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by jimsmart 6y ago
Sad news. I worked with Gordon at a couple of places back in the 90s, in his pre-Mobius days. He was a good guy, big heart, always positive and motivational. And his sleight of hand with a deck of cards was the best I've ever witnessed
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Excluding the final monstrosity of an example in the GP post here — I think some of these would actually be useful in genealogical (family tree) research software — given the correct kind of UI. Approximate dates, and unknown portions of da
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by jimsmart 6y ago
The parent post here is speaking to the content stored in the database, not the templates on the filesystem. Dolt enables one to merge, push and pull data , just as one would with files and git.
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by jimsmart 6y ago
I very much suspect it's this [0] — I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. A library intending to implement a Direct3D API support, on top of the Vulcan API. [0] https://github.com/HansKristian-Work&#x
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Related: NLP models this as VAKOG (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory, gustatory). The first three are said to be the most common with regard to mental processing. There is an additional concept of an individual's 'preferre
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by jimsmart 6y ago
It would be good to actually get a meaningful reply to respond to, instead of the downvotes. The OP plainly claims they are using the name of a competitor's app in an above thread. And that simply doesn't jive with the agreed upon
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Searching for "Beijing Lakesha Network Technology" (with quotes) only seems to bring up a couple of pages of results, most of which are trademark registrations (including the US trademark registration for Monkey[0] — the info Appl
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Further on Monkey - founded by Ben Pasternak, "Monkey was acquired by Chinese social media company Holla for an undisclosed sum in December 2017" [0] Re my previous point: That's one of the things with trademark law: once gra
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by jimsmart 6y ago
No, but there was - it's since been taken down[0]. To me, the wording and lack of detail in original post, the apparent lack of understanding of clauses agreed upon in the Ts&Cs, the admission to using the keyword 'monkey&#x27
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by jimsmart 6y ago
It depends. In SEO this kind of strategy could be considered to be 'keyword stuffing'. Apple have specific rules regarding keywords in the App Store, as I'm sure you must already be aware. They specifically state: "The u
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by jimsmart 6y ago
HN title here ought to include (2013)
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by jimsmart 6y ago
The title of your submission goes against the HN Guidelines — specifically: "Damn, this is lit", see: "Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an
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by jimsmart 6y ago
> The US has administered 5x the vaccines as Israel. To put that into context: the US has a population ~36x the population of Israel.
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by jimsmart 6y ago
In an ideal situation, agreed. But surely that depends entirely on how many tables are being queried (how many tables already exist in the cache), the size of the rows, how much RAM the host has / how big the cache is, plus a few other
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Found it! The new main documentation/website can now be found here: https://ant-design.gitee.io
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Aha - according to this Reddit thread [0], the main repo for Ant Design has moved to a Chinese equivalent of Github, and can now be found here [1]. No news on the documentation/website yet though. [0] https://www.reddit.com&
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Odd. It seems the Github repo for the project has also disappeared - although the top-level still exists. https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design - missing https://github.com/ant-design/ - still
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by jimsmart 6y ago
May I ask: what exactly is the reason to treat Microsoft as a bad actor here? To my knowledge, they have zero history of taking over packages they do not control, nor any history of messing with repo contents in a misleading fashion.
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by jimsmart 6y ago
You might be interested in the work of Soul Machines [0] (online demo on website), a company formed by Mark Sagar [1][2]. There are a few interesting talks by him if you search on Youtube. Their AI-driven avatars are already in use in a han
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by jimsmart 6y ago
It's a bit like some of the costs that have been quoted for some of the covid track and trace apps. Whilst I do realise some of these quoted costs involve more than just the development of the app itself, some of the numbers are utterl
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Technically: Linux is not in fact Unix (it is Unix-like), whereas macOS is certified Unix. The certification is current: I think that's pretty modern. https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Apple's integration / syncing between other Apple devices is quite a nice feature. I regularly take/make phone calls from my desktop or laptop, routed via my phone. Same with SMS. All of my contact details (and photos/et
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Not quite the same as the linked site, but Wikipedia has an extensive list of cognitive biases, most of which link to their own page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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by jimsmart 6y ago
PCI was in fact pretty standard for graphics cards, in the period between ISA and AGP. Edit: link https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/reviews/graphics-beginners,1...
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by jimsmart 6y ago
> we get things like you telling me that you don't know what I consider vile, as if I'm just being unreasonable and the truth is somewhere in the middle. Sorry, but nobody is psychic. You said you had seen some "extremely
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by jimsmart 6y ago
We've been using joker.com for years.
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Thanks for pointing this out: previously I had looked at Micro with a view towards using it, and I had utterly failed to notice this.
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Similar: Yahoo used to (2002) replace any instance of the character sequence 'eval' (and other 'bad' strings) in their emails, in an attempt to prevent Javascript exploits. Needless to say it created a small amount of ha
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by jimsmart 6y ago
> The speak to a lawyer route doesn't work and isn't practical for me. With respect: licensing can be complex, particularly if one is new to it, and the ramifications of messing-up with a licensing issue like this could result
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by jimsmart 6y ago
Sidecar is only possible if your Mac and iPad are fairly new models. Also, it doesn't allow one to use e.g. another MacBook or iMac as a screen.

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