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by rob74 9mo ago
Yeah, that's the HN "anti-clickbait" feature that (amongst others) removes the "How" from titles like "How we managed to run Doom on a mechanical typewriter", but in this case it doesn't make sense at
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by rob74 9mo ago
Yeah, and like many engineering marvels, it was instantly misused for purposes its creators didn't intend and became a scourge on humanity (looking at you NodeJS & co).
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by rob74 9mo ago
> The only way it really fell short is in the way that a lot of people were predicting that it would become a sort of total replacement for JS+HTML+CSS for building web apps. I for one hope that doesn't happen anytime soon. YouTub
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by rob74 9mo ago
The technology itself hasn't changed, but almost everything else (owner, headcount, moderation, userbase etc. etc., not to mention the name of course) has changed dramatically...
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by rob74 9mo ago
Yeah... it's a bit unclear to me what hardware this was even supposed to run on? The home and arcade video games Atari was producing at the time (Pong and later Breakout) were based on discrete logic chips, so weren't "progra
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by rob74 10mo ago
Sometimes you need an animation to turn your site into a special snowflake of a site, and what better way to do that than to use a snowflake animation? TBF, you can turn it off by clicking on the snowflake icon in the top right corner. But
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by rob74 10mo ago
Additionally, in the good/bad old days of using StackOverflow, maybe 10% of the answers actually explained how that thing you wanted to do actually worked, the rest just dumped some code on you and left you to figure it out by yourse
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by rob74 10mo ago
When O'Leary accuses others of "scamming and ripping off unsuspecting consumers", what he really means is that only Ryanair should have the right to scam and rip off Ryanair passengers...
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by rob74 10mo ago
...or getting run over by a tank like suv with limited vision around the car (it's tank like after all) while cycling.
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by rob74 10mo ago
Keep in mind that AAPL came pretty close to becoming absolutely worthless around the mid 1990s before Steve Jobs rode to the rescue. Which is to say, you would really need a crystal ball to make such predictions. I could definitely see an &
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by rob74 10mo ago
It's fascinating that the biggest CRT ever made had a 43" diagonal, which is at the low end for modern flatscreen TVs. But yeah, I can see why the market for this beast was pretty limited: even with deinterlacing, SD content would
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by rob74 10mo ago
Simplified as in easier to use, or simplified as in less language features? I'm all for the former, while the latter is also worth considering (but hard to get right, as all the people who consider Go a "primitive" language s
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by rob74 10mo ago
Yes. So Microsoft (which manufactures hardware itself and has close ties to other hardware manufacturers) needed to find... other ways to, er, motivate people to buy new hardware anyway. Which brings us back to the blog post we are commen
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by rob74 10mo ago
I think OP was referring to CDs, which AFAIK don't have DRM.
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by rob74 10mo ago
I assume someone typed it in (possibly on a mobile device with autocorrect) rather than copy & pasting it (which you would have to do twice, for the URL and for the title).
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by rob74 10mo ago
> But they fail to correct the belief that people naturally form given what is placed before them: that the proffered reconstruction of ancient sculpture is roughly what ancient sculpture actually looked like. I'm pretty sure many
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by rob74 10mo ago
If anyone else would be generous enough to offer a free IDE with free AI code completion, they could give VS Code a run for its money, but as far as I know this hasn't happened yet? Zed for instance is available for free, very AI-centr
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by rob74 10mo ago
It's actually in the third paragrapth of the article: > The classic IntelliSense with language server for the used language is still free – but without AI support.
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by rob74 10mo ago
That's... actually the exact opposite of what GP suggested, isn't it? They wrote that "training doesn't need to be driven by abstract goals", and you are suggesting abstract goals to work towards. Not saying that ca
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by rob74 10mo ago
Well yeah, it helps to become a good (even world-class) swimmer if you actually like swimming and do a lot of it from an early age. Same as you are more likely to become a good developer if you actually enjoy programming rather than just
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by rob74 10mo ago
Sure, but where's the fun in that? Then you wouldn't be able to write "we architected a caching layer"! To their credit, at least this isn't the actual title of the article, but it still left me wondering if an ac
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by rob74 10mo ago
"We" are (currently) not flying the MDs you are referring to, and it's questionable if they will ever fly again. And paradoxically the worst hit are not the airlines flying the MD-11, but the cash-strapped firefighting compan
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by rob74 10mo ago
> After about a minute of flying the game checks your state and plays a little cutscene showing either a textbook landing or an expensive fireball. Either way, you get a “Mission Accomplished!” and go to the next level (after all, you d
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by rob74 10mo ago
> Long, long ago, when I was yet unpublished, I found myself talking with Isaac Asimov at I forget which convention, when John Varley cruised by, trailed by enthusiastic fans. Asimov gazed sadly after him and said, "Look at him. A
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by rob74 10mo ago
That's cool... so I guess this works something along the ways of "calculate the speed via GPS before entering the tunnel, and then try to update this speed using the data from the accelerometer while in the tunnel"? Because a
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by rob74 10mo ago
Dead reckoning shouldn't be a problem for a built-in nav device that has access to the car's odometer (or at least its speed). But as long as the car itself isn't moving, because it's parked in a ferry's car deck, I
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by rob74 10mo ago
I actually recently bought a Quest 3 headset, and while it is impressive and definitely an improvement on what I had before (the long-cancelled Google Daydream for which there were no new apps available anymore for years), VR headsets still
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Meta Reportedly Set to Raise VR Headset Prices, Keep Existing Devices Longer(roadtovr.com)
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by rob74 10mo ago
Or an octocat standing in front of the board, holding cards from 0 to 7 in its tentacles (with the rest lying on the ground) and looking at them quizzically?
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by rob74 10mo ago
May I ask what your thoughts are on fonts that prioritise legibility over everything else, like Atkinson Hyperlegible? IMHO Calibri has a better balance between legibility and a consistent/polished look. The Munich transportation compa

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