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by wesnerm2 22d ago
> I exactly wrote that Microsoft devices were quite bad as they came too soon. And Apple came at the right moment, when low power chips were powerful enough, touchscreens were precise enough without a pen. And device had acceptable consu
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by wesnerm2 1y ago
Nakamura was sued for $100 million by Hans Niemann. https://www.chess.com/news/view/hans-niemann-lawsuit-dismiss...
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by wesnerm2 1y ago
Directly from the article: Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, along with the Distric
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by wesnerm2 1y ago
MathML is machine-friendly not human-friendly.
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by wesnerm2 1y ago
Upgrading to Windows 11 is possible from an unsupported Windows 10 machine by adjusting a registry setting and downloading an ISO from Microsoft.
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by wesnerm2 1y ago
Atkinson's HyperCard was released in 1987, before the widespread adoption of the web. HyperCard introduced concepts like interactive stacks of cards, scripting, and linking, which were later adopted and expanded upon in the web. Robert
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by wesnerm2 1y ago
I think that you are referring to this, which was posted in the past month. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739456 https://the-pocket.github.io/PocketFlow-Tutorial-Codebase-Kn...
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by wesnerm2 2y ago
> There is no performance benefit that immutable structures offer that cannot be had by mutable ones. It is asinine to assert otherwise, especially when literally every single measurement ever done demonstrates that immutable structures
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by wesnerm2 2y ago
Linked lists were heavily used in application software before the appearance of standard libraries and Java, which is when dynamically sizable array-based lists become common. There also wasn't a gap between the performance of linked l
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by wesnerm2 3y ago
Location: Philadelphia, PA and Bellevue, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: NYC, California Technologies: AWS, GCP, Azure. My usual stack is C#/.NET Core, but I also professionally developed with C/C++, Javascript, Pyt
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by wesnerm2 3y ago
If it is 23M pixels per lens, that is still more resolution than a smartphone's screen. Each lens is smaller than a smartphone's screen and the resolution is per eye. I wouldn't be surprised if this actually exceeds the eye&#
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by wesnerm2 3y ago
This post is not valid because most companies post jobs in Hackernews after several days. In addition, the is-hiring post opened on April 3, 2023--a little over 24 hours ago. As other people have noticed, April appeared to be the lowest mon
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by wesnerm2 4y ago
> If you were starting a startup for example, you wouldn’t need to hire any humans - you would just spin up enough AGI instances and they would design your product, write your code, deploy it, handle your financials, respond to any and a
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by wesnerm2 4y ago
> > or the “lazy caterer’s sequence” (1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 16, 22, 29,...), the maximum number of pie pieces that can be achieved by n cuts. > My brain just did not want to accept "7" as the fourth number in the series. The se
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by wesnerm2 4y ago
Former Excel 97-XP developer here. Excel 97 had English language formulas. It automatically detected names in tables; however, it was buggy. The feature was removed in a later version (2007?).
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by wesnerm2 4y ago
C# had value types and pointers from the very beginning. These are not a recent addition. The standard library does know about them. However, not until C# 2.0, which introduced generics, were collections able to avoid boxing value types. Th
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by wesnerm2 4y ago
Git IS heavily used outside of software engineering. Marketers and documentation writers use markdown and git for building websites and books. Data scientists use git for their notebooks. Operations use git for their deployment scripts. Git
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by wesnerm2 4y ago
Former Excel developer here. In Excel 97, the difference between the values needed to be less than 1e-16 times the magnitudes of the operands to be considered equal. It makes sense since such a small proportion is unlikely to occur by chan
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by wesnerm2 4y ago
Fact check: The cost of S3 standard storage per TB is approximately $23 not $153. S3 standard storage, the most expensive kind, is $.021-.023 per GB. S4 costs about the same as S3 Deep Archive storage. Update: The article appears to be a j
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by wesnerm2 5y ago
Your proposal will reward people who can find a new equivalent job in six months with a temporary 50% raise or fund people for three months to find another job.
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by wesnerm2 5y ago
The sounds were loud and lasted several seconds. These were removed because most computing devices are now mobile. The sounds are extremely annoying and disruptive to hear from a stranger's laptop every few minutes during a meeting, a
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by wesnerm2 5y ago
You should not make any assumptions about work in the US. There's many American software companies that are able to fulfill your requirements. In many tech companies, you have "unlimited" vacation. You can probably take more
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by wesnerm2 5y ago
There is also that background or concurrent GC option in .NET, if you have a lot of threads.
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by wesnerm2 5y ago
You shouldn't read too much from the benchmarks. The gRPC libraries are primarily developed by Google. Google pours most of its development resources on its core languages: Java, Javascript, Go, C++, and Python. Google then allocates a
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by wesnerm2 5y ago
Longhorn was a failed version of Windows after Windows XP and before Windows Vista. Longhorn was planned to be a dramatic follow-up version of Windows XP in which the Windows shell was rewritten on top of .NET with three main pillars: commu
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by wesnerm2 5y ago
I know of two instances: 1) Facebook had a "View as" bug that allowed anyone to view anyone else's private page as that person. 2) Cambridge Analytica in which Facebook shared private information with third-parties under an N
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by wesnerm2 6y ago
To be fair, we still don't know the loss of votes through mail-in voting. Mail-in voting is more convenient which would likely increase participation, but missing signatures, naked ballots, late or undelivered mail, etc can prevent tho
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by wesnerm2 6y ago
> Windows has/had a 255-char maximum length of the total path of a file The actual path of file in Windows can be practically unlimited, but either requires using special network notation that can exceed 256 characters or relative a
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by wesnerm2 6y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-s...
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by wesnerm2 6y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-recovery-damage-...

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