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by omoikane 8mo ago
I was thinking in situations where a coworker might send me something to review, and I might have thought "hmm, I wouldn't have done it like that, but this is a great way to do it too". Also, a good source of teachable code
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by omoikane 8mo ago
> reviewing code is very different from producing it, and surely teaches you less Maybe he meant "reviewing code from coding agents"? Reviewing code from other humans is often a great way to learn.
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by omoikane 8mo ago
I have a second edition. I got it because there was some review that portrayed it as a mysterious creepy thing, but it wasn't that creepy at all. The art is well done and fun to look at, and it's a fine balance of something that
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by omoikane 8mo ago
> if all your friends were jumping off of a bridge would you do it too? Probably. https://xkcd.com/1170/ Although in the context of the parent comment, majority of Googlers probably aren't working on things dir
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by omoikane 8mo ago
Related, there is already an extension that allows selected users to be highlighted, but without the shared server data for computing friend-of-a-friend relationships: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17717598
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by omoikane 8mo ago
> any UTF-8 text (without byte-order marker) defines a valid Om program. What is the behavior of a program with unmatched braces? I am not sure a stray `}` would fit any of the defined syntax. https://www.om-language.com&#x2
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by omoikane 8mo ago
It has been a while. This project that implemented logic gates in CSS is 10+ years old: https://github.com/SLaks/Silon Linked from here: https://gwern.net/turing-complete#surprisingly-turing-comple...
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by omoikane 8mo ago
I like how Dropbox kept coming back as the prime example of something that HN mispredicted, and it's usually that comment about FTP on top. It's like HN version of Slashdot's iPod review.
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by omoikane 8mo ago
I remember when everything was "machine learning" as opposed to the current LLM stuff. Some of the machine learning techniques involve training and using models that are more or less opaque, and nobody looked at what was inside t
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by omoikane 8mo ago
Maybe it was done this way so that they don't have to sort the tiles by depth?
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by omoikane 8mo ago
I do appreciate that it puts up a warning instead of starting automatically, maybe not so much for the 19MB part, but for the fact that it plays sound.
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by omoikane 8mo ago
> with extra braces The extra braces appear to be optional according to the examples in https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3734.pdf (see pages 13-14)
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by omoikane 8mo ago
I think it was a social experiment from the very start, maybe one that is designed to trigger people. Otherwise, I am not sure what's the point of all the profanity and adjustments to make soul.md more offensive and confrontational th
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by omoikane 8mo ago
There was a solver years ago that used a similar technique, where you get similarity scores from three fixed words ("giant enemy crab") and it finds the target word instantly: https://github.com/manimino/seman
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by omoikane 8mo ago
I am actually glad that more and more of the metaprogramming techniques are built into the language itself, because people are going to try metaprogramming anyways, and their attempts at it are generally less readable without proper compile
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by omoikane 8mo ago
> chess would be fully solved if there existed a 64-piece tablebase Is the 64-piece number meant to cover chess variants with more than standard number of pieces? I was expecting 32.
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by omoikane 8mo ago
I agree with slowing down and taking my time if I am shooting something static, but if I am outdoors taking pictures of anything that moves (e.g. birds), I am going to shoot in full auto burst mode until the buffer/SD card is full. I u
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by omoikane 8mo ago
Windows 7 market share was actually growing for a while according to: https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk... Not sure what caused the inflection point in December 2025.
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by omoikane 8mo ago
Seems like the article picked a poor example if the main point they are trying to get across was to minimize friction and optimize for momentum, because Concur consistently gave me the impression that it was optimized to increase friction.
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by omoikane 8mo ago
Electricity cost in California is generally more expensive than most other US states, except Hawaii. Not sure why. Perhaps Comma needed the datacenter to be in San Diego for latency or other reasons, but if they need it mostly for compute,
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by omoikane 8mo ago
A better title might have been "fastest growing function with 64bit arguments". The main value of this article is really the various functions that take larger strides to cover a finite range that's significantly larger than
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by omoikane 8mo ago
I thought this one was not bad: [write a joke about thinking machines and the idea of tropes] it's funny how enemies to lovers is a common trope that's uncommon in real life and lovers to enemies is an uncommon trope th
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by omoikane 8mo ago
I am not sure sudo is licensed under MIT or GPL, looks it's like a mix of licenses[1]. The end of the first license says it's sponsored in part by DARPA. From 2010 to February 2024, it was sponsored by Quest Software according to
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by omoikane 8mo ago
> something worse than heroin Reminds me of this comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addiction
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by omoikane 9mo ago
Maybe you are saying this is an improvement over the old days, in that the corporations now at least accept open source contributions, even if they are slow at doing it. I think the contention is that corporations are not merely slow at ha
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by omoikane 9mo ago
> Changes to the United States trademark law in 1946 allowed publishers to register a trademark with an intent to use instead of a finished product I wonder if this came with some provision like publishers who didn't actually publis
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by omoikane 9mo ago
I had the same thought, and I think it's the -kun suffix that makes the "puroje-" prefix more likely to be a verb than a noun, i.e. "12th incarnation of The One Who Projects" or "Mr. Projector #12".
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by omoikane 9mo ago
Subreddit of Doom ports: https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/
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by omoikane 9mo ago
Probably because Santa Clara County has more EV sales compared to its neighbors, according to this map: https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/zero-e...
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by omoikane 9mo ago
The surprising part to me is that there are now enough EVs to make a measurable difference, since I kept thinking they are still relatively rare. The linked study has this piece of data: From 2019 to 2023, ZEVs increased from 2.0% (5

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