Markov chain." Innovation is not invention. Innovation includes combining pedestrian concepts in novel ways. ChatGPT has the best ux and richest corpus of any markov chain I've ever used. It
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by fsloth 4y ago
Tooling: Not only CLI and classlibs. The debugger in Visual Studio follows calls to c/c++ dll:s over pinvoke withhout a cinch. (Same as C#). If you wrap complex entities in e.g. Protobuf then writing hybrid applications is pretty stra
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by fsloth 4y ago
F# is installed by default with Visual Studio, and the tooling is pretty good. I think it hardly is second class citizen? Not promoted nearly as much as C# for sure. AFAIK F# is on quite solid foundation, as there is the F# foundation that
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by fsloth 4y ago
How many people benefitting from more exercise are elite endurance athletes?
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by fsloth 4y ago
This! Other good books are ”Expert F#” by Granicz, Syme & Cisternino, ”Real world functional programming” by Petricek and ”F# for scientists” by Harrop. The last is old but still really great in succintly explaining what ’new&unfami
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by fsloth 4y ago
”Road to reality” by Roger Penrose is an interesting book as a refresher and review if the content is otherwise within familiar territory.
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by fsloth 4y ago
Dunno, in terms of just the Dyson fan, the bit implementing the main feature of the offering needs just high pressure air so it could be just as well connected to a high pressure air feed. The fact it comes integrated with a turbine that ha
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The thruster component needs only source of high pressure air - the thrust is generated by using this air to generate a low pressure zone that sucks in air from the front of the thruster element. The turbine that is used to generate the hig
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by fsloth 4y ago
The value of deliverable asset (document etc) from MS Office for the regular user is insignificant. The value of deliverable from a professional CAD application otoh, always has a price that likely non-trivial and plausibly much more than t
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by fsloth 4y ago
“I'd rather get to value now by making something that just works(… and is tested)” IMO that is the gold standard for 80% of professional software. Ship. Fix bugs if needed. Ship. If your org wants to do pointless cargo cult process jun
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by fsloth 4y ago
That describes the progression from a poor hobby user to a more affluent hobbyist/pro. The market I know and meant (CAD) there is no such progression and the way to make the pirate users licensed users is to give them one call, offer a
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‘But above all, make sure not to confuse a "pirated copy" with a "lost sale". In 99% of cases, the Venn diagram of those has very little overlapping area.’ The non-overlapping are is likely non-trivial. There are surpris
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by fsloth 4y ago
Absolutely. For example word provides templates for all sorts of documents and letters. Now they can add "please write the letter about X for me using this document template" feature. Guess how many letters of resignation Chat GPT
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by fsloth 4y ago
If and when they fine tune Dall-E and Chat GPT and find a suitable monetization scheme - absolutely.
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Clippy: Or, would you like me to forget the application letters and just go through the LinkedIn accounts of the applicants and suggest top three candidates for you?
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by fsloth 4y ago
This. Minecraft seems to have much more stickiness. Minecraft really seems to be the Lego of current gen kids - they keep returning to it. Freeform creative building is the key here, I think.
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by fsloth 4y ago
$10 Bilion for the non-ruling half of OpenAI? Impresssive. As a reference Microsoft paid $7.2 billion for the entire handset business of Nokia (which was floundering at the time, but still).
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by fsloth 4y ago
Generally people conflate health and weight because globally, for a very large number of people, this is the main problem. As societies move to western diets, the average person becomes overweight and is diagnosed with one or more health pr
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by fsloth 4y ago
“Conflating health and weight-loss is an unhealthy“ Reference needed. Being overweight most definitely is a health risk. What kind of risk exactly is then probably related to personal biology of each individual but I guess the list to pick
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by fsloth 4y ago
“Random HN users” is a set that includes quite a a lot of financially literate individuals. In the past HN has been pretty solid in providing sane inspiration and references for investment strategy.
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Too expensive. When my current car breaks down I will probably get the cheapest 5 - 10 y old second hand car I can find which is likely to have an ICE. The car after that is probably electric (so maybe a decade or so).
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I would have never expected a tank training manual to have so many naked breasts. Otoh given the audience at the time were young men in their prime this method of stimulating the reader is kind of obvious.
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Actually I haven't tried prints! Very good point. The visual quality though is really good - the thing it does out of the box right are specular surfaces which are really hard for traditional photogrammetry. This makes capturing even s
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If you have an IPhone I warmly recommend Luma AI for these sort of scans. Their nerf (neural field, not the toy) based photogrammetry pipeline is close to magic.
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Yes, the difference in trade vs profession is the succinct way to put this.
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One of the things not mentioned here is that doctors are genuine professionals. Software developers, on the other hand, are in this weird limbo where some consider themselves as professionals and others do not. I am using the term "pro
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Sounds cool! What market is your product serving?
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Maybe the militant single domain focus posture is not driven only by personal values but has something to do with how organization pressures and rewards people? Chastising people for doing things out of the scope of their responsibility is
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Name a big UK startup? Nordic countries have the safety net countered with a mentality that is borderline entrepreneur-hostile and the law of Jante on top of that so safety nets may be the few pro-entrepreneurship things they have. Finland

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