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by jng 9y ago
All of it probably to be taken with a grain of salt.
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by jng 9y ago
The funny thing here: why does cperciva, of tarsnap fame, show up in the source code of the CD script? I saw it on the article, checked it on my Mac, and it does indeed show up. Intriguing.
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by jng 9y ago
MIRTS is an incredibly deep take in distilling the essence of RTS. The spartan look is instrumental to that. I don't think you get it. I only played ADR for a few minutes, so I didn't discover its depth, but the reason it became s
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by jng 9y ago
It's not about lack of understanding. The viral success of a "one-off" type of game like ADR is nearly impossible to reproduce. Sometimes people take a liking to something because you hit exactly the right notes without even
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by jng 9y ago
Microsoft is used to implementing its own filesystems, so it probably feels more natural for them to do that than it does for Facebook.
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by jng 9y ago
Well, it's really hard to read text upside down.
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by jng 9y ago
How did you get the MBP trackpad replaced for $30 and in 2h? I have the one in my MacBook Air in a similar state and Apple quotes 150+ EUR and leaving it for one week at their tech support...
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by jng 9y ago
Please use a PNG for the emojis image... it's so painful to see the JPEG halo/bleeding artifacts...
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by jng 9y ago
You can just write DEFCON 3 and this will communicate the same "moderate risk" message to everyone, no matter their understanding of how DEFCON levels work.
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by jng 9y ago
They just laid off half the staff and are going through life-threatening rough times.
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by jng 9y ago
Money is not the only thing a father needs to be around to provide to his kids, at least not in a desirable case. And yes, I know many cases are a lot less than desirable. (When did people start to think money is a good substitute for every
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by jng 9y ago
This. I would call the optimization described on the article as "low-hanging fruit": if you don't have the right DB indices or you are not batching your operations, you can find that kind of improvement easily, mostly just be
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by jng 9y ago
Here's some shared experiences that may be applicable to your case. I am a 43 year old that struggled with procrastination all my life. Even then, I did achieve some impressive things, in various ways, over the years. Wrote a book to l
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by jng 10y ago
Maybe a pair of scissors near a head are not the best example of imperfect AI being applied in a great way.
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by jng 10y ago
Keep up the work. If only a few people get their start into understanding the physics of music through this, it will be worth the effort. Plus I think this kind of education will be a lot more prevalent in the future. Congrats & thanks
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by jng 10y ago
I think the right way to think about this is the following: scaling "up" is basically over with CPUs. Now we need scaling "out". This means learning how to make use of many more smaller cores, rather than just a few larg
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by jng 10y ago
And there was the vi emulator guy too :)
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by jng 10y ago
I'd guess they do the rendering on the DSPs, they're not GPUs but they'd be a lot better at that than an Atom CPU...
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by jng 10y ago
Any more proof needed that caching should become a system-provided service over the next 10-20 years, the same way memory management did in the past 10-20 years?
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by jng 10y ago
Clash Royale.
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by jng 10y ago
I urge anyone interested in this topic to read Helmholtz's "On the sensations of tone", a fascinating 19th-century tour-de-force trying to understand music sensation as coming from physical principles, deriving the standard w
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by jng 10y ago
I disagree. It is a great, clear, readable, succinct name, the same way that 'i' is a great name for an index in a loop, or i,j,k can be great names for nested indices. Einstein's multi-index notation was based in the same pr
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by jng 10y ago
I guess they could do an "untethered" desktop version but they don't really want to. Solve syncing of history etc but it's doable. But they just love living in your pocket. It's all about owning you, and that's
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Writing interactive command line apps in JavaScript with Node.js(jonbho.net)
1 points by jng 11y ago|0 comments
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by jng 11y ago
Intentional Programming ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming ), started by Charles Simony
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by jng 11y ago
Awesome site you linked to, thanks.
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by jng 11y ago
> Weak AI will eat around the edges. Better spelling, grammar, and cite checking software could reduce a lot of billable time. But most associates spend less than 10% of their time doing that. You must live in a world where NLP software
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by jng 11y ago
Fixing that may take a long time, but it will probably fix your whole life, so it's worth it to just focus on this instead on software or work. Dedicate to work only the minimum necessary time for survival. There are probably a number
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by jng 11y ago
The amazing thing is that then you have no explanation to the real, practical, measurable results of the two-slit experiment. You know, there's a reason for why many intelligent people with some understanding of physics and logic decid
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by jng 11y ago
I'm happy somebody tries to put some sense into the whole absurdly overblown machine learning field.

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