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by xnorswap 3y ago
I've been keeping an eye on Gleam since I saw a talk by it's creator at Code Mesh London 2019, linked below. It was one of my favourite talks of the conference, and of all the efforts to marry types and the BEAM it struck me as mu
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I think eventually they should. It will cause a real problem if, for example, operations engineers try to make optimisations based on the data. For a toy example, you could imagine someone might analyze the wait times and determine that the
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I'm not familiar enough with Java to answer that question, you may well feel the same about Java, and it may well be true.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
One answer to your question is C# / .Net. Combines excellent concurrency primitives, very good performance, and a deep reservoir of packages and libraries. Of course it's almost never worth switching languages for an existing prod
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by xnorswap 3y ago
It's a failure of incentives for accurate tracking. It's the same reason that when you buy from McDonald's, the order shows on the screen as "ready for collection" then "collected", then disappears from th
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of great and impactful games from recent years, I was just struck that the list of "recent" games were particularly old from the perspective of actual new games like the ones you mention.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
How are we defining recent? ( you're right they're all recent compared to Pong and the OP's point. ) Except BG3, most of what you've listed are around 10 years old. BoTW: 7 Tarkov: 8 ( Technically, but was slow burning
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by xnorswap 3y ago
The value is showing how confidently is presents incorrect results. Especially the lack of nuance or uncertainty in the language they use. They extremely confidently present the incorrect information, and prime generation is interesting bec
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by xnorswap 3y ago
It's worth noting that it may have got lucky with the first response. A clean session with the prompt: > Could you generate me a 64 bit prime? Returns: > Sure, here's a 64-bit prime number: 15592425903773483751 > You can
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Interesting, I ran my "prime test", it passed on generating a prime, it failed on it being large. > "Can you generate me a large prime please" > Sure, here's a large prime number: 193707721 > This number is
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Taxes are almost always the best way to implement "bans", you get huge benefits: 1. People feel less aggrieved if they still can technically access something at a price. ( Less accusation of Government overreach. ) 2. Economically
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Your argument is a popular contrarian take, but it doesn't seem to hold up to the evidence: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/31/governme... If California has a problem it isn't
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by xnorswap 3y ago
It's impossible to listen to some albums because of song replacement. You can try to do so, but when you click play on some albums it replaces several tracks with their single versions. I noticed this last year with Dark Side of the Mo
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by xnorswap 3y ago
The "local maxima" thing is interesting, because while with Spotify it is noticeable sometimes, it was a lot worse of a problem with Google Play Music which I previously used. By the time they shut that down, I almost felt trapped
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I feel like I'm in a weird alt-universe. I've heard frequent complaints about spotify pushing podcasts but I've never once had spotify show me a podcast above the fold that I haven't myself followed. Only if I scroll rea
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by xnorswap 3y ago
It also has tab completion of parameters, so you can tab complete not just commands but things like -ExpandProperty too
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by xnorswap 3y ago
What you're looking for exists, it's powershell. Invoke-WebRequest -Method 'Get' -Uri 'https://example.com' And the response is a typed object: That you can pipe properly by piping objects no
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I thought the headline might be exaggerating with "menacing" but no, if anything that's actually an understatement: > “Fuck Chan Peskin Preston Walton Melgar Ronen Safai Chan as a label and motherfucking crew … And if you
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Be careful what you wish for, the soul of Blizzard is long dead. You can see this with Diablo 4, which is a completely soulless ARPG. With the latest season 3 launched yesterday, it's just not a fun game and it's clear that whatev
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Discussed down-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39127528 Conclusion was that it's a joke, but not a good one.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
> It's almost certainly a joke but not obvious exactly what the joke is. That's the conclusion I've come to from all the responses. (Thanks everyone.) The reason I asked is because I remember web development in the 90&#x27
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by xnorswap 3y ago
> DHTML, which stands for “distributed HTML” Is this a joke I don't understand?
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by xnorswap 3y ago
We're bad at generating randomness because we're bad at detecting randomness. Given a sequence, and asked to grade how closely it fits sampling from uniform random, we typically get it very wrong. For example we underestimate how
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Despite a policy of "use original titles", the HN software automatically mangles titles. This is one of the more bizarre auto-editing of titles it does because of how pointless it feels. "The man who" is established Engl
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by xnorswap 3y ago
This game is well known in the UK as the "Connecting Wall" from Only Connect. This result - poor Chat GPT performance - surprises me. I thought pattern detection and set forming was something that Chat GPT could do well. Perhaps i
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Waitrose do have a weighing device, but it's calibrated to have a very generous tolerance. They trust their customers (or trust their profit margins!) enough to have it calibrated at such. The result is a very pleasant experience compa
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by xnorswap 3y ago
This article didn't ring true at all given all the supermarkets near me have been expanding their self-service offerings while reducing their staffed tills. Even my local Waitrose now only has 1 or 2 staffed tills. Then when I got to t
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by xnorswap 3y ago
As I suspect you know, Scotland has a distinct legal system from England & Wales, and large differences to England in laws around house buying & selling in particular.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
You know what's an even easier way to call "document.createElement"? $.append Sure, there's a reason why people moved away from JQuery, but I'm not convinced that a half dozen lines of boilerplate per eleme
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by xnorswap 3y ago
My favourite: https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/blob/main/image/R/... What's perhaps odd (if it's based on sales as some have suggested) is that Shanklin also doesn't sho

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