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by pavlov 1y ago
Really great design. This is the unicorn of fancy websites because for once, it actually makes sense to override browser's standard scrolling behavior. The 30-minute timeline on the right provides an obvious context for what you'r
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by pavlov 1y ago
They’re deporting green card holders now.
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by pavlov 1y ago
I still call this key “omppu” in Finnish (meaning “apple”) because that’s what everyone called it in the 1990s when it still had the “open apple” legend. And young people look at me like I’m crazy when I tell them to press “omppu Z”… But it
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by pavlov 1y ago
The article mentions he spends six months per year in the Philippines. Doesn't sound like someone oppressed and impoverished by his book obsession.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Sorry for your loss. It's sad that his collection didn't get the full attention it deserved. > "the housing company only gave us two weeks to vacate the place" It's a very good idea for a collector to own a pla
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by pavlov 1y ago
The sample set contains: { "causal_relation": { "cause": { "concept": "boom" }, "effect": { "concept&qu
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by pavlov 1y ago
This happiness survey tells us something about people’s expectations for their own life, which is not completely without value. Note that the scale is calibrated by what the respondent considers possible: ”Please imagine a ladder with step
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by pavlov 1y ago
In Finland the tax treatment for dividends is even friendlier. If you have a 1.5M balance sheet, you can pay yourself 120k euros in dividends annually at an effective tax rate of only 7.5%. Let’s just say that small businesses and professio
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by pavlov 1y ago
DOGE killed CFPB. Musk wants X to be in payments, and he hates CFPB.
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by pavlov 1y ago
In Smalltalk and Objective-C, you just check at runtime whether an object instance responds to a message. This is the original OOP way. It's sad that OOP was corrupted by the excessively class-centric C++ and Java design patterns.
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by pavlov 1y ago
No, at least the Muskian end of the MAGA spectrum is very much into humanoid robots. I'm afraid it's because they imagine themselves at the head of a giant robot slave army. Maybe more practically they see robots taking over the j
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by pavlov 1y ago
Lich is an old word for a corpse (or in D&D mythology an undead magician). An okay lich is like a chill corpse, maybe?
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by pavlov 1y ago
He’s Swedish, so I bet OK is actually short for “Ottossons kulör” but he’s just being modest.
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by pavlov 1y ago
The relationship the iPad had with tablets already in the market was basically the same as the PalmPilot vs. existing PDAs in 1997. There was the big expensive Newton, and chunky Windows CE devices with keyboards that looked like micro-lapt
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by pavlov 1y ago
Steve Jobs repeated this trick with various iPod models and finally the iPad. Its original $499 launch price was a shock to the market because all other tablet computers were priced like luxury laptops. Apple came out with a large touchscre
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by pavlov 1y ago
Probably it should be “fabrication plant”. Chip manufacturing factories are traditionally called fabs, short for that.
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by pavlov 1y ago
The “Visual” in this product’s name was one of the greatest disappointments of my childhood. [1] I had dabbled in both QuickBASIC and Quick C on MS-DOS building very simple text games and such. When Visual Basic for Windows came out, I was
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by pavlov 1y ago
But that came after 1280x1024 had already been a popular resolution for a decade. What was the original 5:4 CRT that gave us this resolution?
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by pavlov 1y ago
> "nine(!) values of desperate types" Appropriate typo... Thanks for the explainer, interesting stuff! If you were to create a web page explaining these conics with some interactive visuals, I bet it would be popular here.
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by pavlov 1y ago
That’s true, but for some reason, in mid-1990s operating systems, the step up from 1024x768 was usually 1280x1024. Maybe there was a popular professional monitor at some point that was 5:4 and had this resolution?
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by pavlov 1y ago
But it’s intentionally set up to be much more accessible than the traditional laundering methods. Crypto advocates love this “drop in the bucket” excuse. By the same logic, it’s not a problem if I manufacture extra strong alpha-PVP and hand
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by pavlov 1y ago
Grandma wants AI stocks, taxi drivers rave about crypto, and Warren Buffett has been selling more than ever. But “this time it’s different” because… AGI…?
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Many European postal carriers have now suspended all package deliveries to the US. The problem isn’t new tariffs, but how the USA wants to collect them. It’s mentioned in the article: “IMAG's Ms Muth said the overarching concern is tha
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by pavlov 1y ago
Nvidia calls their SIMD lanes “CUDA cores” for marketing reasons.
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Now I remember really liking his novel "Software" as a kid. I had completely forgotten the name of the author.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Nice! Clearly a big and underserved market for voice AI solutions. Would be nice to have some code examples for using your TTS API with Pipecat.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Tools and processes from Meta or Google? Yes, absolutely. Tools and processes from “third-place mobile phone operator in country X” or “leading grocery wholesaler in country Y”? Most likely not. The world is full of quite large companies th
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I think the scale difference is the whole point. Wikipedia has billions of active users, while these Hyperclay-style persistent documents have only a few. Saying "we don't need this because Wikipedia already solved it" is kin
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This is coming close to WWW's original vision because the very first web browser was also an editor. Tim Berners-Lee's application on the NeXT was basically a wrapper for the operating system's built-in rich text editing clas
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by pavlov 1y ago
This is coming close to WWW's original vision because the very first web browser was also an editor. Tim Berners-Lee's application on the NeXT was basically a wrapper for the operating system's built-in rich text editing clas

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