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by ginko 3y ago
Also because Sam Altman is involved.
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by ginko 3y ago
Epic isn't apple's customer. They just use their tools.
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by ginko 3y ago
Governments WILL use this. There really isn't any real way to keep their hands off technology like this. Same with big corporations. It's the regular people that will be left out.
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by ginko 3y ago
I own an iphone (because google is even worse) but I want to run Firefox
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by ginko 3y ago
I still think Wikipedia's focus on significance was a historic mistake. At the very least there should have been an "extended" Wikipedia+ that strived to include all human knowledge no matter how trivial. Not having this mean
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by ginko 3y ago
>Luckily for us, Apple is a slow learner. Why is that lucky for us? We want them to comply to the DMA. The fines are a drop in the bucket.
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by ginko 3y ago
Modern CPUs draw significantly more current than that, actually.
578.
by ginko 3y ago
Am I the only one that's really bothered by Intel using A for ångström in their marketing? It should be Å. A is a completely different letter and the unit symbol for ampere. Everything supports unicode these days so the only reason the
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by ginko 3y ago
Related: https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/decly.htm
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by ginko 3y ago
Looking forward to getting stale burgers delivered from fake delivery restaurants.
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by ginko 3y ago
>I've long wanted to do some kind of google-streetmaps style photography project, taking pictures of all the types to be found in the nooks and cranny of the city, some of which go back centuries. I'd imagine having such a coll
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by ginko 3y ago
>Southwest flies them and it's nice when I'm lucky enough to get one. Why? Ignoring the safety concerns I don't really see an advantage to take a MAX over another plane from a passenger POV. At least with an A350 or 787 yo
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by ginko 3y ago
>IMO the EU should be their ability to change the game to actually force other players to be more apple-like by having some kind of liability and being required to provide certain guarantees to protect their customers from predatory deve
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by ginko 3y ago
You could multiplex the probe grid along rows and columns like pixels on an LCD screen. Would make the probing take a bit longer but you'd still save time since you don't need to manually hook stuff up.
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by ginko 3y ago
>It’s like tipping, in the USA — so pervasive that it’s invisible. Incidentally giving out fake dollar bills as tip is or was a thing. At least enough for a handful articles: https://www.businessinsider.com/20-tip-bible-p
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by ginko 3y ago
Shaders were originally a production rendering concept introduced by Pixar's RenderMan in the 80s. It only became a thing in GPUs much later. Programmable shading is really more of a design pattern in graphics renderers.
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by ginko 3y ago
Almost certainly not. Just today we had a (1940) submission[1] and I remember stuff from the 19th century at least. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39438773
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by ginko 3y ago
But surely even pieces of scummy tracking code can't take up megabytes of memory, right?! Just collect user session data and send it to some host.
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by ginko 3y ago
> If you want something like re2c with the same performance the target language would first require macro or precompiled facilities. Yeah, I think you could build something like that in Zig with comptime.
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by ginko 3y ago
I often wonder if the existence of lexer and parser generator tools like this is indicative that common general purpose languages are lacking the expressiveness to implement things like this directly. I feel like parsing is common enough th
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by ginko 3y ago
Assuming the person interacting with it is an adult, does it need any guard rails at all?
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by ginko 3y ago
No worries. Once we integrate LLMs in text editors we'll get there in no time!
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by ginko 3y ago
These days you could add the source as a large QR code. (by which I mean the actual verbatim code, not a URL) ..but really IMO code samples requiring a non-trivial amount of "framework" source is an anti-pattern on its own. Code s
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by ginko 3y ago
Main concern would be ventilation, but that's usually oversized in office buildings anyways.
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by ginko 3y ago
The automated title changes on HN constantly break things.
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by ginko 3y ago
If they wanted to travel to/from LA in style they could have also done this: https://www.amtrak.com/charter-your-private-train
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by ginko 3y ago
Why do foreign scholars always look at the US as an example of Western democratic society rather than, say Switzerland or Finland?
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by ginko 3y ago
Not even new is an understatement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(Augustine)
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by ginko 3y ago
This was Twinings earl grey. Sure it's not high end stuff, but it's still no dollar bin tea. Royal warrant and all that. This case is also from 20 years ago so I do think that it was real bergamot.
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by ginko 3y ago
He had no issues with pure black tea (and switched back to it in fact), so it must have been something to do with the bergamot.

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