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by iamwil 3y ago
They matter to builders that care. While software may deliver value, and the business makes money at this moment in time, a disregard for quality over time would create an environment that pushes out builders that care. And when you have pe
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Deepmind: Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot(sites.google.com)
8 points by iamwil 3y ago|2 comments
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by iamwil 4y ago
Think of it more as "prompt-fu", akin to "google-fu"--or how to google. You do have to know how to talk to an LLM, and it will be important. But it's not so much engineering, as we come to think of it in software tr
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Fall of Civilizations [video](youtube.com)
3 points by iamwil 4y ago|1 comments
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How the Boxers Worked in Mike Tyson's Punchout on the NES(youtube.com)
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by iamwil 4y ago
It jumps every 10 seconds!
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by iamwil 4y ago
What do I look up to learn more? Are there online lectures or papers to get an intro on the topic?
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by iamwil 4y ago
Is there a calculus for sets or multi sets?
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SQLite-history: tracking changes to SQLite tables using triggers(simonwillison.net)
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by iamwil 4y ago
One interesting thing is that io_uring can operate in different modes. One of the modes enables kernel-side polling, so that when you put data into the buffer, the kernel will pull the data out itself to do IO. That means from the applicati
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by iamwil 4y ago
Oh, this is like the April Fool's day joke, Google Motion, back in 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20151025130300/http://www.google... Where you type email with your full body.
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LLMs powering Sims-like agents in a game(twitter.com)
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by iamwil 4y ago
"Falling forward into a future unknown"
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Modeling Factorio with Category Theory: An extended puzzle(forum.azimuthproject.org)
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by iamwil 4y ago
What are the main challenges when building cross platform desktop apps today?
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by iamwil 4y ago
How come? I don’t understand how the creative part figures into a desktop app focus? I’m guessing it’s because you like the responsiveness of desktop apps for tools in the creative space like photoshop? Or is it something else?
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by iamwil 4y ago
What kind of tight integrated experience are you imagining? Is it integration with 3rd party API services? Or with other desktop apps on the same local computer? Or something else?
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by iamwil 4y ago
It's the sword that we needed! But it doesn't take us all the way. There are semantic conflicts that are difficult for CRDTs to solve alone.
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by iamwil 4y ago
You mean, "report_marks_changes_fina_final_v2_normalized_v3_actual_final.docx" I've seen how corporate tax people pass file versions around email.
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by iamwil 4y ago
When comparing desktop apps to web apps, we often forget that web apps came to dominate because they have a massive advantage when it comes to distribution. It's much easier to go to a URL than to download and install software, not to
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by iamwil 4y ago
What are rich creative tools? Do you mean something like Figma or Photoshop? Or are there other tools in that category, like tools for creative writing?
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by iamwil 4y ago
It does, but I think we no longer live in that kind of environment. Distributed is the norm, and trying to shoehorn it into a mental model where everything is all in the same place adds a kind of accidental complexity to our underlying stac
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by iamwil 4y ago
probably because you can't run CouchDB on the browser. You do need it as something for PouchDB to talk to, however.
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A Critique of Impure Reason(blog.higher-order.com)
2 points by iamwil 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What was your first impression of the Internet?
6 points by iamwil 4y ago|9 comments
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by iamwil 4y ago
Apparently, the oceans do a lot of radar scattering that makes it harder to spot ships from the guidance systems of missiles. Not sure what the state of the art is nowadays though.
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by iamwil 4y ago
My first job out of college was working for a lab that did stuff for Air Defense. We did stuff like missiles that shot down other missiles for the Navy. Anyway, in my naivety, I asked the more senior engineers why we don't shoot missil
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Alien-like photo shows eel dangling out of heron's stomach in midair(livescience.com)
1 points by iamwil 4y ago|0 comments
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by iamwil 4y ago
I remember pg actively detecting when two users start replying to each other quickly on HN, and will throttle how quickly each both see the reply in the hopes of de-escalating. I think he also found that as two people argued down a thread,
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by iamwil 4y ago
Reminds me of Dan Luu's post about how people think he's pretty stupid. https://danluu.com/look-stupid/

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