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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
It sounds similar to Y2K which turned into a feeding frenzy for consultants. But, something to keep in mind: AI caught a lot of us by surprise. I used to pass through circles of AI developers, and I never thought I'd have an AI coding
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Some things to consider: 1: The quality of code varies widely from model to model. In Visual Studio Copilot, I get so-so code from GPT, great code from Claude 4.x, lousy results from Claude 5.x 2: "Novel work" is harder to get fro
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Yes, they do. The first part of "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith gives many historical examples. And in Ray Dalio's book, he explains how the US government did it in the past, and will need to do it again in the future.
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Ray Dalio explains this history in his books "How Countries Go Broke" and "Big Debt Crises". His theory is that governments have a debt cycle, and printing money is just one point in that cycle.
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> What sort of insight am I missing? The article makes a lot more sense if you've practiced Zen. Think of it as someone's way of making sense of Zen teachings by related them to something they already understand.
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Yes, the article really only makes sense if you're both practiced Zen and done some intense parallel programming. "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" makes more sense in a group setting. I read extracts of it with a Zen priest i
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
Rust is memory safe, but not "manual memory management." IE, the vast, vast majority of Rust doesn't use pointers.
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
Android Auto only shows who texted, it doesn't show any of the message. (IE, it doesn't even show the first few words.) It's also a hassle to have it "read" messages, it requires far too much interaction with the sc
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
I've been tempted to go that route: I used to have a transparent self-winding watch and I miss it. The thing is, I really like seeing text messages on my watch out of the corner of my eye. I don't read them, but I know that so-and
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> We really don't have an easy way in the modern era to share our PC's in such a way that multiple users have their own keyboard/mouse/video combination... > But I guess, if there were a distribution which sets thi
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
> Of course, I’m pretty sure Go is much better than C at some problems. But there’s no way in hell it supersedes it. C is great when you need to do manual memory management. Most software written today doesn't need to do manual memo
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
> the lightning connector itself is better than the usb-c connect in my opinion. I get that having the pins on the male* plug is a theoretical advantage in durability but that has not been my experience with usb-c connector durability on
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
You're making a strawman argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man We can have timezones where noon is close to true noon. Where I live, the sun is highest either at 11:30 (Standard) or 12:30 (DST.) Most m
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
How is this different than C#? What new concepts does this bring that C# doesn't? 20 years ago there was some momentum behind Visual Basic .Net; but the language was so similar to C# that it just wasn't worth using. There was a jo
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
No $#1t, Please re-read my comment
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Please re-read my comment
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Please re-read my comment
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That's called UTC. Most datetimes are stored that way and converted to local time in the UI. (To prove it, open finder or explorer and look at a file's modified time. Then change your time zone. You might need to refresh the windo
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
No, you completely misinterpreted me. Just keep true noon within ~30 minutes of noon in population centers, and allow rural areas ~45 minutes. DC and NYC would be in the same time zone. Right now DC's true noon is more than an hour off
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
Am I the only person who thinks its odd that my government (US) thinks its can tell me what time to get up and go to bed? Before timezones, "noon" was the point where the sun was the highest in the sky. It seems we should focus on
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It's great for "mechanical" changes. For example, yesterday I came across some unit tests that didn't have error messages in their assertions. Normally, it takes me ~10 minutes to fix a handful of tests in this situation
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
> But at least I (and the rest of our group, whom I’ve shared it with) now get the choice about how we access this content. What I want to know is: How many people actually used the website? How many people prefer the website? It's
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
I cranked up the dust and scratches, and literally heard the "POP in my head as the needle hit one.
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It's very popular in rural US where running wired broadband is cost prohibitive. There are many parts of the US that are very spread out, and thus running wires to every home is expensive without subsidies.
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The movie Metropolis has a base-10 clock in the background. It's in the scenes with the business owner.
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
I don't switch browsers just for one site. Besides, (and I know this is an assumption,) it appears the problem is the API that Refined Hacker News was written to. I suspect Firefox will also end-of-life the API soon.
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Ask HN: Any good replacements for "Refined Hacker News?"
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This broke my heart: > Despite coming from a big, musical family, Tyler and Sullivan never had children. > I absolutely adore children. > I did have a miscarriage when I was 40, I left it too late, you know? I feel like, if you get
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
Made it to 9 and then time ran out... I wish it showed me the word that I got stuck on! Argh!!!
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
> The study looked at people who had read a book, magazine, or newspaper; listened to an audiobook; or read an e-book. Uhm, what about Facebook, web-based news articles, and internet message boards? What about video games that involve si

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