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by lynguist 4y ago
I really, really hope that this traction on Hacker News will make Microsoft fix this for good. Anything that gains such traction gets fixed eventually, but I want them to fix the root cause, not just this instance of it.
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When I hear Ohio and trains I immediately think of the huge federal grants for building a higher speed rail line from Cleveland over Columbus to Cincinnati that were already granted. The same was granted for Wisconsin and Florida. And one b
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See also: The famous 1999 Christmas paper on MR imaging of a coitus. (Which won an Ignobel prize.) https://youtu.be/OVAdCKaU3vY
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by lynguist 4y ago
When you collate this to OS/Browser you get this (sorted by highest ranking mention): - 1 Windows/Chrome 42.63% - 2 Windows/Edge 17.58% - 3 macOS/Chrome 9.03% - 4 macOS/Safari 16.42% - 5 Windows/Firefox 8.85% -
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#9 1.64% I’m on team macOS/Firefox myself. :)
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by lynguist 4y ago
Hi dkozel, your post prompted me to look into the Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard and Anker vertical mouse as I do often feel a tiredness in the lower arms and shoulders, which I haven’t paid attention to so far, but will now. What does RSI me
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by lynguist 4y ago
What a refreshing read. By using the familiar “explaining jokes is human” trope, you completely debunked ChatGPT’s “human-like” capabilities! I expected it would have fared much better (like it does on other topics and situations) but this
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Wow, so interaction with the real world makes an AI into what we think of when we think AI. And because our strongest AIs are based on text, the terminal is the way to wake up such an AI. This is brilliant and the first actually dangerous u
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Wymysorys Language(en.wikipedia.org)
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Oh no, I forgot about this! I’m in the holidays and specifically didn’t take my laptop with me!
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Seems unlikely. An estimated 2 billion people understand English globally. That number is only growing. While Excel has probably the most programmers in the world, their instructions are localized. And among programmers of other programming
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Mark Cerny's “Road to the PS4” Gamelab 2013(youtube.com)
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> For example the Nintendo Switch had very mediocre system performance Nintendo Switch had the most powerful GPU of any mobile device released at its time. Furthermore it has 4 GB of RAM. Just the Cortex A-57 CPU wasn’t bleeding edge any
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Wow, Ueli Maurer. That was a deeply nostalgic name to show up in this article. I took the mandatory first-year Discrete Math course from him, and I would say that it was the tastiest math class I’ve ever taken in my life. His script for the
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by lynguist 4y ago
Another badly designed Nintendo console. Now hear me out: NES: Well designed. SNES: Well designed. N64: Hampered by the originally 12-24 MB cartridges as opposed to 650 MB CDs. GameCube: Well designed. A little hampered by the 1.4 GB mini D
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Radiation is easy: There is ionizing radiation (that affects matters as it travels through it) and non-ionizing radiation (that doesn’t affect matters as it travels through it). X-ray is of the first kind. Decay radiation is of the first ki
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The main reason why Apple phones do well on the used market is probably the absurdly powerful CPUs in them. An iPhone XS (from 2018) has the single-core performance of the most expensive 1000$+ non-Apple phone you can find. iPhone 11 (from
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It’s called the Flynn effect and reverse Flynn effect. From the 90s on, test scores are falling, even if this specific data doesn’t show it. I agree that what is seen here in this short-term data is the lockdown effect. Study: https:/
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The short explanation is insecticides: microtoxins to break the fertility of insects for higher crop yields. These same substances also affect humans, albeit on a different level: slightly lower intelligence because mothers are exposed to t
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Yes.
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You might not believe me, but the decline of the insect population (also on the frontpage) and the fall of test scores and the fall of sperm quality since the 90s have the same single origin. And nothing is being done about it.
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I’ve noticed the same with snails. When I was a child in the 90s, the sidewalks were full of snails, and during a 10 minute stroll, I’d often find tens of small snails. Today I find 1 or 2 snails after rainfall, if at all.
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by lynguist 4y ago
It was unnecessary to mention Acid. Acid was meant to test cherrypicked unimplemented features, not to test coverage.
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Why do you think it’s gaining market share? Because more of ARM is deployed than non-ARM. I couldn’t find the direct source any more, but I remember that in the year 2020 AWS deployed more ARM than non-ARM, and today it is at around 80% ARM
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Cheese/bread/chocolate/beer/coffee/… What interests us is mostly pleasure that enters us through the mouth.
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> “I think there’s this notion that humans doing math have some rigid reasoning system—that there’s a sharp distinction between knowing something and not knowing something,” says Ethan Dyer, a machine-learning expert at Google. But human
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Almost every newly deployed datacenter CPU is ARM.
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I find it funny that in software engineering you become a senior with just 6 years of work experience. Doesn’t anyone else find that funny? So, at age 29, you’re basically a master of your craft?
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That doesn’t make sense to me. There are 200,000 movies, and Netflix and others catalogue 2000 of them. If you think of a movie to watch there’s literally 1% chance that it will be available for streaming. I have almost never watched a movi
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Webtorrent allows you to download torrents from a stock iPhone: you use a JavaScript interpreter from the app store (that is allowed as per the app store guidelines, same for Python interpreter), then just run Webtorrent that works in JavaS

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