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dejongh

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    Comment #47694463

    Great hack!

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    Comment #47662994

    Fun and sad. Garbage collected languages like .NET, Java, and Go are slow compared DIY languages like C, Rust, and Swift. So, no wonder the Windows team dislike them. However, it s…

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    Comment #47253894

    Cool article. I wonder why they decided to start sentences with lower case? Free association!?

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    Comment #47236761

    What an amazing storyteller. I will watch many more of her videos. I hope she will make many more videos ♥

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    Comment #47077440

    For me the show was a trip down memory lane in more than one way. The tech is one. Doing startups with friends is another. Being a workaholic and having relationships is yet anothe…

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    Comment #47034438

    GPT auto gave me a long answer that included both walk and drive. Not good. GPT thinking told me to drive and that walking would make no sense. Perfect answer.

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    Comment #46682995

    Let's all install this and form a fail-safe (if you are in a populated area) and unregulated mesh. I would love to see how far into the Amazonas or Greenland it works.

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    Comment #45763997

    Freeium mostly sucks. Escape before they squeeze every drop of blood out of you. There is a cost to everything that is how the reality get's in.

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    Comment #45364024

    I don't know the bumble app, but it really annoys me that I cannot copy text in reddit and facebook (I am forced to use this app by my daughters hobby). If you dev a mobile app - m…

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    Comment #45107699

    This is a very interesting article. The concept "run an experiment in your head and predict the outcome" is a capability that AIs must have to attain some kind of general intellige…

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    Comment #44731572

    After reading the article I might dust off my DSLR, however the fact that I have my iPhone with me most of the time will never change - so more than 99% of my photos/videos will be…

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    Comment #43703300

    Cool. It would be great to extend with a confidence operator. Something like: Without default confidence: 0~9 With confidence: 0%100~9%95 We are sure it is 0 or more and we are %95…

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    Comment #43592395

    Thanks for posting and commenting. The choice of font is a great way to add aesthetics to text - designers so use this opportunity a lot more IMHO.

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    Comment #42637117

    Old software is not replaced because nobody fully understands it, and therefore it is a gigantic effort and risk to reverse engineer it.

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    Comment #42312818

    Having skia power in nodejs is a cool idea. Thanks!

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    How can I forward Facebook messenger messages to email?

    I am not very active on Facebook and Messenger, but once in a while I get a message on Messenger. How can I forward these messages to my email?

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    Comment #39339357

    crashed chrome :)

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    Comment #37595899

    On September 18th Atlassian announced a new license model for Jira automation that severely limits automation for all but enterprise customers starting November 1st. Many customers…

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    Can an AI evolve through Darwinian evolution?

    Can an AI evolve through Darwinian evolution? LLMs like ChatGPT can optimize code with some success. Today it is limited in what it can do and quite often the generated code is fla…

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    Comment #36914985

    I swing by Hacker News almost daily. Thanks for all the links and comments.

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    Comment #36046788

    We could train an AI to compile and run itself. Next step is then to train it to optimize its own code and training. Then we have almost evolution.

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    Comment #35278675

    Wow. Wild story. Thanks for sharing. Cool twist that a bug ended up identifying the bad guys.