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by wk_end 6mo ago
"@dang" doesn't do anything last I heard (though at this point it's used often enough that maybe the HN folks should consider it). If you want to reach the mods you can contact hn@ycombinator.com I believe.
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by wk_end 6mo ago
They made this change a couple of years back, didn’t they?
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by wk_end 6mo ago
Speaking as someone who reads around N2 level but can barely ask for directions, this is on the mark. I self-study and have few means or reasons to practice speaking, so it's never been a priority for me. But I think this arrangement i
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by wk_end 6mo ago
I assume you're just trolling to make a rhetorical point (apologies if not!), but FWIW: ETH Zurich is one of the most well-regarded technical schools in the world, and arguably the most well-regarded technical school in Europe. It ha
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by wk_end 6mo ago
> I (mistakenly?) think Oberon is that kind of "roots knowledge" shared between all of us, like Lisp or Forth. Yes, I think that's a mistake. Lisp and Forth saw widespread commercial use, were hugely influential, and direc
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by wk_end 6mo ago
One of the basic principles of communication is that you have a mental model of the person you're communicating with and are phrasing what you want them to understand in terms that you think they'll understand. So whenever you&#x2
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by wk_end 6mo ago
Macintosh Common Lisp - at least the versions floating around Mac Garden and such - seems to refuse to run on anything besides accurate emulators and real hardware.
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by wk_end 6mo ago
That's a common factoid that's bandied about but it's not really accurate, or at least overstated. To start, modern x86 chips are more hard-wired than you might think; certain very complex operations are microcoded, but the b
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by wk_end 6mo ago
ARM isn't US controlled, is it? British and also now Japanese since it's owned by SoftBank. Meanwhile, wouldn't China be more heavily invested in Longsoon?
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by wk_end 6mo ago
I can understand running an old 486 machine for nostalgia reasons, or because you have some old industrial equipment that relies on it and even one second spent replacing it is a second too many, but I struggle to imagine why you'd wan
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by wk_end 6mo ago
The screen can be improved, but the resolution and sound system can't be. The issue with the sound isn't just the speakers - you could always use headphones, after all. The GBA only has the original GB's primitive PSG (two sq
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by wk_end 6mo ago
I agree, the GBA is a pleasure to work with. It's just a shame that the poor quality of the (stock) screens, low resolution, and lousy sound hardware make it feel like such a downgrade from the otherwise gnarlier and technically inferi
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by wk_end 6mo ago
> And, when was the last time we stopped perfecting something we thought useful and valuable? When was the last time our attempts were so perfectly futile that we stopped them, invented stories about why it was impossible, and made it a
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by wk_end 6mo ago
Or the RealityEngine, but really any SGI - that's kind of where modern 3D computer graphics began.
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by wk_end 6mo ago
> (The irony that I started with "it's not just" isn't lost on me) But an LLM wouldn't write "It's not just X, it's the Y and Z ". No disrespect to your writing intended, but adding that extr
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by wk_end 6mo ago
This anecdote is so absurd it sounds like satire. This is the guy with the $23M mansion? > Amodei’s notes describe escalating tense encounters, including one, months later, in which Altman summoned him and his sister, Daniela, who worked
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Well, there's the 68080 - the modern FPGA-based 68k chip designed as an upgrade for Amigas - but that did arrive quite a bit too late. http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=features
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A Homebrew Open-World Engine for the N64 [video](youtube.com)
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Between Gab and Vox Day, is no one else writing about this guy except the extreme right? Is there not a better source available?
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Lean doesn’t have any kind of substructural typing, does it? At a glance it looks like you need to manually (lexically) rebind the socket at each step in the operation, and there’s nothing stopping you from holding onto a socket in a now-in
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by wk_end 7mo ago
"Liability" isn't really how we try to see things in aviation. While it's true that it's ultimately considered the responsibility of the truck/plane to visually confirm that crossing the runway is safe, refuse
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by wk_end 7mo ago
The NTSB - and aviation in general - as much as possible tries to avoid "pinning" issues on individuals. The purpose of an investigation isn't to ascribe blame, it's to try to understand what happened and how to prevent
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Er, I sort of do think that's how it works? The ultimate rebuttal to "you can't do X" is to actually do X. Until you do that I think that ultimately the burden of proof falls on you. It can be very easy to imagine certai
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by wk_end 7mo ago
I disagree with you entirely. "Lowest-hanging fruit" isn't the same as "low-hanging fruit". The phrase "low-hanging fruit" does specifically mean that the solution is easy, in a vacuum - the fruits are &
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by wk_end 7mo ago
As it's not SOP to have one guy working both tower and ground at an airport the size of LGA, I'm going to assert that the most likely scenario is that, yes, there was no way to even have a relief available. What caused the lack of
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by wk_end 7mo ago
It's partially a money thing. ATC is under-compensated. They'd get more - and more talented - people interested if the money made up for the stress, hours, and early forced retirement.
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by wk_end 7mo ago
260/32 is around 8. "A lot" is subjective but I think that fits the bill? LGA is open 16 hours a day, seven days a week. Of course this is an extreme over-simplification, but if LGA only had eight ATC at their disposal tota
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by wk_end 7mo ago
I fly out of a small-to-medium-sized airport in Canada and I've never seen it happen there. The idea of one person being responsible for both tower and ground in the busiest airspace in the US is absolute insanity.
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by wk_end 7mo ago
New York State is large. It has lots of airports [0] - although not all of those are towered, you're still dividing that 260 down by quite a lot. And I don't believe it's standard practice to fly some dude in Buffalo down to
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Well, I think I prefer the slightly less...uncanny character portraits in the EGA version. The rest of the game seems a bit of a wash; some of the backgrounds are a little more striking in EGA, some look much more refined in VGA. And the sp

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