cowthulhu

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by cowthulhu 8d ago
I’m sorry your getting so much hate, this is a really cool and unique project.
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by cowthulhu 10d ago
Based on the profile description of the author, the comment appears to be AI generated. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by cowthulhu 14d ago
I was surprised at the high voltage required… but resistance loss scales with the square of amperage, so it makes sense that for long distance power transmission, you have to keep amperage low and voltage high.
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by cowthulhu 14d ago
The third one especially is both (really) cool looking and legible!
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by cowthulhu 17d ago
I would be really interested to know the cost per card, both at the single card volume as well as the 30 the author ended up getting.
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by cowthulhu 19d ago
There is something uniquely sad and frustrating in how the victims of this story - the plant workers - were so resistant to the idea of the contamination being dangerous.
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by cowthulhu 19d ago
Does the uniformity indicate that the files are space-inefficient, and would benefit from compression?
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by cowthulhu 1mo ago
This really shows why most languages evaluate all NULL comparisons to FALSE. For something as critical as Actions, it’s crazy to me that they wouldn’t fail-closed, and instead fail open when encountering a null. Scary stuff!
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
I believe it does if you scroll down. Even tells you which way to look to minimize it!
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
This is the first time I’ve heard someone criticize the “selling cosmetics” business model. I assume you feel the same about R6, TF2 and CSGO, naturally. Since selling skins is unacceptable, how would you have them make money given the game
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
If I’m understanding correctly, it was already quasi-legal through a loophole, but formally legalizing it made the loophole much trickier to use? That does sound frustrating. I hope they simplify the legal rails… having to wait around in pa
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
That’s a really clever idea, I would definitely pay for that in the right circumstances. Now that I think about it - could you just pour some sort of biodegradable broad-spectrum herbicide down the drain to get the same effect for cheaper?
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
This article reminds me of Chesterton Fence - the author is complaining about something, without ever experiencing why it exists.
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
That’s a fair point, but I think the issue is that the other players don’t want to play with you unless you’re running the anti cheat. Some games do have servers with anti cheat disabled, but a few minutes of playing on one of those server
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by cowthulhu 3mo ago
Comments like these seem likely to discourage authors from making more interesting posts about niche topics they specialize in, without actually moving the needle on stuff the commenter is pestering about.
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by cowthulhu 3mo ago
IMO, needing to clear out an entire table is an indicator that something has gone wrong with your design. Don't get me wrong, I've definitely done it before, but it's in the same bucket as VACUUM for me... high impact interve
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by cowthulhu 3mo ago
#3 is insane, if for no other reason than the VC is signaling that he’s likely going to try and do the same thing to you some day… even if you were totally willing to screw over your team, why would you ever get involved with that VC given
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by cowthulhu 4mo ago
That actually doesn’t seem that toxic. Doesn’t seem like a carcinogen either. Obviously still bad, but at least we’re not talking about something on the tier of phenol or benzene here!
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by cowthulhu 4mo ago
Unfortunately I suspect this idea is somewhat dead-on-arrival… anti-renewable people will fight it for obvious reasons, while environmentalists will fight it due to concerns over shading the waterways.
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by cowthulhu 4mo ago
Once you’ve got root, you don’t need to exploit compromised code to do whatever you want.
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by cowthulhu 4mo ago
This was a lot lower-tech than I was expecting. Very cool!
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by cowthulhu 5mo ago
Wow, that’s ~13 mph, basically a full-on sprint for a mere mortal. Absolutely insane.
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by cowthulhu 6mo ago
I quite liked this article. That said, I think it misses the two big advantages of denormalized (one big table) data - It’s much easier for people to use, especially non-technical stakeholders who tend to just not understand joins. It does
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by cowthulhu 6mo ago
The author really lucked out that the government employee was not actually malicious. I can think of a good few ways she could have made life much more difficult for the author, even if he was likely to ultimately succeed.
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by cowthulhu 6mo ago
Lumen, Nanite, Substrate, Metahumans, and Chaos Physics all come to mind as major innovations driven by Epic. Nanite specifically has pretty much no alternatives. Additionally, the developer UX on UE5 gets better from release to release - f
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by cowthulhu 6mo ago
The author is trying very hard to look like they are not trying at all.
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by cowthulhu 6mo ago
One comment I found interesting basically argued that if the billionaires are so scared of over the top wealth taxes, they should be pushing/lobbying for more reasonable wealth taxes as a blocking play, otherwise they can’t really comp
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by cowthulhu 6mo ago
I don’t think that’s a fair take - his argument is primarily that the ballot measure is fundamentally flawed, and likely put forward in bad faith by a group who’s CEO literally admits to using bad faith/destructive ballot measures to f
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by cowthulhu 7mo ago
Matt Levine has a fairly reasonable take on this: '[…] if you go to Jump Trading and Jane Street and say “hello, I have an unregulated poorly designed mechanism that could lead to $50 billion of market value collapsing overnight, would
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by cowthulhu 7mo ago
Prediction markets should be accurate, not fair. If people want to gamble without doing the work of finding some alpha, they should head to a casino, not a prediction market.

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