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by tom_ 5d ago
They've been selling phones for less than 20 years at this point? Though I suppose 1.9 is not equal to 1, so it gets the plural.
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by tom_ 5d ago
I just got served a big chunk of JSON, not even pretty-printed, with the text in there... somewhere. Difficulty level: quite high, even in reader mode. (same on macOS+Firefox and iPhone+Safari)
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by tom_ 5d ago
I for one always appreciate it. The comments help me judge whether I'm right or wrong in my own opinion.
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by tom_ 6d ago
Right, but if you're referring to Return as Enter, then there's no reason to refer to Enter as Return. The reason for the change is that people don't distinguish the two. If we're going to eliminate this distinction, we
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by tom_ 7d ago
Judging by my PCs (M4 Max Mac Studio; 2990WX desktop PC), Geekbench might flatter the Apple chips for multicore a bit I think: Geekbench 7 results: * AMD 2990WX: 1384 (single), 13052 (multi) ( https://browser.geekbench.com/v7
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by tom_ 7d ago
Yeah, all of that would be great. Good ideas all round, and thank you for gathering all these sensible requests into one centralized list. Slight problem, and it's not clear whether you've realised this: everybody else in the worl
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by tom_ 8d ago
Lest it seem like I'm patting myself on the back for my ability to detect Claude's writing style, as if this instance would be evidence of any particular skill in that department: I did skim the README enough to note that bit.
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by tom_ 8d ago
Evergreen: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/what-we-talk-ab... (Feels like it should probably say "1.16x as fast" or "1.16x the throughput" - or something like that.)
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by tom_ 8d ago
So much Claude text. I'm sure this is great (I did a bunch of stuff with/to aardappel's lobster, years ago, and it was pretty tidy, and quite easy to work with), but: Claude's writing makes my brain melt. It's a no
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by tom_ 11d ago
Maybe that's the trap I'm falling into? From memory it doesn't have any actually atomic operations, only an ll/sc sort of mechanism - which I've never really thought of as an atomic operation? Though it's true
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by tom_ 11d ago
Quad core ARMv8-A, e.g., Nintendo Switch.
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by tom_ 12d ago
It's intriguing. Danny! Infuriating. I think it's slightly worded if you swore. No. Slightly worded. No. Slightly worse if you swipe left handed. Yes. At last.
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by tom_ 12d ago
In the long term, it'll be at least be the year 2030. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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by tom_ 15d ago
I've got a 7 port USB 3.0 hub that connects with a double ended USB-A cable.
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by tom_ 17d ago
I assume it's because Flock is a YC company, and HN is the YC board, and somebody has instituted a policy of not making the link clear (and it worked on me! I had no idea) due to the negative publicity - but that's so obvious, tha
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by tom_ 17d ago
Presumably it's a machine command runner (like shell commands and whatnot - as opposed to an Emacs command runner, perhaps).
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by tom_ 18d ago
The computer's the one running the code, and it'll be running it a lot (or so its author hopes), so it's probably worth bearing its limitations in mind in the interests of making its life easier (so to speak) rather than prio
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by tom_ 19d ago
Purported white-hat hackers. The implication is that these people are presumably describing themselves as such, but it may not actually be true.
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by tom_ 20d ago
Curious indeed that the Yale Babylonian Collection should, out of all the possible options, choose the cooking of Ancient Babylon. I wonder what we should read into this. I have some theories, but it might be dangerous for me even to mentio
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by tom_ 20d ago
Let us hope that the poster happens to see this, and is moved to comment, so they can address your points.
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by tom_ 20d ago
If you pick up an additional machine gun powerup, the plane should fire more bullets simultaneously.
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by tom_ 20d ago
Well I dunno, man, this looks like the sort of amusing prototype I'd expect to take a couple of days - though not to understate the value of getting it in 4 hours (and probably with less than 4 hours' continuous effort from the hu
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by tom_ 24d ago
Be the change you want to see!
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by tom_ 24d ago
I care. If the article was AI written, I'm massively less interested in writing it, and in fact I'll only do it if absolutely necessary, or if I'm getting paid. That's just how it is for me. If you disagree: no problem!
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by tom_ 24d ago
Yes. I missed that specific bit, but, the more I read on, the less it felt like a nice in-flight magazine-tier diversion and the more it felt like I was reading the result of asking Claude to write an essay about the bearing of loads. (Whic
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by tom_ 24d ago
If the author is reading: both complicated examples are the same.
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by tom_ 24d ago
The C64 disk drive would still have left you with plenty of reading time.
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by tom_ 24d ago
Same reason there is a button saying "View all 50 cities" (with a down pointing arrow) below the list of all 50 cities, that, when you click it, scrolls back up to the start of the list that you just looked at.
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by tom_ 25d ago
How long have we had 15-core iPhones with 64 GB RAM and active cooling though?
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by tom_ 26d ago
I assume it's because trains play a part in Atlas Shrugged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

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