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by omoikane 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35546133 - People are sick and tired of all their subscriptions (2023-04-12, 53 comments) The irony that a WSJ subscription is needed to read the article was not lost back then either.
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> Bluesky is operating on something like $20m in total investment According to: https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan It's $8M, and their first plan is to sell custom domains.
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Being a Google insider comes with the gift of being able to see the real rationales behind many products, and also the curse that nobody outside will believe you. This is perhaps true of all big companies, but Google also seem to adopt a mo
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User-generated static_assert messages would make it easier to build games that can be played entirely using compiler error messages. Something like this old IOCCC entry but nicer: https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1994_westl
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I wish help popup is bound to '?' instead of 'h', which would free up h/l to be used for left/right, completing the h+j+k+l vi experience.
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by omoikane 2y ago
> "Pronounce it however you like." Godot pronunciation is documented at https://godotengine.org/press/ Godot is named after the play Waiting for Godot, and is usually pronounced like in the play. Dif
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It would have been more practical without the fan and all those on-board components, but I guess then it would be difficult to tell that it's an outdated GPU. There is actually a market for these things if you search for "recycled
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by omoikane 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41013159 - Doom on Playdate (2024-07-20, 39 comments)
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You are probably being downvoted for derailing. This is a post about a particular game, but this thread is turning into an ideological battle unrelated to the game. Discussions regarding people's priorities and privacy concerns would
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Development log here: https://devforum.play.date/t/zero-zero-perfect-stop-train-si... Looks like the game was pseudo-3D up until 2023, but sometime before 2024-05-19 they switched to a video-based approach.
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by omoikane 2y ago
I laughed at the bit where the gallery picked the wrong side of the rug to display, but this got me thinking -- presumably all the die photos we see are from the etched side of the wafer, what does it look like on the other side? Is it jus
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by omoikane 2y ago
I use the "show transcript"[1] function for that. [1] In the web (desktop) version of youtube, if you expand the description, there is a "show transcript" button near the bottom. Not sure about mobile or other versions.
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by omoikane 2y ago
The article seems to be using the cost of Burj Khalifa without accounting for inflation. $1.5 billion in 2009 would be about $2.2 billion in 2024. NASA's project is still expensive, but not quite twice as expensive as Burj Khalifa (un
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by omoikane 2y ago
I believe it's a form of bikeshedding[1]. Not everyone might be experts on AI or gaussian splats or whatever, but taking notes -- everyone did that, so everyone can comment on that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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> No online presence I wonder how they would screen for new graduates, which might not have much professional work history?
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> sightings being super common before smartphones https://xkcd.com/1235/ > It seems aliens have wised up to the ubiquity of cameras, though https://xkcd.com/2572/
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by omoikane 2y ago
I like the fact that Bluesky is topic-agnostic, unlike a lot of the Mastodon instances which are organized by community (except some large ones such as mastodon.social). I always felt awkward of having to commit to a specific community upf
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by omoikane 2y ago
From section 4.7: > English content tends to have higher toxicity scores [...] on average, the toxicity of English content is three times higher than that of Japanese content This is remarkable especially since section 4.3 says there are
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> build trust in _photographers_. I think you meant there are individual photographers with a reputation for being trustworthy, but I would like to also add that photographers , plural, could also provide trust. That is, I am more like
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by omoikane 2y ago
This post seems to be saying that AI opened up a new avenue for people to demand free work. If someone asked "I wrote some rough designs and interfaces, can you write me an app for free?" The author could easily detect it as a re
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Another version of the same story: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/189 See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippasus#Irrational_numbers
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The death of a thousand round trips has an inverse where the reviewer points out everything they can find, and then the author fix just one thing. You might think the author is motivated to minimize round trips, but maybe they will pull
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In this particular case they probably should have reported it as a regular bug and not as a vulnerability, but I am not sure this generalizes to CVE numbers being meaningless since I am not sure how often it happens.
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by omoikane 2y ago
I wish it would further break out "University of California" by individual campuses. The current aggregate view makes UC look very good compared to everyone else except Stanford, which is kind of nice honestly, but in reality the
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It's intriguing to me that they seem to be prioritizing information collection to determine whether Starliner is viable, as opposed to definitively announce a return via SpaceX and making preparations for that. It's like if I have
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> so few people downloaded it The article says "at least five other users of the app had similar experiences", so the lower bound is 5 users in 3 months.
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Earlier thread seems more well received: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1c8yhll/i_cant... "I can't stand using vscode so I wrote my own". I suppose that explains the motiva
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by omoikane 2y ago
I wish the two axes in the perfectionism graph were swapped so all of the graphs will have time as the horizontal axis.
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It's hard to tell if what Eric Schmidt was saying was a joke, an observation, or a recommendation. One interpretation from the context of the transcript seem to be "AI can make/steal stuff and manual intervention (lawyers) ca
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The usual defense against these is to ask students to explain their submitted work. Randomly generated dead code would likely be even more difficult for the students to explain. Though a counterargument to this would be that teachers don&#

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