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nwsm

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About nwsm

Software Engineer in Boston

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    Comment #49196867

    Nice article, I'm sad to learn that I shouldn't be using Koopa. How are Peach and Mario not dominated on acceleration by Tanooki Mario and Luigi respectively? Also, wonderful visua…

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    Comment #48845510

    Fun! But disappointing if you lose early. Maybe let the player continue after failing and showing a final score out of 18.

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    Comment #48385307

    My 2017 RAV4 doesn't. I think "most" is an exaggeration

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    Comment #48297543

    Going through the effort of creating a HN account to comment on an article you didn't even open..

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    Comment #47677825

    usually when you call something "evergreen" it's not 2 months old

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    Comment #45994192

    Google will never beat the "sunset after 2 years" allegations on all products that don't have "Google __" in the name

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    Comment #45917504

    Saying “everyone” played those two titles is still incorrect. Personally I think the landscape was more fragmented then.

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    Comment #45811125

    From UI perspective you are right, but not for APIs.

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    Comment #45449312

    My Windows 10 updates had been failing for the past 6 months. When shutting down my PC I'd get the notification to "update and shut down", but the update would routinely fail. I th…

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    Comment #45439734

    Is local not infeasible for models of useful size (at least on a typical dev machine with <= 64GB RAM and a single GPU)

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    Comment #45211135

    I want to say Mark Zuckerberg but I think Meta's investment is also targeted at creating their own social media content

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    Comment #44875458

    I think you may have been under a rock for the last 5-10 years

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    Comment #44434413

    Well, what query engine do you use? We use normal RDB tool like DBeaver against Trino JDBC and it works fine.

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    Comment #43727581

    You're completing brushing over the rampant racism and xenophobia in white conservative America.

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    Comment #43482837

    Vite and an express server

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    Comment #42214458

    Things like that have been developed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3ZyGlqUkA

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    Comment #41798708

    Thank you for the detailed README!

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    Comment #41661855

    I have the same reaction as you - his persona makes me physically uncomfortable and I feel bad for the artists unless they have the common wholesome reaction to well-done research.…

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    Comment #41132347

    I love spyware!

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    Comment #41132331

    Here we have an open-source algorithm that is useful to anyone with data. It doesn't have to be music

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    Comment #41068295

    Love this stuff - so weird and obscure. The Acura skin is cracking me up. I'm listening to OP's playlist now

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    Comment #41034190

    Are you implying there isn't a minimum age for president of the United States?

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    Comment #40996677

    First of all, other players are likely using the same naive approach and you need to differentiate yourself. Second, using simple EVs will give you consistent, but not top, results…

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    Comment #40858850

    This sounds very much like a spritesheet to me (who has never worked on video games). Is the concept similar, and what was the better approach at the time?

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    Comment #40775311

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