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throwaway211··on you should probably have a kid
But... today's generation of have few children are the descendants of yesterday'shave many children.
throwaway211··on Do You Have a Name For
Magic touch
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Is there a way to watch unrelated videos on YT
Don't log in. Use a VPN. Clear browsing history after each visit.

They're still profiling you, but at least they pretend not to do it with the above.

throwaway211··on Ask HN: Why does office printing suck so much?
You describe an office where no one helps each other, the IT support team do not provide effective support and too much is being done last minute. If a startup needs to address anything, it's not the printer.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Is it a di*k move to reject pull requests with non-eng commit msgs?
Please don't grind your axe on me.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Is it a di*k move to reject pull requests with non-eng commit msgs?
No. Your repo's in English. It's lazy of the contributor. I'm a Chinese speaker if that makes any difference which it shouldnt.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: How does Alexa avoid interrupting itself when saying its own name?
Could two Alexas be put next to each other hailing themselves into eternity.
throwaway211··on SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
Drink more microcontrollers.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Do companies avoid hiring programmers who would rather do indie dev?
Some people are afraid of (what they perceive as) mavericks. Some embrace us. Embrace yourself.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: Whom do you trust for a cheap tablet?
Given Nokia/HMD or Xiaomi/Redmi smartphones can be purchased for $100-200, I'm surprised why a small tablet, with no radio, still costs double+.
throwaway211··on Even Apple admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough
> If you’re a serious developer then you’re going to have a machine that has more horsepower than one suited for everyday tasks.

Why?

I'm quite serious, and I use an 11 year old ThinkPad with 8GB of RAM.

I don't do LLMs. I don't develop Flash or its JS replacements. I rarely edit video. Frankly, surfing YouTube uses far more RAM than anything serious development I do.

throwaway211··on Why do we still teach people to calculate?
To see patterns in things and to extend from the known to beyond.

While numeracy is certainly useful, isn't that only the surface point. The depth in deeper learning (we all learn - Edward Deming - but learn what?) is in shaping self and the internally and externally perceived worlds.

throwaway211··on [dead]
2nd hand car auction site spam.

Links to nothing more than a listing page and a popup.

throwaway211··on Can we take a moment to appreciate the simplicity of Structured Query Language?
If the world could do normalisation...

I don't want to normalise the world. A new generation born, a new generation figuring out how to throw a ball, tie shoe laces, but not store data in a flat table.

throwaway211··on Banana reaches 900k concurrent players
A appreciate taking the time to provide a link.

I was heartwarmed to see it's a 17 minute video. That answers my questions perfectly.

throwaway211··on The Tech That Powers Our Serverless Cloud
What does dispatching request, creating filesystem, deploy from a git, etc, do to latency?

I didn't see an Xms in the article.

throwaway211··on Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?
Yes.

If one of the AI companies use their windfall investment funds wisely they'd invest in getting fusion power working, something that small scale crypto power wasters don't have the organisation for.

That is, in fact, the only thing I can figure out what Sam Altman needs $7 trillion for.

At least then when it bursts we'd have something to show. And he'd get some place in history.

throwaway211··on EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution
No recall. Everyone used slackware didn't they?
throwaway211··on Banana reaches 900k concurrent players
> Banana is a clicker Game, in which you click a Banana! In Banana you click the Banana to gain even more Bananas! Every 3 and 18 hours, you get dropped a banana. Each banana is also made by the community in discord. Come hang out with us and let's grow into something awesome !

What's banana?

On first glance it looks like a mashup of NFT without the crypto, RPG frog-kill grinding, and slot-machine style compulsive level pulling all rolled into one.

Do people or bots play?

throwaway211··on Free and Open Source Software–and Other Market Failures
> Economists and others focused on money

Economics focuses on opportunity cost. If the article can't get the first 6 words right in an article about an obstensively 'economic' topic, market failure, I can use time that would be otherwise spent reading it writing this comment. ACM, tut tut.

throwaway211··on Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed
The thing about floating bridges is they don't need to span a waterway. The just need to link the part where getting onto the bridge then the bridge itself move to the exit section.

Floating bridges also don't necessarily need to have fixed points to load and unload. With suitable stabilisation and propulsion, they should be able to move to any number of loading and unloading points. We could have a floating bridge per train, vehicle, or any unit or set of users.

throwaway211··on Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed
Trains cross bridges easily as they're either balanced with each half on each side, or half on and half on ground. And other time's just between these stable points. Furthermore, trains run on tracks which reduces chance of turning acceleration.
throwaway211··on Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
Corn or dairy cattle, absolutely. Oranges for concentrate, sure. Even cabbages for transport, right.

But there are other things there's demand for, or demand can even be created for, that do not have such vast efficient scales. Hand-reared escargot, or spinach grown within resonance of a woodpecker pecking at dawn, just two examples.

throwaway211··on The Rise of Xenophobia and Nationalism in China Since the Covid Pandemic
Friends noted nationalism went up steadily from 2015, the time of Wolf Warrior and Confucius Institute expansions.

Then Xenophobia with COVID, for some blame, but for many the system is blaming and in a country where taking accountability for a hot potato thrown to you means the hot potato of dealing with 'foreign' got passed to the lowest rung who could throw it no more - the residential security guard, or the food supplier coming up with the fanciful 'Covid blew across from North Korea into the restaurant'.

But the same friends say Nationalism and Xenophobia, it is a topic that's been there enough to be a regular talking point, are now taking backseat as policy tools and are pre 2019 levels.

throwaway211··on Does anybody know this fractal? (2012)
Are you suggesting it's a problem of seeing a sheep in a field?
throwaway211··on Show HN: Token price calculator for 400+ LLMs
Imagine a coffee shop refusing to have a price list until after the coffee's been made.
throwaway211··on Ask HN: What single line of code would you put on a programming shirt?
I'm not sure exactly, but I'd probably write it in Whitespace.
throwaway211··on The T-shirts that Tech people don't want anymore
Stick these types of thing in a cold warehouse for a couple of decades. One or two will be worth something.
throwaway211··on Based Cooking
Quite a few of the foods seem acidic.
throwaway211··on Lucid CEO says its Air has hit efficiency of 5 miles per kWh
One kWh is the same energy use as a one bar electric heater on for an hour which is impressive for hauling 3 tons or howevermuch the chasis is 5 miles, until you realise that you could just walk those 5 miles and warm yourself up in the process for free.
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