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by amgreg 2mo ago
Does someone know how cross-border payments work, and why it would be complicated for countries to link up their sovereign systems? The article gives the example of Brazil and India, suggests there might be a “liquidity” bottleneck, but omi
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How to get your company AI pilled(twitter.com)
1 points by amgreg 5mo ago|1 comments
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by amgreg 5mo ago
Is this real?
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I Went to China to See Their Progress on A.I. We Can't Beat Them(nytimes.com)
11 points by amgreg 5mo ago|1 comments
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by amgreg 6mo ago
Please please do this
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by amgreg 1y ago
The author makes no effort to explain why AI :isn’t: a commodity as Apple and Amazon says. I was looking forward to that. I think the article is weak for not defending its premise. Everything else is fluff.
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by amgreg 1y ago
Yeah nowadays I think non-ClojureScript people use it mostly for legacy reasons or the aggressive minification. Back in the day, aside from the pre-ES5 conveniences I mentioned surrounding inheritance and module bundling, it was also a way
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by amgreg 1y ago
Yes and yes; in the past, prior to ECMAScript providing first-class inheritance, module ex/imports etc, the Library supplied methods to achieve these in development, and the Compiler would identify these cases and perform the appropria
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by amgreg 1y ago
I think you are conflating the Closure Library with the Closure Compiler. They are related but not identical. The Compiler, I think, is what makes it difficult to use externs; its “advanced optimizations” can and often does break librarie
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by amgreg 1y ago
Why would one choose MS SQL nowadays? I am curious, why did the author choose it?
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by amgreg 2y ago
If you’re on a Mac or iOS you could try creating a Shortcut where you input Markdown, convert to rich text, then output as a PDF. I use Shortcuts regularly. It’s pretty easy to set up. I haven’t tried it on something as larger as 500 pag
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by amgreg 2y ago
> NVIDIA is the only viable seller of shovels for this gold rush for everyone but Google and Anthropic. Why do you except Google and Anthropic?
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by amgreg 2y ago
I think the OP is posting this in the context of the other front-page discussion of the Bluesky protocol. I think in this context it is interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42752703
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by amgreg 2y ago
“Decline I” is an instruction for the student to provide the first person pronoun in all cases: I (nominative), me (accusative/dative/ablative), my (genitive), mine (genitive substantive). (I have borrowed the case names from La
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by amgreg 2y ago
This case is about whose interpretation gets to fill in the gaps. The statute (APA) requires courts to form an independent judgment about the gaps. The Chevron doctrine required courts in certain cases to set this judgment aside in favor of
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by amgreg 2y ago
It struck me that Jepsen has identified clear situations leading to invariant violations but Datomic’s approach seems to have been purely to clarify their documentation. Does this essentially mean the Datomic team accepts that the violatio
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by amgreg 2y ago
Thank you for this, but thank you especially for virtual threads! They are awesome! Is point 2 a virtual-thread only risk, or would we incur it with regular threads too?
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by amgreg 2y ago
> things get complicated with virtual threads, they shouldn't be pooled, as they aren't a scarce resource Why not pool virtual threads, though? I get that they’re not scarce, but if you’re looking to limit throughput anyway wo
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by amgreg 3y ago
Clojure’s immutable data structures are implemented as hash-array mapped tries, inspired by Phil Bagwell’s paper [1]. Other languages followed suit. [1] https://os.unil.cloud.switch.ch/tind-customer-epfl/30e62590-...
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by amgreg 3y ago
Spoiler alert. In /The Three-Body Problem/, by Cixin Liu, a planet in the Alpha Centauri system is inhabited by an advanced alien civilization that evolved to survive the hardships related to the unpredictable effects of the thre
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Ask HN: How much of inflation is caused by supply rather than demand issues?
21 points by amgreg 3y ago|77 comments
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by amgreg 4y ago
A good way to de-risk yourself, so I’d probably take it. But in a private tender offer like this (as opposed to an IPO) the employees will likely pay ordinary income tax, regardless of how long they’ve held the shares, as it is difficult t
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by amgreg 4y ago
This is true. I think college towns are a boon, too, for remote workers who are looking for a lower cost of living than in large urban centers, without detriment to some of the nice amenities of city life. Personally I love college towns a
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Colleges Have Been a Small-Town Lifeline. What Happens as They Shrink?(nytimes.com)
1 points by amgreg 4y ago|2 comments
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by amgreg 4y ago
I wouldn’t dismiss Flutter out of hand. It’s more popular even than React Native! https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/02/21/why-flutter-is-the-mos...
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by amgreg 4y ago
In folks' opinion, what are the best resources to learn Flutter beyond the official docs? The official docs are pretty solid but I am looking for something else — maybe a book?
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Eucatastrophe: Tolkien's word for the "anti-doomsday"(bbc.com)
12 points by amgreg 4y ago|0 comments
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by amgreg 4y ago
We use Knockout JS extensively in an old codebase and its two way data bindings and computed values depending on those bindings are a mine field. The uni direcional data flow of React in my opinion has been a breakthrough. How have folks
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Did Proust write the greatest novel of the 20th Century?(bbc.com)
1 points by amgreg 4y ago|0 comments
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The black immigrant who challenged US segregation – nearly 190 years ago(bbc.com)
3 points by amgreg 5y ago|0 comments

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