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by thom 2y ago
It’s not a blocker, just that it’s strictly more work, every single time.
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by thom 2y ago
Does the new camera button thingy happen to be a fingerprint scanner as well? I live in a constant state of rage with Face ID, longing for my iPhone 8 Plus with its Home button and the ability to pay for things in one fluid motion.
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by thom 2y ago
My wife's an art psychotherapist and I DM for a couple of our kids and their friends. We've talked about this a fair bit - being able to externalise and contain difficult emotions can be extremely powerful. But also just having th
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by thom 2y ago
I know a lot of people are making the case libraries are just finished not abandoned, but your feelings are valid. It’s like investing in a really low yield but dependable bond, when everyone around you is making huge gains on tech stocks.
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by thom 2y ago
What you’re seeing sounds familiar but definitely not new. I’ve used Clojure professionally for 15 years and at no point in that time have you been guaranteed critical mass around any library or framework. Clojure has always been a small ec
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by thom 2y ago
The first time I read this was over GPRS on an HTC Typhoon smartphone running Windows Mobile during my 2-hour commute to my first job in tech after university, and anything seemed possible. Surprised to be sitting here years later feeling m
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by thom 2y ago
It basically just works, but if you want slightly better drivers you can follow: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=9405 I found it necessary to add an oplmode to get MIDI working, as described at: https://ww
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by thom 2y ago
Discovered to my delight that iDOS is back on the App Store[1]. Immediately got Windows 3.11 and MSVC++ 1.52 up and running, and will definitely experiment with DOjS now. Much more fun than getting iSH up to scratch for a real development e
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by thom 2y ago
Of the many problems with “hire good people and give them room”, the first is that you don’t necessarily know you’re getting good people. And if they are good you don’t know they’re good in your environment. You generally do know a founder
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by thom 2y ago
Hacker News is the only online community that doesn't feel like it's actively driving me insane. Whatever censorship is being done, whether in good or bad faith, I'm all for it.
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by thom 2y ago
A thousand years after the fall of the western Roman Empire, the eastern empire fell. Five hundred years after that, a rocket named for the Roman god of renewal helped put men on the moon. I wouldn’t write us off.
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by thom 2y ago
Story and dialogue heavy games did well in the market, and work-intensive art assets like voice acting made it so these couldn’t scale through procedural generation. Ultimately there’s less call for big empty spaces.
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by thom 2y ago
Of all the problems with SQL, this solves one I absolutely don’t care about at all. Kill SQL or don’t kill SQL, but don’t add pointless syntax sugar to make normal queries look alien.
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by thom 2y ago
Am I the only child of the 80s that hates this? A bunch of stuff I'm not interested in, and then I switched off. The moment TiVo was available we had it in our house and it was great. I still like the occasional shared experience of bi
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by thom 2y ago
I loved these books, I think my favourites were Crimson Tide, which despite being famously 'buggy' was slightly more mature and ambitious than many of the others, and Robot Commando, which was a different sci-fi setting, and I see
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by thom 2y ago
I’m pretty comfortable with how I’m acting in the comments about someone’s death, but you do you.
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by thom 2y ago
Yes. He was an academic who wrote about writing, authored two inconsequential novels, and was very open about his cancer. Many people here interacted with him or his work, but there’s no shame if you didn’t. A black bar on HN means people a
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by thom 2y ago
Sounds like even more phones are needed, with a control plane that can let them sleep regularly!
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by thom 2y ago
I've managed to convince myself over the years I wouldn't actually use any of Teenage Engineering's stuff, however I might lust after it. But 200 hours of Manor Lords and a Lankum gig later, this was the fastest £249 I'
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by thom 2y ago
Microsoft Word was faster than WordPerfect’s slow, buggy, late release on Windows. Ami Pro was around and also perfectly usable. WP honestly felt like bloatware to my memory, no doubt it had a lot of features, and all I was doing was homewo
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by thom 2y ago
Time was, we appreciated great rhetoric.
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by thom 2y ago
I’m both a layman and a simpleton, but seeing Guth’s comments, surely it can’t be a new idea that the fundamental interpretation of primes is something to do with waves and harmonics?
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by thom 2y ago
Always nice to see people doing cool stuff with our free data! If anyone else wanted to play there’s thousands of free soccer games at: https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data Part of the soccer data is us going back an
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by thom 2y ago
The article mentions Vikings in the Maghreb as well, but obviously the Vandals under Gaiseric have them beaten there too, having ruled most of the western Mediterranean as far as Tripoli in his time. Germanic tribes, ruling North Africa, bu
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by thom 2y ago
Yeah, it’s always surprising to learn that Spain in the 400s or so was a battleground between at least three different Germanic tribes: the Visigoths, the Suebi and the Vandals.
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by thom 2y ago
92% accuracy is really good! Is this just action recognition and player identity at the moment or are you actually generating full tracking data under the hood?
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by thom 2y ago
An irony of Polybius’s writings is that he complimented Rome on its balanced constitution which had the appearance of holding all these forces at bay (the consuls with limited monarchical powers, the senate representing the aristocracy, the
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by thom 2y ago
And yet overpowered Commander cards continue to mess up Cube and eternal formats.
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by thom 2y ago
Andy Weir's stuff isn't utopian but is obviously very science-positive. I have slightly mixed feelings about Alastair Reynolds' work (I thought Revelation Space petered out a bit, but that Zima Blue is profoundly beautiful et
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by thom 2y ago
Sophie’s choice between scrolly crap and a video. No surprise I suppose, given the article focuses on films and ignores the much larger body of sci-fi novels which had no shortage of pessimism in the past and have no shortage of optimism to

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