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by lynguist 2y ago
Can you compile your game to target Mac? Why/why not? (Like is it a technical or business decision?)
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by lynguist 2y ago
The juxtaposition of how the original comment starts, then the appearance of the verbatim “good comment”, then the spacecraft engravings made me laugh tears. Especially the buildup from how bizarre the understanding of UB of comments is to
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by lynguist 2y ago
This was such a riveting and literary read, I enjoyed it and couldn’t put it away, like a novel where I was invested in the characters! Are there any other such reads in the software engineering field?
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by lynguist 2y ago
> ‘Spirit’ thermometers, made using brandy and other liquors, were in common use in the early days of thermometry. They were even considered as a potential standard fluid for thermometers. It wasn’t until the careful work of Swiss physic
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by lynguist 2y ago
My hunch is that more people in countries like India use cpubenchmark / buy computers and try out cpubenchmark; and that in countries like those lower performing laptops outsell more powerful laptops by an enough large number that it s
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by lynguist 2y ago
I switched to plain white when I was ca 20 years old and never looked back. I need to use plain white since then and I am so used to it that I find lines or grids slightly offensive to me and it throws me off from layouting. You can get use
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by lynguist 2y ago
I came up with similar rules over decades (I still write sometimes mathematical symbols), and I have to only take care of my "u" vs "n" and "r" vs "v", and write these pairs especially slowly because
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by lynguist 2y ago
I have come to understand that "no politics"/"just politics" means no election campaign talk. As almost everything that is personal is in some way political (when taking the meaning "what strategy to use for
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by lynguist 2y ago
Really interesting puzzle. I tried the different Chatgpts and they all solved it. I tried Deepseek and Deepseek R1, and Deepseek did have this meltdown: Let's break down the problem step by step to understand the relationships and posi
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by lynguist 2y ago
I kinda have the same very subjective feeling where o1 is the first AI that is clearly superior to me.
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by lynguist 2y ago
Nah the formula is different: 1. Take some conditional and true statement: “The original IBM PC can address 1024KB memory of which 640KB are in user space.” 2. Remove all conditionalities: “The PC has 640KB RAM as that’s all one needs.” 3.
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by lynguist 2y ago
It is! 4o is unfortunantely often very dumb in tricky circumstances, or is biased toward pundit-like opinions that are wrong. I'm not sure why that is the case, but the full o1 always has a "weight"/"presence"
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by lynguist 2y ago
4o: https://chatgpt.com/share/678ecbcd-a864-8007-9a34-e4e6574a2b... "Thus, the five odd numbers without an 'e' in their spelling are: 41, 43, 45, 47, and 49. " o1: https://chatgpt.com&#x2
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by lynguist 2y ago
Huh I think this YouTube short is the same topic: https://youtube.com/shorts/DA_-6296G5o?si=BLKcSP2Q1jAaca9K Finding new geoglyphs from known examples.
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by lynguist 2y ago
I would do it like this: Approximate Earth as a flat line. (The 5000ft path is close enough that it is also represented by the flat line. This is the 5000ft path.) Then make the 33000ft path which is a slightly looser line on top of this li
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by lynguist 2y ago
I think I just locked the pattern also a third time where it looks like pillars but I’m not sure if I saw it correctly. When I first looked at this picture I saw the W pattern and then blinked and suddenly saw the intended pattern. When you
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by lynguist 2y ago
Like on Reddit etc, which I deliberately avoid for this reason. The hiding of the vote count and the heavy moderation still help a lot that HN is still a massively better platform than any of its alternatives.
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by lynguist 2y ago
> the big thing was the jumping itself, which does not require complex bird anatomy necessarily No, this is exactly the opposite. The jumping requires exactly this specific anatomy for so many reasons. It stores energy in the joints, it
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by lynguist 2y ago
Not only that but Squid Game is literally the “real live adaptation” of Kaiji; the creator has said that it (the initial concept, the premise, etc) is based on Kaiji (he said it’s inspired by a manga with the same theme). The card game with
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by lynguist 2y ago
Senior also somehow changed from meaning 10 years of experience to only 3 years of experience.
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by lynguist 2y ago
N64 is actually Silicon Graphics and it’s upper left.
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by lynguist 2y ago
It’s supposedly ragebait but it’s not actually bad. - Netflix produces the casual viewing content next to other niches, and just serves this as well. The other stuff doesn’t go away, this is in addition. - This is something you can put on d
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by lynguist 2y ago
I agree completely with all the points made in the article and would double down on the critique of the philosophy of biology as a discipline and science itself: namely that is has historically evolved as a mere system of typologies and tha
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by lynguist 2y ago
Touch on a stove makes any stove I know gastritic. A drip of water and it turns on power mode by itself and melts lids. A bit of oil and it randomly turns on itself. A piece of wet cloth and it does the same. Sometimes even nothing at all t
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by lynguist 2y ago
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind. I would continue and live my life. I would ride public transportation to go to work, I would go to the library if I want to check something out, I would just be spontaneous instead of preplanning everything online
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by lynguist 2y ago
No it's true. Apple has hardware accelerated compressed swapping. Windows has compressed swapping. And Linux is a mess. You have to manually configure a non-resizable compressed zram, or use it without compression on a non-resizable sw
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by lynguist 2y ago
In the mid 90s professional video game programmers used typically a 1920x1080 display, just to have a larger code canvas and display sharper text. From the 90s on 1600x1200, 1920x1080, 2048x1536 were resolutions one could find on profession
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by lynguist 2y ago
But that means the next Air will be upgrade worthy for those who want an Air and a memory uplift from 24 max to 32 max!
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by lynguist 2y ago
16 GB or 24 GB for inference doesn’t cut it for large models… Mac hardware offers up to 128 GB shared RAM.
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by lynguist 2y ago
So we are rather “large” beings and not small ones. Are these orders of magnitude scaled by 10 to go from one to the next?

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