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by pixelmonkey 11d ago
Related, one of my favorite quotes by the computer scientist Leslie Lamport is this one: "If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking."
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by pixelmonkey 5mo ago
This seems cool. For going from Markdown to slides I’ve often used Marp: https://marp.app/ — It doesn’t require much specialized syntax, it mostly does the right thing to turn plain Markdown sections into slides. Simple se
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by pixelmonkey 5mo ago
Huh. I don’t doubt you, but I guess this is a sign pervasive AI/LLM generative artwork is messing with my brain’s pattern matching at a deep level.
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by pixelmonkey 5mo ago
The BlueSky post has another interesting clue. The pencil sketch on the right. Seems possible a human artist drew the sketch, then had an AI model "colorize" it. And in so doing, maybe the AI model added the 3 genAI tells/art
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by pixelmonkey 5mo ago
It'll be interesting to learn whether it was AI-generated. It certainly SEEMS like it is. It has a few "tells": - two belts and two Clojure logo belt buckles - same code repeated on the steps (odd artistic choice if made by t
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by pixelmonkey 6mo ago
Nice find. Check out shykes commenting here on that thread! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5409678
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by pixelmonkey 6mo ago
Makes sense! Thanks for working on it -- truly a wonderful paper!
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by pixelmonkey 6mo ago
The math of “a decade” seemed wrong to me, since I remembered Docker debuting in 2013 at PyCon US Santa Clara. Then I found an HN comment I wrote a few years ago that confirmed this: “[...] I remember that day pretty clearly because in the
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by pixelmonkey 6mo ago
Hey, I am just reaching out to say: "thank you." When I was in high school, I played a lot of UO. It was actually the last computer/video game I ever played regularly, because I convinced myself as a teenager that I was addic
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AI and the Ship of Theseus(lucumr.pocoo.org)
184 points by pixelmonkey 7mo ago|193 comments
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by pixelmonkey 7mo ago
If you were utterly confused, like I was, how the iPad Air M4 compares to the iPad Pro M5 and the iPad Pro M4, this 3-column comparison table from Apple's website might help: https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare&#x2F
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by pixelmonkey 7mo ago
Someone named Ashley Blewer did such a deep dive on this show that she produced a full online course and syllabus centered around it. https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/ It allows people to form
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by pixelmonkey 7mo ago
Glad I could be helpful! They are great plugins.
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by pixelmonkey 7mo ago
I've used vim as a prose editor in addition to a code editor for a long time. For me, Goyo was the plugin that always matched what I wanted vim to become when I was in "prose writing mode." https://github.com/
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by pixelmonkey 7mo ago
“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.” -Donald Knuth
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by pixelmonkey 8mo ago
https://amontalenti.com - website/blog homepage https://amontalenti.com/feed - rss+atom feed https://amontalenti.com/archive - full archive of posts/essays https://amontalen
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by pixelmonkey 8mo ago
I'm working on startup #2 and we recently came out of stealth. PX is a daily developer tool that helps backend engineers go from working code on a laptop to deployed code in a freshly-built cloud cluster -- all within seconds. In Decem
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by pixelmonkey 8mo ago
Agreed. I wrote a post about the history and power of plain text in computing here: Simple and Universal: A History of Plain Text, and Why It Matters https://amontalenti.com/2016/06/11/simple-and-universal-a-h
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by pixelmonkey 9mo ago
As someone who thinks a lot about how best to use one's limited time; is child-free by choice; and, who is also interested in the societal value of good parenting... this article drew me in on a number of counts. The concept of time di
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by pixelmonkey 9mo ago
That's cool. I've wanted to track my movie watch history for awhile but just couldn't find the right software to do it. I really dislike Letterboxd. I also agree with your point that having a software engineering (programming
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by pixelmonkey 9mo ago
Wow, this is cool. I had COMPLETELY forgotten about Delicious Library. That is such a nice look-and-feel for this sort of app.
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by pixelmonkey 9mo ago
Digitizing my physical bookshelf was one of the first fun “vibe coding” projects I did with ChatGPT4o in 2024. First, I took photographs of all my physical books simply by photographing the bookshelves such that the book spines were visible
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by pixelmonkey 9mo ago
Cool to stumble upon this in the wild! Congrats again!
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by pixelmonkey 11mo ago
This reminded me of another discussion on HN a few months ago. Wherein I was reflecting on how the entire culture of internet standards has changed over time: "In the 80s and 90s (and before), it was mainly academics working in the pub
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by pixelmonkey 11mo ago
A cool thing about Doug Lea's java.util.concurrent (received a 10/10 rating here) is that its design also inspired Python's concurrent.futures package. This is explicitly acknowledged in PEP 3148[1] (under "Rationale&quo
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
I just did a small programming side project with a friend in Elixir and I was pretty impressed with the language, especially how it approaches functional programming, concurrency, parallelism, and “programming in the large” (e.g. networked
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
What are your primary use cases of the Daylight DC-1? I am curious as a reluctant iPad Pro M4 user who thought he'd use it for reading and annotating PDFs but finds himself sucked into streaming apps and YouTube instead a bit too often
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
I've always wanted to work on Magic Lantern myself (I am in the Discord) but just haven't found the time yet! Thanks again!
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
I just want to say "thank you." I run Magic Lantern on my Canon 5D Mark III (5d3) and it is such awesome software. I am a hobbyist nature photographer and it helped me capture some incredible moments. Though I have a Canon R7, the
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
C is taught as the introduction to programming in CS50x, Harvard's wildly popular MOOC for teaching programming to first-year college students and lifelong learners via the internet. Using the clang toolchain gives you much better err

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