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I don't think the world really works like that. Hearing an elevator pitch has a very different impact from reading a short-form business proposal. And of course the efficiency of t…

This is a long time project of mine (started in 2018) where I had an idea that it is possible to do exact inference of probabilistic programs even when loops (including infinite lo…

GP was talking about energy independence. They use domestic coal not imported coal, so the goal of energy independence is still achieved.

Part of the reason for the overwhelming praise is because this is a “Show HN” thread[0]. People liked the amount of effort put in. Keyboards are highly personal anyways, so I would…

No I think you misunderstood GP’s comment. The idea (which I personally don’t agree with) was that Google didn’t have to have the best models; it just needed to have the best compu…

This might be some kind of a weird requirement for a piece of art, but I would literally never expect a website to center a div according to the browser window instead of the viewp…

Every time I see this kind of pet project I see whether they are addressing any actual issue of React or whether they don’t like React merely because it is popular. I especially lo…

I’m not sure your comment makes sense. Are you implying the helicopter crew are unqualified inexperienced people? But these people weren’t trying to land at the commercial airport.…

I spent three and a half hours reading the report. It’s well worth a read. It’s scary; I was aware of the Swiss cheese analogy in aviation safety, so it was scary to read how so ma…

Why wait? It’s been possible since forever. I wrote UI in OCaml eight years ago. https://github.com/kccqzy/drawing-guessing/blob/master/clien...

Requiring the implementation of a Go interface is less powerful than requiring a trait. It reminded me of early years of Rust where people saw traits and asked, well Java had inter…

That’s how the modern way of designing products works. 90% of use cases is enough. YAGNI. The R&D needed for the last 10% is not worth its marginal return. There is no ambition, no…

No. You are presupposing a particular usage of a car and imposing that on a potential buyer. I take the train or bike to work, so for me my car is only for weekend trips. That’s wh…

Are you talking about the unveiling of Swift or SwiftUI? My recollection was that some people hated ObjC and wanted a more modern language. Apple gave them Swift. But I don’t recal…

Yes. I was poking around all the different ways Apple was shaving storage and I found that the Leopard welcome animation (showing the word welcome in different languages in a galax…

It was 10.6.8 v1.1. They didn’t want to increment the version number so they made a version number on top of a version number.

You think it’s done only because you are not ambitious enough. And neither is Tesla. A Hyundai charges faster than a Tesla. Chinese cars from several brands are getting five-minute…

Yes it is precisely Go’s shortcomings that would require typical use of generics to also require reflection most of the time. You would want Rust traits (or Haskell type classes) o…

Your understanding is quite incomplete. Wait till you think about the mapping operation for functions. Then there’s no loop, just function composition.

There are gamer-focused Linux distributions that really test games specifically and make things smooth. The typical general purpose distributions still usually don’t support games …

The way I see it there is a bifurcation here: some people value convenience so they just use their regular credit card to pay per trip with no discounts; others don’t mind the ment…

This is the common fallacy of “AI is terrible in my own field of which I have deep knowledge, but AI is totally fine in this other field of which I only have cursory knowledge.” Ev…

I’ve gotten that interview problem! From a French company no less.

I thought double decker elevators were a failed experiment. I don’t think anyone is even producing them any more.

That’s great, but a lot of buildings don’t tell you where the elevator currently is when you are about to press the button.