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by zeroq 11mo ago
I'll probably make fool of myself but could someone ELI5 what's the deal with BSD and why it matters? I grew up in times when people were using stuff like Solaris, Novel and my older friends would occasionally gift me a whooping
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by zeroq 11mo ago
I'll share a childhood story as well. Somewhere between '93 and '95 my father took me abroad to Germany and we visited a gaming venue. It was packed with typical arcade machines, games where you sit in a cart holding a pistol
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by zeroq 11mo ago
The main reason it has this "calming" feature is because it's imperfect. By averaging different, sometimes incompatible font faces the result looks like a letter pressed on a soft paper, with all it's natural imperfectio
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by zeroq 11mo ago
Reminds me of Old Timey [1] a lot. What I really love about both of them is that they instantly give you the impression of a real print made with real ink. Especially Averia - which makes sense, since it was averaged from all sorts of diffe
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by zeroq 11mo ago
Reminds me of CV lcamtuf published on his website shortly after leaving Google. A single page that mainly said: "my name is Zalewski, yes, that Zalewski".
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by zeroq 11mo ago
Printing is a whole other beast. My fav part - if you're preparing an ad for a newspaper you need to contain the sum of all of your CMYK components to under 120 or so value otherwise the print will either dissolve the paper and it will
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by zeroq 11mo ago
Did they? I recall similar site back from as far as from 2008. Might be them or something similar. Anyway. I can totally see such site running purely on statistics. Every song, every artists, every genre is a bucket. You listen to a song yo
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by zeroq 11mo ago
Great work! Some five years ago I was day dreaming about recommendation engine for movies where you could say "hey Ciri, give me a good gangster flick", and it will come up with something that you haven't seen yet but you&#x2
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by zeroq 11mo ago
It always baffled me how we censor "Mein Kampf" but we - as a society - are super fine with either Alex Jones shouting about lasers and lizard people or Joe Rogan leaving an open mic to people claiming there are nuclear plants and
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by zeroq 11mo ago
Honestly I haven't read the whole thread but I think your mixing stuff like green and blue being called the same word in some languages or ancient greek completely missing word for blue. What I was thinking is along the lines of showin
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by zeroq 11mo ago
In my part of EU it's actually pretty common, especially on exotic cars. I guess the main appeal is "paint protection". Seems redundant to me, but people do like to apply screen protectors to their phones, which is another th
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by zeroq 11mo ago
fun fact: there's a guy with similar background to mine, with similar dedication to color, yet way more productive and he came out with this incredible piece of art: rebelle app As with most recent technological breakthroughs it uses m
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by zeroq 11mo ago
"We've decided to fix our problem by using Perl. Now we have two problems."
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by zeroq 11mo ago
It's not a contradiction if you assume that (a) language choice is critical and (b) rewrites are doomed to be failures. Having that said I agree that language/platform is a "non technical requirement" in 90% of real worl
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by zeroq 11mo ago
Not an expert but I'll drop my 2c Most of my career was somehow related to graphics programming and I always thought it's bit weird that most quantization algorithms were operating in RGB model despite the fact that it was designe
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by zeroq 11mo ago
Sqlite has so many small benefits for tiny projects it can't be easily replaced. It's like saying "oh, you want to visit Austrian country side next month and you're asking for advice for best tent? How about you build a
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by zeroq 11mo ago
> contributors of free software tend to be power users or, simply put, nerds it takes both a different background, approach and skillset to design ux and interface if anything FOSS should figure out how to attract skilled artists so majo
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by zeroq 11mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZCH9lSNI3I
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by zeroq 11mo ago
Just few days ago I spoke with sec guy who was telling me how frustrating it is to validate AI code. The problem is marketing. Cycling industry is akin to audiophiles and will swear on their lives that $15,000 bicycle is the pinnacle of hu
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by zeroq 11mo ago
Correct. You have to pass theory exam - when I was doing it it was 30 questions with four possible answers out of ~500 pool [1] now the pool is 3700. If I'm not mistaken you could make two mistakes and still pass the test. The question
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by zeroq 11mo ago
> code itself has an exact value of $0. That's because AI can generate it That's only true for problems that has been solved and well documented before. AI can't solve novel problems. I have ton of examples I use from time
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by zeroq 11mo ago
When Karpathy wrote Software 2.0 I was super excited. I naively believed that we'll start building black boxes based on requirements, sets of inputs and outputs, and sudden changes of heart from stakeholders that often happen on a dail
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by zeroq 11mo ago
I remember, back in the day, when first driving assistance systems rolled out - you know, keep lane, speed assistance according to road signs, etc. - I thought to myself "I bet you haven't seen our roads". When I was getting
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by zeroq 11mo ago
> not using TypeScript at this point is basically the equivalent for many people these days of saying that I use punch cards I very much enjoy writing no-build, plain vanilla JS for the sake of simplicity and ability to simply launch a p
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by zeroq 11mo ago
This. I'm old enough to have a first hand experience of building a Flash website that required to load couple hundred tiny xml files for configuration only to find out that some ~300kb was taking couple of minutes to load because of li
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by zeroq 11mo ago
You can add lang attributes to elements too! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
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by zeroq 11mo ago
slightly related: it would be great to have a list of TOP 100 recurring links on HN. :) on topic: https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/ is a great companion read to the subject
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by zeroq 1y ago
and so was your comment ¯\_(ヅ)_/¯
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by zeroq 1y ago
what do you mean "control the internet"? Microsoft for all intents and purposes controls all documents across the globe with their Office suite and it doesn't mean you can't write "hitler" in your document. I m
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by zeroq 1y ago
SQLite is C, do you think we need Rust reimplementation?

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