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I was hoping from the title that this would be about creating an audio representation so you could listen to the database work as if it were an old PC that had distinctive sounds f…

I do think it's important to raise issues like this, but I personally hope that it means people put more careful eyes on it and pitch in patches so the project succeeds rather than…

I found this series to be a great read on some of the history of Galileo and the status of scientific understanding at the time I believe part of it has made the rounds on hn befor…

An author at Ars Technica has been trying to push the term "confabulation" for this

You build 9 different services in-house, obviously.

From playing games that get that distance wrong, it doesn't give me a headache or anything, it just makes the whole world feel bigger or smaller than reality. Really frustrating in…

Plotting the average or top percentile latency of an API on the left axis and the number of calls to that API on the right is pretty much standard practice where I work. I would ar…

While this is an interesting project and work, I do want to call attention to the fact that this is a highly specialized AI that's trained and customized per-track that is being ra…

Maybe some personal enjoyment?

From that same post, though, referencing the C 11 standard > "All pointers to structure types shall have the same representation and alignment requirements as each other." And so t…

Users of cars pretty routinely replace seals that are under a lot more extreme enviroments and abuse than a phone without issue. All of the ones I've dealt with pretty much are "ju…

Sounds like the torpedoes were armed, but not yet fired. So the sub itself turning around in a circle triggered the self-destruct mechanism while the weapons were still in the tube…

If you scroll down to the bottom of the post, there is a references section with a link to it.

Yes, and obviously ARM didn't chose the instructions in its reduced set optimally, if the best implementations require those instructions to be split into smaller ones. But that do…

It is interesting to me how both instruction sets have converged on splitting operations into simpler micro ops. The author briefly mentions RISC-V as having "better" core instruct…

Looks like Leap is the new focus of their development: https://github.com/ggandor/leap.nvim/issues/3

Because the next move made by your opponent would trivially be to capture your king, ending the game.

I wrote a little solver for some programming puzzle. Thought I was being clever by using bitfields for an array of booleans to reduce memory usage and bandwidth, as they seemed a n…

The most "complicated" part about operator overloading (in my opinion) is dealing with precedence rules. Some languages, instead of dealing with this complexity, treat all operator…

I've never played Diplomacy, only read about it. But, I feel like you don't have to convince your opponents that you're human to win. The players could know that their opponent is …

> having one or two days per year which are part of no month is stupid > having one or two days per year with no day of the week is asinine These don't sound like real reasons to m…

It actually is though! The force due to air resistance is the primary thing slowing down the bike and rider, and the force, which doesn't change with mass, slows down a heavier bik…

Heavier things do gain kinetic energy faster when falling, it's easy enough to confuse "being hard to stop" with "moving fast." Intuitively, the heavier object has "more" of someth…