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by kleiba 2y ago
Vacuums use a lot of power - I wonder how long the batteries last, especially since the average beach is a lot bigger than your standard living room.
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by kleiba 2y ago
Exactly. It's not too difficult to imagine replacing LaTeX for some fairly straight-forward documents. But just by casually browsing tex.stackexchange.com, you'll soon find out that people use LaTeX for an amazingly wide range of
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by kleiba 2y ago
At least in the country where I currently live, almost nothing is as highly regulated as the field of education. Also, teachers have a _very_ lobby. To get an AI-based program adopted would be an uphill battle against all forces. Almost Her
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by kleiba 2y ago
But not than _picking up_ a hobby.
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by kleiba 2y ago
If you cannot come up with a satisfying idea, why not shift focus and drop programming as a hobby altogether? At least for a while. I'd recommend joining some kind of club where you get to spend your time with other people. In my exper
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by kleiba 2y ago
I was going to write something similar, "start a family". However, the problem is that that's not just something you _just do_ - it's not like you wake up one morning and decide, "I'm going to start a family&qu
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by kleiba 2y ago
Make a video game.
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by kleiba 2y ago
Nailed it!
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by kleiba 2y ago
Oh, a park! Like, where people come and can look at the creatures for an entrance fee? Yeah, sure why not. Also like your naming idea, perhaps something a little catchier?
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by kleiba 2y ago
One idea I had a while back is this: with all our modern technology in stem cell research, gene modification and cloning, shouldn't it be possible to recreate actual living clones from prehistoric dinosaur DNA? I mean, sure, these gian
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by kleiba 2y ago
Well, usually we measure the difficulty of a problem by the run-time complexity of a solution to the problem. If the approach is deterministic, we'd usually care for the complexity of the best solution for the worst-case kind of proble
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by kleiba 2y ago
I am personally going to start using this, and I am going to get immediate benefits from this, and so are my readers. That's it, that's all it takes. More power to you! My point, however, is that why most people would be bothere
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by kleiba 2y ago
Maybe not easy to solve, but not of enough importance/impact that would justify spending an extended amount of time changing the current practice. My original post got downvoted, but I stand by it because empirically, it seems to be cl
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by kleiba 2y ago
OT: anyone's got an idea why Firefox would not be able to display that page in reader mode (button in the URL bar not showing up)? For some reason, my eyes cannot cope with white text on black backgrounds, so I usually just go to reade
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by kleiba 2y ago
Meh, too small of an issue to be bothered about it.
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by kleiba 2y ago
The usual recommendation around here is to consume around 3l of water per day just to stay hydrated, i.e., not for hygiene or other uses.
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by kleiba 2y ago
Isn't that the majority of software one makes?
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by kleiba 2y ago
AskHN: Somewhat related to the topic at hand, I'm curious to know how much time do you spend sitting down and reading something? I mean, not while you're on the train to work, or sitting in a waiting room - but actual dedicated ti
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by kleiba 2y ago
Speaking of which: does anyone here on HN feel comfortable recommending a Python IDE that's half-way bearable on iPads?
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by kleiba 2y ago
Or Minecraft.
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by kleiba 2y ago
Yeah, I also agree that the public really doesn't need to know everything their leaders are up to. It's much better for us if we only receive pre-filtered information. Perhaps journalists are not the best choice, though, don'
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by kleiba 2y ago
The dystopian future this is leading to is clear: personalized pricing. So, you're upper middle class (*)? Well, surely, you don't mind paying a little more for your groceries. (*) Thanks for bringing your smart phone with you, a
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by kleiba 2y ago
If I know that the guy who came to the same supermarket as me got his water cheaper just because he got there ten minutes earlier, how much do you think I feel like shopping at that place?
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by kleiba 2y ago
Why?
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by kleiba 2y ago
Even the fact that there is more than one Emacs might be news to some of the youngsters, unless they're so young that their first reaction is "what's an Emacs?" As a matter of fact, when I started a new job a couple of y
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by kleiba 2y ago
Note that the grep command used to compile that list is shown at the very top of the page.
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by kleiba 2y ago
I'm sure you didn't mean to imply it but the way your post is worded could be misunderstood as if you were saying that some powerful entity is trying to mute rms through defamation. However, the website you cite points out that th
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by kleiba 2y ago
Indeed, it's worthwhile to study rms and his cause in more details. For instance, the "he wrote an Emacs" part is actually more complex. But also the reason why you put Open Source in quotes is part of rms' story, and as
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by kleiba 2y ago
Err, perhaps I'm missing something, but if the ACM Software System Award is presented to an institution or individual(s) recognized for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, how come Linus hasn't got his y
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by kleiba 2y ago
Who gets to decide what is considered important and what isn't?

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