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by roberttod 5y ago
At what point does it immerge? What is the smallest unit? Is it a magic number of neurons, or when they get arranged in a certain way? There's a mystery in these questions, and I think that's well accepted. I've heard this &q
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by roberttod 5y ago
There are some very different dynamics though - for one, the path to profitability is a little easier and price probably won't ever need to be near where it is with brokers. Uber never actually removed the humans, but seems like they a
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by roberttod 5y ago
The hackernews community has a broader range of thought than you give it credit for - not everyone is against electron apps. The top comment on this post is supporting that, and everyone who +1'd it.
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by roberttod 5y ago
As a lot of these replies mention - it's using interlacing to print frames using PNG. Something I think is interesting here also, the server is holding each frame for two seconds before it sends that chunk to the browser, so the animat
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by roberttod 5y ago
Like learning guitar - the trick is motivating yourself and making small investments by figuring out how to enjoy tiny projects that slowly get you to this level of skill/knowledge. This example uses HTML Canvas, so you could look up s
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by roberttod 5y ago
This article is really well written, and does a great job of introducing the problem all the way through to a really simple solution. I feel something like this might be good as a first class citizen in git (it feels like a common problem,
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by roberttod 6y ago
Use of nuclear weapons already guarantees mutual annihilation. I'm pretty sure the US government isn't trying to scare dictators with alien activity - I doubt anyone would change policy without a real alien coming and talking to u
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by roberttod 6y ago
I totally agree. I thought typescript might grow on me as I got to grips with it, but alas a year of using it and it's still slowing me down a lot for how much it's helping. Also "don't use 'any'" - there
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Ask HN: What are you using to monitor GraphQL performance?
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by roberttod 6y ago
For “love” — “The natural progression of love is from cruelty to boredom.”.
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by roberttod 7y ago
I love the idea of a 4 hour day, but it seems to be something that can only be obtained by going freelance, consulting etc. I wonder if a company could offer a stable income at a decent rate, but for only 4 hour days or 4 day weeks, or have
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by roberttod 7y ago
I worked in London for 7 years, now in NYC for 3 years. London's definitely better for work life balance. I've managed to find a great balance here in NYC after trying hard to do that but struggle to find friends/colleagues t
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by roberttod 8y ago
Absolutely, that part left a bitter taste in my mouth reading the rest of the article. Feels like they released this on April 1st just so they could make this claim, strange move.
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by roberttod 8y ago
If people being upset about ads is the biggest problem you face, you have had a pretty easy life. What about more impactful things like war and disease? (Literally this the same argument you just made)
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by roberttod 8y ago
I can only know for sure that I am conscious, I only assume others are conscious because they are built kind of similar to the way I am. Though if we weren't conscious then would we talk about consciousness? What other topics wouldn&#x
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by roberttod 8y ago
I can't see how it's anywhere near as weird as an alien spacecraft. Interesting article though.
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by roberttod 8y ago
All of these bits and pieces were built for good reason, it's nice to see them grow organically in different directions but able to borrow concepts from each other or collapsing down (as happened with Node and IOjs). As a beginner it&#
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by roberttod 8y ago
Nice! I'm trying to do it the other way around, record player into Raspberry Pi, broadcast to my HomePod. Unfortunately the only way it works is to add a laptop in between. If anyone has managed to get an AirPlay broadcast from Linux I
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by roberttod 8y ago
Tried to get my Google home setup to call people. It takes 3 different apps on my iPhone to configure it, Google Home, Google Assistant and Google Voice. In the end I couldn't get my contacts to sync so gave up. One should not need a t
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by roberttod 8y ago
What if alien civilisations figured it was a good move to hide themselves from hostile civilisations... Or if those that broadcast like we do were destroyed by hostile civilizations. Let's hope not I guess.
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by roberttod 8y ago
Multi Armed bandit tests need even more traffic, as there are more variations being tested. I think you have to be careful with false positives in AB testing - drawing conclusions too fast can nullify it's usefulness.
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by roberttod 8y ago
In order to be useful, you probably want to see AB tests reaching a conclusion in under 30 days. I'd say for a conversion rate goal, this is going to be when you have around 100k visitors a month. There are a few variables to consider
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by roberttod 8y ago
I completely agree. I'm lucky to work in an environment where management aren't too fussy about sticking to deadlines, as long as progress is pretty decent. It's a nice way of working, I use system 1 for estimates which gener
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by roberttod 8y ago
My mistake, it is indeed Node not JavaScriptCore, I posted a correction.
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by roberttod 8y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I commented with a correction.
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by roberttod 8y ago
Correction: it's using Node, not JavaScriptCore. (I think that makes it even more useful, and it should still be far more performant)
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by roberttod 8y ago
Wow, nice! Didn't think there was much room to improve given the dependency on Chrome.
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by roberttod 8y ago
I think it'll be hard because they depend on Chromium for performance, which is practically out of their hands and the project is already very streamlined for what it's doing. But Electron comes with a different set of tools i.e.
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by roberttod 8y ago
Absolutely, though I can't think of a good reason why it couldn't be leagues better in performance. I'll post here with some numbers later in the day if no one beats me to it.
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by roberttod 8y ago
Using Electron, you are rendering each window in Chrome, with some added OS hooks. With Proton, you are using JavaScriptCore with hooks to the native MacOS UIs and APIs. Seems to me that this should use far fewer resources (especially memor

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