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Zhyl

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About Zhyl

UK based Tech Consultant.

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    Comment #48719729

    The XKCD for this exact scenario is 14 years old. https://xkcd.com/1150/

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    Comment #47613528

    Things can skyrocket whilst being relatively small compared to other things.

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    Comment #47613518

    It's been an exponential curve since 2022. https://gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker

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    Comment #47613494

    Ah yes, forgot this was HN. "OS disruptor 5Xs in 3 years thanks to innovative new multi-platform solution, securing unprecedented market share."

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    Comment #47613354

    There's a good tracker here: https://areweanticheatyet.com

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    Comment #47613309

    Yes, this is the key. You can account for anomalies such as Lunar New year, do rolling averages and other statistical modelling to show trends. Saying that one source of data shoul…

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    Comment #47587696

    It's more like a recipe (for functions). The first example, I, is an identity function. It takes y and returns y. The second, K, is a constant which takes X and y and returns x. Th…

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    Comment #47587609

    To complement leethomps answer, combinatory logic is a branch of Mathematics that was started in the 1920s by a mathematician called Moses Shönfinkel which deals with "functions th…

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    Comment #46987667

    Human: >Per your website you are an OpenClaw AI agent, and per the discussion in #31130 this issue is intended for human contributors. Closing Bot: >I've written a detailed respons…

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    Comment #46949006

    Jitsi does that well

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    Comment #46555371

    It's an open source core design [0], so pretty open. [0] https://github.com/Wren6991/Hazard3

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    Comment #46460619

    A pretty bold statement for the largest entertainment medium in the world.

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    Comment #46220866

    This. SiFive, for example, is a proprietory core design based on the open source RISC V spec. Hazard3 [0] on the other hand, is an open source core design. [0] https://github.com/W…

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    Comment #46220842

    It may be a while off yet, but it's pretty clear that companies, Qualcomm chief among them, are ready to replace arm as soon as possible.

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    Comment #46106609

    Do you have examples of where something isn't accurate? If something hasn't changed it doesn't need to be updated. As far as I'm aware the things that change are updated quickly, h…

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    Comment #45978829

    I love Bret Victor and believe he has some very important things to say about design (UI design, language design and general design) but a lot of his concepts don't scale or abstra…

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    Comment #45915040

    They tried it without a flagship and without a large library of compatible games. They now have a flagship first party Steam Machine and Proton to run games. They are also working …

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    Comment #45864510

    The most recent episode of the BBC Satire Radio show "The Naked Week" reached out to hundreds of name-alikes to get them to comment on a recent UK news story. They ended up intervi…

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    Comment #45720984

    Where would this sit between Over the Wire [0] and Hacknet [1]? I would try it but I don't own anything apple. [0] https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ [1] https://hacknet-os.c…

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    Comment #45715010

    Thoughts on Animations: * Reveal.js style declaration for "keyframe 1", declaration for "keyframe 2" and then automatic animation/transition between the two. Animation "themes" of …

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    Comment #43051434

    The number of times I've seen people waiting for SteamOS makes me kind of excited that there's so much demand for an alternative to Windows, nervous that a SteamOS general release …

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    Comment #41873089

    Why is it called Sava OS when it isn't an operating system. Shouldn't it be Sava DE or something?

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    Comment #41802646

    Specifically, these ones: https://areweanticheatyet.com

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    Comment #41608925

    Can you link?

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    Comment #41568098

    But here's the thing, it's not that the statement isn't formalisable, it's the method that you used to formalise it isn't formalisable.