hcarvalhoalves

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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
> Why would you want to “focus on the underlying content” here? Tab bars and toolbars still cover the underlying content, and the more transparent/translucent they are, the worse. When something fades to the background, it literally
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
Company takeover by bean counters and clowns. It happens with every company, sooner or later. Apple remains on the edge with hardware though. I guess the show is still ran by the engineers at this department.
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
The Philippines has a story of foreign influence on their local politics. It wouldn't be crazy to expect this is just the latest chapter of the 3 letter using it as laboratory.
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
In other words, gravity would be explainable by statistical mechanics (like heat)?
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
This looks like a product evolution, but in reverse.
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
I suppose it takes a lot of deltaV to get a stable orbit over the sun poles?
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
Last I heard, workers were getting replaced by AI, so this will sort itself out.
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
The traditional methods of "carving" I know about are using an adze [1] and controlled burning [2]. [1] https://engineeringlearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Adze... [2] https://ww
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
This is the first chair one can make, it's a common pre-industrial chair design. Search for "tribal chair" or "2-piece chair" for examples. It gets even better with wood carving (rather than building out of straight
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
What once was old is new again. https://lisp-docs.github.io/cl-language-reference/chap-9/j-b... https://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-24-algebraic-effects-y...
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
Here’s one using Emacs’ Org mode built-in HTML publishing capabilities: https://github.com/hcarvalhoalves/org-mode-site-template
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
Is this what Stephen Hawking used at the time?
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
A much needed area of study. Companies and institutions are drowning on "data", but don't know how to organize information. It gets progressively worse with the ability to generate large bodies of text with the help of LLMs,
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
> Even if you are the biggest critic of AI, it's hard to deny that the frontier models are quite good at the sort of stuff that you learn in school. Write a binary tree in C? Check. Implement radix sort in Python? check. An A* imple
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
The problem is any discussion around this topic is tainted – these companies have to justify their valuations. Begins with the shift in nomenclature: "LLM" is now "AI".
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
I login to Instagram and I see: - Ad promoting "investment" platform with deep fakes of personalities - Ad from radicalized politician promoting hate speech - Semi-naked girl promoting their "other" social media (OnlyFan
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
When I first read the title, I had something in mind, but this is actually about structuring the code itself as a fixed-size table. Here's a different take on thinking about tables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5UK-
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
Yeah, I miss buttons and VFD displays.
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
> REST (or, rather, how REST is broadly used) encourages you to think in terms of Resources rather than Models or ViewModels. At first, your Resources start out as mirroring Models. But a single Model rarely has enough data for a screen,
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
The fact Windows 2000 was peak Microsoft and OS X 10.5 was peak Apple is proof that the golden age of software is way behind us, unfortunately.
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
I believe the "Peter principle" [1] also holds for companies. A company grows until it eventually outlives its mission and loses focus. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
YaRrr! The Pirate’s Guide to R https://bookdown.org/ndphillips/YaRrr/
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by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
You should read up on "autarquia federal". The Central Bank is not part of the government.
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by hcarvalhoalves 2y ago
Correcting the blatant misinformation about the topic: - PIX project started in 2016, public launch in 2020 - It was not "launched" by any President; the Brazilian Central Bank is an independent authority, with it own mandate, not
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by hcarvalhoalves 2y ago
The language was married to and sold with a hardware architecture that didn’t achieve massive commercial success compared to the other workstations at the time and later microcomputers.
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by hcarvalhoalves 2y ago
The plot from the "Idiocracy" movie gets more real everyday.
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by hcarvalhoalves 2y ago
A billionaire Asperger high on ketamine, can't stay out of the limelight for a single day, and for every stupid thought, media gives him some more attention. It's a vicious cycle.
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by hcarvalhoalves 2y ago
Software has such huge economies of scale that, for the most part, being useful or cheaper than the alternative surpasses the need to be correct. Only for some categories of software being correct would be a priority or a selling point.
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by hcarvalhoalves 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification

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