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by dewitt 3mo ago
> Nobody really knows or cares about Mr Jumper There's no place in polite company for comments like this, and you could be trolling. But since you also simply might not know: John Jumper won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024 fo
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by dewitt 9mo ago
The art style under "A Sillier Solution" [1] reminds me very much of the cover of Dragon Magazine #100, August 1985 [2]. [1] https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/media/a-silly-diffuse-shadin... [2] https:&#x
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by dewitt 1y ago
> This means OAI won't need ads. Just rev share If OpenAI thinks there’s sweet, sweet revenue in email and calendar apps, just waiting to be shared, their investors are in for a big surprise.
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by dewitt 1y ago
> robotaxis are just electric bikes and scooters of 2025 Ubiquitous, and life changing for the millions of people who use them daily?
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by dewitt 1y ago
The microwave oven is a strange choice of metaphor here, considering that even now microwaves sell 100's of millions of units every year, are nearly ubiquitous in households in the western world, are present in nearly every commercial
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by dewitt 1y ago
> Can use rust, go, or whatever compiled language you want and it'll probably be much more performant starting up than any interpreted language. One additional bit of context is the person you’re replying to, simonw, is also the cre
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by dewitt 2y ago
> "There's no reason for this to be a NYT link." I respectfully disagree. The NYT paid the author, Gina Kolata, to research and write the story, which contains more details than just the press release alone, then used thei
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by dewitt 2y ago
One interesting bit of context is that the author of this post is a legit world-class software engineer already (though probably too modest to admit it). Former staff engineer at Google and co-founder / CTO of Tailscale. He doesn'
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by dewitt 2y ago
> “Amazon might be a good analogy here. I'm old enough to remember when Amazon absorbed billions of VC money, making losses year over year. Every day there was some new article about how insane it was.” Not to take away from the r
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by dewitt 2y ago
It may please and amuse you that this fellow child of the 70's, growing up across the pond in Boston, could have written that exact same comment, nearly word for word. The impact of Doctor Who was truly global, and for many of us Ameri
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by dewitt 3y ago
From the announcement: "We're excited to share with you a new library called Keras Core, a preview version of the future of Keras. In Fall 2023, this library will become Keras 3.0. Keras Core is a full rewrite of the Keras codeba
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Keras Core: Keras for TensorFlow, Jax, and PyTorch(keras.io)
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by dewitt 5y ago
> "$25,000 was not enough money to retire on for sure, even in 1996." $25,000 in 1996 is $42,000 in 2021. Seems like a modest incentive for top tech talent, even back then. * To respond to the comment below, the author had been
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by dewitt 5y ago
I’m the co-author and maintainer of the OpenSearch syndication protocol and I posted in support of reusing the name here: https://groups.google.com/g/opensearch/c/gi-iVJZgfdA
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by dewitt 6y ago
"Road directionality" being only 98.9% accurate seems to be a huge problem for a navigation app!
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by dewitt 6y ago
Not Vonnegut to my knowledge, but Pynchon in _V_.
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by dewitt 6y ago
Yay! Welcome back!
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by dewitt 6y ago
Public libraries have been a thing since the 1800's, which are equally amazing in terms of bringing tremendous impact to millions of people who wouldn't have otherwise had that benefit. The key different of course is that mid-80&#
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by dewitt 6y ago
14-bedroom, 11,000 sq. ft castle on 94 acres. Not too bad. By way of comparison, this is what $3.3M buys you in SF: https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/2070-Beach-St-94123/...
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by dewitt 6y ago
Neat project, unexpected title. I thought the PDP-11 (and the PDP line in general) was designed as an explicit alternative to "Big Iron", i.e. a minicomputer. http://www.wolfgang-houben.de/faqpdp11.htm
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by dewitt 6y ago
For those that find this interesting, I highly recommend Tailscale ( https://tailscale.com ).
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by dewitt 6y ago
Thanks! Mostly I just hated to think that a developer might fall into protracted customer support discussion asking for their account to be refunded, if the $25 turns out to be a hardship. I wouldn't expect this to impact many people,
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by dewitt 6y ago
Sure thing. Same address. And if it turns out that there's a pattern of a _lot_ of developers who all recently signed up for first-time Google Play Developer accounts just to monetize Chrome apps, I'd be maybe a little surprised,
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by dewitt 6y ago
I have no connection to any of the teams involved, but if you have problems getting this resolved, please send me a mail (my HN name @google.com) and I'll make it right.
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by dewitt 6y ago
> If there were intelligent like out there advertising it's presence, are we likely to detect it given the sheer quantity of sources? Humans are pretty intelligent. Intelligent enough to ask that question, anyway. So flip it around.
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by dewitt 7y ago
This is problematic even for people who don't mind linking to an online Microsoft account (I'm one of them). There is a long-standing Windows bug where local user directory names are created using a truncated version of the online
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by dewitt 7y ago
The price seems high for something Square presumably needed to unload. Who else would have been bidding it up? And why are food delivery businesses still in a bubble? That's not a slam on businesses in a bubble phase, either. Many indu
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by dewitt 7y ago
> "What I Learned Co-Founding Dribble" As a benefit to readers who aren't already familiar with Dribble, or with the author, perhaps he could add a quick introductory sentence to the article saying both who "I" r
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by dewitt 7y ago
I'm not surprised. Amazon's entire MO is a relentless focus on the customer. They do that by methodically optimizing and controlling every aspect of the supply chain right up to the moment the product is handed off to the customer
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by dewitt 7y ago
Right. But the question the person above asked was "or do away with the warehouse altogether and have products ship directly from manufacturers." Isn't that drop shipping?

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