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by le-mark 4y ago
Indeed! > Sometimes I crave pancakes, despite them being nearly 100% carbohydrates. I eventually ended up with a recipe that substitutes wheat flour with almond and coconut flour, and to replace the syrup, a berry sauce reduction sweeten
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by le-mark 4y ago
> Think of stringing a 50 magnets on a piece of string, then trying to predict the structure it would take on if in zero gravity? It’s actually even more complex than that due to interaction with the local environment at the time of addi
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by le-mark 4y ago
> This is so alien to me. Indeed, it’s FUD as if sent by bots from Balmers time, that are still running, inexplicably.
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by le-mark 4y ago
> ever since I've built my 5900x desktop last summer As someone who’s been using Ubuntu exclusively since 2008, this comment is bizarre. The pain point with pcs has always been compatibility and driver support. The Microsoft miracle
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by le-mark 4y ago
Indeed, are there any PSX homebrew folks around who have done this or something similar?
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by le-mark 4y ago
> masterfully executed. I feel like this part you omitted clarifies my opinion on the matter.
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by le-mark 4y ago
I lived through an acquisition in the teens that I feel was an illustrative story. An old financial services provider embarked on a massive, whole organization modernization effort. The new CEO went all in and actually made the necessary in
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by le-mark 4y ago
I’ll be driving 18 hours rather than risk a flight rescheduled 5 days (soonest available) after the original flight being cancelled, being cancelled again. Stuff sucks man. $2200 to rent a minivan for two days one way.
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by le-mark 4y ago
You are not alone. It’s always been inscrutable to me as well.
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by le-mark 4y ago
The other fruit pis also have supply issues and the boards themselves can be quite buggy. Design your own with parts you can get in sufficient quantity seems to be the way, unfortunately.
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by le-mark 4y ago
You are being down voted because although your point is valid, it has zero relevance because the goal is fast lookup. Preprocessing cost is not a factor.
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Ask HN: Why can’t I get off of this group text?
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by le-mark 4y ago
This reads like an elaborate Skynet troll. Is this for real?
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by le-mark 4y ago
I’ve always thought a social api built on email as the transport and mailing lists for organization would be ideal. The infrastructure is there and scales.
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by le-mark 4y ago
I’m not sure either, but the name makes me think they don’t understand hexadecimal numbers.
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by le-mark 4y ago
Odd that Northrop Grumman are publishing this. Otherwise the point about phosphorous relative importance (in terrestrial biochemistry) vs abundance is new to me, very interesting.
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by le-mark 4y ago
Isn’t it actually “water resistant” though? I spent a lot of nights cold and wet in gore-Tex gear. It would stay dry for a few hours but always soak through.
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by le-mark 4y ago
> the ability to expand to multiple employees/crews is there as you expand. Finding reliable, motivated employees who will work for you and not themselves is the challenge that makes this type of business exceptionally hard to scale
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by le-mark 4y ago
The curious thing is the DoD funded development of a memory safe language in the 80s which they then didn’t use. Ada has memory safety built in.
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by le-mark 4y ago
Money market funds sometimes are priced above or below $1 due to market conditions. It’s rare but does happen.
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by le-mark 4y ago
Range and eyeballs are the elements a lot of people leave out. Helos carry the eyeballs with them long ranges. Drones require radios with enough bandwidth for real time video. Which at the range of 100s of km is very non trivial and non che
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by le-mark 4y ago
It would be helpful if the article started off defining what a functional language is. A lot of languages have functional features but are not “purely” functional. I think most would agree there’s a spectrum; dynamic vs static, eager vs laz
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by le-mark 4y ago
I posted the quote and I didn’t down vote your post. I was however confused how you found either question from what I posted, Hamming codes are not mentioned, neither is the idea Hamming created assembler. I mean it seems like deliberate tr
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by le-mark 4y ago
What’s the story around concurrency and concurrent updates to the db file? Are all queries in a single thread or are concurrent sql statements allowed to execute? Are there any benchmarks vs Postgres for example?
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by le-mark 4y ago
Richard Hamming called what we now know as assembler “automatic programming”: > I give you a story from my own private life. Early on it became evident to me that Bell Laboratories was not going to give me the conventional acre of progra
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by le-mark 4y ago
It says they transmit over a 37 core fiber, so 1.9 / 37 is about 53 terabits per second? Is it common for optical phys to encode/decode at this rate?
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by le-mark 4y ago
This, everyone seems to have forgotten or never known that “open source” isn’t a license. Commercial entities can make code open but with a closed license. The main example being UC Berkeley and BSD Unix. Seems like the copilot people conf
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by le-mark 4y ago
I think the big customers are militaries of nation states. Satellite communications for military drones is a huge enabling technology.
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by le-mark 4y ago
30 Rock is lowest common denominator humor just above duck and fart jokes, and it sells because it’s clean humor. A step up from knock knock jokes. 30 Rock uses a well worn template well. What I dislike about what you like is the cringe com
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by le-mark 4y ago
My maternal grandfather made a fortune selling sugar out of the trunk of his car during probibition. An illustration of if the product is that good or in demand, anyone can sell it!

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