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by coldcode 3y ago
I stood in front of The Starry Night at MOMO in New York City for a long time, trying to imagine what it felt like for him to stand in front of a blank canvas, thinking what should I do today, and come up with that.
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by coldcode 3y ago
This article explicitly mentions 3 apps running on Android. The headline creates the assumption it involves iOS as well, as well as other Android apps, but this does not appear in the article at all.
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by coldcode 3y ago
It's interesting tech but none of the musical pieces impressed me (I play multiple instruments and have written and arranged music), most sounded too repetitive and not very imaginative. This is also an issue with diffusion based art A
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by coldcode 3y ago
What would be fascinting is to combine City Skylines 2 (if it had some kind of API which it doesn't) with a model generator like this. CS2 already has all of the necessary graphic elements and positioning, just not the automated design
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by coldcode 3y ago
It's like old reddit vs new reddit, old is plain but easy to see a lot of content. New is pathetic. HN is much better to look at. Make a science HN just like HN and you have a winner.
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by coldcode 3y ago
Despite the hype about LLMs, many of the answers are pretty terrible. The 12-bar blues progressions seem mostly clueless. The question is will any of these ever get significantly better with time, or are they mostly going to stagnate?
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by coldcode 3y ago
More countries are now sub-2.0 replacement, China is down to 1.09 so the peak is unlikely to get much more than that.
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by coldcode 3y ago
200,000 Windows PCs in the US among the 600,000 total worldwide. Are there really that many Windows PCs still running vulnerable old OS versions, or were they zero-days in more modern OS versions? These articles never say much about the det
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by coldcode 3y ago
Any sufficiently stupid law is indistinguishable from madness. Politicians who want laws that actually make no sense don't care if they make sense, they want some end result regardless of whether it is possible. Like the infamous quote
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by coldcode 3y ago
I worked with Quinn at Apple during my brief stay in the mid-90s. He's amazingly knowledgeable about almost everything in the Apple world, which is why he is so valuable at answering questions.
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by coldcode 3y ago
It's like Expedia owning many of the familiar travel brands: in reality they are all serving up the same content, but with different marketing, yet many people think it's a different company. You might think a brand is different a
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by coldcode 3y ago
I learned C in 1984 when it still primitive, played with Forth because it was cool, but used Pascal at work. Add to that the APL I briefly played with in graduate school. In those days the choice of languages was almost small enough to try
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by coldcode 3y ago
I learned PostScript in 1988 by studying the Illustrator file format (which eventually became the basis of PDF). It seemed like something from the future given how unavailable high-resolution graphics were at the time. Without Pagemaker + P
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by coldcode 3y ago
The F-16 back when I started my career at General Dynamics was slated to use implementations of Mil Std 1750A, with the Z8002 as an interim processor for the fighter's next generation computers (F-16C/D in the early/mid 80s).
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by coldcode 3y ago
It's also the basis for Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone".
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by coldcode 3y ago
When I worked at an online travel agency building our iOS app, dates were a giant pain in the ass. What is today? What is tomorrow? I covered it at https://thecodist.com/what_time_is_tomorrow_tales_from_the_t...
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by coldcode 3y ago
I worked at a consulting firm (dot com era) with a sales person who told me his job was to lie to customers, and that my job (programmer) was to make him look good. At least he was truthful...
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by coldcode 3y ago
I had about 15 jobs over 40 years, not including 9 years at the two companies I started. But some were short term contracts, and several (in a row, sadly) ended in my employer going out of business, mass layoffs, etc. I always found doing s
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by coldcode 3y ago
One of my favorite old songs: Big Rock Candy Mountain ( https://genius.com/Harry-mcclintock-big-rock-candy-mountain-... ) covers it well. The last verse ends in: There ain't no short-handle shovels No axes, saws or picks
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by coldcode 3y ago
I worked for an OTA (currently a brand owned by Expedia, like most of them, but a real company back then) and we always had issues with airline bookings, as the airlines did not want to expose all of their offerings to us so they could make
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by coldcode 3y ago
It's missing everything necessary to make it for you and your interests; instead, you get what Zuck wants you to see. No hashtags (needed to build an audience if you want to post about things or find interesting people to follow), and
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by coldcode 3y ago
I wonder how the people who work there enjoy being called X-employees.
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Building an entire application is way beyond what any LLM can do today and probably for years, if ever. Writing a method is basically all they can do, and even that is often unreliable. Maybe some companies will try to replace junior engine
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by coldcode 3y ago
When I started at Apple in 1995, the DTS website ran on a Mac SE under someone's desk.
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by coldcode 3y ago
Most people still think Hotels.com, Vrbo, Travelocity, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Ebookers, CheapTickets, CarRentals.com, Wotif, and Trivago are separate companies, yet they are just Expedia brands and sell Expedia inventory. For the most part, a
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by coldcode 3y ago
At the risk of angering the HN crowd, there was about 65M years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXpRWHVIPE It's pretty funny.
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by coldcode 3y ago
There are links to the print-sized image at the bottom. https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01H44ARCYBXAE95TXH1KGCFZ35.tif https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01H44AVB69N1P8RAEJ12NW2RB2.png At 300 dpi, these would be aroun
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by coldcode 3y ago
My last employer required us to do project-long estimates based on whatever they asked for up front. However, they then felt like changing everything on a daily basis, making the estimate pointless.
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by coldcode 3y ago
This is the basis of all Medicare Advantage Plans, where the physician or their employer gets X$ a month per MAP patient and must pay for most of the cost of care. The insurance company gets to keep most of its share of what Medicare pays.
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by coldcode 3y ago
Mastodon seems like nice people, but it's not well designed. So far, it seems people are posting stuff in the void and creating little conversation because everything rolls past you unless you are looking continuously. Even notificatio

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