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by omoikane 2y ago
I like how the author used four different variants of BASIC.
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by omoikane 2y ago
My personal experience is that emails and written documents are how things actually get done, but sometimes we have to go through voice calls and in-person meetings in order to get that far. Those voice interactions felt like some sort of p
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by omoikane 2y ago
One thing that email is not the best tool for is back-and-forth dialog. Once an email thread got to be a certain length or spans some number of days, it becomes difficult to follow. The increased roundtrip latency is also unfortunate. Alt
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by omoikane 2y ago
> Hypothetically, you could organize all these people to leave at once, go somewhere else, and re-establish all your social connections. Practically, the "collective action problem" of doing so is nearly insurmountable. I wond
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by omoikane 2y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32137336 - Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you? (2022-07-18, 309 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35164819 - Ask HN: Wh
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by omoikane 2y ago
For a language like C, I would describe the formatting process as "straightforward" as opposed to "trivial". It's straightforward in that it feels very mechanical, but not trivial in the sense that it's diffic
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by omoikane 2y ago
I wonder if they have a specific goal in mind that they use to define success. Maybe it's a more general "we will know we are successful when we get there", or maybe it's a specific metric like the number of views. The
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by omoikane 2y ago
Maybe these compile time tests are more like `static_assert`, which is valuable for catching incompatible uses of library functions. Pretty good idea in my opinion.
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by omoikane 2y ago
You might not need 16GB of memory. There are systems where int is only 16 bits, and overflowing 16 bits is not that difficult. But maybe it was uncommon to have arrays larger than 64K in the 80s due to segmented memory?
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by omoikane 2y ago
Perhaps the worry was that because the observed behavior up until now was that hash never returns -1, if it were possible possible to write a custom hash function that returns -1, that might break some unsuspecting code due to Hyrum's
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by omoikane 2y ago
One thing it shows is how ISBNs are allocated much faster than they are used, judging by the amount of black pixels. The image contains 1000*800 pixels at 2500 ISBNs per pixel, so it's visualizing 2e9 ISBNs. ISBN-13 contains 12 digits
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by omoikane 2y ago
Maybe not a wallpaper, but I have been at an office that has a sheet that was framed and hung on the wall. You know, where people might have hung a painting or something else, this guy has a framed sheet of dollar bills. It felt like a nov
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by omoikane 2y ago
This reminds me of another article, not exactly on the topic of "people don't care", but more "people can't tell": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41311135 - We don't know how bad mos
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by omoikane 2y ago
There was a site where people posted company failures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
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by omoikane 2y ago
But proportionally, wouldn't a solution without an epsilon loss be much better than a solution with epsilon? I am not sure what's the exact conjecture that the author solved, but if the epsilon difference is between an approximate
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by omoikane 2y ago
Ruby is my go to language for short "fun" programs, as there are many places where it optimized for development experience (such as the new "it" feature). One of the committers, Yusuke Endoh, clearly understood the joy
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by omoikane 2y ago
> a pure random bot Maybe compare with this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14713997 - Amazon engineer will let strangers manage his $50,000 stock portfolio 'forever' (2017-07-06, 172 comments)
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by omoikane 2y ago
I use DxO PhotoLab, which came with perpetual license. I paid ~$100 for PhotoLab 1 and ~$70 for an upgrade to PhotoLab 4, and haven't upgraded since. I thought it was well worth it. (I plan to upgrade to a newer version eventually, b
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by omoikane 2y ago
oimo.io also has a few WebGL fluid simuations, via this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37026592 - Water (2023-08-06, 133 comments) https://oimo.io/works/water/ https://oim
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by omoikane 2y ago
Documenting why a proposal wouldn't work might be valuable even if a better solution is not immediately available, then at least people are aware of potential problems and perhaps temporarily workaround them. Depending on what's t
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by omoikane 2y ago
There is another submission for ruby 3.4.0 release, and this one links to the version specific page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42507312
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by omoikane 2y ago
I am most excited about the parser change, previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36310130 - Rewriting the Ruby parser (2023-06-13, 176 comments) I remember being taught to use yacc in our compiler
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by omoikane 2y ago
> https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ Be sure to also read the project page: https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic
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by omoikane 2y ago
This logo reminds me of Haskell because the pose with the neck and the fore legs sort of look like a lambda, but that's probably just me.
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by omoikane 2y ago
Possibly related, here is an article from 2023-06-29: https://apnews.com/article/kenya-facebook-content-moderation... - Facebook content moderators in Kenya call the work 'torture.' Their lawsuit may ripple w
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by omoikane 2y ago
If some bank calls you about compromised accounts, the recommended action should be to hang up, find the official phone number for your bank, wait one minute[1], then call back. [1] You have to wait or call from a different phone, because t
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by omoikane 2y ago
Will this one have a global shutter or a rolling shutter? The tech specs doesn't seem to say either way.
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by omoikane 2y ago
Also on youtube: https://youtu.be/fO--TM4_6hw
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by omoikane 2y ago
Luon looks mostly like Oberon and not so much like Lua, it's not obvious which of the Lua features it incorporated. It didn't seem to have coroutines, for example. But I am glad that it went with Oberon's 0-based array indic
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by omoikane 2y ago
They are definitely a normal human typing with their human hand. https://xkcd.com/1530/

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