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by lynguist 2y ago
I find the “a la mode” vs “au jus” discussion right under the daemon one very interesting! I wasn’t familiar with both of these expressions but I looked it up and “a la mode” is an American culinary expression, meaning “served with ice crea
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by lynguist 2y ago
If you dig into this person’s posting history and also if you read regularly on HN for a couple years you will notice that it is actually this very user that deliberately uses the 0 prefixed 5 digit year numbers, and also goes out of their
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by lynguist 2y ago
Why did you buy a 256GB device for personal use in the first place? Too good of a deal? Or saving these $400 for upgrades for something else?
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by lynguist 2y ago
I want this but why no OLED? :'( iPhone went OLED in 2017. And they didn’t OLED the poor iPad mini (the best iPad) in a newly released model in 2024!? :'(
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by lynguist 2y ago
Chatgpt can write a solution for this problem if we go up to 10^10. 10^16 is too hard! I don’t understand this problem (I didn’t tackle it myself) but wanted to see how quickly chatgpt could solve it and how far along it would go. First it
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by lynguist 2y ago
May I use this space to ask the question: is the M3 substantially different from the M1 and M2 that it is not supported?
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by lynguist 2y ago
I would claim in a completely informal way that the optimal degree of utilization is ln(2)=0.693, around 70%. This stems from the optimal load of self-balancing trees. A little bit of slack is always useful to deal with the unforeseen. And
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by lynguist 2y ago
> Withered technology At the time of its release the Nintendo Switch’s CPU was only a single generation behind the latest offering by ARM; and its GPU was by far the most powerful mobile GPU available. It doesn’t hold true for Switch. Wh
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by lynguist 2y ago
I did code reviews on Azure devops and on Bitbucket. I noticed that Azure devops shows exactly this diff soup, and Bitbucket shows interdiffs, and comments do point to previous points in time etc. It is much better from both points of view.
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by lynguist 2y ago
In this article I learned that _start_ is the equivalent of _open_ (from Mac). I didn’t know _start_ before.
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by lynguist 2y ago
https://archive.is/Qc8zx
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by lynguist 2y ago
I would probably consider 50 MB that size, or in the special case of metered connections 20 MB (for example downloading maps or so).
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by lynguist 2y ago
On a related tangent, the entire rail network of the whole country of Switzerland was fully electrified by 1967. Electrification had started in 1907 and reached 70% by 1931.
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by lynguist 2y ago
Front end is more specific than conventional – it has a graphical output, and is thus closer to 2D game development than to the “conventional” data structures and algorithms way of programming.
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by lynguist 2y ago
When you were a kid for the first 20 years society provided for it - schooling etc. A day of school will easily cost the community 1000 $/€ of public money per day. After that the kids turn into net positives that finance the rest of s
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by lynguist 2y ago
Incidentally that is exactly the reason why ECC memory isn’t standard. Intel reserved it for only the highest paying customers.
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by lynguist 2y ago
A Macbook Air M3 is significantly faster than this HP Elitebook in for example compilation tasks. I don’t know about all of you but in my day to day work I compile code very often, and I used personally a work issued M2 Air and a work issue
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by lynguist 2y ago
> in spite of being many 100's of tabs in on a mid-range 201X phone was an incredible saga of improving software architecture Those tabs were and are just screenshots, and reload when clicked, you could realistically not have more t
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by lynguist 2y ago
From where to where did you move then?
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by lynguist 2y ago
What a ridiculous claim. They call computer hardware and salaries damage. I want a competent judge to make sure that these are not damages and I wish that Anna’s Archive continues to operate in sensible jurisdiction for the foreseeable futu
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by lynguist 2y ago
Normally dual use means it has a possible use as a weapon. Compute power is restricted from export to enemy nations and is considered dual use. There was once a moment when a Mac had enough computing power that it was prohibited from export
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by lynguist 2y ago
Gpt4o says “the dude is an idiot, dude”
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by lynguist 2y ago
It’s a beautiful eulogy that I liked reading. It is a beautiful thing and I like it celebrated in this tender way.
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by lynguist 2y ago
The car tires thing is proportionally an absurdly huge part! > In Switzerland, tire wear accounts for an estimated 90 percent of the microplastics released into the environment. https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start
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by lynguist 2y ago
It’s not necessarily only good news. The golden age of plastic that we live in allows for food packaging that cannot be penetrated by microorganisms, which in turn increases shelf life of some produce from like half a week to multiple weeks
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by lynguist 2y ago
And opposite in Western Japan!
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by lynguist 2y ago
Same, same. My sister uses the same Ubuntu LTS laptop with Google Chrome since 2013. Has only issues with Word documents and printing, and she also found she can’t backup her iPhone to the computer. Besides that nothing. She still uses it,
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by lynguist 2y ago
This actually I don’t get and don’t stand behind. Would you give a professional smith a low quality hammer? Would you give a chef a blunt knife? Why do corporations give out garbage hardware to their smiths and chefs (+ enforce their use vi
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by lynguist 2y ago
What are some of your word examples? I recently learned that we use triumph to mean victory, but triumph was originally the ceremonial parade after a military victory.
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by lynguist 2y ago
I drive a 2023 Mazda 6 wagon. My software engineer colleague who’s much younger than me rode with me. He said that the interior is really nice but he found the lack of a large touchscreen very dated. I was puzzled. I said I specifically ch

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