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Is there a statement somewhere from Google saying the ToS was violated? I hadn't seen that and can't find one right now.

Hacker News? More like MBA news. I'm not just being snarky — I don't think it's reasonable to say the profit-maximizing service-oriented Apple is the best possible version of itsel…

Yesterday I was required to turn on IPv6 on my router, while setting up some IoT things using Matter over Thread. Apparently that protocol uses IPv6 and doesn't work if your router…

> The thing that makes hashcards unique: it doesn’t use a database. […] Your performance and review history is stored in an SQLite database in the same directory as the cards. Man …

He’s referencing this classic blog post: https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program... Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32548085

Where I'm from there's no concept of using public space to store your personal belongings without paying for it.

Yes, this is why language hype has largely died down among all but the truly myopic.

You end up standing in line with a bunch of delivery drivers who all know the drill and are on the clock, and you quickly learn you cannot be polite if you want to get your food.

What ElevenLabs and OpenAI call “speech to speech” are completely different. ElevenLabs’ takes as input audio of speech and maps it to a new speech audio that sounds like a differe…

This entire deep dive is great. I feel compelled to call out this heroism: > 1st Lieutenant de Wispelaere had prepared the bridge for demolition ... De Wispelaere immediately pushe…

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They want to be able to write logic to operate on the DOM elements rather than on Jinja2/Twig/etc template tags.

The end of this road is React's Server Side Rendering and Next.js. This approach only really has one major benefit over string-based templating, namely, it lets you re-use code acr…

I love all these attempts because I read the introductions nodding my head in agreement—yes traditional notation is annoying, yes we can use software to make better notations, yes …

I honestly cannot tell whether this blog is trolling, but the comments here suggest they are not. Am I the only one who is satisfied running `git blame` in my terminal, using `less…

What part of the world is your neighborhood in?

Every time I see this story, I try counting the round vs square rectangles, and in practice they seem about even in my life. Door frames, picture frames, books, cabinets, and windo…

[Copy-pasting my review from Amazon] Did you know that Maxis (creators of SimCity) sold investors on a vision a world where "simulation" was a common use-case for computers, and Ma…

I was disappointed the article didn't answer one question I've had for a while: Which game first used radial menus that mapped directly onto the analog stick / joycon? That is, the…

[not OP] On Naxos, in the summer the DOMUS Festival has traditional (not ancient, but traditional) Greek music: https://www.facebook.com/p/DOMUS-Festival-100066336529833/ The perfo…

Yeah, having worked on alternative notebooks before, one of the big implicit features of Jupyter notebooks is that long-running cells (downloading data, training models) don't get …

It's there, but warthog is right, it should be a toplevel section like "A reactive programming environment" — yes ideally people would read the description and understand the diffe…

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Not just headline bait, because the economics have changed: a Midjourney subscription is much cheaper than hiring an actor, costuming him as a monk, and photographing him on a rent…

The "Ask vs Guess" name rhetorically frames it in favor of the Askers. Asking sounds reasonable, guessing does not! But really it's not about "Guessing", it's about understanding. …