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by jimjimjim 5mo ago
I think I made a HN comment a few months/years ago about driverless cars having problems with floods across roads after watching a downpour in Kuala Lumpur flood half a street in minutes. The road was down to one lane and drivers in bo
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by jimjimjim 5mo ago
Painful. A lot of the Microsoft interfaces these days are asynchronous and are built around the dev experience of c#/c++ with libraries/runtimes that do a lot of the heavy lifting. So you end up calling functions with ridiculously
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by jimjimjim 5mo ago
Yep, it's 2026 and I'm still 8 hours a day in win32.
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by jimjimjim 6mo ago
Yes! Thank you. That’s a blast from the past
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by jimjimjim 6mo ago
With a TV there was no easy way to block ads. Sure you could change the channel or get up and do something else but people didn't bother. Now with news websites most people are running ad blockers. What are the news sites meant to do?
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by jimjimjim 6mo ago
People still have to be paid. or they won't be paid and you just get different flavors of slop.
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by jimjimjim 6mo ago
Every newspaper had a price. People were happy with this.
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by jimjimjim 6mo ago
The world has been given hay making machines. Now people of all walks of life can make their own hay at a greater rate and with much less effort. They can also proudly display them along with other examples in centralized locations that con
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by jimjimjim 7mo ago
I choose option 3, in favor of downvoting and at the same time not advocating for the old way.
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by jimjimjim 7mo ago
But sir, how do we stop an old guy on the bow of a rusty fishing boat firing a $50 rpg at the oil tanker?
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by jimjimjim 7mo ago
It is not by design! PDFs that are made from scanned documents or collections of images would require OCRing but that is true of any format that the scans/images are put into. These days the vast majority of PDFs do not need to be OCRe
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by jimjimjim 7mo ago
That's not really what I would call reverse engineering. If you read a pdf, and type it into word is that reverse engineering? Either way whatever you get is in no way going to convince anybody that it is the original.
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by jimjimjim 7mo ago
The New Zealand Chief Digital Officer allowed Australian cloud providers to be used as there weren't suitable NZ data centers and this was many years ago.
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by jimjimjim 7mo ago
"higher quality than the greatest engineers". right... and why do so many articles or comments have a general approach of 'It's great and if you don't think it is it's because you don't understand it.&#x27
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by jimjimjim 7mo ago
It feels like during the previous hype cycle of bitcoins, blockchains and NFTs. People are trying to find uses for new technologies but it seems like a lot of the conversations come from people (at this point I guess it's still people?
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by jimjimjim 7mo ago
Thank you! I was wondering why bookmarks are treated so poorly by browser, as if they are forced to include them but hate them with a passion. That explains it. I'm a bit of a bookmark hoarder to the point where I have a local html fil
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by jimjimjim 8mo ago
I feel your pain. PDF applications have the same problem. The thousand page PDF spec isn't actually the spec, Acrobat is the spec.
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by jimjimjim 8mo ago
Great series of videos. They seem to be an intersection of quite a few of my interests.
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by jimjimjim 8mo ago
This might sound crazy, but what if everyone in the country gave extra and as a result everyone in the country was covered?
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by jimjimjim 8mo ago
Wow, that is a depressing point of view. Advancements in "not paying for things" accelerates while advancements in "preventing things" just inches forward.
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by jimjimjim 8mo ago
From a technical point of view this doesn't make any sense. From a finance and accounting point of view this makes everything more cloudy. Which certain types of people really like.
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by jimjimjim 9mo ago
Since there is a market for 5staring or 1staring reviews on review websites, there is probably a market to not-quite-human staring of github projects.
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by jimjimjim 9mo ago
Thank you. I've used mc since my slackware days and still use it. I never new Miguel wrote it
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by jimjimjim 9mo ago
It was unstable but it was nice to use. It introduced a lot of UI elements that are now taken for granted. I remember starting to build a window manager that replicated the win95 look.
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by jimjimjim 9mo ago
Eternal September just kept happening day after day for 25 years.
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by jimjimjim 1y ago
why not both?
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by jimjimjim 1y ago
Once they have paved the way and built the infrastructure, most fridges will come with some sort of display. Probably just a small status display. But these fridges will be much cheaper, subsidized by the Ad opportunities. It happened with
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by jimjimjim 1y ago
Writing a good pdf writer is easy. Writing a good pdf reader is extremely difficult.
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by jimjimjim 1y ago
accuracy: 60% This should have been a python script. How much of the current peak of the Gartner Hype Cycle should just be python scripts?
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by jimjimjim 1y ago
Well, this sounds terrible. Asking the AI "what was the site where i saw a walnut desk" would mean that enough data has to be stored (locally but how long until there is a pro version where it stored and processed centrally). Isn&

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