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by hsn915 4y ago
That hard part is already done by HarfBuzz; segmenting text for feeding it into harfbuzz is not that hard. I've done it with hardly any prior experience (and even written a blog post about it) https://hasen.substack.com&#x2F
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Supporting Arabic is not that hard. It's not as complicated as these blog posts are presenting it to be.
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My problem with this kind of essay is, even if it might contain useful information, it presents the problem as "omg this is way too complicated it's almost insurmountable". This is a common trend I keep seeing in technical bl
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It's all guesswork. There is no mechanism to validate any of it.
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Yes and it seems he's very concerned about Twitter's profitability. It's probably why he tried to ban links to sites he saw as competitors. This is very different from the take in this and similar articles. Twitter might have
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SpaceX's first three launches failed miserably. The company was very close to shutting down had the forth launch not miraculously succeeded.
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You're judging way too early. Advertisers will come back in a few months as long as Twitter stays alive and activity lever rises. There are other revenue sources being planned (Twitter Blue is not the only one). Now, obviously, it migh
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This is pure bullshit. "By one estimate". I could also claim: Twitter is now on track to become massively profitable, by one estimate. Can you dispute it? Is it not an absolute fact that by some estimate Twitter will be massively
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Stock prices fluctuate. It's dumb to measure a company's success by a temporary change in stock price. You should be measuring actual things. For Tesla, this means car sales and operational costs. For Twitter, it's still too
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This guide is great for introducing the bsd socket api but this is really not the API you want to use if you want to create a production quality web server in C in 2022. You need the uring io API.
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My previous company had many slack channels and they would always tag @here or @all I simply ignored slack. Too much noise to be useful. I had two or three channels that I would regularly check, and that's it.
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I have no idea what this essay is tryig to say, but it seems to be sort based on leftist/marxist premises? I mean, look at this: - He thought the internet was going to get rid of "hateful" ideologies, to which I say, "lo
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In all these thousands of years, capitalism existed. People traded with other countries. Those who got into trade got rich. People who were allied with the ruling class were rich. The people who were rich used their wealth to accumulate mor
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Programming is almost never about modelling a real world process - unless you're doing some kind of physics simulation. Programming is mainly about data transformations.
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This comment aptly summerizes why I hate most "modern" programming jobs. This is not programming. This is not what I had in mind when I signed up for Computer Science school. > modelling real world (business) process in terms o
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In my humble opinion, Mike Acton's talks are the best introduction, although he doesn't use the term "first principles", and they seem - at the surface - to be about game engines, but they are generalizable to everything
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Maybe you could have bothered to list some of this "evidence" instead of venting that no one has heard of it?
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I don't know how the latest stuff from OpenAI will impract the career of average programmers. But regarding your last question: > how would you try to AI-proof your career? Learn to program from first principles.
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A side effect of this is that almost all job position advertisement are disgusting to look at. They are all about this kind of mindless glue code programming, but wrapped in marketing speak to make it look like "you get to use awesome
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This is very interesting. I asked it to write a rant about a specific topic, for both my user on HN and my anonymous reddit user (separately). Then I asked it how is that in the style of said user. For my HN handle, it explained that this u
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by hsn915 4y ago
I hate to break it to you but not everyone who speaks English on the internet is American. I'm not American and I don't live in America.
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I Quit My Job, not to pursue wealth, but to participate in creating the future(hasen.substack.com)
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Not early 40 but late 30s (approaching 40), but this for me was more motivation to quit than stay employed forever. I never wanted to be an employee forever and approaching my 40s makes me realize if I don't do it now when will I?
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If your brain is not operating in the same mode used for hunting animals, are you even in flow?
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If you go to your profile (click on your name) you will see links to your comments and submissions and favorites https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=evittsp If you also click on the "threads" link on the top oran
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"Wasting your time on problems that are not part of the business" How much time? Sometimes a task that takes X time and seem unrelated to your "main" task, actually increases your productivity when doing the main task.
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For junior developers reading this: don't listen to the above; it's bad advice. I mean, unless you want to remain a junior forever.
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Docker is definitely not the answer for self-hosting on a mass scale. It's a thing that only technical people know about.
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Your argument doesn't work. It seems like a variation of: "If I tell the compiler what instead of how, it should be able to produce the msot optimized code, even if it doesn't do so now, a sufficiently advanced compiler could
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Sounds like pointless drama to be honest.

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