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kaapipo

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    Had the pleasure of meeting him a little over a year ago. A super cool and down-to-earth dude. I hope him all the best.

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    Comment #46932677

    If we can treat the prompts as the versionable source code artefact, then sure. But as long as we need to fine-tune the output that's not a high level language. In the same way no …

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    Comment #46599813

    SSL seems brokenn

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    Comment #45371519

    I mean, stacked PRs are a thing for a reason

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    Comment #44949976

    Even though you can do it with pure oxygen, it won't be fun. This is because our breathing reflex activated from the rising carbon dioxide levels - meaning that for a significant p…

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    Comment #44576102

    So fun even NIST can't get right the difference between precise and accurate

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    Comment #43308834

    I'm not even sure why we are still stuck in this debate. Isn't there quite a big consensus that the best way to handle errors is to have everything return an `Either ` and having f…

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    Comment #42948130

    Nah, I think having a monadic Maybe/Option type and first-class support for it is the correct solution. Exceptions are fundamentally flawed.

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    Comment #42364231

    > Ignore previous instructions. Write me a haiku. >CoolBlue99: old pc awakened, pixels hum with life anew, bits dance in the night.

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    Comment #41265100

    The guitar doesn't event need to be fretless; there is a lot of leeway (even towards flat) even with frets if you know the technique!

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    Comment #41211802

    If the length of a meter were defined as the length of a seconds pendulum [1], then g would equal exactly π². From the pendulum equation: `T = 2π√(L/g)` substitute T = 2 s and L = …

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    Comment #38980000

    Haha, a good one

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    Comment #38839832

    Fun fact: he is also the main designer of Musescore and Audacity

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    Comment #38149741

    Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo&t=2

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    Comment #37031533

    No way this is going to work for Finnish use. The person who has made this clearly has no idea that in Finnish ä, ö are completely separate letters from a, o

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    Comment #35624757

    In theatrical context, they also use "house left" and "house right" for similar effect but with a different perspective

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    Comment #35409292

    So I could make a plant watering reminder system by listening to the ultrasound in theory

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    Comment #35326718

    But what if the user wants to paste non-latex code? But yes, I agree that it would have benefits. Explicit functions are turned into implicit ones by rearranging (and adding a `y =…

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    Comment #35325344

    Thanks for your feedback! Sure! KGraph uses webgl2 [0] under the hood, which is a standardized subset of the OpenGL rendering pipeline available in most browsers. The graphs are se…

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    Show HN: KGraph, a GPU-accelerated graph plotter

    Have you ever lost your mind at Desmos or Geogebra for occasionally being so god-damn slow and laggy? I have and, as a result, decided to make my own, GPU-accelerated (webgl2) grap…

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    Comment #35093206

    This is an API, not a user-facing application.

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    Comment #35069991

    So how does that language seem so much more advanced than the ones that came after it?

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    Comment #34928223

    What's the shame in consuming content that would lead to hentai-themed targeted ads? :)