Wintamute

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by Wintamute 6mo ago
Unplayably laggy on an iPhone. Sad people can’t produce a performant experience that a ZX81 could have eaten for breakfast, on a relative super computer
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by Wintamute 7mo ago
If you’re making a web app your fancy rust wasm module still has to interface with the dom, so you can’t escape that. Claude might offer you some fake simplicity on that front for awhile, but skeptical that’s it fully scalable
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by Wintamute 11mo ago
Can they disambiguate between spike protein microclots produced by natural infection vs. those generated by the vaccines.
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by Wintamute 1y ago
Writing a web app at the moment with C++/Emscripten. What makes wasm unusable in Rust?
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by Wintamute 1y ago
Worth mentioning the brand has recently been acquired: https://www.guru3d.com/story/perifractic-completes-commodore...
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by Wintamute 1y ago
Working on a major new project right now in C++. In our case, it’s a high performance 2D GPU accelerated drawing application - C++ and many of its battle hardened/established libs are the only game in town. Rust is a non-starter for a
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by Wintamute 4y ago
Doesn't Sketch have smart layout in symbols? And they released multiplayer coediting last year.
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by Wintamute 4y ago
You've been able to play Sketch prototypes on the web for a few years already, also they just released a new iPhone app that lets you preview prototypes and docs. Their iOS Mirror app is pretty much deprecated now I think
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by Wintamute 5y ago
That seems like a naive assessment of an education model that is failing across multiple dimensions of analysis. It saddles many students with crippling debt. It monopolises some of the most productive years of a persons life studying subje
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by Wintamute 5y ago
It's not clear from your comment, but I'm assuming you deem the term "illegal strike" oxymoronic. It isn't.
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by Wintamute 5y ago
Not exactly sure that's how it works. I don't think there's any established correlation between low testosterone levels in males and comfortable lifestyles in society. I hope not, but it's possible the inverse maybe true
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by Wintamute 5y ago
What do you mean? Are you suggesting that somehow modern people have lost the drive to violently compete for resources if they became critically scarce? That seems unlikely to me. I think the old phrase "There are only nine meals betwe
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by Wintamute 5y ago
I'm not sure that damage to various organs around the body beyond respiratory system is that a unique of a property - see myocarditis and the like related to influenza infection, which is a significant cause of mortality.
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by Wintamute 6y ago
You presume a lot about me sir. I'm happy to engage in your ideas, but play the ball not the man. I'm actually sympathetic to your views, and feel strongly that immigrants should respect and participate in the host culture as much
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by Wintamute 6y ago
It's not an American import, or absurd to have an identity composed of both a nationality and ethnicity. Really, it's up to the individual - there are many 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants to the UK or Europe that value thei
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by Wintamute 6y ago
I'm just going to throw this out there as a discussion point - consider for a moment what an unusually high number of people are catching the same disease at the same time. Not just feeling unwell with some sort of unspecified cold or
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by Wintamute 6y ago
Sounds like someone is making excuses for not learning modern web development, and is writing rage posts instead.
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by Wintamute 6y ago
I'm from the UK, we have national guidelines and laws, so the situation is a bit different. But I wonder what claim to authority or special knowledge you are using to feel confident your own attitude is purely rational, and uninfluence
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by Wintamute 6y ago
I understand that aspect too. I mention local guidelines since I wouldn't want anyone to get in trouble with the state. The economy is not an abstract thing, it represents living people and their lives. People who feel its important to
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by Wintamute 6y ago
No, not selfish. See answer below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194718
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by Wintamute 6y ago
I understand that aspect. Vaccinations, social distancing, mask wearing, mass testing, self isolating with symptoms or while vulnerable - these are all tools designed to get society running again, while minimising risk. The OP said they fel
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by Wintamute 6y ago
Have you quantified that? How unsafe it is to your personally? I don't know anything about your personal situation, but if you're healthy and relatively young the risk from Covid (first catching it, then having a bad time with it)
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by Wintamute 6y ago
I commented on this phenomenon last month. As true then as it is now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275252
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by Wintamute 6y ago
I know this pattern and have used it myself. The problem is though, that generally you should only throw an error when you reach an exception - it's like saying "I don't know what to do next", and you defer that decision
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by Wintamute 6y ago
I think the point is that you don't need to make "negative posts" about those topics, rather discussing them from any angle that isn't the accepted progressive orthodoxy results in the ban hammer.
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by Wintamute 6y ago
This reads more as an ideologically motivated pressure group, than a traditional trade union. I have a feeling that unions are most successful when they focus on non-divisive universal issues affecting the broadest section of workers possib
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by Wintamute 6y ago
Slow servers are a thing too you know.
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by Wintamute 6y ago
> every time I have any symptom, even the mildest of them, I take notice and consider the possibility of Covid This is hypochondria isn't it? A pathology in its own right, no doubt caused by current events.
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by Wintamute 6y ago
> I don’t think there has been an interval longer than a week since February during which I didn’t have at least a couple symptoms that could have been COVID. It's remarkable the number of people anecdotally reporting similar sympto
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by Wintamute 6y ago
I made a new point, so am I missing my own point? Confused. > Obviously if people were only contagious if showing symptoms, the pandemic wouldn't be. I don't think that is obviously the case at all. It would have to be proved.

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