tylerchr

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Handsum: A lossy thumbnail image format(nigeltao.github.io)
3 points by tylerchr 2mo ago|0 comments
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Complete text of carbonised Herculaneum scroll unlocked for first time(reuters.com)
16 points by tylerchr 3mo ago|0 comments
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Zed's Agent Stats(zed.dev)
3 points by tylerchr 5mo ago|0 comments
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ODF is the future, OOXML is the past(blog.documentfoundation.org)
35 points by tylerchr 6mo ago|13 comments
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by tylerchr 7mo ago
Yes, or at least that’s the reason Jobs gave in the original Jan 2007 keynote: > We’re going to be shipping these in June. We’re announcing it today because with products like this we’ve got to go ahead and get FCC approval which takes a
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A Confidence Calibration Exercise(confidence.success-equation.com)
1 points by tylerchr 8mo ago|0 comments
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Move Fast, but Don't Break Things(blog.holub.com)
4 points by tylerchr 9mo ago|0 comments
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by tylerchr 1y ago
Yeah, exactly. It seems like you understand just fine. You claimed that “literally no one” has a different review workflow than yours. I do, and my experience is that clear commits make reviews both faster and deeper, which is very helpful
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by tylerchr 1y ago
You might be surprised. Yours sounds like the attitude of someone who has not had the luxury of reviewing well-constructed commits. PRs with intentional commits permit both faster and deeper reviews—but alas, not everyone is so respectful o
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Producing Uncompressed PNG Files(nigeltao.github.io)
6 points by tylerchr 1y ago|0 comments
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by tylerchr 1y ago
My wife took one look at this and said “It’s not Wordle if it’s all binary—it’s Digitle.”
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by tylerchr 2y ago
I grew up about 3 minutes away from a big hardware store, doing projects all the time. This contributed to a very wrongheaded idea about how long projects take. When I moved into my current house it was suddenly a 40 minute trip. For the fi
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by tylerchr 2y ago
You’ve just introduced me to a good poem. Thanks!
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by tylerchr 2y ago
Super impressive. Can’t agree more with the author that GPS is a stunningly clever engineering achievement. For those interested in the story of the development of GPS, I found “GPS Declassified” by Richard Easton to be an engaging retellin
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by tylerchr 3y ago
I wrote a thing for this back when you could download the whole hash database as a single torrent, but I haven’t checked it since they moved over to the PwnedPasswordsDownloader system. This doesn’t use any probabilistic data structures tho
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by tylerchr 3y ago
I don’t know that much about materials science. Why is a “titanium hemisphere bonded to a carbon fiber cylinder” “such a fundamentally compromised design” in this application? I imagine maybe carbon fiber would be better in tension (e.g. ai
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by tylerchr 3y ago
Why would shipping a good GPU be a prerequisite to shipping a quantum processor?
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by tylerchr 3y ago
Always neat to discover that multiple high-quality tools you discovered separately are all written by the same person. I use both bat and hyperfine regularly and had no idea. Now, knowing to look up the author, I've learned about insec
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by tylerchr 3y ago
pv is invaluable but my issue with it is it’s only useful if you think to include it before you run the command. Usually the thought doesn’t occur to me until I have some runaway cp or dd and I want to be reassured that it’s going to be don
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by tylerchr 3y ago
Heh, that gives “2.49 US dollars,” before the expected 907.18 grams.
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by tylerchr 4y ago
Have you read a lot of biology papers? Are they all about operating microscopes?
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by tylerchr 4y ago
Really? I think it’s in there: > Amazon seems invincible. … If [Toys R Us] couldn’t compete with Amazon, how could B&N hope to do any better? > Daunt started giving more power to the stores,” for example by > ask[ing] employees
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by tylerchr 4y ago
I think your comment actually highlights the key insight. For a long time, the fact that the bookstore was the _only_ place to “get books” occluded the fact that it was the _best_ place to explore and appreciate books. Amazon stripped away
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Get in zoomer, we're saving React(acko.net)
286 points by tylerchr 4y ago|245 comments
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Forget Disruption. Tech Needs to Fetishize Stability(wired.com)
3 points by tylerchr 4y ago|1 comments
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by tylerchr 4y ago
If his way of "trying to feel better about it" was to critically analyze and summarize 30 (or maybe 100) years of published research on the subject, then he's a hero in my mind. I'd choose to take that over your 100 buck
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by tylerchr 4y ago
Of the news sources I frequent, HN is the only one where I bother with the comments. In fact, I often find myself reading the discussion here _before_ the article. It’s not perfect (we are people, in the end) but this community is refreshin
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by tylerchr 4y ago
The terrain renderer is really impressive. Have you written anything that goes into detail on how you created it? I would find that fascinating. Also, do you mean that you are _automatically_ rectifying photos against your 3D terrain model
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by tylerchr 4y ago
Thanks, this was interesting. I exploited this glitch with wild abandon as a kid. Fun to know how it worked.
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by tylerchr 4y ago
I'm not so sure. Emissions don't harm everyone instantly; they affect people disproportionately and only impact everyone over time as the effects accumulate. Sure, maybe bad performance only affects the customer initially, but can

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