welfare

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by welfare 5mo ago
How was the person incorrect that speed increases won't continue forever? Pentium 4 was 3.8GHz and Ryzen 7 has 4.7Ghz some 20 odd years later?
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by welfare 6mo ago
Behind paywall, is there another link to the article?
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by welfare 11mo ago
As an engineering challenge, I love it. Other than that, I would've understood this notion better in the 90's when we were all on dialups. Maybe my perception is skewed growing up and seeing in real-time a picture loading on a web
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by welfare 1y ago
I disagree that literacy is all about reading fictional books and I wish we could broaden it a little bit more, even at school. This might be an odd take, but I never liked reading books and have read very few books in my whole life. I do l
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by welfare 1y ago
It's a generational thing as well as what sites you frequent. The term clanker is used very frequently on social media as well as different chat tools, especially as responses to obvious AI Agents and Bots.
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by welfare 1y ago
It's more of an oligopoly than a cartel to be honest. It's more like how the telco industry operates. High barriers to entry with generous subsidies and incentives for the existing few providers.
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by welfare 2y ago
What an amazing way of showcasing development, each with excerpts and notes highlighting expansion decisions. Are there other examples of this? Amazing!
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by welfare 2y ago
I think they meant join in the sense of yet another study performed on mice with promising results without any indication if it will work in humans. Come back after clinical trials. Breakthroughs in Alzheimer's seems like the medical e
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by welfare 2y ago
Local AI? Why stop there? They should expand it to blockchain, 3d printing, VR and quantum computing to make sure it really tickles the executives' imagination...
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by welfare 2y ago
They are all chords (C, F, G, Am). C/Am, F, G are adjacent in the circle of fifths so they will all play nice in a progression.
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by welfare 3y ago
That's hilarious. I'm imagining CRISPR as a tool to scramble your DNA every so often.
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by welfare 3y ago
Wow, this is great advice. I never thought about it this way. I put on my engineering hat and saw a "problem" to be solved and a "solution" being a finished game... And it's mutual, I want to spend time with him on
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by welfare 3y ago
Thank you. Will look into Roblox studio
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by welfare 3y ago
His vision is a “survival zombie game where you have to find and repair cars to escape the zombies” Yeah I know, that’s how I started as well. Got some old 8086 and zero instructions on how to use it. But he’s not curious in the same way I
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Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
387 points by welfare 3y ago|378 comments
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by welfare 3y ago
Completely agree, I'm waiting for the article on "Why you need a business-oriented co-founder and how technical founders can recruit one"...
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by welfare 3y ago
If you can clear a medical debt with 0.7 cents on the dollar, how is this system nothing more than a big scam?
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by welfare 3y ago
Looking at my shelf, I feel personally attacked.
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by welfare 3y ago
Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I see this more of an issue of User Experience / Service Design than anything else. Physical check-in means you provide your ID / Passport, and a boarding pass is printed by the check-in staff
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by welfare 3y ago
That's not a fair comparison, it would be more like if they run out of samples you can't demand more, or if you've already had 10 you might have to expect them to say no, or if you don't like the toppings, you can't
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by welfare 3y ago
Is it the French again?
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by welfare 3y ago
I know (some) French, still use ChatGPT or Google Translate a lot to get me started if I want to send a note to someone in French. I still do some hand-waving afterwards to ensure it's correct but that's about it. I'd argue t
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by welfare 3y ago
I’m sorry but networking for me is part of why I go to conferences. Being able to hit speakers and people up for conversations is what generates more value for me than the talks themselves. Virtual conferences are not comparable to a live o
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by welfare 3y ago
I'd like to add to this; I believe it's more based in the fear of the unknown. People are generally very resistant to change, good or bad, "better the devil you know" and so on. That's why some people stay in abusiv
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by welfare 3y ago
My assumption is that it's there's not really a business case to invest in Siri: * Bringing Siri up to speed with expectations AND keep it maintained and updated is probably orders of magnitude more expensive than whatever budget
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by welfare 3y ago
Can you please use an ADA compliant color palette generator, I don't want to have to squint or copy text to notepad to use a website...
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by welfare 3y ago
Is Reddit offline today?
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by welfare 3y ago
That's gotta be a Hacker News bingo if I've ever seen one.
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by welfare 3y ago
Correct, AI has always been a catch-all for many different algorithms and models for statistical analysis. One definition from the 50's is "the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without explicitly being prog
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by welfare 3y ago
I believe you have to be more specific what kind of AI you refer to. Machine Learning algorithms, which include some really straight-forward ones like decision trees, linear regression, support vector machines, etc. are pretty ubiquitous. I

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