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by lemming 3y ago
Here's an interesting theory about that. I can't claim any credit for it, it's from Jim Rutt, I heard him on the Clearer Thinking podcast ( https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/160/jim-rutt-lar
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Not me, but someone was: https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/145bxmi/c...
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Given the article, the more interesting question is how we react if the answer is "Yes".
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Maybe it would be cool for architecture studios, but thats also a fairly limited audience. A guy I know does VR high quality architectural renderings of apartments etc that are sold off plan. So the potential buyer can actually go through
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> Any studies on the effect of of both marine animals and the beach/dune/fringe dwellers on this? https://www.projectvesta.org are doing those studies, they've been on HN before: https://news.ycombin
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JetBrains Polaris – A smart code search engine, right in the IDE(polaris.labs.jb.gg)
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Just wait until you hear about literally everything ever Or a lot of modern medicine right now. Lots of useful drugs are discovered totally by accident: "Oh look, my patient took this for foot sores and it turns out it helps his hair
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Are New Zealand's marine heatwaves a warning to the world?(theguardian.com)
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The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/761656824202276864
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I use my phone, but I don't use social media.
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As another data point in addition to the sibling comments, all IntelliJ language parsers use recursive descent with a separate lexer.
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By then, in the real world, people had discovered that much more meaningful error messages were possible with LL or recursive descent (i.e. top down) parsing. This is largely orthogonal to whether you separate lexing out, though - it&#x27
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by lemming 3y ago
I don't agree with this - it really depends on how it's done. I think the way it was done in this thread was non-accusatory, and generally I find that these suggestions are very helpful. Once you get to a certain level in a second
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Lessons in Happiness, from the Pandemic(clearerthinking.org)
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by lemming 4y ago
Are there plans to release tokenisers for other platforms? I'm accessing the OpenAI API from Clojure, and it would be really nice to have a JVM version so I can estimate token use before sending.
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by lemming 4y ago
But it's not like I sit down and just invent the classes I do with my daughter. There are really good programs, which scaffold all this information and explain it to the kid (and often, coincidentally, to the parent too). For example,
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by lemming 4y ago
I've wondered how feasible this would be. In general, I think the other commenters are correct that GCs tend to be intimately tied to the runtimes. But the JVM now has an interface for garbage collection ( https://openjdk.org
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Which is fine, but don't call it a donation.
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I think it's a reference to New Zealand's Managed Isolation and Quarantine system during the pandemic. Demand was far higher than availability (and quarantine was mandatory to return home from overseas), so at some point someone w
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…it has one of the worst intellij integrations, using a 3rd party plugin that is either broken or not working with your build tooling. Meanwhile, the OP is quietly using Cursive to get his work done. It’s used in the screenshots. (Disclai
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by lemming 4y ago
As I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035123 , I also wrote a tool to access them. I'm pretty sure there are English transcripts which are manually generated, not just the YouTube generated ones. I&#x2
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by lemming 4y ago
This is great. Since I also found the discoverability of podcasts annoying, I wrote a tool to download the Huberman Lab transcripts and convert them to an ebook: https://github.com/cmf/huberman . They still take a while
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by lemming 4y ago
I buy these ones here on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Melatonin-Capsules-Supports-Relaxatio... . They were linked from either the Slate Star article or gwern's one, I can't remember which.
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by lemming 4y ago
I think this is a fantastic option - having our own domains for email has been a really good thing, allowing both my wife and myself to migrate instantly from Gmail to Fastmail with no-one being any the wiser. Having service-specific email
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Fastmail Domain Sales pilot program(fastmail.help)
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To be honest, that's the real danger of humans too. We now have numerous possible ways that we might just wipe ourselves out by mistake (climate change passing some feedback loop tipping point, forever chemicals making all mammals ster
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it's already getting to the point that to bring a new product to market strictly within the law essentially costs infinite dollars Of course, cleaning up various of these messes (forever chemicals, fossil fuels, etc) also costs infin
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So you create a product, put it out and have it do unimaginable damage, then pay for the health and environmental damage you did Or not. How often have companies actually had to pay for anything like the actual cost of the damage they hav
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We have no good ideas for atmospheric CO2 https://www.projectvesta.org is the best-looking option I have seen for this.
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As a New Zealander, I can say that the one thing NZ does really well is marketing, both externally to foreigners and internally to our own citizens. While it is true that NZers love getting out in nature, when it comes to protecting it we

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