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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s just like the target / selector pattern from NeXT AppKit over thirty years ago… Except that the syntax is clunkier and less type-safe than what they did using 1994 Objective-C. It’s not exaggeration to say that the web has set UIs
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by pavlov 2y ago
Based on some quick googling, it seems like this anti-feature (login wall for threads) was tested pre-Musk on some users, but it was switched on globally by Musk. For example here’s a mention from 2021 where some people report getting the l
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by pavlov 2y ago
The Mac Studio hit a sweet spot in 2023 that the trash can Mac Pro couldn't ten years earlier. It's mostly thanks to the high integration of Apple Silicon and improved device availability and speed of Thunderbolt. The 2013 Mac Pro
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by pavlov 2y ago
Unfortunately Russia didn’t balkanize in 1990. The largest Soviet republic became the Russian Federation and kept its borders. The world today would be a much safer place if 1990 Russia had split into about six independent states, each comp
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by pavlov 2y ago
I genuinely forgot the Mac Pro still exists. It’s been so long since I even saw one. And I’ve had every previous Mac tower design since 1999: G4, G5, the excellent dual Xeon, the horrible black trash can… But Apple Silicon delivers so much
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by pavlov 2y ago
The Mac Studio isn’t meant for data centers anyway? It’s a small and silent desktop form factor — in every respect the opposite of a design you’d want to put in a rack. A long time ago Apple had a rackmount server called Xserve, but there’s
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by pavlov 2y ago
Italy would probably withstand Western sanctions pretty well too, if it had a land border with China who would provide them with anything they need. Russia's strength is not its own economy, which is a total mess.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Since DOGE has wrecked any semblance of data security in the US government, we can assume the codes are also in Moscow by now.
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by pavlov 2y ago
What's binding between sovereign nations anyway? Ultimately it comes down to trust. And the current US administration is doing its best to destroy trust built up over the last 80 years.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Careful now. That kind of provocative black-and-white claim will only alienate the 50.1% of American voters who appreciate Mr Joker’s anti-government and anti-woke agenda.
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by pavlov 2y ago
You could just read the other comments in this HN thread to find out what 18F’s work was and why it was well-regarded. Instead you decided to write a long comment about vibes you got from the post.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I’m pretty sure this wasn’t available on early GPUs. Additive blending with glBlendFunc(GL_ONE, GL_ONE) or its D3D equivalent just summed the new fragment with the frame buffer value. Accumulating into an 8-bpc buffer will quickly artifact,
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by pavlov 2y ago
Yes, that would be an artifact of missing additive blending. It simply means that each newly rendered polygon’s RGB values are added together with the pixel values already in the frame buffer. It’s good for lighting effects (although not a
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by pavlov 2y ago
Americans liked to laugh at Europe's data regulations, but they sure are effective at preventing this specific problem of "CEO can turn fascist and feel entitled to do whatever he pleases with the data." Which surely has some
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by pavlov 2y ago
> “focusing on military vessels … [we] come from SpaceX and Tesla” So you guys are basically part of the MAGA military complex? Why do you need YC? Is funding your moonshot concept a way for YC to signal something politically?
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by pavlov 2y ago
They haven’t been in a war since 1814, so they’ve had lots of time to develop other competences. I hear they also make amazing sourdough and can discuss the Beatles catalog at depth.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Also, the decimal ASCII code for capital letter X is 88, and Musk likes to quote the infamous “14 words” slightly paraphrased. Damn strange coincidences. I can’t believe I bought a car from this dude. Never again. (He also lied to me about
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by pavlov 2y ago
In my universe, the only permitted background colors for programming editors are NeXT white, SGI pastel yellow, and Turbo Pascal blue.
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by pavlov 2y ago
UI research since the 1990s has shown this to be the case. Labels provide much better recognition than icons alone. Paradoxically we now have much better display technology that allows rendering sharp and legible text in UIs, but design fas
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by pavlov 2y ago
I wonder if AI could soon recreate old computer games into a modern programming language. Those MS-DOS era game engine binaries are small enough to fit in LLM context. There’s ample gameplay footage available that could be used to teach the
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by pavlov 2y ago
Will two turkeys make an eagle?
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by pavlov 2y ago
In Europe? I believe it works better in the US. Elsewhere in the world it’s still practically useless, yet they’ve been selling it for years on the pretense that it’s just around the corner. Cruise control on a Volkswagen is smarter than “F
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by pavlov 2y ago
I have a Tesla with so-called FSD in Europe, and it still feels like it’s ten years away from being road-safe. It can’t even recognize speed limit signs correctly. I bought this car six years ago paying for the FSD feature upfront, and sinc
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by pavlov 2y ago
A cousin of Johnny Mnemonic?
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by pavlov 2y ago
Let’s imagine a Fortune 50 corporation wants to improve efficiency and audit its books for fraud. Should they: 1) Hire professional auditors and business consultants to perform the undoubtedly massive review; 2) Ask the CEO of one of their
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"Just a tool" and other stories(nataliailyin.net)
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by pavlov 2y ago
They could always go even milder with “Response of the Jedi” — or perhaps take the polite British approach with “Request of the Jedi.”
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by pavlov 2y ago
> “why Tintin is trending at the moment” The Tintin character entered public domain in many countries in January 2025. I think this “What a week” image is from a 1930 album (“The Crab with the Golden Claws”), so it’s part of the public
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by pavlov 2y ago
If Google search disappeared, I would still remember the names of several sites like Stack Overflow that are always at the top of the results, and I’d just go directly there. Maybe the original Yahoo! style curated list of categorized links
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by pavlov 2y ago
The point is that a date set to 1875 is actually a null in COBOL. It doesn't mean the data is missing or inaccurate, any more than a null reference in Java means your program is going to segfault. It simply indicates that the data is n

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