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Making Music with a Commodore 1541 Floppy Drive(linusakesson.net)
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It seems like Postgres isn't really doing anything here in the benchmark besides acting as a host for XGBoost? It needs to load the model parameters from the database whereas the Python microservice is reading the model parameters from
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For personal use, I'd mostly agree, but without a common identity over those SaaS services the user experience isn't as ideal as it could be. As a simple example, consider how you would share a file between two different identity
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There is a really key quote towards the end of this piece that really captures the spirit of this post, and that's from Satya Nadella. I'm including it in its entirety because I think it does a really good job at summarizing what
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I've wondered how he does this too. He alludes to it "go back to the same place every day for weeks at a time". But he doesn't really go beyond this. I need to remember to ask for an article that goes into more detail ab
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This is an excellent piece which really does a good job at explaining the nuance that exists in this challenging problem domain. Thank you for writing this. It's a great piece to point to whenever the next scandal gets "exposed&qu
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Hey Chris - I wanted to drop a note here to thank you for what you've done for me personally. I found you first on Twitter I don't know how long ago and your posts there really brought home to me the point about how we were all ta
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People travel for different reasons, and that's OK. Chris' reasons are stated in his post: "This style of travel, of aiming to be a local, isn’t for everyone. I’m blessed with a lot of free time, and it’s best done in weeks,
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There is quite a healthy market for used iPhones if you're talking about the blue bubble phenomenon.
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They mentioned that they have higher resolution in the central part of the display, so perhaps this is a variable pixel density display?
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Thanks for the insider baseball on Wikipedia; I didn't know any of this. Will make sure I continue to support Internet Archive and take any money that I might have earmarked for Wikipedia and send it their way (along with employer matc
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Was wondering about the money thing and found this on ... Wikipedia :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation Seems like >$235MM in net assets excluding the $100MM in the Wikimedia endowment and growing
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I remember Philip! Wow. That's some story. Thanks for sharing it.
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Reid Hoffman Interviews Sam Altman(youtube.com)
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I wrote the spell checker for WordPro 64. I had to invent a data compression algorithm based on something that I read in an Encyclopedia Brown story to fit the 70k word dictionary onto that 170k floppy. I also wrote one of the original Fast
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I'd never heard of Word Writer before. I found the manual on archive.org [1]. I love how the algorithm for how the spell checker works is described by the manual! Also that's one fancy manual for the 1980s - they even have icons t
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This is an excellent video review by Peter McKinnon. I really like his studio shot comparison between his Canon mirrorless camera and the iPhone 14 Pro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh9wNWA6bSQ
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I had my first and only BillG review a few years ago. It was about a technology that I and everyone else _assumed_ that Bill had a lot of familiarity with. It is a technology that I'm sure is being used at his foundation. It is a techn
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If I'm not misreading what you wrote about the x13s, isn't it 2x the perf of the turbo-boost disabled i5-1240P in single core? That's a lot! EDIT: Also confirmed that WSL2 runs natively on Win11 ARM. So you can have an optimi
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It's a great thing that Guido has managed to do that one thing - the world would be poorer without it. It's also a great thing that Jerry has done dozens of things - the world would be poorer without them. I see those accomplishme
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Oh wow. I didn't know about the Turing Complete game on Steam[1] I just watched the trailer. Added to my list of questions. Thanks! [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/
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Thanks! This will be a core part of what we'll be talking about. I continue to be amazed by people who can explain complex topics simply and Charles is near the top of my list of people who can do this well. Feynmann and Dave Cutler (i
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Thanks! Dropping by would be harder to do, but a dream interview would be to put him in a room with Guido van Rossum to talk about Python and SICP. I now need to get over my irrational fear of cold calling someone I don't know already
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Absolutely. My goal in the podcast is to learn the stories about how (and why) people became the person they are today.
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That's cool! Do you mind sharing the course/school? It would be a nice thing to share with Charles to show the impact that his work has on the world (even though I'm pretty sure he knows - it's always nice to be reminded
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I preordered directly from the publisher a couple of months ago and it arrived this week. Looks like you still can order from them today: https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/code-the-hidden-la...
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Sadly, that's an area that he doesn't want to talk about. Not really sure why, but it makes me wonder what the story behind that stance is, and if I can get him to talk about it.
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Thanks for that example. I had no idea that SICP was now available for free on the web! Do you remember where you heard the story about convincing MIT Press and the outcome? I took a look but couldn't find it. That might come in handy
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I'm really interested about his work habits as well - added your questions to my list. Right now I'm procrastinating editing my podcast by reading HN :) Do you have any questions about The Annotated Turing? For me, I'm really
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This is a really interesting area to explore - thanks for suggesting it! I think that there are quite a few authors who have shown that there is a market for the book as well as for an open source "edition" of the book. My favorit

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