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nick_m

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    Comment #46511892

    I have a tangentially-related question. I've been using Novagraph Chartist since the Windows 3.1 days back when I was 17 (I'm now climbing 50!). It seems that the original company …

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    Comment #44410573

    Hey Roblox Engineers on here - a brilliant article, by the way - and I want to chip in here, I'm a senior engineer and understand how tech works all the way down. NAND gates, flip-…

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    Comment #42148988

    Fabulous - many great SNES soundtracks, I'd recommend this one - in fact, the beach intro too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peuTnilEv9g

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    Comment #42148946

    Wow - never heard that before, it's brilliant! Definitely one to run through this!

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    Comment #40774686

    Symbian Developers - quick question, if anyone here remembers. I think I saw something in their API docs a long time ago, that had some sort of pointer compression thing for linked…

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    Comment #39473986

    Great article, and much of this resonates - but what template has been used here? It looks like it was created using LATEX.

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    Comment #35783225

    Brilliant work - I "get" how this works, I've just spent about half-an-hour playing with this (Chrome browser on my kitchen ChromeBook), singing into it and letting it "listen" to …

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    Comment #33795687

    I'm curious about trying something like this myself - does anyone know which GPT-3 model she used? On their site, it looks like I have a choice of Ada, Babbage, Curie or Davinci. I…

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    Comment #28825767

    This is fabulous, thanks for posting… and it’s not just MIDI files either, lots of classic game music running under the appropriate sound emulation also. I suspect the reason why n…

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    Comment #22043294

    Thansk for your suggestions. I've used SSRS in the past, and yes, it'll do what I want, but it's browser based and isn't a simple lightweight PC-based product.

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    Comment #22043287

    Thanks for your comment - I tried PowerBI but it seems to want to use its own language; I've noticed it has a DirectQuery mode, but from what I've read, that disables a lot of func…

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    Ask HN: Simple SQL Reporting Tools for Windows

    This sounds lazy...but please bear with me – are there any simple reporting tools available that will run on Windows that can talk to SQL Server? Sounds easy, I should be spoilt fo…

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    Comment #18537123

    Thanks, being a long-time lurker, I've just signed up now to say that's great. What a video - I've been writing software for the past 31 years, and I love the simplicity among inge…