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781.
by kqr 1y ago
A lot of people in this thread speculate that Raku (formerly "Perl 6") killed Perl. But I have yet to see convincing first hand accounts confirming that. I certainly don't believe it. Everyone I talked to at the time who work
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by kqr 1y ago
Yes and no. Modern phone cameras are strong enough that you can crop out the centre and get a passable image as if taken with a longer focal length.
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Android Unexpected Keyboard Review(entropicthoughts.com)
1 points by kqr 1y ago|0 comments
784.
by kqr 1y ago
This is true for me as well. Once you realise that with the right prompts you can get the LLM to go off on any tangent you want, it starts to ring really hollow. Add to that the inability of LLMs to maintain world simulations of any fidelit
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by kqr 1y ago
One might wonder why you pay for a plan with 25 GB/mo when you use so little that you have over 2.5 years of it saved! I thought I had a low usage with my 1.5 years' worth saved. Only reason I paysfor that plan is anything lower a
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by kqr 1y ago
Yes. Both are alternatives.
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by kqr 1y ago
Demand for radio navaids is probably not increasing with the prevalence of GPS. That said, misidentifying a navaid is particularly dangerous so they have to broadcast somethting that's clear even under adverse radio conditions.
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by kqr 1y ago
Haskell sort of has this. You type (_ a b c) and the compiler tells you which methods would make sense there based on all three variables (so in a sense it is even more useful.)
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by kqr 1y ago
> It's almost aggressively bad, I guess they couldn't get an OK to use Morse code? Radio navigation aids identify themselves by trnsmitting their name in morse code!
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by kqr 1y ago
That was just before my time. I cut my teeth on a late 4 MB Atari ST. But it sounds like a great game!
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by kqr 1y ago
Too late to edit the comment, but here's the article describing some more of what I learned: https://entropicthoughts.com/sidescrolling-flight-simulator What's not mentioned in that article is that a couple months
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by kqr 1y ago
Not considered that. Good idea!
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by kqr 1y ago
I wanted to avoid DOS because the CLI knowledge earned there is not as transferable to a Unix system (which would be more practically useful in the future), but you're right in that it comes with some benefits too.
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by kqr 1y ago
Five and a half. He has already learned the mouse by drawing, and keyboard by playing a little with a text-to-speech system on my machine. I believe the interest is there even for a command-line interface.
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by kqr 1y ago
This very closely mirrors what I discovered when I made Flightle[1]. I made it in anger when I played a sidescrolling flight "simulator" on my phone in which the plane didn't behave anything like a plane! I figured "how
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by kqr 1y ago
Rest assured we do all of the above also. At least my oldest very clearly needs intellectual stimulation and likes forming mental models of how technical systems work. I think he'd really enjoy figuring out CLI interactions and simple
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by kqr 1y ago
I have tried to reason back and forth about (1) myself. The things I think we'd lack are (a) simple graphical games to show what is hypothetically possible in an engaging way, and (b) something like PICO-8 which they have already shown
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Ask HN: Good Starting OS for Children?
7 points by kqr 1y ago|12 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
Many people in this discussion seem to confuse checklists with to do lists. A checklist is an established, recurring procedure that is ideally memorised, but despite that one goes through each item on the checklist to make sure nothing is f
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by kqr 1y ago
NewPipe.
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by kqr 1y ago
Did not know about it but I like it!
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by kqr 1y ago
They do not -- NewPipe exists.
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by kqr 1y ago
- FastMail for email, calendar, and contact book. - Kagi for search and translation. - rsync.net for backup (although I took their lifetime subscription offer so I no longer actively pay them). - Self-hosting related costs (rented servers a
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by kqr 1y ago
I agree. I'm a big fan of Luxi Mono, but I avoid it when publishing stuff because others seem to dislike serifs.
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by kqr 1y ago
Called plug entries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_(accounting)
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by kqr 1y ago
There is "LLM misinformation" insurance, a very new branch of cyber insurance.
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by kqr 1y ago
Which part? The fact that bare words are taken as literal strings before => is one of the very features of => and not random at all. Likewise, 1.1.1 doesn't have a sensible interpretation as a number, so surely it must be a versi
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by kqr 1y ago
I wouldn't knowingly start large projects in it, but I use it all the time for projects that can be done in a few days, or at most weeks. I learned it when I became a manager and no longer had time for real programming but still needed
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by kqr 1y ago
Any forward test depends on market assumptions. I'm not a practitioner, and as a layperson I wouldn't know whose assumptions to trust.
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by kqr 1y ago
I'm going to assume this project is at best a few years old, so return over index is more likely to be an indicator of overbetting (taking on too much risk) than a performance indicator. Backtesting would be more useful. Of course, LLM

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