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by lacker 5y ago
I thought this was a pretty good thread (by an ex-Wikipedia lawyer) on Twitter about the IP meaning of Copilot. https://twitter.com/luis_in_brief/status/1410242882523459585... And this is a longer article about ho
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by lacker 5y ago
Serious Eats is a great source. Their writing on how to cook a steak in a cast iron pan is excellent, a really useful and interesting read for anyone who likes cooking steaks in cast iron pans. https://www.seriouseats.com/th
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by lacker 5y ago
Go is like a superior version of Java. Rust is like a superior version of C++. I wouldn't use Java or C++ any more for a new project, barring some very specific reason. But I might use either Go or Rust depending on the project's
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by lacker 5y ago
The FBI doesn't have access to every Bitcoin exchange. There are exchanges in other countries that let you trade anonymously, either into fiat or other cryptocurrencies.
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by lacker 5y ago
It's pretty interesting that they caught Capcom using the same name for game files as in the source material, based on files released in the Capcom data breach from last year.
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by lacker 5y ago
How does conda handle this problem? To me as an end user conda installation for things that use the GPU seems to work a lot better, and the only real downside is that it combines awkwardly with packages that are installed using pip.
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by lacker 5y ago
I would like to counteranecdote and say that the nice east bay neighborhood I live in is getting flooded by families leaving San Francisco right now.
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by lacker 5y ago
I wonder if this is like ancient astronomers finding more and more epicycles.
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by lacker 5y ago
how can anyone be ok with that? I don't want to mine cryptocurrency on my graphics card. So given the choice of buying an unrestricted one off ebay for $2500, or a restricted one for the originally suggested price of $800, I would ra
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by lacker 5y ago
It isn't the "goodness of their hearts", Nvidia just wants to maintain their position as the market leader in the markets that will be there for a long time. Gamers is one such market. Some gamers are loyal to a particular br
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by lacker 5y ago
They aren't really "selling" the unlocked RTX 3080, though. They go for $2500 on ebay, and you're essentially winning a lottery if you manage to get one at the advertised $800 price. In practice acquiring a restricted RT
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by lacker 5y ago
the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the result not of their practices but of individuals' inevitable failure to be conscientious If you live in the United States or Europe, if you throw plastic away in the trash, there is virtually ze
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by lacker 5y ago
I found this recent article from Our World In Data much more informative about plastic waste: https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics There's a huge difference between "plastic waste in a landfill" and &quo
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by lacker 5y ago
There is, it's called Substack.
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by lacker 5y ago
Apple makes sure that JavaScriptCore can safely run untrusted code, but they don't apply that same level of security to their native API.
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by lacker 5y ago
That complaint doesn't quite make sense to me because things like "language servers for every programming language in existence" don't exist for iOS in the first place, even if you were allowed to run external processes.
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by lacker 5y ago
Adobe had an intense outcry when they moved to a subscription model, and it worked out great for them. You are basically changing your customer base. People who would happily spend $20/month for a good code editor will love the change
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by lacker 5y ago
The problem is that many people, even in developer circles like here on HN, are still very negative when it comes to subscriptions. It's always going to be that way, and that's okay. It's still the right move for profession
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by lacker 5y ago
"Envy" makes it sound like it's bad or sinful. But it just makes total sense to me. Bezos is trying to start a rocket company and this other rocket company is more successful. Of course you want to try to hire away executives
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by lacker 5y ago
I feel like the problem is that pip is clearly the most popular, but philosophically the pip developers do not want to build a solution to all packaging and environment management into pip. If I were pip dictator, I would try to make pip th
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by lacker 5y ago
Oh man, I don't think I have laughed as much at an HN comment in a long time :D
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by lacker 5y ago
how many people like me does it take to support one professional writer? Back of the envelope, I would estimate authors get 1/4 of book sales as royalties, so you've sent $1000 to authors in your lifetime. I don't know how
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by lacker 5y ago
I feel like the article glosses over a key point: Even on the high end, there were only 11 books that sold more than 500,000 copies. If I can spend two to three years writing a novel and my best case scenario is having it sell a couple h
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by lacker 5y ago
California has high electricity rates, but at least in the San Francisco area you don't use very much heating or air conditioning, so you just don't need that much electricity. Winter in Pittsburgh or summer in Arizona is going to
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by lacker 5y ago
I would believe a North Korean farmer even more, that he was content with this life. A North Korean farmer who has eaten the same dinner every day for the last ten years is doing pretty well - it would mean they have avoided many of the Nor
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by lacker 5y ago
Wow, he eats a whole onion at dinner every day? That seems like a lot of onion to eat! I wonder how he cooks his onion.
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by lacker 5y ago
Sorry for being somewhat off-topic but... wow, the scroll bar on this site, it's kind of awesome but it also almost hurts my eyes to look at it while I'm scrolling. Take a look if you missed it :D
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by lacker 5y ago
I think this section of the readme speaks to that: Is this supported? Short answer: no. We've made Cinder publicly available in order to facilitate conversation about potentially upstreaming some of this work to CPython and to reduce
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by lacker 5y ago
Perhaps everyone who was ever an SRE at Google added one new configuration option to Kubernetes, and that's how it ended up this way.
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by lacker 5y ago
This is pretty exciting! I'm glad to see more investment going into the JavaScript developer tooling ecosystem. Some of the open source companies have had an easier time monetizing than others. Databases, for example, have a somewhat o

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