TrueTom

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by TrueTom 11mo ago
Immediately begging for an account is reason enough for immediate deletion.
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by TrueTom 1y ago
The Windows 2000 era was really peak computing.
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by TrueTom 1y ago
I have to disagree. The same people who won't think existed in previous generations as well. The only difference was, they blindly regurgitated what Bob Martin et. al were saying.
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by TrueTom 1y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/29/ucla-lawsuit...
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by TrueTom 1y ago
Particle boards with wood grain stickers are the actual good stuff now. Ikea is literally selling cardboard with woodgrain stickers (that's not a joke).
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by TrueTom 1y ago
This is not going to happen when you can just import people from other countries.
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by TrueTom 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDO24U3hMkU (it's bit long-winded but the general message is sound)
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by TrueTom 4y ago
It's funny that Hacker News went out of it's way to bury this.
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by TrueTom 4y ago
It was dumb and passive-aggressive comment (by me) so every kind of response is fair game, I guess... :)
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by TrueTom 4y ago
I'm being facetious here. As far as apologies go that's a pretty weak attempt.
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by TrueTom 4y ago
It seems you have posted the wrong link because there isn't really an apology?
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by TrueTom 4y ago
After the Windows Terminal Teams' half-hearted attempt at an apology a few months ago I actually believed they might improve their behavior. I guess that may have been too optimistic.
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by TrueTom 4y ago
"In this video, I describe a common problem with the way guitarists cover popular songs by using open chords far too regularly. The trouble with open chords is that they often ignore important melodic and harmonic features. Hence, zomb
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by TrueTom 5y ago
https://vscodethemes.com/
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by TrueTom 5y ago
Clarification: This isn't the official German contact tracing app.
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by TrueTom 6y ago
Also quite a lot of scientific lasers are from Toptica.
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by TrueTom 6y ago
Except they don't?
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by TrueTom 7y ago
https://quantumcomputingreport.com/players/privatestartup/
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by TrueTom 7y ago
At this point in time there is no indication that quantum computers will ever solve a useful problem. Even if there is one it's not likely to be profitable.
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by TrueTom 8y ago
It's weird to read about Stevo1kinevo on HN... :)
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by TrueTom 8y ago
This thread is pretty much every Microsoft forum thread ever.
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by TrueTom 8y ago
High-fidelity adiabatic quantum computation using the intrinsic Hamiltonian of a spin system: Application to the experimental factorization of 291311 https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08061
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by TrueTom 8y ago
Metrology is actually the only field that might produce any results; everything else is just marketing.
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by TrueTom 8y ago
My next MacBook Pro will be a ThinkPad.
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by TrueTom 8y ago
http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Knowledgebase/index.html?can...
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by TrueTom 8y ago
I'm pretty sure they only tolerate developers given the poor state of the MacBook keyboard design.
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by TrueTom 9y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13648043-platform
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by TrueTom 9y ago
All talks are also on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/mediacccde/videos
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by TrueTom 9y ago
It would've been even better without the unnecessary political commentary.