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by jameshart 3mo ago
Discussed previously here in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30595038 I still can’t help but read most of this article as a story of a guy trying to prove his theory that corners aren’t actually dark, taking phot
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Without seeing the Fable trace that produced this, claiming it amounts to ‘advanced brute force’ seems like a leap.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
That it has an inverse. If f(a) = f(b) for a≠b then f can't have an inverse. Suppose f has inverse g; then g(f(x)) must = x for all x. But then g(f(a)) would have to equal a, and g(f(b)) would have to equal b. But they can't, beca
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by jameshart 3mo ago
The homes architects build for themselves are fascinating studies. Walter Gropius’s house in Lincoln, Massachusetts is similarly human in scale with incredible attention to detail. Like the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Oak Park there’s somet
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by jameshart 3mo ago
For me all the search results for https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%81%9A%E3%82%93%E3%81%A0%... are in Japanese. https://www.google.com/search?q=zundamon produces English language resources.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
So.. I know many people can read hiragana, but it is a very annoying habit of people who know a bit of Japanese to post un-transliterated Japanese text on an English language forum. For someone who doesn’t know Japanese your post reads ‘I
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Weeks come first. Electing to choose one of the weekdays and making it a ‘sabbath’ or similar comes next.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Jimmy Wales too
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by jameshart 3mo ago
The entire advertising industry is predicated on the principle of preempting personal preferences with paid placements. (Sorry, didn’t start out that sentence expecting to alliterate it all but it just came out like that). Literally every a
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by jameshart 3mo ago
No? And not what I said. But an AI provider absolutely got some of the money I might otherwise have spent on a clockwork watch.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
I am literally wearing a watch right now that was produced without any of these artisans’ specialized labor and which boasts among its features access to AI. In a very real sense I have replaced use of the skills of watchmakers with AI. Sor
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by jameshart 3mo ago
You don’t actually know those odds, and they vary by category.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
If faster plant growth were the only side effect you might have a point here. Boy, it sure has been hot this month, though.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Sure. It just draws attention to the fact that a throwaway piece of advice for checking calibration of a CO2 sensor is ‘it should read 400-450ppm outside’ when a few short decades ago that advice would have been ‘it should read 300-350ppm o
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by jameshart 4mo ago
Haha yes. 400-450ppm is fine. We’re doing just fine here. Everything is okay. https://www.co2levels.org/
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by jameshart 4mo ago
Winner goes through to the semifinal against an in flight seatback entertainment system, but will go down in the final to a WiFi router configuration web interface with default password ‘admin’.
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by jameshart 4mo ago
Voice controls?
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by jameshart 4mo ago
Does the car support different Spotify accounts on each driver profile? If not then you can say goodbye to personal playlists and favorites and podcast progress…
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by jameshart 4mo ago
To give it some value as a term, what Tim O’Reilly meant by it was a shift to participatory, user content driven websites. Blogs, Flickr and Wikipedia were quintessentially Web 2.0 phenomena.
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by jameshart 4mo ago
Web 2.0 wasn’t just hype. It was also rounded corners and glassy lozenge buttons implemented with CSS sliding door background sprites.
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by jameshart 4mo ago
The WAN port on my home WiFi router in my basement has a directly pingable IPv4 address - I would have thought that was still the most common way people’s houses are connected to the internet?
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by jameshart 4mo ago
There is a simpler explanation: Because TVs no longer contain particle accelerators that require the screen to be made of sufficient lead glass to absorb all the ionizing radiation they would otherwise be beaming into your living room, whil
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by jameshart 4mo ago
Right - the URI spec, on the other hand says nothing about this idea of a relative URL modifying one or more of these paths segment parameters.
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by jameshart 4mo ago
The generic URI syntax actually specifies that any path segment within a URI can be divided up into parts by semicolons (or commas), and suggests using key=value as parameters within that segment. http://tools.ietf.org/html&
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by jameshart 4mo ago
… which is effectively what result this process seems to produce already.
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by jameshart 4mo ago
I think that really just reflects the fact that on subjectively graded tests the score really doesn’t have that many significant figures of accuracy. That a regrading can find 3 to 5 points by being more generous - or presumably take 3 to 5
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by jameshart 4mo ago
It is explicit about the fact that that number of decimal places is part of the data. The semantics for your string “10.00” are complex - is it considered equal to “10”? To “10.000”? To “10.001”? A user interacting with an API that uses suc
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by jameshart 4mo ago
We’ve seen more examples recently. TikTok, wireless routers, polestar cars…
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by jameshart 4mo ago
Why did you make the player character, who wears a crown and moves like a queen, a prince ?
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by jameshart 4mo ago
Apple sells about 400 million units a year. If they ate an average $100 margin decrease on every one of those sales, that profit number wouldn’t go down from $120bn to $119bn, it would go down to $80bn. Now you can absolutely argue that $80

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