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by wk_end 3mo ago
I really enjoyed the Ad Museum when I went a few years ago. https://www.admt.jp/en/ These all look fascinating too. God, Tokyo's really an incredible city, huh.
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by wk_end 3mo ago
Grass-fed beef isn't necessarily better. It tends to be comparatively leaner than grain-fed, and a richly marbled rib eye is for a lot of people (myself included) just about as good as it gets. Australian wagyu is, for my money, the be
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by wk_end 3mo ago
Disagree - engineers documenting fun and quirky DIY projects is very much in the hacker spirit. Before reading this I didn't even know aquaponics was a thing, much less a thing with a "thriving online community". ...also, may
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by wk_end 3mo ago
Having a fish tank for fish is a normal enough thing and carries similar risks of water damage, doesn't it? Does this strike you as significantly higher-risk, less insurable, or more irresponsible than that?
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by wk_end 3mo ago
The problem is that the counterfactual isn't obvious. The company spends more time - and money - than they needed to fixing those issues, but how do they know? And how do they know that it would've amounted to less if they'd
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by wk_end 3mo ago
The link to Perfect6502 is interesting. It says that it supposedly gets speeds of 1/30th of 1MHz - i.e. ~30KHz - on high-end 2025 CPUs. Which is very slow of course, but still ~1000x faster than what people are reporting in this thread
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by wk_end 3mo ago
Are you saying that you expect the Trump regime, which has been otherwise clearly and resolutely pro-Israel, to be implementing BDS policies and refusing to buy anything from Israeli companies? To try to appease 20%-40% of Americans mostly
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by wk_end 3mo ago
The argument is: if you don’t have hygienic macros, a Lisp-2 is going to be less brittle than a Lisp-1. The classic example is, imagine you have a function with a local variable called “list”, common enough. Now imagine you invoke a macro i
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by wk_end 3mo ago
The Constantines are amazing!
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by wk_end 3mo ago
Do you know anyone in the arts? Musicians? I see more AI hatred on average in those sorts of communities than in tech, where there's a pretty even split.
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by wk_end 3mo ago
In the interest of playing Devil's Advocate, even if they're unlikely to abandon an existing project over this, accounting for potential sabotage and the cost/delays of redoing work might change the calculus of future project
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by wk_end 3mo ago
...you think 1000 years from now people will wonder whether or not Stephen King existed?
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by wk_end 3mo ago
Lots of excellent suggestions here. F. Scott Fitzgerald's missing so far - that's not necessarily who I'd choose but he belongs in the conversation. I don't think he's an especially interesting pick - Gatsby is cite
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by wk_end 3mo ago
Socrates, I'd say.
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by wk_end 3mo ago
Steven Spielberg is probably the Homer of American cinema.
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by wk_end 3mo ago
As a professional - assuming you mean “which can I put on my resume to get a job working in that language” - probably (not necessarily!) none, or maybe Clojure. As a hobbyist, probably all of them. It’s worth at least trying to go through S
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by wk_end 3mo ago
It's maybe a bit of a startup-world, HN-blinkered assessment...but that's where we're talking, isn't it? Even before JS became the language for everything, there was a good chunk of time - maybe between 2005 and 2015? -
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by wk_end 3mo ago
> I think any English language post about philosophy majors should be assumed to be about analytics. I don't think this is true at all. To start with, there's roughly 2000 years between the earliest known philosophers and the a
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by wk_end 3mo ago
I wish there were some photos of it in the article so we could get a better understanding of what it is. I've been to lots of bookstores with sections or displays for famously banned books. I'm pretty sure my local Indigo (basical
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by wk_end 3mo ago
> Standard ML of New Jersey (smlnj) is another interesting one although it tends to be more of a research vehicle than polyml or mlton. This is interesting! My impression was that SML/NJ was the de facto "standard" Standar
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by wk_end 3mo ago
Well, you're suggesting a reason to choose Elm is stability - a lack of breaking changes. But Elm is actually notorious for its wildly unpopular, dramatic, community-fracturing breaking changes. Backwards compatibility is not a concern
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by wk_end 3mo ago
That’s what makes it good satire.
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by wk_end 3mo ago
Are you replying to the right comment? Or maybe just haven't had your morning coffee yet? ;) The point I'm making is that a non-coffee drinker won't have "withdrawal symptoms", so OP's suggestion that the benef
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by wk_end 3mo ago
The sentence immediately before the one you quoted notes that there was a group of non-coffee drinkers in the study, and the sentence immediately after states that both groups experienced the positive effects.
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by wk_end 3mo ago
At least in part that's because they've stopped legislating. The executive now basically just does whatever it wants.
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by wk_end 4mo ago
Saw the name and was disappointed that this wasn't some kind of verified file system written in the F* programming language ( https://fstar-lang.org ). I don't think I'd ever trust or use this, but still, good job O
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by wk_end 4mo ago
We shouldn't talk about "objective best" without pinning down what that means. I can only really imagine it in a sort of Aristotelian sense - a city could be the best city because it most fully embodies the notion of what it
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by wk_end 4mo ago
I actually don't know how much of that's especially true where doctors are involved. We as a society strictly regulate who can call themselves a doctor and the credentials that are required to do so, and then in doing so entrust t
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by wk_end 4mo ago
What's medically necessary is for a person and their own doctors to decide on, not for you or some AI engineer or anyone else to disagree about.
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by wk_end 4mo ago
The "sterilizing children" is how anti-trans activists talk about giving trans children gender-affirming care. Framing it this way makes it sound monstrous rather than an unfortunate side-effect of a medically necessary procedure,

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