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by usrusr 2y ago
What happened to RAM use? Ignoring gaming (which a large sunbset of the market never ever does), phones these days are doing exactly the same things they were doing back when 512MB was considered a generous amount of RAM. It feels as if Goo
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by usrusr 2y ago
The way I understand hubless wheel designs (powered or not) is that you don't build them as one big bearing, wasting huge amounts of load bearing capacity in all parts of the rotation that aren't the ground contact point. I assume
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by usrusr 2y ago
But here that mass is the driving force: the further away from the center you put your magnets, the less force (the less magnet) you need for a given amount of Newtonmeters. When you move that mass away from the center, you need less mass,
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by usrusr 2y ago
But is it currying favor? Could just as well be "kiss the ring or you'll see your life's work AT&Ted into oblivion" Perhaps both: might have started as a pragmatic offer to bury the hatchet, then quickly turned into
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by usrusr 2y ago
True. And I believe every system will eventually be gamed to some amount. You do occasionally need change. But if you were to artificially enforce some "full rewrite" reform e.g. every n decades, that reform would just end up a tu
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by usrusr 2y ago
At this point I think it's a bit of an NYE tradition on HN to link and upvote that guardian article from 2018. I don't mind it, less confused blank faces when I accidentally recite parts of it to people who aren't German (or
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by usrusr 2y ago
Even a simple "A vs B" selection process would be an improvement to what most of what we spray'n'pray photographers currently use. It's been forever on my list of mobile apps I might want to write (I expect that sim
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by usrusr 2y ago
But zooming is lens selection (if implemented like that). I don't want to be bothered with zooming. A full frame of each sensor, pick and crop later. I want to point the side with the cameras at whatever I want to take a picture of,
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by usrusr 2y ago
On an only slightly related note, I'd be happy if the same was available on smartphones, in software : my mobile photography is of the school "take a lot and discard almost as many" and having to choose between the different
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by usrusr 2y ago
What if the next one to get there produces a similar service for 5% less? Race to the bottom. And would AI that is tied to some interface that provides lock-in even be qualified to be called general? I have trouble pointing my finger on it,
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by usrusr 2y ago
Or honest space bar accidents. Just as much "not kerning". The "you have what it takes" is an excellent piece of positivity, because even typography laymen like me can clearly see that it was all done on purpose, giving
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by usrusr 2y ago
Most of that could also be considered getting the best out of the tools at hand. Is it necessarily a good idea to always optimize for the highest common denominator? Even for a contributor that at the time of the decision is merely a hypoth
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by usrusr 2y ago
I don't like the mental image of layers. It's not wrong, but it's terribly inclusive of everything that is bad about bad abstractions. Even the worst abstractions will often look kind of nice from the layers angle. I prefer t
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by usrusr 2y ago
Perhaps that's the secret to lua's success: they got the basics so wrong that they can't fall into the trap of chasing the dream of becoming a better language , focusing on becoming a better implementation instead. Or perh
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by usrusr 2y ago
It's the perfect distraction: once you start accepting one-based, everything else that might be not quite to your liking isn't worth talking about. I could easily imagine an alternative timeline where lua was zero-based, but never
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by usrusr 2y ago
And truly lightweight cables, for slow overnight charging (or for charging of small batteries, e.g. smartwatch scale) have all but disappeared with the shift from A/micro-B to C/C. It's awesome that we have near-universal con
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by usrusr 2y ago
As others have said, I would not expectany any style guideline to tolerate those names outside of tests. But it's not entirely test-only: When you are dealing with code generation for schema defined in/for other languages, being a
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by usrusr 2y ago
It's a place to put intetion that isn't so much of a second class citizen that it will likely be ignored and/or not updated if it ceases to be true. You want your test methods fine grained (many methods that each check one va
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by usrusr 2y ago
When it's "sleeping" code, not as in unused but as in not currently being worked on (no changes in open branches), then it can be quite valuable to have some bulk translation run while the code actually is sleeping, and not a
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by usrusr 2y ago
Not really eligible to be called a goat before it takes the high ground of the announcer's platform just because it can. But that choice of music, the "it transforms into a wheeled unit, and back, for no good reason because both m
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by usrusr 2y ago
Suspension feeders/deposit feeders, thanks that makes a lot of sense: the local food chain does need some base, that base can't be solar powered as there really isn't enough light down there. Some scraps from the solar-powe
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by usrusr 2y ago
Predator sounds dramatic, but there really isn't much non-microscopic life in the oceans that isn't predatorial. Large herbivores are land-evolved.
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by usrusr 2y ago
As a cyclist I avoid eye contact like the plague: it's only a small minority of drivers, but that small minority is dangerous enough to outweigh all benefits eye contact might have with others. Some drivers will inevitably read eye con
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by usrusr 2y ago
Exactly like that (well, almost exactly: if python includes the quotes then it's not really equivalent to print()). The point was that by including that print(), people already do say yes to including "like you'd do in a real
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by usrusr 2y ago
Isn't that hugely elaborate compared to languages where top level statements are a function, functions return their last statement, and the return value of the entry function is sent to stdout unless invoked in special ways? That print
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by usrusr 2y ago
Advertisement has rarely not been a zero sum game. Disposable income will be disposed of and ads exist to influence the direction the money moves.
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by usrusr 2y ago
Do humans really miss anything important in their diet when they have to substitute fat with more carbs? As in being a challenge to the multigenerational survival of a community, not as in missing or on national health gains? A population t
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by usrusr 2y ago
Being $bad because of $ideology is no excuse for being $bad. That causal vector can be amazingly helpful for forgiveness at a later point in time, but forgiveness cannot start before being $bad stops. Preemptive forgiveness is a terrible id
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by usrusr 2y ago
Even if tomorrow a giant space-maid robot came by and stole much of our atmospheric CO2 we'd have to eventually make do without fossil fuels. Because if we continue they'd all be oxidized to the lowest energy state (CO2) one day.
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by usrusr 2y ago
People who are used to working with an undo stack (or with savegame states) are usually terrified when they suddenly have to make do in an environment where mistakes have consequences. They (we) either freeze or go full nihilistic, comple

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