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by skywal_l 4y ago
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that GE, at the time, saw computing like electrical power or tap water and wanted to deliver mainframe time sharing to people's terminal through high speed connections. They even asked the bell lab
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Great idea. The problem might be that only people pissed of at a product might be motivated enough to add a review and you end up with a skewed view. Anyway, added a review. Best of luck!
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by skywal_l 4y ago
> I'm not at all the surprised that tuned Javascript can be as performant as pre-compiled Javascript. Well you must be smarter than I am (which is not saying much). For my grug brain, an untyped memory-managed interpreted language
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by skywal_l 4y ago
> It's an example of the truly extraordinary performance of JavaScript. It really does get very close to C/C++ performance Yes I can attest to that. In my day job I write JS code that processes images in 2D. Processing images,
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Rome became a christian empire pretty late in its history. One might even think that this accelerated its downfall. Originally, Rome was a multi-theist "pagan" empire were the gods of conquered lands could be integrated into the R
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by skywal_l 4y ago
You can learn some of the spells here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33156727 .
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Do you mind giving us the name of those 4 games failing on proton?
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by skywal_l 4y ago
> Adding sugar to wine is considered a great offense, and is not only illegal in France, but a disagrace. That's not true. Adding sugar is even part of some AOP. It's used to regulate the amount alcohol in the finish product.
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Question: Is faster than light travel possible? Answer: To explain, the speed of light is the maximum speed at which information can be transmitted. It is not the maximum speed at which objects can travel. Objects can travel faster than lig
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by skywal_l 4y ago
It is to be noted that this road was chosen through democratic means. Reagan was elected. Clinton was elected. Thatcher and Blair too. Only fairly recently people have realized their mistake and started to resist [0] but that's probabl
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by skywal_l 4y ago
If I read the article correctly, it should be: '[...] that could replace rare earth magnets with nickel and iron.' This is a call to funding type of article promising one of those many right-around-the-corner technical revolutio
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Depends on the viscosity of what you are trying to scoop.
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by skywal_l 4y ago
The HN entry for the postmortem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421608
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by skywal_l 4y ago
I believe this is what they do in Japan. Bosses of small to medium companies regularly clean toilets as an act of humility. At least I know for sure that kids in school clean their own school. Maybe someone from Japan can chime in.
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by skywal_l 4y ago
According to parent the US would not defend Taiwan then because there would be no intensive to do so as the US economy would not longer depend on Taiwanese chip production.
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by skywal_l 4y ago
A little off-topic rant. I started my career in the early 2000s in a big company on a big industrial project where several generations of contractors had already had their hands in. UML, rational rose, auto-generation of code that you had t
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Checkout this book: A deepness in the sky. In the far future, humanity has ships which are mostly automated and don't need actual pilots. However they need tech guys to constantly fix and patch the software. They have to know a lot of
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Indeed EUR/USD is not doing great either: https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=EUR... .
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Lego RC Car with Gearbox and Clutch(youtube.com)
4 points by skywal_l 4y ago|0 comments
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by skywal_l 4y ago
In this article, one can read about the parent's quote: > is often credited to Francis M. Wilhoit, who died in 2010, it was actually written in 2018 by a different Frank Wilhoit, a composer.[10] :) And in this article: https:/
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Maybe but when you are CEO, the fact of "not knowing" should not protect you from consequences. If not jail, at least being banned from being a corporate officer in any capacity and relinquish your stocks/benefits/whatev
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by skywal_l 4y ago
On internet, nobody knows you're a bot.
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The Mysterious Case of Inspector Maigret(newyorker.com)
2 points by skywal_l 4y ago|0 comments
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by skywal_l 4y ago
An interesting take from The New Yorkers' movie critic Richard Brody from twenty years ago: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/profiles/2000/11/20/exile...
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by skywal_l 4y ago
> It's a Ponzi scheme when it's not sustainable. That's such a general and undeveloped affirmation that you probably don't even believe it yourself. Here is the real definition from Wikipedia: > is a form of fraud
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by skywal_l 4y ago
You are using a moral vocabulary to describe a social program. You already lost the point. I encourage you to read about the Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op [0] which I find enlightening. It's not about pensions but about liquidity yet
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by skywal_l 4y ago
> Pension Systems that at this point are a Ponzi scheme where working taxpayers are paying for retiree income (Privatized Retirement is fairly limited in Europe and mostly optional on top of standard contributions) How is this a Ponzi Sc
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by skywal_l 4y ago
I don't know if it's the best code I've ever read but this emulation library [0] of 8 bits computers is pretty well written, documented and designed: https://github.com/floooh/chips . It's a good way
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Because graphics is fun. It's a good way to engage with students. Beside, what's important is not the outcome but the journey. You learn to read documentation, to design, to debug and more importantly you learn to learn. Which is
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Ok I get you. The absence of traits (or concept) make documentation and reading the API harder. You see a `comptime T` somewhere and you don't what is expected of this type unless you either read the code in full or just try your type

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