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by skrebbel 2y ago
They went from Show HN to bust in 5 months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182414 I really wonder how that happened. Was there like no traction whatsoever? 5 months doesn't seem like an awfully long amount of t
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by skrebbel 2y ago
You might've been downvoted for bad style, irrespective of your actual argument.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I'm mostly impressed that your builder has an "audio person", must be a pretty fancy outfit!
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by skrebbel 2y ago
True! That said, I wasn't fooled. I'm very good at Finns. It might be incorrect but they believed it for sure :-)
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by skrebbel 2y ago
HMD was founded by a bunch of ex-Nokia people. They're based in Finland, like Nokia. I assume plenty ex-Nokia people work there now, would love to know how true this is if anyone knows.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Yeah seems like context is the AI version of cache invalidation, in the sense of the joke that "there's only 2 hard problems in computer science, cache invalidation and naming things". It all boils down to that (that, and nam
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I was told by locals that it was explicitly to keep homeless people from dying. A few streets in the center were heated. Like, not warm in any way, but it was kinda weird to walk into the center and suddenly all the snow was gone. Just warm
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by skrebbel 2y ago
> If it's -20 during the night you can either lock people up or collect their corpses in the morning. Or put floor heating under the streets like they did in Jyväskylä!
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by skrebbel 2y ago
This has been the case for ages. Sysadmins use "implement" to mean "install software on servers and keep it running", coders use "implement" to mean "code stuff that matches a spec/interface". It
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Yeah but how does the "law department" gain money? The question I asked is "what's in it for them?"
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by skrebbel 2y ago
> In truth, the LLM is an idiot-savant which dreams up "fitting" additions to a given document. Tbh I'm not too sure that my brain works fundamentally differently. I'm an idiot-savant who responds to stimuli.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Yeah but, how can there be damages without a breach?
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by skrebbel 2y ago
> A user's friend/relative who is a lawyer or works in health care or know someone who does will see the app and inmediately begin proceedings for a lawsuit Why? What's in it for them? I'm not saying this can't
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I thought it was my color blindness that made me not able to distinguish between the red and green pixels as described (i only see red and black ones), but even with a browser extension that counters color blindness i can't distinguish
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by skrebbel 2y ago
present day demoparties (as in, demoscene events) are pretty much that these days
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by skrebbel 2y ago
As is common with internet rants, this one goes too far. Words can totally make someone feel unsafe. If you email someone a death threat, that severely impacts that person's sense of safety. And since they don't know how likely yo
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by skrebbel 2y ago
> Reading technical documentation and specifications relevant to a project is not an optional step. Well, I'm competent at HTML and CSS yet I never properly read the HTML or CSS specs either. Specs are generally a terrible place t
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by skrebbel 2y ago
> > In that case it would be great if the HTMX documentation included worked examples and guidance for how to do this. > You can refer to the WAI-ARIA standards. Every time someone asks for concrete a11y advice for concrete situati
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by skrebbel 2y ago
wow yeah, i way prefer Rust's notation there! but i assume you could make a similar zero-cost abstraction with some mildly crazy C++ template programming.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Wait you wanna live monkey patch the WASM bitcode to hack that hook in? There's gotta be easier ways. This is the kind of stuff I'd hope an AI tool like Vercel's v0 could help with but instead this demo just shows it as a lay
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Hey I enjoyed reading your site! Also, notably, it made me aware of the word "Bundeshausfrau" which is my new second-favourite German word (after the un-dethroneable "Sitzpinkler").
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by skrebbel 2y ago
well you'll need integrations to have the WASMised doom tell you when a monster gets hit, or when you died. you need to worry about which keyboard events to pass in, etc. i know it's not super hard but it's definitely the mor
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by skrebbel 2y ago
yeah tbh i was a bit starstruck that burntsushi would reply to my comment explaining what i assume is utter SIMD basics. that must be how swifties feel when she (or, likelier, her PR drones) click "like" on their insta comments.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I read through the chat but it's all nitpicking about layout and there doesn't seem to be any point where DOOM is actually inserted. I don't understand, did the author get the AI to do the easy part and then code the hard par
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I'm not sure we ever had it.
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Ahh right, I've been doing too much TypeScript lately. I thought a type parameter couldn't impact behavior but only typechecking but clearly in Rust (like in C++) it can. Thanks for the explanation! Ah so splat is like a memset fo
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Nah just the final bits, stuff like `Simd::<u32, 8>::splat(q)`, I'm not sure what splatting is or how Rust's Simd library works or, admittedly, how SIMD works in detail at all. So eg I'm not sure what that 8 is doing th
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by skrebbel 2y ago
Totally off topic, but I've started to notice that more and more algorithmic low-ish level content assumes Rust by default. My entire life I've been used to anything algorithmic being either written in sciency pseudocode (invariab
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by skrebbel 2y ago
I switched from Spotify from YT Music solely for UX reasons. Spotify is a weird flimsy thing to me (or at least was, back when I rage-quit it). Things like, their Android app didn't even have a "play album" button. Random sim
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by skrebbel 2y ago
When DMCA was proposed, the internet was up in arms predicting exactly this sort of stuff. It was a ridiculous law then and it is now.

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