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by namuol 3y ago
I get the sense VC funding is not patient enough for this kind of tech innovation. There are countless state-owned oil companies; why not for other parts of the energy sector, especially in countries with a lot of human/intellectual ca
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A noble effort, no doubt. But it would be nice to see a web adaptation, since most of our reading happens on a multitude of screens these days. Might have a higher impact on readership than better typesetting.
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Good call. Let me say what I really mean: What’s missing from the content of the article is just how unobtainable housing is, broadly speaking, and how this is impacting the choices families make. A multigenerational house that can actually
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Maybe it’s just me, but I suspect most Canadians don’t have parents with seven figures laying around.
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You’re spot-on. I may not have started the project if I didn’t know there was a specific decent dataset available. I already knew of a dataset of Jeopardy questions that is somewhat popular in ML circles so I just used that. I believe it’s
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I love writing bespoke software! My little bonus Christmas gift to my parents this year was a kind of Jeopardy clone that uses a dataset of questions from thousands of shows. Watching Jeopardy is a new nightly tradition, but they always com
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> My wife and I are covering the mortgage for a house on which my mother placed a seven-figure down payment Oh, okay.
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The range anxiety issue is the same sort of issue we’ve seen preventing heat pumps from becoming more widespread than far less efficient heating sources until more recently. Consumers seem to focus on the circumstances under which the new t
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The game's designer/developer, Kenta Cho[1], has made countless experimental games for decades. I'd nearly forgotten about his work until I saw this post, and I'm very happy to see that he hasn't stopped with experi
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It’s technically arbitrary and something the community sort of collectively decided was a coveted goal. Personally, I think it’s a cool milestone. There will be more similar milestones probably but few will be on true unmodified code, which
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Great podcast on the subject from some product people from Basecamp: https://demandthinking.com/episodes/2017/7/23/episode-1-thin...
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Maybe. But I think there’s room to bring more ideas from Lisps into a language at least partly inspired by Lisps.
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You’re mostly right, I should have said “what you _probably_ want” instead. Misuse of deepClone & co is just a very common antipattern.
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If you’re reaching for structuredClone, what you really want is native immutable Record and Tuple syntax, and the companion “deep path properties” syntax which allows for efficient and ergonomic immutable updates: - https://githu
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Popular opinion* at least amongst the JS developers I’ve worked with for the last 10 years or so.
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I like Captain Disillusion’s motto: “Love with your heart; use your head for everything else.”
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> if I can finish something now, why wait until tomorrow? The end-of-day-just-one-more fix is likely to be lower-quality than the fresh-start-after-a-good-night’s-sleep fix.
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by namuol 3y ago
(Great YouTube channel if you’re into this sort of thing!) I wonder if a cheap oled display could be updated fast enough to achieve a much higher resolution. It might work but could look worse since the space between radial slices would be
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I can’t claim to understand how things got to be the way they are, but grossly oversimplifying the issue like this is the surest way to be wrong about it. > The role of tech is no different than any other industry. I agree with this. Doe
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I don’t know what all the fuss is about. It’s a perfectly cromulent promo video.
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If the media giants were bidding on his work based on the shorts he produced to promote the show, they must have been pretty good. I find stories of destroyed talent like this one profoundly sad.
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I’ve really enjoyed watching these while working on a toy emulator during little bouts of free time in the past year. Thanks for making these! Edit: Just realized how similar my comment was to a neighbor comment. There must be a lot of fol
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Plenty of evidence for gluten intolerances in non-celiac autoimmune diseases. Not conclusive, but I find it frustrating that there’s a growing number of people who dismiss gluten intolerance as a myth when we barely understand most autoimmu
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Original link, but may have a paywall if you aren’t a subscriber so may be “hostile” for some people: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-...
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Friendly reminder that Mozilla receives the majority of their funding in exchange for defaulting their search engine to Google’s. That could always change, but it’s probably safe to say a mass exodus to Firefox would only cement Google’s in
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Conflicts of interest abound in most major browser vendors. Firefox gets most of its funding from Google for defaulting the search engine to theirs. Apple gets a huge amount of revenue sharing from Google for doing the same in Safari, as wa
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There’s engineering feasibility, and then there’s feasibility. Is it any less feasible to operate fewer or dimmer street lights? How about directing light more efficiently? This is a problem of bureaucratic and societal engineering.
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Get real. If we can’t get municipalities to limit light pollution with simple common sense measures like directing light more efficiently and dimming/turning off lights when they’re not needed, how can we expect them to synchronize the
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You may want to consider waiting a few more minutes to get news from reliable sources.
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How "Neopixels" (addressable RGB LEDs) are made(youtube.com)
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