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by thom 3y ago
Do you think that your final sentence buys humanity a thousand years, a hundred years, or what?
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by thom 3y ago
I've thought for a while that what quantum computing will probably deliver is not going to be magical infinite processing power, but extremely fast, computational access to parameterizable physical processes. That is, a rock can simula
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by thom 3y ago
Oh wow, somewhat jealous of the rest of your Sunday now. Would love to be able to listen to music with fresh ears. And to be a teenage boy watching her 1995 Glastonbury set again…
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by thom 3y ago
There are times when I've wanted architecture diagrams to be ASCII in markdown, meant to be consumed through GitHub or in a Backstage portal or something. For me, the ideal workflow would be to just be able to edit those inline but sti
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by thom 3y ago
I've used this in the past and enjoyed it. My one complaint, if I recall, is that you have to use its own built in file format to maintain all the cool features like anchors and resizable boxes and stuff. You can't just point at a
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by thom 3y ago
This was very fashionable 15-20 years ago, in both application and OS research. One such Java framework: https://prevayler.org/ Less ambitious than TFA overall, I grant you.
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by thom 3y ago
I’m sure it can fit basically any phenomenon, including an elephant wiggling its trunk. I too would like to see some actual predictions coming out of the model, but either way, I don’t begrudge him the effort. I’d like to believe what under
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by thom 3y ago
I've been teaching my kids juggling recently and it's really rewarding. I initially got into circus skills in the 90s when my family would regularly visit Mushy Pea in Manchester, a shop which inspired quite a few kids in the regi
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by thom 3y ago
Yup, he also tutors various courses with the Institute of Continuing Education at Cambridge University, very affable guy.
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by thom 3y ago
Philip Matyszak’s ‘Legionary’ is a very engaging look into life as a Roman soldier.
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by thom 3y ago
Having seen a bunch of these, I made my default prompt “Listen, I don’t want to be here any more than you do, so let’s just get this done as quickly as possible and go home.” I’m not sure it helps but I sure feel less guilty for manipulatin
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by thom 3y ago
There are, I would guess, hundreds of people on HN who are millionaires and happily lead public lives without fear of being hit by $5 wrenches until they give up their passwords.
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by thom 3y ago
Wow, this is what I was brought up on at the turn of the century.
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by thom 3y ago
Someone knowledgeable might know: is this just incremental view updates? To what extent is the cache intelligent if parameters, where clauses, or aggregates change? I really love this space and have been impressed with Materialize, but even
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by thom 3y ago
It wasn’t always code first - you mention Hibernate but 15-20 years ago it was entirely feasible to inherit a database schema or design one up front, and then create performant metadata mappings to a usable object model. That sort of practi
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by thom 3y ago
I assume the idea here is similar to other embedded Postgres libraries - you create a template database that is very fast to copy on startup (or you manually copy the correct files which is even faster) so you don’t need to run migrations.
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by thom 3y ago
Whenever I pass this building in Sheffield, I immediately think “you need bashers this time”. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/acse/department/facilities/diamo...
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by thom 3y ago
That's the folder I keep my stargazing apps in. I like to keep house hunting apps in 'shopping'.
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by thom 3y ago
Someone here the other day was lamenting the death of the weird interesting internet of old, so I'd just like to highlight what an amazing place Matt's blog has been over the years (and other projects he's been involved with
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by thom 3y ago
I mostly have the same attitude to this as I do to sites with ridiculously aggressive cookie popups… I don’t need to see the content, I can just go for a walk in the sun instead.
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by thom 3y ago
Does it not feel a little old-fashioned to dynamically rebind stuff to force some code to be testable, rather than just write it to be testable in the first place? If I saw someone doing this in any other test suite I’d suggest making the d
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by thom 3y ago
I think this is overselling itself a little. It seems genuinely useful to be able to do more expansive integration tests of components, and combinations of components, especially running in real browsers. But that’s only really an increment
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by thom 3y ago
If you want my address you can just google it, I'm not going to spend any time worrying about it.
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by thom 3y ago
I think people are reacting to what seems like an attack: the implication that having hundreds of accounts and not studiously pruning them is ‘pathological’. But I think your point is actually a valid one - yes, you can over time accumulate
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by thom 3y ago
So excited to see how much text is recoverable and to what extent this can bolster our collection of Epicurean writings!
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by thom 3y ago
I’m not sure that it was instinct for the majority of human history, I suspect it was extended families passing down knowledge and sharing the work. Many people no longer have that support network. I do believe parents should follow whateve
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by thom 3y ago
I too came here and typed "Ctrl+F barr". Criminal how overlooked Barry was this awards season!
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by thom 3y ago
All I can say is that never happens to me. I moved to this after being annoyed by other approaches, especially idle ones where I'd pause to think only for the GC to kick in. Whereas if Emacs has lost focus, I'm between thoughts an
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by thom 3y ago
I personally use this (alongside an extremely high threshold): (add-function :after after-focus-change-function (lambda () (unless (frame-focus-state) (garbage-collect)))) So Emacs GCs whenever i
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by thom 3y ago
I think the writing in Baldur's Gate 3 is successful for what it is. It's roughly Marvel movie quality, i.e. dumb but fun, big emotions etc. It's not particularly interesting, and tbh I find the result far less immersive than

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