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by xpl 2y ago
> People who want what they already have can just use what they already have. My point is that while people may want to pursue what you described (some advanced UI behaviors), in practice they fuck up even basic functionality , becaus
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by xpl 2y ago
> Browsers zoom in and out in 10% steps Not entirely true — on Mac I can pinch zoom this Hackernews page super smoothly (in Chrome) using trackpad.
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by xpl 2y ago
> We wanted users to be able to see all their content on one screen > with many thousands of nodes on the screen Does it really need WebGL? You could pre-render things to images (memoize your rendering basically) and update the ca
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by xpl 2y ago
There are legendary Prodigy tracks reconstructions by Jim Pavloff, see: 1. "Smack my bitch up" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI 2. "Voodoo people" https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by xpl 2y ago
Crypto arguably has a better UX than traditional banks' SWIFT when in comes to sending money abroad. I often need to wait for many days for a SWIFT to get through. There are fees — sometimes way larger than crypto fees. Transactions ar
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by xpl 2y ago
There are people I know who genuinely rely on crypto for their survival. For them, it’s the only way to send money abroad to support family in certain countries, or to access their own funds when they move. As the world becomes more fragmen
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by xpl 2y ago
Isn't the number of job postings a key metric for the job market? Because if yes, it must've been really misleading.
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by xpl 2y ago
> QUIC is awesome It would've been more awesome if it supported BBR for congestion control. QUIC gains in practice can be annihilated just by not having BBR implemented in the protocol, so sometimes QUIC could be even slower than
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by xpl 2y ago
It is very hard to immigrate into the U.S. if you're a skilled worker. The system is almost nonsensical. There are annual H1B lotteries (with a small chance of winning). There are L1's requiring you to work abroad in an American c
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by xpl 2y ago
I guess they could have advanced further, but Biden’s administration policy restricts how deep Western weapons can be used within Russia. It would be very nice if they could take the Kursk NPP, to use as a bargaining chip (exchange it for t
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by xpl 2y ago
How did they induce Alzheimer's in a mouse to begin with? I thought we still do not understand the causes, so how could they possibly do that?
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I don't actually "see" mental images, but I "feel" them. For example, I can remember a friend's or a celebrity's face — clearly recalling the "feel" of that face — the exact qualia I experience i
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by xpl 2y ago
It's a shitshow and would definitely contribute to more U.S. layoffs and moving development abroad. Not sure who benefits from this.
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An LLMs would've been be more creative. Probably some Markov chain.
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by xpl 2y ago
To me being a night owl is an ability to do hyper focused work at night, free from daytime distractions (e.g. people talking, outdoor noise, meetings/calls/IMs/emails). I just enjoy to sit in a dark silent room and do things
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by xpl 2y ago
From the article: Jacqui Hanley, head of research funding at Alzheimer’s Research UK, said: “Without a detailed picture of what is going on in the brain, we don’t know if being a ‘morning’ or ‘evening’ person affects memory and thinking, o
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by xpl 2y ago
> With Section 174 (increasing business taxes on SWE salaries) It looks like they’re going to fix it: https://abgi-usa.com/section174/latest-and-greatest
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by xpl 2y ago
Because it's never about kids.
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I am not 100% sure in anything, but I'd like to see an explanation, why the internet is now flooded with stories like "I have 10+ years of SWE experience, sent 1000s resumes and got 0 interviews" . It's crazy how often
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by xpl 2y ago
Those jobs reports might be crooked somehow, I don't trust them. Could be fake job postings (companies might do it for whatever reasons, e.g. for H1B PERM), or duplicates. Or those are all simply low-wage jobs, which could be the simpl
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by xpl 2y ago
Also, JavaScript.
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by xpl 2y ago
> but that also involves an exponential increase in cost Not necessarily. For training, yes. But there surely will be custom hardware specialized for the inference of "1-bit" quantized models, which could be orders of magnitu
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by xpl 2y ago
I wonder what was the medical bill.
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I think with that threejs' TSL approach there is an opportunity to simulate computations in JS instead of translating it to GLSL. Just need to write an eagerly-evaluating runtime for those EDSL expressions. Once it's done, you&#x2
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by xpl 2y ago
The Rock approves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aPDRD1PlaM
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by xpl 2y ago
Free markets, liberal democracies, and so forth are just ways of distributing decision-making and control — that may be not optimal (e.g., they could be sometimes painfully slow compared to autocracies), but are good enough. It all can be s
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How it isn't a scam?
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Another "fun way to lose money" is for example to get bitten by a wild animal. I am originally from a country where rabies shots are free. But here in an ER they could easily charge you $15k for that, which I was truly shocked abo
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by xpl 2y ago
> They make an investment in your company on terms they can claw back the money at any time It is a loan then, not an investment.
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Can this "negative mass" be used to construct wormholes and FTL drives, or is it just a math trick?

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