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by kccqzy 2mo ago
I don't think the world really works like that. Hearing an elevator pitch has a very different impact from reading a short-form business proposal. And of course the efficiency of the written word is not absolute; in lively discussions
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Show HN: A probabilistic programming language with exact inference and loops(github.com)
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
GP was talking about energy independence. They use domestic coal not imported coal, so the goal of energy independence is still achieved.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
Part of the reason for the overwhelming praise is because this is a “Show HN” thread[0]. People liked the amount of effort put in. Keyboards are highly personal anyways, so I wouldn’t be surprised that an average person would disagree with
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
No I think you misunderstood GP’s comment. The idea (which I personally don’t agree with) was that Google didn’t have to have the best models; it just needed to have the best compute infrastructure, i.e. having TPUs and the software stack t
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
This might be some kind of a weird requirement for a piece of art, but I would literally never expect a website to center a div according to the browser window instead of the viewport. It just looks wrong and feels wrong.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
Every time I see this kind of pet project I see whether they are addressing any actual issue of React or whether they don’t like React merely because it is popular. I especially look at whether they do state management or VDOM diffing diffe
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
I’m not sure your comment makes sense. Are you implying the helicopter crew are unqualified inexperienced people? But these people weren’t trying to land at the commercial airport.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
I spent three and a half hours reading the report. It’s well worth a read. It’s scary; I was aware of the Swiss cheese analogy in aviation safety, so it was scary to read how so many people were raising red flags, but due to either ignoranc
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
Why wait? It’s been possible since forever. I wrote UI in OCaml eight years ago. https://github.com/kccqzy/drawing-guessing/blob/master/clien...
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
Requiring the implementation of a Go interface is less powerful than requiring a trait. It reminded me of early years of Rust where people saw traits and asked, well Java had interfaces for many decades, what’s the innovation?
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
That’s how the modern way of designing products works. 90% of use cases is enough. YAGNI. The R&D needed for the last 10% is not worth its marginal return. There is no ambition, no perfectionism, no maniac attention to detail any more.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
No. You are presupposing a particular usage of a car and imposing that on a potential buyer. I take the train or bike to work, so for me my car is only for weekend trips. That’s why I bought the fastest-charging car available at that time.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
Are you talking about the unveiling of Swift or SwiftUI? My recollection was that some people hated ObjC and wanted a more modern language. Apple gave them Swift. But I don’t recall people hating AppKit (maybe I wasn’t remembering correctly
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
Yes. I was poking around all the different ways Apple was shaving storage and I found that the Leopard welcome animation (showing the word welcome in different languages in a galaxy) was stored in JPEGs, one for each frame; the Snow Leopard
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
It was 10.6.8 v1.1. They didn’t want to increment the version number so they made a version number on top of a version number.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
You think it’s done only because you are not ambitious enough. And neither is Tesla. A Hyundai charges faster than a Tesla. Chinese cars from several brands are getting five-minute charging times. If you think that’s a straw man I don’t kno
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
Yes it is precisely Go’s shortcomings that would require typical use of generics to also require reflection most of the time. You would want Rust traits (or Haskell type classes) or C++ style type traits and then the need for reflection is
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
Your understanding is quite incomplete. Wait till you think about the mapping operation for functions. Then there’s no loop, just function composition.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
There are gamer-focused Linux distributions that really test games specifically and make things smooth. The typical general purpose distributions still usually don’t support games very well.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
The way I see it there is a bifurcation here: some people value convenience so they just use their regular credit card to pay per trip with no discounts; others don’t mind the mental overhead of getting a transit card, understanding the far
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
This is the common fallacy of “AI is terrible in my own field of which I have deep knowledge, but AI is totally fine in this other field of which I only have cursory knowledge.” Even ignoring all other aspects of financial advice and only f
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
I’ve gotten that interview problem! From a French company no less.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
I thought double decker elevators were a failed experiment. I don’t think anyone is even producing them any more.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
That’s great, but a lot of buildings don’t tell you where the elevator currently is when you are about to press the button.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
Your so-called appropriate USB C cable is just two USB-C to Ethernet adapters plus an Ethernet cable. It’s very common on laptops without native Ethernet ports. But in my experience USB isn’t a very good protocol; it generally uses way more
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
That’s a biased view that leads to a scale only convenient for people living in particular latitudes. Now talk to someone living near the equator like Singapore, and 0F is unimaginably cold (even 40F is basically unheard of), and 100F is ve
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
I’m a bit skeptical. Without instructional materials from textbooks, programming language reference manuals and guides, as well as general knowledge about logic and discrete mathematics, I doubt a model could work very well.
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
It’s a terminal multiplexer. Nothing in this announcement suggests to me that using this multiplexer will require the user to get root or super-root or any additional permissions. It’s what the user already has access to, but more “durable”
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by kccqzy 3mo ago
Feature 2 is really useful. When I land on a technical article I know chances are there will be a nice HN discussion, that may sometimes even refute the main point of the article. Feature 1 is IMO less useful. It just suggests that people a

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