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uh, are they also committing to raise the energy density, but then only will build bigger batteries? :)
I am not sure that those threads are entirely legal.
Re:Ask HN: Worst code you ever had to fix up? on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:09PM (#27317945)
company with an in-house compiler of a functional language, w/ no chanche to have a breakpoint or know whats what in the disassembly, generates ~800 lines of assembly for the simpelest things. turns out that someone did not read the specs and used xorps in a funny, heisenberg-ish way.
Re:Ask HN: Worst code you ever had to fix up? on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:02PM (#27317856)
i saw this happening at a demoparty, the person sitting next to me:

hekps out a friend with some coding problems; discovers a file containing a class called "superHoegen" with the function members "SuperHoegen1" ..."SuperHoegen12" took a while to realize that this was the martix class of the renderer and sth like ".SuperHoegen5()" would invert the matrix.

also there where no bugs in the superhoegen class, just funny naming :)

Re:How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner on Saturday May 08, 2021 @11:27PM (#27092973)
well, you sir, are the first. except maybe those lamers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ultrasound

:)

sorry -java .. better? what? why would anyone use java for anything? let me give an example: from a project a while(some years actually) ago i still have a license for a php-ide(zend). its in java. no chance in hell to get it working today.

meanwhile, stuff i did 2003 still runs on windows out of the box, even in wine/osx. so again: why use java for anything? https://twitter.com/abductee_org/status/711966430133026816 (try it https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=11247 )

oh and there is this: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf so, double-again: why use java for anything?

raises an interesting question: what is Basecamp?
Re:Making Generative Art with Rust on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:10PM (#27002661)
how about doing it for real? (4074 bytes exe) https://demozoo.org/graphics/292422/
well, the way I see it Apple does a better/less cutthroat job than spotify.
Re:Wat (2012) [video] on Sunday April 18, 2021 @05:58AM (#26851160)
it shows that at the fringes nobody in the audience correctly predicts what will happen...

anyways, here's the abductee-programming-language-conundrum:

consider Language X: there is a nuclear power plant, and you or loved ones live within 10 miles. it is your responsibility to select the language for implementing the emergency shutdown procedures. would you use language X?

Re:Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium on Saturday April 17, 2021 @09:30AM (#26844115)
german hiphop star smudo has been promoting the luca app in german tv, etc.

- funnily enough the same smudo who was a very vocal "Napster bad!!11eleven" voice back in the day ... however napster would at least meet 2 op the ccc criteria(instead of 0, like luca :)

how about they make a mobile chip that doesn't suck first?

the 2013 BMW ... if you got the big headunit you had to also get the big AC... why?

there was an extra hose from the AC to the headunit... why?

intel ATOM. that's why.

Re:Let us now praise tiny ants on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:46AM (#26789292)
Thanks Ants! THANTS
ehem...
Re:How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:52PM (#26279729)
...as a demoscener who has released multiple 64k/4k intros I hereby formally say: LOL.
Re:My Priceless Summer on a Maine Lobster Boat on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:46PM (#25117357)
WOW that's pretty tonedeaf.

remember David Foster Wallace? "Consider the Lobster"?

Here's a reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fZOl7C_vDI

nice work. you want to validate your inputfields tho: number of sides -> 9999999999 -> use and browser tab crashes. :)
HAPPY HARDCORE (no joke, it helps me)
Re:Text-Only Social Network on Sunday July 12, 2020 @06:45PM (#23815390)
"irc"? :)
hmm, and here i was thinking that the Shabbat is to disconnect and unwind... you know get away from the constant notifications and such.
hopefully this will help w/ things like this:

https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=11891&page=1

yeah, i am happy about this as well!
Re:Show HN: Write generative fine art in Rust on Sunday April 12, 2020 @09:39PM (#22852345)
...or just join the demoscene :)
bad. you should not do that at all.
is anybody surprised?

availability seems not the be the problem, you can order them since 3 weeks ago from alibaba: https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product...

or, if you prefer from italy: https://www.screenitalia.it/test-coronavirus-covid-19/

the problem here seems to be of an organisational nature...

wait, does that mean that Rice's theorem is wrong and machines can now solve nontrivial semantic problems?
hmm, sounds like "dark Patterns" to me, as described here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxkrdLI6e6M and here https://www.darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark-pattern

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