gwbas1c

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by gwbas1c 4d ago
Self-driving cars don't "feel"
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by gwbas1c 6d ago
A Japanese bath sounds a lot more like what Americans call a hot tub. BTW, Japanese bathing is somewhat visible in My Neighbor Totoro, a really cute movie.
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by gwbas1c 6d ago
It's Wikipedia, I'm sure you can add it to the wiki in about as much time as it took you to write that post.
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by gwbas1c 6d ago
Seems like we need some copyright reform WRT issues like this. We need a true way to have digital ownership; including putting assets in escrow and a way for access to continue after the store is shut down or the item removed from the store
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by gwbas1c 6d ago
I don't understand movement: "W" makes me appear to move backwards, "S" makes me appear to move forwards. When I use space to stop, I move back to where I started. Is this a bug or am I just really confused?
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by gwbas1c 6d ago
No, because as soon as it starts to go this way I just do it by hand or revert. Specifically, I would never tell AI to revert. I just revert it in git and start a new thread.
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by gwbas1c 6d ago
I don't think it's more or less common, pretty much any code base I inherited prior to AI had serious problems.
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by gwbas1c 7d ago
Looks like we're over the biggest engineering hurdles. I used to tell people we'd see self-driving cars take off in the 2030s, (with them generally starting to appear mid 2020s) and now this looks like the case.
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by gwbas1c 7d ago
FYI: There are now lossless Bluetooth codecs if you care to find them.
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by gwbas1c 7d ago
The problem is that bitcoin (and similar) are so computationally intense to run, that the transaction cost is much higher than Visa's. Furthermore, a currency needs a government (or similar kind of body) to manage its stability, by pri
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by gwbas1c 7d ago
Then, IMO, the joke is lost: This feels like working with various forms of difficult, immature, indecisive, engineers; and possibly with very disorganized codebases where small changes require major refactoring.
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by gwbas1c 7d ago
I thought the article was going to be about making some wire from scratch and milling a light bulb socket!
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by gwbas1c 7d ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Are paywalls ok? > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help
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by gwbas1c 7d ago
I don't get who this is making fun of: - The people who won't make any effort to learn the tools, and something as simple as reverting code (via git) needs to be done by AI? - The awful programmers who we've had to endure wor
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by gwbas1c 7d ago
People form religions, the power gets abused, they form new ones, the power gets abused, rinse, lather, repeat. I consider myself lucky to live in a time and place where I'm not forced to participate or financially support a religion.
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by gwbas1c 8d ago
> multichannel sound through the 1-bit speaker—basically, playing chords. Ahem, that's polyphonic sound, not multichannel sound. Multichannel sound is playback through multiple speakers.
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by gwbas1c 8d ago
Religion is very closely tied to social support structures: You can only "make one up" if the people who you are close with go along with you.
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by gwbas1c 8d ago
I didn't find the joke funny at all. I've only driven through a few times, and everyone I know from the state has fond memories.
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by gwbas1c 11d ago
The Spartan keeps smelling worse and worse as the article goes on: First, it points out that the ads came out before the thing was even built: I know there's good reasons for companies to gauge interest before investing in a product; o
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by gwbas1c 13d ago
FYI: This isn't a browser-only thing. All platforms (Windows, Mac, ios, android) typically have a single-threaded UI.
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by gwbas1c 14d ago
Pedantic response: In C#, I find "binary serialization" much easier to program with than JSON. Then again, the resulting blobs require specialized tooling to read, and they're very hard to work with in other programming langu
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by gwbas1c 14d ago
You're missing the point: Why are your config files so complicated that you need SQLite? I've shipped a product that used SQLite, and we actively removed configuration from SQLite. It was a lot easier to diagnose issues when confi
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by gwbas1c 14d ago
I don't agree with "readable," though. For a simple set of key-values, yes. Once you get into complicated structures, other file formats express the semantics much better.
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by gwbas1c 14d ago
It's not about the money, it's about time. Requiring an app to do things often is more time consuming (and unpleasant) than doing it without the app. Other times, the app is so poorly written that it's not worth using. Once t
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by gwbas1c 14d ago
A week ago, a medical office that I had an appointment at kept pestering me to fill out their intake form online. (Multiple, multiple texts.) I got there the next day, and when they asked me to do the form, I rolled my eyes and said, "
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by gwbas1c 14d ago
> Just in my toilet, I’m supposed to have an app for the seat, an app for the flush and one for the ventilation. Is this a joke? Are there really toilets that require a smartphone to flush?
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by gwbas1c 14d ago
> Why do so many tools have JSON config files‽ 1: Because JSON is a very easy serialization format to work with. I suspect these tools all have configuration classes / objects that are deserialized straight from the config file. 2:
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by gwbas1c 14d ago
It's not an article. It's the video with the transcript below.
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by gwbas1c 14d ago
I think it's cool that there's still unconfirmed hypothesizes, and still unexplained phenomena in the science that's investigating these hypothesizes. I hope this turns into a real discovery about something; but even if it&#x
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by gwbas1c 14d ago
Sadly, the way people vote is more complicated than you might believe. Trump is the symptom of malfunctioning system that doesn't give people good options in the ballot box.

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