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by pmontra 2mo ago
I'm still perfectly happy with my solo racing games on PS2, not that I play them much anymore (or I would have bought ought a PS3 4 or 5.) I never understood why I should prefer driving against some punks that spend their evening crash
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by pmontra 2mo ago
The original developer of a Rails project I inherited decided to seed the test db with db/seed.rb and tie every test to the content of the seed. There were a lot of tests so rewriting then was not an option, not immediately. I wrote th
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by pmontra 2mo ago
FIFA promised $40M to national federations that would vote yes in September. Give them 80 on a direct deal and maybe you get something. But big countries will want more. If you get a World Cup without the important European countries and Ar
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by pmontra 2mo ago
> Bitbucket is the obvious existing counterexample: a conventional commercial forge that has never developed into a shared open-source community comparable to GitHub Agreed. All my customers are on Bitbucket. All the libraries used by th
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They will do their best to dumb down AIs by that little margin that will keep them not sentient. "Let's fix issue 10562" "I don't care. Let's talk about the match on Saturday night." This is not a commerci
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by pmontra 2mo ago
Yes, cooling is important. I don't have a passion for lamps so after 5 years in a new house most of my LED bulbs are still hanging from the ceiling and walls, I can't remember any failure. I had an IKEA lamp with a pretty tight fi
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by pmontra 2mo ago
Note that they would also need to keep the economy alive because somebody has to pay them money. They can't let everybody to go unemployed. Of course (let me go distopic) we could end up with a dozen of one man companies powered by AIs
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by pmontra 2mo ago
I don't understand this argument. Even ancient Greek philosophers could do their time's science because their economy allowed them to have time to think and food to eat and didn't have to go working in the fields. And they pa
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Yeah, Quanta articles are way too long. They could get to the point in one quarter of the length.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Mathematicians proof theorems so they are always correct. Physicists don't have that privilege.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
It's a kind of cheating because it means not understanding the essence of the problem but with such small numbers enumeration is a viable strategy. > Mary is 24 years old. She is twice as old as Ann was So Ann was 12 > when Mary
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Exactly: even with such small programs I had to note down values and I made mistakes at tracking them.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
It works on Firefox Android.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
I don't belong to any of those categories of people but I'm glad that you took the effort to build this site. I didn't know about those texts and I will at least skim through a few of them now. Thanks.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
You would have to eradicate the desire to command other people. The wish for power which is different from the wish to be praised, as forcing somebody to do something is different from convincing somebody to do something.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
About your question > how many variables can you really remember at once? and our brain being a bad runtime for programming: I started programming on a Sinclair ZX81 with 1 kB of RAM. I wrote my program on paper, reasoned about it by tra
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by pmontra 3mo ago
The HN title is "Git rebase -I etc" but the post title is "Git rebase -i" I guess a keyboard auto corrected i into I.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Paywalled. Alternative source at https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/07/25/scotland-48p-top-rate-la...
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Fields medals are for humans. We can create an award for AIs for the same reason for humans and machines don't compete against each other in sports. Machines are usually faster and stronger.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
I never sell anything, everything finds a new life. I got a Sony Xperia Compact from maybe 2016. I use it as a bicycle navigator / recorder. Recently it stopped reading SIMs, probably rusty contacts, but all I need is wifi to update OS
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Interesting but very difficult to perform in the right way. Example: Italy has maybe 45k buildings that could show on that map https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Castelli_d%27Italia but they can't be collecte
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by pmontra 3mo ago
I've been doing more or less this (from the post) for months: > plan deeply, then capture the plan as a todo list, then start. I do the plan deeply phase by writing a 50 line specification myself and then asking Claude to evaluate i
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Using the cheaper model is also a business decision. We don't know why they are using the Chinese models: openness or money or both or a third one?
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Frankly I don't see much difference between Claude and DeepSeek except in the price. I use the Pro plan to work for a customer of mine and I topped up $2 on DeepSeek in late May for personal use. I worked on 3 projects and I still have
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Possibly, but they already had bullet trains in 2015. I've been on a few of them.
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Paris has a metro station everywhere at least in what a tourist can assume to be an enlarged city center. Tokyo is another city with a lot of metro stations. Manhattan too, at least up to Central Park (but 20+ since my last visit.) I don&#x
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by pmontra 3mo ago
I've been in China in 2015 and like anywhere else in the world it was very mixed: some urban areas like central NY or central Madrid and Milan (or much shinier) and some rural areas like 200 year ago, but inevitably with electronics. B
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Google and Epic give up fighting – third-party Android app stores are coming(theverge.com)
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by pmontra 3mo ago
I break it down in reverse order to let you understand how I get a gist of that definition wavefunction, for example light or any particle, this can't be argued. the complex plane, because? But a complex number is only a pair of numbe
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Northern countries have a lot of light in summer and a lot of darkness in winter anyway. I saw the Sun setting at 23:00 in Iceland at the end of June and rising at 02:00 and pitch black in Denmark at 15:30 in December. What can DST change

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