andrehacker

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by andrehacker 16d ago
Also see https://q-ctrl.com/ironstone-opal
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by andrehacker 22d ago
Is that really the problem, though, or has the audience simply changed? It seems to me that the thoughtful deep dives of years past are still being produced, but they're buried under a much larger volume of lighter content. More import
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by andrehacker 26d ago
Wonderful work by Mr. XKCD (Randall Munroe). This was published in 2011 when there was "some" misinformation in the U.S. press about the Fukushima nuclear accident. Based on this chart some proposed to use "bananas" as u
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by andrehacker 29d ago
Right.... but it is also an industry that provides an insane amount of (often well paying) jobs to a large amount of people to do "make work", admin tasks. Reliable details are hard to come by, but some estimations are that more p
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by andrehacker 1mo ago
Well.... https://www.instructables.com/CARDIAC-CARDboard-Illustrative...
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by andrehacker 1mo ago
Reproductions are still produced, see the wikipedia page.
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by andrehacker 2mo ago
That sounds really cool, can you expand a bit on the workflow you used: what format were the 360 pictures in and how did you convert that into data that this Python library uses ?
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by andrehacker 2mo ago
It appears to me that this is the same pattern you often see when junior employees are given one or more resources intended to help them succeed. Despite having access to those resources, there is frequently no shortage of complaints about
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by andrehacker 2mo ago
Let my karma burn for saying this: Maybe it is time to let this go man. These comments are really the new incarnation of "grammar policing". (1) They don't add anything of value, did the author use an LLM to fix his prose but
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by andrehacker 2mo ago
I think the point was that Python, as a language and ecosystem, has experienced a number of breaking changes over the years. In practice, that means code written only a few years ago may no longer run without specific versions of Python and
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by andrehacker 2mo ago
So, yeah, this is wonderful since the ARM architecture (Acorn Risc Machine) is arguably derived from the 6502 by Sophie Wilkins and Steve Furber at Acorn Computers.
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by andrehacker 2mo ago
I concur with that number for Chrome, then 70 Hz with Firefox 62 Hz with Safari
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by andrehacker 2mo ago
Tron https://digibarn.com/collections///systems/crays/cray1/Cray-...
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by andrehacker 3mo ago
One day i hope to build something like this. I am not a hardware guy but very intrigued by the basics of computing and interested enough to throw some, but not a lot, of hours at building something like this from a kit I can order in one pa
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by andrehacker 3mo ago
Interesting that WSJ forgot to tell this part of the story: June 2023 "Galyn Susman, the Pixar producer who saved Toy Story 2, and Lightyear director Angus MacLane were among the 75 employees laid off by Pixar in late May, reports Reut
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by andrehacker 3mo ago
Very nice. I checked and, yes, my favorite is on there: “The Santa Rosa Air Center was used to film Bruce Willis' 'Die Hard 2' in 1990 according to an article in the July 22 [2009] issue of the San Jose Mercury News. The airp
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by andrehacker 3mo ago
Isn't that how it is supposed to work ? Stroke of genius (over and over again) to get something working given constraints of the day followed by hundreds of engineers who will improve on the foundations, basically like Wozniak ?
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by andrehacker 3mo ago
No vacuum tube questions. Fantastic deep dive as always, thanks for doing such stellar work! On that note, any chance we might get a teardown/history of Cray architectures in the future? Specifically the Cray-1 and 2? To throw a more s
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Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
739 points by andrehacker 3mo ago|1124 comments
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by andrehacker 5mo ago
Oh, and (more often) they move pieces out of the way before the real move. First time you see that it looks like an illegal move but it’s all good because it gets moved back :)
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by andrehacker 5mo ago
One of the tricks I observed is that they move pieces half-way a square.
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by andrehacker 5mo ago
Ah—my favorite is in there: https://tluif.home.xs4all.nl/chescom/EngExcPhanF.html It’s a “robotic” board that moves the pieces by itself. You can sometimes find “untested” (i.e., broken) ones on eBay for a reasonable p
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by andrehacker 5mo ago
Am I the only one that misread the title and expected to see something about the reclusive Bellard ?
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by andrehacker 5mo ago
Obligatory ? https://xkcd.com/3227/
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by andrehacker 6mo ago
Word is that NetApp and Juniper are using FreeBSD. What these have in common is that they rely heavily on FreeBSD's I/O performannce and capabilities which is said to be head and shoulders above Linux.
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by andrehacker 9mo ago
That is my impression too. From my experience, the fact that I used it early on makes me use it in the "wrong" way as the fundamental concepts have changed a few times. This is how it works for me: https://media1.tenor.
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by andrehacker 9mo ago
Hm, the fact that he was mentioned or referenced does not prove that his role was downplayed, a quick search of the interwebs shows: - 2018 Oscars: Despite his massive influence on Coco, none of the filmmakers mentioned him by name in their
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by andrehacker 9mo ago
After the MeToo allegations, his contributions have been removed—or at least significantly downplayed—in Disney and Pixar’s accounts of Pixar’s origins.
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by andrehacker 9mo ago
>> The desktop outlook (the real one, not the 'new' one which is just the web version) is much better of course as it searches locally but it's only on windows. I am very confused by the MicroSoft product branding, but
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by andrehacker 9mo ago
Was not aware of this console and especially not of the processor a contemporary of the Atari 2600 which apparently was primarily successful in Europe. Programming for this must have been a joy as it had 37 BYTES of memory (the Atari had a

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