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by jtuple 2mo ago
> Now you can do something with your time besides writing pointless one-off doo-dads Writing software one-offs to scratch an itch was historically one of my most enjoyable past-times. AI trivializing that has been a very real theft of jo
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by jtuple 8mo ago
> A series of 13 cameras, six radar sensors, and four lidar sensors dot the Ojai's exterior, and are fitted with onboard heaters to reduce ice buildup and small wipers and fluid to clear away dirt. These features will be critical as
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by jtuple 10mo ago
I believe the GP was referring to most quality rips originating from physical media (ie. 4K UHDs). In a world without physical media, the best piracy can deliver is no better than the best encoding streamers have available (and that assumes
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by jtuple 10mo ago
If it weren't for the S-Pen, I'd ditch Samsung in a heartbeat. The day iPhone has a built-in EMR/AES stylus is the day I become a customer (despite being an Android lifer). Don't think that will ever happen though, despi
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by jtuple 10mo ago
> The US won't allow south korea to enrich uranium on their own. Want to try again? 190 nations have signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. This includes China, so the very US vs China premise here is misplaced. [The US, UK, France, R
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by jtuple 11mo ago
I've done a few all-nighters in my 30s and 40s, and they generally feel the same as my 20s. Still get that clear headed, high focus second wind around 4am that carries through until noon or so. But, I definitely crash harder than I did
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by jtuple 1y ago
> I am in my 30s Now I'm kinda curious what age cohort is most likely to be Reddit memers Do you think 30s is peak Reddit, yet you manged to be a lucky outlier? Or that peak Reddit skews older/younger and you're of a lucky
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by jtuple 1y ago
The Internet itself is the loophole in this analogy. Minors shouldn't have unfettered + unsupervised access to the Internet, that's the solution. The open Internet isn't a kid friendly place, isn't meant to be, and won&#
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by jtuple 1y ago
Perhaps times have changed, but when I was in grad school circa 2010 smartphones and tablets weren't yet ubiquitous but laptops were. It was super common to sit in a cafe/library with a laptop and a stack of printed papers to comb
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by jtuple 1y ago
TBH, its not even middle/high-school era Internet I miss most either. While I have fond mid-90s memories, I think peak Internet is somewhere in 2008-2012 range. The Internet was mostly additive up to that point. New tech, sites, servic
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by jtuple 1y ago
> Do I just miss the freedom of childhood? I loathed my childhood, and have far more freedom as an adult then I ever did then. School, homework, chores, strict bedtime, dial-up Internet, shared desktop computers... Yes, I spent a ton of
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by jtuple 1y ago
This isn't really random behavior from some mentally unwell person. There's an entire Reddit community for element collectors: https://www.reddit.com/r/elementcollection/ And various companies that sell
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by jtuple 1y ago
> I'm saying the market for what TRU provided had disappeared The market still exists, doesn't it? Kids still exist, kids still play with toys. People simply buy toys from Amazon now, not TRU. Just like people buy electronics f
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by jtuple 1y ago
Is "Measure of the Universe" the book you're thinking of? Alternatively, chapter 8 of "Realm of Numbers" touches on logarithms, and "That's about the size of it" chapter from Assimov on Numbers"
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by jtuple 2y ago
There's a hosted test instance with pre-existing test account: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs?tab=readme-ov-file#te... Logging in just works. Easy to try it out there. The official French hosted instance r
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by jtuple 2y ago
You should be able to emulate close to CRT beam scanout + phosphor decay given high enough refresh rates. Eg. given a 30 Hz (60i) retro signal, a 480 Hz display has 16 full screen refreshes for each input frame, while a 960 Hz display has 3
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by jtuple 2y ago
> Modern OLED displays are superior in every way and CRT aesthetics can be replicated in software, so a more practical route would be probably to build some "pass-through" device that adds shadow mask, color bleed, and what-hav
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by jtuple 2y ago
I know this is meant to be tounge-in-cheek and not serious, but still fun to mull over. IMO, main issue is the assumption that GDP/capita is independent of population size. I suspect most economies would hit a saturating point where mo
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by jtuple 2y ago
This really hits home and makes me happy to see on the HN front page. Nearly 10 years later and I still consider my time working on Riak at Basho the highlight of my career. After leaving, my original plan was to found "Basho 2.0"
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by jtuple 2y ago
TBH, we shipped fully working strong consistency in 2014. It just had a limited feature set, was disabled by default, and was never promoted/marketed since it didn't fit the direction the new CEO/CTO was pushing. The engineer
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by jtuple 2y ago
The "hacker" stereotype is certainly stale, but subbing "young person" (and implying not "old person") is equally silly. I'm 41 and have been awake before 7am maybe 20 times in the past 10 years. Half the
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by jtuple 3y ago
Build 600K houses a year? The fact they aren't is the supply problem. Outside of government policies and potential to tank housing prices, is there some reason you can't build 500K+ houses a year? Canada already seems to have an i
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by jtuple 3y ago
It's about not leaking sensitive information. If you have different messages for invalid username vs invalid password, you can exploit that to determine if a user has an account at a particular service. "Invalid credentials"
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by jtuple 3y ago
Fortnite generated $5.5B in 2023 alone and is estimated at over $20B in lifetime revenue
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by jtuple 3y ago
TBH, its only been 20 years that Nintendo has focused on cheap hardware. SNES was more powerful than Genesis, N64 arguably more powerful than PS1/Saturn but lacking CDs (and thus unable to rely on prerendered FMVs that defined that gen
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by jtuple 3y ago
Kiss was a well known target of the satanic panic back in the day. Folks tried to ban them saying their music was demonic and KISS stood for "Knights In Satan's Service". Now, their act is immortalized and will still be runni
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by jtuple 3y ago
Netflix has been around since 1997. At that time, directly streaming movies to consumers was techincally impossible anywhere in the world. As a non-American, how were you watching movies in 1997? And yeah TikTok/etc didn't exist t
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by jtuple 3y ago
I suppose GP is using clickbait in the looser sense that the title omits info (the professor's name) and thus invites a click; rather than the more common use of clickbait to label titles that are exaggerated, misleading, or "one-
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by jtuple 4y ago
It's a 10 minute limit on receiving, which needs manual intervention to reset. That pretty much kills Airdrop as an open P2P communication channel (the "undesired" usage) while still enabling one off intentional file transfer
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by jtuple 4y ago
The big difference between 2001 and now is that high compensation at top jobs enables greater savings. Most people in 2001 had to find work quickly to keep surviving. Mid-career high performers from Meta, Twitter, Netflix, etc have millions

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