gilgoomesh

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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
What a bummer. He was so charismatic in every role he played. RIP.
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
> really don't understand the negative sentiment against Apple I just want them to be better. They take 15-30% of my gross revenue and are the source of most of my stress (through regular rejections of my app updates). It would be n
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
Yeah, I normally put a number of items through the coat hanger and the hinge, here, would prevent that. I feel like it should come with some clips on the bottom for attaching items like trousers and other odd-shaped garments.
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
My guess is that 2 weeks and the usage pattern of 20 users gives Google enough data points to determine whether the app is just AI generated bot spam. Because I'm betting there's a lot of that at the moment. Still seems like abs
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
I don't think those same "normal" people would notice if they "Google something" and the result page had a DuckDuckGo icon in the top-left.
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
The second and third paragraphs mention 6 events Watterson has been involved in since 2013 which is 6 more appearances than Nakamoto in the same time period.
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
AirDrop uses Bluetooth for local device discovery and then attempts a send over the following protocols: 1. local IP network, if available 2. ad hoc WiFi, if possible 3. the Bluetooth connection 4. fallback via Apple's servers (newest
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
Which is why you can stream your iPhone to a TV and connect a controller. There are also many controllers that clip onto the iPhone itself for a Switch-like experience.
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
The German team produced a crystal of pure LK-99 and tested it. From the article: > LK-99 is not a superconductor, but an insulator with a resistance in the millions of ohms And furthermore, the graphs from the original pre-print article
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
A hypothesis is a proposition. A theory is a model. The two are different concepts but neither implies rigor or lack of rigor. It’s harder to build a complete model from nothing but it happens all the time.
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
I think the poster meant "fried/roasted potatoes" (boiled are not included). Most Maillard reaction cooking involves a risk of creating potential carcinogens like acrylamide. https://www.newscientist.com/art
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
Apple added a lot of sugar to different parts of Objective-C and a few side features – dot syntax, synthesised properties, blocks, etc. They're still adding tweaks like nullability, generics and other Swift-compatibility features. And
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
Forstall is semi-retired from tech. He's producing Broadway musicals and acting in minor advisory roles.
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
Keep in mind, it's getting 15fps at 1440x900. It's not saying that Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra on an M1 is a great experience. It's merely pointing out that it's technically possible (which is a massive achievement).
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
According to CodeWeavers, it is based on their CrossOver code (GPL 2.1) and can be committed back into Wine: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/6/6/wine-come...
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by gilgoomesh 3y ago
The research is ongoing and unclear. The primary reason people are concerned is that the half-life of PFAS in the human body is between 2 and 9 years – so if you're exposed, you're really exposed. There's been a range of st
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
Her own Wikipedia page questions the association. Her focus was more on a specific style of minidress (mostly the iconic Mod fashion minidress). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Quant#Quant_and_the_minis...
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
You're implying that open research is a shady way to become a non profit. They're allowed to change their business model. The open research was published at the time. GPT-2 is fully open source. Even GPT-3 was open source through
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
I've had the same problem... invites never arrive.
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
It's a famously controversial topic. macOS aims to most accurately preserve the shape but isn't always the sharpest. ClearType aims for a balance of sharpness and accuracy. And both were written to avoid a number of long-expired p
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
Spaghetti drying racks can sometimes be called spaghetti trees so it's not like there isn't a reasonable way a person reading about pasta production could get confused.
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
Sometimes, you just need to cut the cancer out.
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
I don’t think that’s the lesson. Twitterrific was a huge success and “kept the lights on” for Iconfactory for a decade. The lesson is not that building on the services of others is bad. It was good. But you don’t get to choose when it wil
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
Everything about video compression is subjective. I really dislike chroma subsampling and Bayer-pattern sensors and all the other little steps in the video pipeline that sacrifice color density. I'm stuck in a world where color is alwa
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
The assumption that Pro == Programmer is on-brand for HackerNews but is otherwise a pretty narrow view. iPad Pros are exceptional tools for engineering/architecture plan reviews, on-site walkthroughs, fashion sketching, etc. All of the
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
It is fascinating that there are such major languages (or language groups) without standard written representations. I understand the concept of formal literary languages but in this case, having literary Chinese as your "written langu
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
There's a whole space in the document to thunk people and... nothing. Prima donna.
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
> To be clear, this is not just a case of me being old and uncool Ha. The author’s journey is a standard realisation of growing up. You think you can keep up with everything popular when “popular” is judged based on the 200 people you kn
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
Hacker News’ preference for the page title conflicts here with the fact that this is a personal blog and implies knowledge of the author. You either know who Sabine Hossenfelder is (theoretical physicist and educator) or you don’t.
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by gilgoomesh 4y ago
SwiftUI can be ridiculously fast – closer to a 3D framework than a typical 2D windowing framework – because it can reduce to a set of uninterrupted draw calls. Rendering is not why SwiftUI can be slow. If you don't know what you'r

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