paulmooreparks

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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
It doesn't look like an "operating system." It looks like a graphical shell. I guess those terms have become a bit interchangeable, and I'm being pedantic.
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
You'd very likely want acoustic treatment. You'd hear the command from the direction it was given in, not bouncing around, echoing, and interfering with itself. There's probably a practical set-design aspect to this. The acou
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Show HN: XferLang, a data-transfer and configuration alternative to JSON(xferlang.org)
1 points by paulmooreparks 1y ago|0 comments
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
In my very first job as a software developer, in 1989 at the tender age of 19, I had my own office, with a door, which I could and would close when I needed to concentrate. It was beautiful. I had a side chair, and other devs would drop in
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
I find myself acting as a brutal code reviewer more than a collaborator when I lean too heavily on an agent. I literally just typed this into the agent's chat pane (GPT-5, in this case), after finding some less-than-optimal code for ex
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
Which is a shame, because I like to share my personal projects here because I know it'll get torn to shreds by an army of super hackers (as opposed to an LLM, which will tell me, "Great idea!" no matter what I propose).
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Show HN: XferLang, a data-transfer and configuration alternative to JSON(xferlang.org)
2 points by paulmooreparks 1y ago|0 comments
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
A couple of my friends created a startup called Omnibrowse in the late 1990's to do exactly this, and sold it to Microsoft shortly after. I figured this would be a commodity feature by now.
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
The funny thing is, the answer to: > Why This Actually Works isn't anything the author lists under that heading. It's actually what he says above: > Every night, I check tomorrow’s calendar. I dump everything into the next d
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
I'd love to see Conway's Game of Life on this thing.
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
From the article: > Providing ample power for the rovers’ many science instruments, MMRTGs are known for their longevity (the twin Voyager spacecraft have relied on RTGs since 1977). But as the plutonium decays over time, it takes longer
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
> On my M2 MacBook, the renderer process is now using 6% CPU (down from 15%), and the GPU process is now using 6% CPU and less than 1% GPU (down from 25% and 20%). Wait, this is supposed to be an improvement? 6% CPU for a lame animation?
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
I know old timers who think auto-completion is a sign of a lazy programmer. The wheel keeps turning....
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
Exactly this. I still "get into the weeds" without AI if I really need to dig into learning something new or if I want to explore some totally new idea (LLMs don't really do "totally new"). If I'm debugging a C
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
I like having muscles. I hate lifting weights. I like being fit. I hate running. I like being able to play guitar and piano. I hate practicing. I like having food in my pantry. I hate grocery shopping. I like having custom software that fit
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
Same here. I don't have the time or patience to hack the page like the siblings comments suggest. There are more articles on the web than I will ever be able to consume in my lifetime, so I just close the tab and move on when the UX is
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
It's best not to think of Hanyu Pinyin as using "English characters" to pronounce Mandarin. It's just a mapping of the initial, medial, and final sounds onto the Latin alphabet in a consistent way, so that once you know
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
Singlish says, "Hi." It's fascinating to watch that in action here in Singapore, as I find Singlish to be a compact and efficient form of English that greedily borrows words from Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, Malay, Tami
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
The great thing about using Singapore as my locale is that it accepts pretty much any English spelling you throw at it, British or American. You see quite a mix of both on signs and documents here, too.
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
You touch on exactly the point that I try to make to the AI-will-replace-XXX-profession crowd: You have to already be an expert in XXX to get the most out of AI. Cf. Gell-Mann Amnesia.
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
Thank you!
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Ask HN: Exposing C ABI from Rust library?
2 points by paulmooreparks 1y ago|2 comments
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
That's pretty much all I've done since LLMs became the hot thing. I've only used AI on one AI project, and that was pretty much only to say I've worked on an AI project. My main two projects now are a JSON replacement an
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
Just curious, since I'm not a Mac user: Does Command+Q differ from Alt-F4, which is the standard way of exiting an application on Windows? Back when Windows was new, most applications did actually go away pressing Alt-F4 on their main
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Does AI Make Us Lazy?(calnewport.com)
3 points by paulmooreparks 1y ago|0 comments
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An Important New Study on Phones and Kids(calnewport.com)
30 points by paulmooreparks 1y ago|16 comments
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Abusing copyright strings to trick software into thinking it's on competitor PC(devblogs.microsoft.com)
14 points by paulmooreparks 1y ago|0 comments
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The MIDL compiler still has trouble with double greater-than signs, sadly(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
What I find surprising is that this article really only discusses US Internet (to be fair, it states as much at the end of the article). If we're designing anything for the Internet, we should assume worldwide distribution except in sp

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