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by noahlt 22d ago
This is a great demonstration of why Wordle’s Hard Mode is actually easier.
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by noahlt 4mo ago
Is there a statement somewhere from Google saying the ToS was violated? I hadn't seen that and can't find one right now.
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by noahlt 5mo ago
Hacker News? More like MBA news. I'm not just being snarky — I don't think it's reasonable to say the profit-maximizing service-oriented Apple is the best possible version of itself without losing its values of personal compu
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by noahlt 9mo ago
Yesterday I was required to turn on IPv6 on my router, while setting up some IoT things using Matter over Thread. Apparently that protocol uses IPv6 and doesn't work if your router is only routing IPv4.
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by noahlt 9mo ago
> The thing that makes hashcards unique: it doesn’t use a database. […] Your performance and review history is stored in an SQLite database in the same directory as the cards. Man I was really looking forward to seeing how they stored re
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by noahlt 10mo ago
He’s referencing this classic blog post: https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program... Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32548085
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by noahlt 1y ago
Where I'm from there's no concept of using public space to store your personal belongings without paying for it.
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by noahlt 1y ago
Yes, this is why language hype has largely died down among all but the truly myopic.
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by noahlt 1y ago
You end up standing in line with a bunch of delivery drivers who all know the drill and are on the clock, and you quickly learn you cannot be polite if you want to get your food.
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by noahlt 1y ago
What ElevenLabs and OpenAI call “speech to speech” are completely different. ElevenLabs’ takes as input audio of speech and maps it to a new speech audio that sounds like a different speaker said it, but with the exact same intonation. Open
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by noahlt 2y ago
This entire deep dive is great. I feel compelled to call out this heroism: > 1st Lieutenant de Wispelaere had prepared the bridge for demolition ... De Wispelaere immediately pushed the electrical ignition, but there was no explosion...
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by noahlt 2y ago
array.length
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by noahlt 2y ago
They want to be able to write logic to operate on the DOM elements rather than on Jinja2/Twig/etc template tags.
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by noahlt 2y ago
The end of this road is React's Server Side Rendering and Next.js. This approach only really has one major benefit over string-based templating, namely, it lets you re-use code across server and client side DOM logic.
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by noahlt 2y ago
I love all these attempts because I read the introductions nodding my head in agreement—yes traditional notation is annoying, yes we can use software to make better notations, yes it should be intuitive—and then I get to their actual propos
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by noahlt 2y ago
I honestly cannot tell whether this blog is trolling, but the comments here suggest they are not. Am I the only one who is satisfied running `git blame` in my terminal, using `less` as the pager and searching by pressing `/`?
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by noahlt 2y ago
What part of the world is your neighborhood in?
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by noahlt 2y ago
Every time I see this story, I try counting the round vs square rectangles, and in practice they seem about even in my life. Door frames, picture frames, books, cabinets, and windows are all actually squared off. (And natural things aren’t
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by noahlt 2y ago
[Copy-pasting my review from Amazon] Did you know that Maxis (creators of SimCity) sold investors on a vision a world where "simulation" was a common use-case for computers, and Maxis was the company at the center of simulation so
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by noahlt 2y ago
I was disappointed the article didn't answer one question I've had for a while: Which game first used radial menus that mapped directly onto the analog stick / joycon? That is, the angle of the stick maps directly to the angl
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by noahlt 2y ago
[not OP] On Naxos, in the summer the DOMUS Festival has traditional (not ancient, but traditional) Greek music: https://www.facebook.com/p/DOMUS-Festival-100066336529833/ The performances are great, the venue (a c
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by noahlt 3y ago
Yeah, having worked on alternative notebooks before, one of the big implicit features of Jupyter notebooks is that long-running cells (downloading data, training models) don't get spuriously re-run. Having an excellent cache might redu
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by noahlt 3y ago
It's there, but warthog is right, it should be a toplevel section like "A reactive programming environment" — yes ideally people would read the description and understand the differences themselves, or consult the FAQ, but th
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by noahlt 3y ago
Not just headline bait, because the economics have changed: a Midjourney subscription is much cheaper than hiring an actor, costuming him as a monk, and photographing him on a rented motorcycle.
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by noahlt 3y ago
The "Ask vs Guess" name rhetorically frames it in favor of the Askers. Asking sounds reasonable, guessing does not! But really it's not about "Guessing", it's about understanding. It's about community, and
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by noahlt 3y ago
> many materials — including graphene, frogs and pliers — can exhibit similar magnetic behaviour. I'm sorry, FROGS!? I looked this up and it's very fun: https://www.ru.nl/hfml/research/levitation-expla
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by noahlt 3y ago
I wonder whether they would have been caught if they had actually quit, rather than simply stopped showing up.
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by noahlt 3y ago
Punishment is absolutely one purpose of prisons. Your unhinged comment will pass as normal to many people who don’t believe in retribution, and that’s why you all belong in Hell.
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by noahlt 4y ago
In 1997 or so, the LEGO website had a Java applet that let you explore a VRML world for their UFO theme, featuring a NASA space center with a UFO in a hangar and a Saturn-style rocket on the launchpad. As an adult I have never been able to
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by noahlt 5y ago
I’m working on exactly this right now. I’d love to chat and show you what I’m up to; if you’re interested, email me at noah@coterm.dev

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