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by harrall 1y ago
Yeah if you can’t justify a >$200 inkjet, you may not need an inkjet. Order photos from a store instead of printing them. Get a laserjet if you just want document printing at home. If you are doing crafts, then buy a nice inkjet. The n
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by harrall 1y ago
Google has been using its own TPU silicon for machine learning since 2015. I think they do all deep learning for Gemini on ther own silicon. But they also invented AI as we know it when they introduced transformer architecture and they’ve b
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by harrall 1y ago
I think these discussions always miss a nuance. I work at a big company. There are parts that are nepotistic and there are parts less so. I just utilize the parts that work. It’s like a restaurant that has bad food. Do I avoid the restauran
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by harrall 1y ago
Historically it seems humanity is often better off after major advances. But it’s the transition that is the problem. The people living through the transition have to go through hell.
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by harrall 1y ago
Gonna be honest: if you have to frequently use RAW to make Fuji photos look good, it may be a skill issue.
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by harrall 1y ago
A lot of battery packs do not use 18650s but rather pouches, which are a lot smaller at the cost of some stability.
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by harrall 1y ago
My phone is also mounted above my dash immediately to the right of my steering wheel, allowing me to always have the road in sight. With many in-car screens, you have to look down and right. You can’t even see the road in your peripheral an
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by harrall 1y ago
I was a very early adopter of Docker and what sold me was Dockerfiles. A SINGLE regular text file that took regular shell commands and could build the same deployment from scratch every time and then be cleaned up in one command. This was U
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by harrall 1y ago
35mm photos might have been “wide” historically but it’s not very wide. Even the main camera on iPhones are around 28mm. Skate videos created an explosion of very wide content at ~10-14mm.
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by harrall 1y ago
Kids hanging around in abandoned houses to smoke or do dumb shit is like a staple of childhoods.
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by harrall 1y ago
I noticed a weird disdain for education too. I once posted in support of general education and it didn’t go so well. I suppose the people on HN are a certain demographic.
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by harrall 1y ago
I wonder if the specific degree is important or rather it’s because screens tilted at different angles in a store looks ugly asf.
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by harrall 1y ago
They most definitely decrease randomness. But I guess the article’s point is that human imperfections offset that with lower correlated failure modes.
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by harrall 1y ago
I prefer the public transit systems of NY, Chicago, and San Diego. Maybe LA is even better now but I haven’t ridden it recently.
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by harrall 1y ago
I remember when I first learned calculus and holy shit that was cool already. Then it kept getting better and better as I learned differential equations, linear algebra, etc. To me EE = heavy math and that’s what makes it so fun. I actually
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by harrall 1y ago
Microsoft Office on a tiny screen is not a dealbreaker for regular consumers. Snapchat, Facebook, Uber, Lyft, etc are.
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by harrall 1y ago
Your average person who wants to use Snapchat, if given a choice between a phone that runs Snapchat versus one that doesn’t, simply chooses the one that can. (Windows Phone never had Snapchat.) Same with Photoshop. Neither Windows Phone or
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by harrall 1y ago
Tell that to the kids at my high school in 2004 screwing with all the unprotected services across the whole school district-wide network. Or the worms that scan for vulnerable services and install persistent threats. If you want to remove t
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by harrall 1y ago
I don’t do much of the deep prompting stuff but I find AI can write some code faster than I can and accurately most of the time. You just need to learn what those things are. But I can’t tell you any useful tips or tricks to be honest. It’s
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by harrall 1y ago
Same. I’m embarrassed to explain how I type but I can do 125 (80 on iPhone, no swipe). If I’m going to be real, just you’re naturally talented and coordinated with your hands. That’s why most people can’t relate. We should form a group wher
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by harrall 1y ago
We still treat wood with oil. Your local home improvement store should stock a bunch and you’ll find more at a woodworking store. You can also add a sealant on top like polyutherane if you want it to last even longer at the cost of impartin
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by harrall 1y ago
Varnish like polyutherane. Here’s what I use for furniture that I build: - My planters use red cedar, often bare. - My outdoor furniture use a wood oil plus polyutherane. - My indoor furniture use just wood oil. But that’s only in general.
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by harrall 1y ago
3. You are in a career because you mistakenly thought you’d like it, or because your parents told you to do it, or because it’s the only thing that you’ve ever known, but it turns out that you absolutely hate it. You’ve reached a local maxi
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by harrall 1y ago
I don’t think progressive loading is innovative. What is innovative trying to build a framework that does it for you. Progressive loading is easy, but figuring out which items to progressively load and in which order without asking the deve
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by harrall 1y ago
I think the best practice is to handle them with equal attention as the happy path. Error handling is usually afterthought from my experience. What is the system state when it does error? What is the best possible recovery from each error s
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A lot of food we like was invented fairly recently. Modern pizza was invented in Italy in 1889 for example.
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Not a bird but as a human, it’s fun. Adrenaline is hell of a drug… and the best one.
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I think it's critical to have both (1) actual experience working with something and (2) then reading about how it works. You gain natural intuition when you have done both. When I'm listening to someone suggest an idea, you can te
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by harrall 1y ago
I find Junie (from JetBrains / IntelliJ) great compared to other offerings. I have 10+ years experience as well. It writes JUnit tests with mocks, chooses to run them, and fixes the test or sometimes my (actually broken) code. It’s no
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by harrall 1y ago
Long before JWT existed, if you wanted to pass some trusted data through an untrusted channel, you would make a payload with an expiry, encrypt or sign it with your secret key, then send it. However, you would need to make up your own way t

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