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by rossant 1y ago
farely decent?
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by rossant 1y ago
What's the physical reason for this? (elec noob here)
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by rossant 1y ago
(2010)?
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by rossant 1y ago
I remember spending 4 hours downloading the GTA 2 demo on PC. My parents weren't happy with the phone bill later that month. But the wait was so worth it.
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by rossant 1y ago
Welcome to the future. Minority Report's coming. How terrifying.
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by rossant 1y ago
Sometimes, very bad things are done in the name of "child protection". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
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by rossant 1y ago
Vibe coding may make an existing problem even worse.
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by rossant 1y ago
And the ability to improve itself.
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by rossant 1y ago
2001? But wasn't NumPy created in 2005? Apparently its predecessor was called Numeric.
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by rossant 1y ago
Sometimes I see almost only ads not on the first screen but on the first _page_.
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by rossant 1y ago
Shameful. What a disgrace.
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by rossant 1y ago
If I'm not mistaken, CPython's dict preserved insertion order as an implementation detail at first, but because too many users came to rely on it, it was made part of the language specification starting in Python 3.7.
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by rossant 1y ago
Since when searching a font on Google changes the UI text font? Tried with Garamond, Comic Sans, Times New Roman.
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by rossant 1y ago
Amazing story on a no-less amazing teenager. Also, I love the handwritten slide on one of the photos. Very nice.
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by rossant 1y ago
Top ranked fish has score 248k, 324k likes. Second has score 8k, 8k likes. All other submissions have score approximately equal to number of likes. Is the first submission legit or the result of hackers?
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by rossant 1y ago
In case anyone asks: there is more than one way to do it.
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by rossant 1y ago
Yes. Try uv and never look back.
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by rossant 1y ago
Great write-up. Curious to know what's going on with the video though.
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by rossant 1y ago
Yes, although the drop shadow on the entire text was a bit distracting.
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by rossant 1y ago
This might be interesting to you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Toulmin#The_Toulmin_...
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by rossant 1y ago
There is one now in the table of contents.
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by rossant 1y ago
1gb is huge even for a whole website. Unless there are videos or hundred of high definition photos. Curious to know what makes up this space.
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by rossant 1y ago
TIL some people use 3 instead of a power of two. I would never had thought of it nor would I have considered it as a reasonable choice. And now I wonder why I would have thought that.
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by rossant 1y ago
I'm very cautious about using LLM-generated code in production, but for one-off throwaway scripts that generate output I can manually verify, LLMs are a huge time saver.
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Zen vs. Tribalism(amandaknox.substack.com)
3 points by rossant 1y ago|0 comments
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by rossant 1y ago
You summed it up pretty well.
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by rossant 1y ago
I really liked WPF for Windows Phone back then. The tooling was great. I bought a massive 1000+ page book, "Pro WPF in C# 2010," one day. I also had to buy "Home Maintenance For Dummies" the same day. The bookstore cashi
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by rossant 1y ago
Reminds me of XAML and WPF.
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by rossant 1y ago
That was hilarious. Thanks for sharing.
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If you die suddenly tomorrow, what would you want your family to recover? What would you want your grandchildren to have access to in a few decades? That's your valuable data. They may not need or want to inherit from hundreds of thous

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