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by nick_m 8mo ago
I have a tangentially-related question. I've been using Novagraph Chartist since the Windows 3.1 days back when I was 17 (I'm now climbing 50!). It seems that the original company behind this has vanished, I've asked for supp
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by nick_m 1y ago
Hey Roblox Engineers on here - a brilliant article, by the way - and I want to chip in here, I'm a senior engineer and understand how tech works all the way down. NAND gates, flip-flops and I/O schedulers, and networks? No problem
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by nick_m 2y ago
Fabulous - many great SNES soundtracks, I'd recommend this one - in fact, the beach intro too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peuTnilEv9g
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by nick_m 2y ago
Wow - never heard that before, it's brilliant! Definitely one to run through this!
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by nick_m 2y ago
Symbian Developers - quick question, if anyone here remembers. I think I saw something in their API docs a long time ago, that had some sort of pointer compression thing for linked lists, which look interesting at the time. It wasn't X
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by nick_m 3y ago
Great article, and much of this resonates - but what template has been used here? It looks like it was created using LATEX.
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by nick_m 3y ago
Brilliant work - I "get" how this works, I've just spent about half-an-hour playing with this (Chrome browser on my kitchen ChromeBook), singing into it and letting it "listen" to the ambient background noise here (
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by nick_m 4y ago
I'm curious about trying something like this myself - does anyone know which GPT-3 model she used? On their site, it looks like I have a choice of Ada, Babbage, Curie or Davinci. I'm new to GPT-3 - assuming that she started with a
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by nick_m 5y ago
This is fabulous, thanks for posting… and it’s not just MIDI files either, lots of classic game music running under the appropriate sound emulation also. I suspect the reason why nobody has commented so far isn’t because they didn’t like it
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by nick_m 7y ago
Thansk for your suggestions. I've used SSRS in the past, and yes, it'll do what I want, but it's browser based and isn't a simple lightweight PC-based product.
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by nick_m 7y ago
Thanks for your comment - I tried PowerBI but it seems to want to use its own language; I've noticed it has a DirectQuery mode, but from what I've read, that disables a lot of functionality.
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Ask HN: Simple SQL Reporting Tools for Windows
3 points by nick_m 7y ago|4 comments
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by nick_m 8y ago
Thanks, being a long-time lurker, I've just signed up now to say that's great. What a video - I've been writing software for the past 31 years, and I love the simplicity among ingenuity of this. If you've not read it al