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ampdepolymerase··on Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
Why not Common Lisp and Mcclim?
ampdepolymerase··on Word usage guidance and alternative terms
Aladeen is at a higher risk of vitamin D compared to Aladeen.
ampdepolymerase··on PostScript Language Reference (1999) [pdf]
PDF is currently adding JS engine support in some versions of it. PDF is also designed purely for absolute positioning.
ampdepolymerase··on Nil-by-mouth foodie: A chef who will never eat again
To be fair, there is an entire branch of (MD equivalent) accredited US medicine called Osteopathic medicine that claims to use a multisystems holistic approach to treat patients.
ampdepolymerase··on [dead]
Twice two makes four.
ampdepolymerase··on Ask HN: Is it normal in this industry to receive almost no training?
What is your educational background? People who thrive in the software/computing usually have a strong STEM background/significant experience with solving physical problems, though there are exceptions. People skills may be valued by HN commenters but companies do leetcoding tests for a reason. In consulting you often have to go the extra mile to persuade the client or to make them happy. For computing it is the same but your focus is on being able to learn new technologies and abstractions rapidly. Most academic CS training follows much of the same route too, the ramp up from "CS 101" to higher level courses is often very steep.

Fundamentally software engineering deals with abstraction and complexity. Perhaps consider studying some backend? Knowledge across the stack will help you improve a lot too.

Try to gain a high level understanding of how to apply various technologies and methods. You can gain tremendous career growth by leveraging your already excellent people skills but you absolutely need to be able to follow a conversation between two engineers on a high level.

ampdepolymerase··on Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network
Paging @Samin100

https://vectordash.com/

ampdepolymerase··on Can continuation passing style code perform well?
The more important question is how to deal with the resultant callback hell.
ampdepolymerase··on MLJ.jl: A Julia package for composable machine learning
How do skip links help with blurriness? I thought they are mainly to prevent disappearing gradients?
ampdepolymerase··on OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
What's worse is the second order repercussions. Future open core/open source SaaSes will go straight to something like the Business Source License or the MongoDB license instead of traditional libre licenses. Amazon has done an incredible amount of damage to the open ecosystem.
ampdepolymerase··on Human taste buds can tell the difference between normal and 'heavy' water
It would be interesting to see whether the sweet taste is because of pure coincidence or whether it is because a small quantity of heavy water confers an evolutionary advantage.
ampdepolymerase··on MLJ.jl: A Julia package for composable machine learning
This looks very similar to

https://github.com/IBM/AutoMLPipeline.jl

ampdepolymerase··on Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies"
The free market can remain irrational longer than a person can survive without an economic safety net.
ampdepolymerase··on Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies"
This is exactly why anti-trust legislation needs to be extended to cover network effect platforms. A permanent ban from GitHub or LinkedIn has a non-negligible effect on career progression.
ampdepolymerase··on Vector Games 32c3
Use an immediate mode GUI toolkit. GUI toolkits tend to use vector graphics more heavily
ampdepolymerase··on Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
Probably Windows Sandbox or one of the other Hyper-V based out-of-the-box VM solutions.
ampdepolymerase··on Monkey MindPong
*messy cables

*a shortcut by

ampdepolymerase··on W3C slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domains as same origin
The standard and governing bodies has no right to demand anything. The internet is not a democracy. If they want something put the money where their mouth is. Until W3C ships their own browser engine and gets it into the hands of customers, relevance is nothing more than a nice-to-have.
ampdepolymerase··on Monkey MindPong
The most interesting thing here is not the mind reading, it is the miniaturization of computing and sparse data transfer. Neuralink off-loaded the computation to the sensor, sending back aggregate data snapshots. Usually you will need massive ASIC/FPGA computation banks with a lot of messy to handle the data transfer and readout but they took a shortcut bye sending only counts of spikes that exceeds a certain threshold.

There is nothing stopping you from using a cloth hangar. You just need to make sure it is impedance matched and properly sanitized for subdermal use. The signal will be much worse as a cloth hangar had gauge/diameter that is several magnitudes bigger than that of a neuron. Nothing here is particularly "novel" that it cannot be trivially replicated if you have the budget of one of the FAANGs. If you have 100million in capital, you can easily find poor neuroscience and EE PhDs who will be willing to work for you for <80K a year just for the opportunity to build something like this. The reason it is difficult and out of reach for smaller companies is because small amplifiers and electronic packages that can be subdermally implanted requires significant manufacturing capital as they fall under semiconductors and biomedical devices. Once the industry settle on a design expect the price to drop dramatically as the core chips and parts become commoditized.

ampdepolymerase··on U.S. adds Chinese supercomputing entities to economic blacklist
> In the early-80s, the Yen-to-dollar ratio was really high. This kicked off an inflationary asset bubble within the country that lasted for several years.

I believe this is commonly referred to in geopolitics as the Plaza Accord.

ampdepolymerase··on Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 interpreter
If he really wanted to, he could have written it as a JIT and generate ASM directly. Writing an executable page is quite trivial in Go.
ampdepolymerase··on Google open-sources the Lyra audio codec
I meant phone taps.
ampdepolymerase··on Google open-sources the Lyra audio codec
It would be curious how the court would interpret this. Just wait for the next high profile SEC shakedown.
ampdepolymerase··on Scientists pinpoint source of “impossible” EmDrive's thrust
> The ability to generate thrust without having to carry the parasitic mass of fuel would be a game-changer in space

This is poor phrasing. You can already do this with lasers. You just cannot do it sustainably.

ampdepolymerase··on Writing tools I learned from The Economist
Train it every year on the senior editors' publication.
ampdepolymerase··on Ask HN: OCR Libraries for Receipt Scanning/Parsing?
I think I mixed it up with expensify. I use a number of bookkeeping software.
ampdepolymerase··on Writing tools I learned from The Economist
They can probably be replaced by a neural network in time, leaving humans to just doing content reviews.
ampdepolymerase··on Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Programming Language
The libgen version is a pdf of scanned images. Anybody has a more modern PDF version?
ampdepolymerase··on Ask HN: OCR Libraries for Receipt Scanning/Parsing?
If you need 99%+ accuracy go for AWS Mechanical Turk. They are used by Wave Accounting and other office application companies for receipt OCR. For 85-95%+ accuracy any off the shelf solution like Google Cloud ML APIs or AWS textract will be fine. You can get better results with both the cloud APIs and hand rolled ML models if you have a good dataset. For this sort of applications a large quantity of well annotated data is king. If you only have <100 receipts per year and need very high accuracy it might be cheaper to just go with AWS Mechanical Turk end-to-end. You have to pay people to annotate the data anyways if you want to train a model so it might be easier to just stick with humans.
ampdepolymerase··on Zoomable lens without any moving parts
I remember prior literature on liquid lenses used electric charges. It is possible the ones in the phones use mechanical movements to get around patents.
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