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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
Tough sell given the M1 MacBook air is $800
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
If you define the scope of what you're trying to accomplish narrowly enough then of course you can automate. This is what the nocode systems do and they give you a nice and easy to use UI. Automating all of software engineering is some
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
As someone who was involved in the Amiga scene I know how all this stuff works. Without that knowledge the site is very hard to use. It wouldn't be difficult to make an MP3 version of this site with an embedded player but I think the h
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
I'd expect a more meritocratic society would be a more equal society wealth wise. Looking at inequality in the UK vs USA - such as the share of personal wealth for the top 1% - seems to support the article: https://wid.world
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
If we're talking about a skill that can be written down, the following works for me: - read the manual and summarise as I go - using the table of contents of my summary, I rewrite the summary in another document - I repeat this rewriti
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
Denim pants and shirt at the same time. Ahh the 80's
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
Yep any time I install a new editor the first thing I do is switch it to Source Code Pro. Maybe a bit boring compared to those on Doug's list but I love it nonetheless.
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
I think it would be the amount of caffeine per cup. My guess is that a standard coffee cup would be 80-100mg. 600mg is a hell of a lot of caffeine - on rare days when I have 400 I feel very well used at the end of the day.
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
I think you missed the "6+ coffees a day" part.
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
It's true: contractors will be the first to go when things spring back.
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
The market is very hot right now in Australia. Our government closed the borders so only Australians can apply. That combined with an unwillingness of staff to move roles means there's a big shortage. Salaries have shot up in the softw
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
I wonder if we're going to see some more of Torvald's excellent management technique? >PATCH 3.12 108/142] fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation >Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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by melbourne_mat 5y ago
Hospitals operate 24x7 but individual Nurses and Doctors don't. They work in shifts of course! A 4 day working week means a hospital would have to hire more doctors and nurses of course. It's a thought bubble though: in my country
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
I don't get the point of likes and dislikes on YouTube. In more than a decade of use, I have only in the last year or two used the like button and from my TV. Views matter - not likes.
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
Don't worry Google: our federal government is spineless and will surely find a way to water down the legislation without appearing to do so.
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
I see a lot of people complaining about not getting what expect out of free Google services. How about choosing a non free provider of those services that has support?
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
I see discussions about storage re renewables but I never see anyone mention the obvious solution. If you need power at night, just use high efficiency led lights to power your solar cells. /jk
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
This is probably not a response to the other story this week about a start-up that got a $70k bill from Google cloud erroneously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372336
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
It's obvious a lot if work went into the project and I salute the creator. This is a computing device made out of 74 series chips. I wonder when I'll see a computing device on HN made out of discrete transistors, capacitors, etc
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
That is so not jq! I've really been pining for jq on my current Windows project :-(
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
I think it's wonderful news that Arm is joining the ranks of giant American tech oligopolies. This is a win for freedom and increases prosperity for all. /s
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
Honestly I don't know any issue in the real world that has been solved this way. Just because much of the world has a mobile phone doesn't mean they are getting the right information at the right time.
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
Anecdotal of course but there are stories of foreign workers being promised one thing then receiving something else when they get there. It's difficult to complain when you can be sent home for doing so. This kind of employment arrange
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
Ask some of the million poorly paid foreign workers what they think of the success of Singapore - I'm sure the story won't be quite as glowing.
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
This is masterful work. I love the move from the now well understood s6 to the s9 in blind fashion. I just can't believe how dumb it was to put a memory read command into the older NFC chip! Maybe nobody thought about security back the
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
It's always been a dumb idea to make yet another rendering engine. For the same reason that Firefox is sliding slowly but surely into obscurity: the web works best in Chrome, like it or not. I'm sure the team working on it are tal
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
They should have switched to blink or WebKit years ago. Yes I used Firefox since it came out of AOL but for quite a few years now it has been a liability. Too many web sites simply don't work in Firefox. Nobody making web sites tests i
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
This could be useful for embarrassingly parallel workloads but 2 points: - the backend is OpenGL so it won't be as performant on NVIDIA hardware as CUDA (NVIDIA don't like OpenGL) - I don't see any explicit GPU memory managem
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
So much hands wringing these days about TikTok - a Chinese company which might pass information to the Chinese government. The big silicon valley tech companies hoover up your data. What could possibly go wrong? Affect the outcome of a demo
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
I don't see anything wrong with the Apple app store - they just need to be forced to bring the Apple percentage down (they clearly won't do it on their own).

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