wondringaloud

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by wondringaloud 6y ago
You spell out your question like a human being, to treat the other human being with respect.
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
Be less concerned with internet points.
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
This might be the dumbest comment I've ever seen on HN, and that's saying something.
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
I suppose you thought that chess only got interesting when Deep Blue was put up against Gary Kasparov?
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
The article basically debunks itself with the correction at the end, but tries to hang on by claiming "Look! It has seeds!" However, I don't see one mention of "artistic license" as a plausible explanation of why it
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
Fantastic!
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
Who is reading content while scrolling? That's like buying a $10,000 stabilization unit to be able to read a book while jogging.
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
It was at this point I realized the entire premise of the article was a very long-winded way of saying "I like using high DPI monitors when I code". And then tossing in a bunch of technical details to make it sound like a "fa
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
Put another way: Hey <programmer>, I just bought a new laptop. Which IDE should I install on it first?
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
How is this #2 on HN with only 6 points, being 6 minutes old?
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
You've accepted your lapse, but you don't seem to accept any further responsibility to stop this from happening in the future. Instead, you're putting this responsibility on countless websites that YOU think are inappropriate
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
I think this is a perfect example of why people find math hard. Not because there's something inherently difficult, but because we have teachers like this one in charge of open and curious minds at a young age. You get a teacher who do
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
Why did they build the entire pinball machine themselves? The portion that "plays itself" is a camera attached to some very basic computer vision techniques that boil down to: When ball detected in flipper area, flip. You could at
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
I don't see how your anecdote differentiates between these two scenarios: 1. Human leaves, cat gets separation anxiety due to feeling less emotionally secure 2. Human leaves, cat gets separation anxiety because their primary source of
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
Because billionaires with large egos exist in the wild.
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
It is an unpowered flight, not a graceful fall.
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to be surprised that a teenager (at least, an American teenager) isn't aware of such a thing. They've managed to get through school without once being shown a photo of the space shuttle? N
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
Which piece of it is amazing?
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
This is fantastic. I've had a very similar idea kicking around in my head for a very long time. These days it seems impossible to make sense of all the predictions from so-called experts. Tracking the accuracy of the talking heads is a
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
She developed a prototype based on a hunch and a whim. Great work, no doubt, but engineering isn't based on intuition and some experience. Real engineering has a goal or specification in mind, and then proves through modeling, analysis
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
I'm glad someone else sees this the way I do. What the blog writer did was tinker with something. They didn't engineer it. I was a mechanical engineer prior to switching to software. As a general rule, the things we do in software
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
This is absolutely true. I've noticed most "unsuccessful" people go around with a view of "successful" people that they got lucky, never had to endure hardship, had something handed to them, and so on. It's a d
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by wondringaloud 6y ago
I've been asking myself that question more and more. It seems HN has been slowly becoming a Reddit-lite. There are significantly more low-quality "thanks! this is great!" comments and "witty" one-liners everywhere.