indy

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What Happened to the 100k Hour LED Bulbs?(hackaday.com)
36 points by indy 5y ago|10 comments
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by indy 5y ago
Same here. It was just sending text across a network, how boring! Also the developers who worked on the Web were using scripting languages like Perl, not real languages that had to be compiled.
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by indy 5y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html This story surfaces every few years. "Eat bugs, they're good for you" "Eat bugs, they're high in protein" "Eat bugs, look, this high status person
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by indy 5y ago
Advertisers will be aware that Facebook will argue "No" when the reality is "Yes"
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by indy 5y ago
Bruised egos lead to bad decision making.
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by indy 5y ago
There are many paths to happiness, no need to denigrate this man's life.
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by indy 5y ago
And one of the disasters should be a craze for Bitcoin mining.
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by indy 5y ago
My politics generally align with what you call the 'one accepted political dogma', but I have to admit that workers who overtly signal their activism over actually doing the work they're paid for are supremely annoying. In fa
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by indy 5y ago
Often, just the act of explaining your problem to someone results in possible answers. (see Rubber Duck Debugging https://rubberduckdebugging.com )
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by indy 6y ago
In that case you should never look at the Pale Blue Dot image
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On Sperging Out, the Boy Who Cried Leopard(acko.net)
2 points by indy 6y ago|0 comments
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by indy 6y ago
Apologies, I should have been clearer. By people I meant the general public of today. Those who had nothing to do with the persecution of Alan Turing.
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by indy 6y ago
What is this strange mentality to constantly inflict guilt and shame on people? Can't we just use this as an opportunity to celebrate the life and work of Alan Turing?
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by indy 6y ago
It looks like the configure option has been renamed to --with-native-compilation on the feature/native-comp branch (and it has to be specified otherwise it defaults to no)
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by indy 6y ago
Although not quite 256 bytes, here's a chess playing program in 288 bytes: https://leanchess.github.io/
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by indy 6y ago
Fingers crossed that Betteridge's law doesn't apply in this case.
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by indy 6y ago
It was Fooled by Randomness. (Randomly enough I was reading that book for the first time yesterday)
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by indy 6y ago
Google has a magic money fountain so they can afford to fail with new products. Besides a lot of the products were 'successful' for the employees who received pay rises and promotions
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by indy 6y ago
It might be because of the "so many" part.
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by indy 6y ago
University is the last place for anyone who values education for its own sake
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by indy 6y ago
unfortunately "blind allegiance to a tribe who you don't hold accountable" applies to almost everyone who regularly engages with social media.
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by indy 6y ago
An issue that Jonathan Blow had was that one of the touted benefits of Rust is it's ownership semantics, yet the ECS (Entity Component System) that the talk demonstrated was effectively bypassing that.
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by indy 6y ago
They won't get a taste though. These people are rich enough that at the first sign of a leak in their apartment they'll have people to book them into a luxury hotel before flying off to another apartment, or maybe a little holiday
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by indy 6y ago
It's an article in The Guardian that's critical of Brexit. You're not supposed to actually read it, just skim the headline, have that confirm how terrible post-Brexit life will be and then carry on with the rest of your day w
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by indy 6y ago
jai isn't publicly available yet. (It's currently in a private beta.)
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by indy 6y ago
Most people are creatures of habit. Once they make a decision ("this is my brand of toothpaste") they tend to stick to that in spite of any new information.
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by indy 6y ago
That will only work if you run it in a docker container managed by kubernetes. Luckily you'll be able to configure it through an Electron app. As I always say: "Who cares if it's simple as long as it's easy, besides har
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Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath(greenwald.substack.com)
5 points by indy 6y ago|1 comments
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by indy 6y ago
Debuggers which can visualise known types of data (e.g. vectors, matrices, bitmaps etc) and display changes made to them over time.
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by indy 6y ago
Premature Generalization is worse than Premature Optimization

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