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by zeroq 2y ago
I always thought that the "rubber" was a missed opportunity.
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by zeroq 2y ago
+1 Also, and speaking from experience after having a professional bike fit, a "saddle issue" often is not directly related to the saddle itself. You might be placed too forward and slipping just ever so slightly on the saddle, so
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by zeroq 2y ago
It's absolutely not. The math behind rendering is pretty straightforward and has been available since forever (Graphics Gems). On top of that, three.js was sort of a port of an existing library called away3D, which was a port of paperv
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by zeroq 2y ago
Fun fact - our local community recently started playing billiards tournaments using a swiss system and it's really cool, but it's a tradeoff between fairness and the amount of players you can invite to a tournament. The swiss vari
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by zeroq 2y ago
I thought about it a lot and I'm afraid there's no single ultimate solution. It really depends on the sport and the variant you play. Let me give you couple of examples: (a) foosball - you have a bunch of players who play both si
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by zeroq 2y ago
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by zeroq 2y ago
Let me give you two anecdotes. (1) Some time ago I'm at a coding interview and I'm tasked with an algorithm to calculate the biggest rectangle you can make of a set of segments. Or something similar. I'm presented with a comp
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by zeroq 2y ago
haha, reminds me of the GTA parser drama :)
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by zeroq 2y ago
I'm not in the market and clicked the link out of curiosity, but yes, I can turn my android phone into a hair dryer if it takes $35 of auxilary equipement.
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by zeroq 2y ago
Another day, another world record in AI. Reminds me of Sergey Bubka ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Bubka ). Bubka broke the world record for men's pole vault 35 times during his career.
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by zeroq 2y ago
I don't follow the hype to close, but I guess the early models were trained on data that was classified by underpaid 3rd world workers en masse. Today you could use your yesterdays model to classify the data for you and build from that
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by zeroq 2y ago
Actually, one of the things I miss the most from AS is... E4X. I work with ton of json, including hundreds of kubernetes definitions per project, and I really miss the ability to parse the data so swiftly and effective with native syntax.
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by zeroq 2y ago
A few gigs ago I joined a BigCo as a part of contractor group to build a new project. The BigCo had a staff member to bootstrap the project and build a prototype which was internally reviewed and approved. When we put our foots on the groun
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by zeroq 2y ago
Wait till you hear about Typescript, you know adding types to ECMAScript, like Macromedia did some 20 years ago. :) Being in the industry for 20+ years and starting as a teenager making games in Flash it makes really hard for me to treat we
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by zeroq 2y ago
When I started working with Flash and learned about color and transformation matrices I was blown away by how clever it is. At a surface level you may think that having to use advanced mathemathics to change something as trivial as position
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by zeroq 2y ago
It's a cloudification of dead man's switch.
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by zeroq 2y ago
A propos Chinese EV. US is raising import tax on Chinese EV (from 10% up to 38.1%) in EU to help us combat the climat change better. /s
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by zeroq 2y ago
As someone who recently had to go over a large chunk of code written by myself some 10-15 years ago I strongly agree with this sentiment. Despite being a mature programmer already at that time, I found a lot of magic and gotchas that were s
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by zeroq 2y ago
Just two days ago I was reading a discussion, here on HN, about early days of programming and someone in the comments mentioned that games like PONG were easily moddable, and you could change a lot of variables because they used diode matri
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by zeroq 2y ago
It doesn't work like this. Take aircrafts or (to some degree) a racing car. You need a screw. Sure you can get one at your local hardware shop for a penny, but for regulated market you need one with certification and that will cost you
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by zeroq 2y ago
Good wheels costs 500-1000 $/E for aluminium, carbon costs more, but for most people is really not neccesary. Premium tires like GP5k cost close to a 150 a pair. Not saying that the wheelchair is provided with these because I haven&#x2
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by zeroq 2y ago
HN demographic is worse in the sense that you have more people who think if they earn more than they peers their opinion weights more.
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by zeroq 2y ago
> anti-curiosity and anti-learning It's the epitome of current state of the internet. We're on a social platform with coins to be gathered, which doesn't induce a deep, well though discussion, rather short snarky comments
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by zeroq 2y ago
I'm a big fan of his channel, but when I saw the price tag, it got me thinking for a moment. Wheelchairs are a great example of why niche products are expensive. I think you're spot on with certifications. I was stupid a few times
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by zeroq 2y ago
Everytime someone tells how AI 10x his programming capabilities I'm like "tell me you're bad at coding without telling me".
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by zeroq 2y ago
I remember lcamtuf mentioning very similar concept ca. 2003. In his version you would partition secret data and send it out to non existing email addresses, just to get them bounced back within a couple of days. If you want to get your secr
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by zeroq 2y ago
He left Coma for tinycorp the same way Elon left SpaceX for Twitter.
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by zeroq 2y ago
Great point. Reminds me of a SaaS product I was brainstorming some time ago. Two guys came up with an idea for a niche product they could push to clients using their network. The first and foremost thing they mentioned was the price. It wil
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by zeroq 2y ago
For me the Fallout 3 was the "3D remake". It's also a perfect example of uncanny valley phenomenon and the reason why older games has so much charm. When I play Fallout 3 I see empty spaces and unrealistic places. At the same
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by zeroq 2y ago
Brilliant!

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