alexthehurst

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by alexthehurst 2mo ago
It’s not hard for a visual model to score the quality of that output though, which would be a pretty good fitness function.
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by alexthehurst 3mo ago
This is impressively full-featured for a new app. I tried it out for some route-planning and tracking a hike and kept finding the features I was looking for. Can you share anything about your development approach? I tested it out for route
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by alexthehurst 3mo ago
Yes. Even standing outside a straight-through tunnel, you can get some echo back to you off the walls.
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by alexthehurst 5mo ago
It’s still there, but the builder is only in the web UI.
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by alexthehurst 7mo ago
I’ve been working on a homemade CPU (in simulator) and I’m in the middle of implementing an ISA and assembler as a bug step up from working in machine code to working in assembly. I’ve been looking at Forth as a good option for a next-level
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by alexthehurst 9mo ago
Look into keyboard macro programs for a much easier way to do this. I use Espanso and have it set up to paste the time anywhere I type `;tm`.
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by alexthehurst 10mo ago
Representative line from a previous post: > You probably don’t remember from a post almost two years ago, but I already implemented generation of temperature, wind and precipitation patterns, and inferred the local climate from those. Th
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by alexthehurst 10mo ago
I absolutely loved FrozenFractal’s Around the World hackathon pixel art game. It has really good gameplay and I find it pretty satisfying and absorbing for such a simple game. I’ve been enjoying the blog posts about development of the large
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by alexthehurst 1y ago
But aren’t toasts fundamentally different by being intentionally designed not to block your work?
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by alexthehurst 1y ago
How can this be true? If my parents and spouse and friends were all hairdressers, I definitely would never pay for a haircut.
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by alexthehurst 1y ago
Still a supported feature! You can find it if you dig around in the menus long enough.
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by alexthehurst 2y ago
This would work! QR codes would be even more opaque.
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by alexthehurst 2y ago
Their status updates look clearly like AI-generated blurbs saying the same thing with varied phrasing, hour after hour. Thanks for the slop? I know writing status page updates is annoying, but “a human is paying attention to this” is the s
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by alexthehurst 2y ago
A “fifth” of alcohol is a 750ml bottle (about a fifth of a gallon). So someone drinking a fifth is drinking more like 15 shots.
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by alexthehurst 2y ago
> are people not taught this in school? I agree about standardization, but I think this framing comes off as lacking empathy. Plenty of folks either - Avoided the topic in school or put all their effort into other subjects - Didn’t learn
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by alexthehurst 2y ago
This seems like a rather large claim that would benefit from some kind of supporting argument.
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by alexthehurst 2y ago
Those execs sound like terrible communicators. It’s hard for me to imagine a colleague acting this way in real life.
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by alexthehurst 2y ago
Agreed entirely. The substitution in the article didn’t cause much inconvenience to the readers, even if it was new to them (it was new to me). But people sure seem to have an appetite for complaining about it rather than the substance of t
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by alexthehurst 2y ago
I recently got into it with my son. I bought an arena starter kit from Amazon and it came with two 60-card decks, which seemed to work pretty well in play against each other. I bought another one long – same result. No focus on the commande
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by alexthehurst 3y ago
Isn’t that the point of the parking requirement? If you don’t have room for enough parking to support the Thing, then you don’t have room to add the Thing to the neighborhood. Seems like the intended outcome.
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by alexthehurst 3y ago
> what happens when your senior engineers retire and there are no replacements prepared because it's more efficient to hire foreign senior engineers rather than onboarding and training a college grad This assumes that the overseas e
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by alexthehurst 3y ago
But: we are KNOWN to be undergoing one right now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction?wprov=sfti...
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by alexthehurst 3y ago
And having a stranger along for the shopping trip doesn't affect the timing more than the extra walk to the back of the store? And the engineer is sitting in the car on the first night and it "wouldn't start," which sign
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by alexthehurst 3y ago
Not what regex is good at, though.
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by alexthehurst 3y ago
I actually often skip this step with real cards. If a joker comes up, toss it and replace it from the deck.
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by alexthehurst 3y ago
I tried setting up a game of solitaire (on desktop with a mouse) and it got tedious really fast. What I wished for right away was: - Ability to drag a selection region and move multiple cards together (like, say, the deck) - Ability to alig
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by alexthehurst 3y ago
This is an unfair debate tactic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
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by alexthehurst 3y ago
Agreed. Back when I was wringing the maximum utility out of every dollar, an iPod Touch alongside a feature phone provided a whole lot of usefulness for a few years, even with no mobile connection.
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by alexthehurst 3y ago
I dunno, I took an IQ test for a job application in 2016.
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by alexthehurst 4y ago
> No AI will ever host a breakout session at an offsite to discuss strategy for getting people to work in the horrific hotel seating dehumanized office Well, let’s hope not.

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