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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Just need to scale it by trillions to make 1 ounce, but transmutation of lead to gold - the dream of many alchemists - is now just a by product of particle accelerators. Quick, somebody call nVidia!! They already integrate accelera
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by phkahler 1y ago
Yeah, a 4K display is about 8 megapixels so at 60fps you need to write 480M pixels per second. That's feasible with a single CPU depending on the complexity of the rendering. Multi-core can get more work done per pixel. You'd stil
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> isn't like this our goal here??? I mean we are comment on YC site that produce startup aiming just that NO! I've been here long enough to remember PG saying to build something people WANT. YC has become less about technic
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by phkahler 1y ago
Stackoverflow is no longer a Q&A site. It's trying to become a curated information source. Like wikipedia or the kind of thing you'd train AI with. As such it isn't great for answering question any more. Another old probl
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by phkahler 1y ago
In practice it's probably easier to dynamically link the library.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Look for example at Qt, it is supposed to be a UI framework but it ends up implementing vectors, strings, json parser and who knows how much more stuff. But it's just 1 dependency so it's fine, right? Qt is an application
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> On the other, if they're cheating so much to get well-paying jobs will I --without cheating, relying on just the merits and knowledge from my career-- be competitive enough to find work in the future? Been wondering if anyone
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> The LGPL is specifically designed to allow proprietary applications to link to open-source libraries without requiring the proprietary application’s source code to be released, provided certain conditions are met. This is particula
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by phkahler 1y ago
1024 objects updating at 48khz seems possible on the CPU - depending how the code is written. 48M updates per second? It seems like a possible use for OpenMP to run a few loops in parallel across cores.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Unsurprisingly, me and my team managed to deliver three projects that other teams tried and failed several times. Not sure how important delivery was to the company, but it's nice when your personal goals match those of the co
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> But what if the truth is that we need all of these approaches simultaneously? What if paying off a specific child’s lunch debt today doesn’t preclude advocating for a complete structural overhaul tomorrow? What if the emotional res
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by phkahler 1y ago
Yeah I came to quote this: "All tests for infection came back negative and it was assumed she had an autoimmune condition." They never confirmed the autoimmune hypothesis but tried to treat it. What about the hypothesis of "i
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by phkahler 1y ago
Give yourself an orgasm right after doing the activity you want to reinforce? Make an electroshock gizmo that hits you when your browser visits certain domains?
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> The big anti-feature is that developers can block users from flashing the chips. There's a liability angle too. If a company (or person) makes a product that has any potential for harm and you reprogram it prior to an accident
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by phkahler 2y ago
Does it have floating point hardware? Does it have CAN? How does the core compare to their old ones? I'm a little disappointed that it only has one core even though I haven't used the second one on the older chips yet.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Whenever I schedule a meeting, Teams warns me that some attendees are in a different time zone. Are they on a VPN to another time zone?
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by phkahler 2y ago
I'm starting to think current measures of "the economy" are bogus. It can't grow indefinitely - that's probably just inflation. If you measure productivity in hours rather than dollars, inflation gets a more direct
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Why does the UPS app have to be over 100 MB? Oh oh!! Let me guess!! I don't do mobile but have looked into it. And the guy behind me is doing an app too. Everyone wants to minimize development effort so they pick a framework t
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Let’s be honest this is the kind of thing that can happen to anyone. I didn't say I'm immune to doing this myself, nor did I condemn anything about the particular scenario in the blog. My pain is in trying to articulate
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by phkahler 2y ago
This is the kind of problem that can be prevented by using "better" coding patterns. Not to say it will be prevented, but that some ways people like to structure code are more prone to these kinds of bugs. I quoted the word &q
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by phkahler 2y ago
Critics maybe. Antagonists no.
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by phkahler 2y ago
Don't need to. It's the hydrogen wavelength / pi.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> The argument seems to be that they've realized the only way to achieve the next round of funding is to be "AI-first". Sounds like the CEO is more interested in selling the company than building the product. IMHO that
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by phkahler 2y ago
Most recent commit to the repository: Last week. It's slow and has slowed the last couple years but it's still going.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> I have come across a significant number of non engineers wanting to do, what ultimately involves some basic CAD modelling. I very much want Solvespace to be the tool for those people. It's very easy to learn and do the basics.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Either the service can detect you pulling a font for a domain that isn't paying for it... Is that really a thing? Markup in a web page tells how to display the text. Saying "use this font over here on this other server&qu
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> What saddens me is that a lot of people are so ignorant that they don't even realize a font is something that takes creativity, tradecraft and a lot of work/time/effort to design. I get that an average computer user
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by phkahler 2y ago
Get a firestick for those apps
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Everything from drones to games. And computers. Sure it's a good idea to have a password, but that's not the same as a user ID registered with a company.
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by phkahler 2y ago
Why is violet in the rainbow not a very blue color? I would think it only activates the blue cones. 405nm is a nifty color.

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