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Re:You Gotta Push If You Wanna Pull on Thursday December 11, 2025 @08:08PM (#46239688)
So… caches. The unfortunate reality of high used systems.
Re:The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:46AM (#45592472)
I suppose identity is inherently associated with language. I can imagine that this also happens with programming languages.
Re:Show HN: Vibe Linking on Thursday September 25, 2025 @02:26AM (#45369818)
what-is-reality redirects to Wikipedia search. I’m not impressed. I wish I could tell the LLM: try again!
Re:The Lambda Calculus – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Thursday September 25, 2025 @01:48AM (#45369653)
Church numbers in Python? Kewl!!

Edit: now, if I could rename “lambda” as λ.

I suppose trademark law will be the catch-all protection Disney will be using from now.
Re:Show HN: One prompt generates an app with its own database on Friday September 19, 2025 @02:40AM (#45298595)
We are not in Kansas anymore.

Well done.

Re:Experimental browser MMO with bots, boss fights and power-ups on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:47AM (#45258853)
Sorry, I don’t understand what button can I press. Playing on iPhone.
Re:Made for People, Not Cars: Reclaiming European Cities on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:58AM (#45199631)
TL;DR: «Only “necessary traffic” is allowed in Pontevedra: vehicles used for emergency and public safety, public services (including garbage and water trucks, etc.), transportation of people with reduced mobility, and accessing private garages are permitted 24/7. However, loading and unloading for commercial supplies, home delivery, transporting bulky objects, and house moving and related activities, are permitted only during certain hours.»
Re:AI Darwin Awards on Thursday September 04, 2025 @01:26AM (#45123877)
I like this. Is like “Interface Hall of Shame” for AI.
Using an over-glorified text autocomplete to invent formulas on Excel - what could go wrong?
Re:Microsoft Office Lens getting the axe on Sunday August 10, 2025 @02:00AM (#44853080)
I just use its fantastic border detection to scan documents to images. iOS notes can generate PDFs from a photo but I found it cumbersome. Any alternative?
Re:The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @03:06AM (#44167233)
I can't read it on iPhone: the Reader doesn't work and neither the increasing the font size. Sorry!
Re:The Prompt Theory on Thursday May 22, 2025 @11:04PM (#44069485)
Now that is a great explanation why the world is crazy.
Re:Stringly Typed on Thursday May 08, 2025 @06:40PM (#43932080)
As usual, insight from 2013: https://wiki.c2.com/?StringlyTyped
May be making the countdown optional will be better. I like it!
Only white moves. Eat black. Go to green dot.
Re: on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @11:37PM (#42874906)
Techology is a tool. It serves every corner of the political and ideological spectrum.
Limited resources lead to inventions.
Re:Microsoft GW-Basic User's Guide and Reference (1989) [pdf] on Friday December 13, 2024 @04:02AM (#42407053)
After 28 years of leaving BASIC for C and then Java, I took a course on data science using Python. I heartily agree with you. The simplicity and power Python brings is refreshing.
What license?
Re:Pyspread – The Most Pythonic Spreadsheet on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @11:59PM (#40294190)
> Execution order between cells is not guaranteed to be stable and may differ for different versions of Python.
Re:How I made a 3D Level in a 2D Game [video] on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:23PM (#40139382)
This is so insane is cool.
Re:OOHtml – Object-Oriented HTML Implementation on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @12:09AM (#39354639)
Tag languages were a success because SGML. Once we past XML tag languages are not loved by many people. JSON, YAML, and a myriad of another languages are being teach and used today. Don’t get me wrong — I loved when the XML 1.0 spec was published but the broken promise that we would never need to write XML by hand was the cause of hate to tag languages. Object Orientation is hated these days by many people. Those are the challenges this kind of projects have ti overcome in order to be successful.
Re:Google Search Drops Cache Link from Search Results on Thursday February 01, 2024 @01:34AM (#39213284)
And please, donate.
I have a young (30ish) friend with Rheumatoid Arthritis -luckily she doesn’t have many symptoms yet. I really really hope genetic therapy would bring a better quality of life in 10 or 20 years.
Re:Extinguishing the EV Battery Fire Hype on Saturday December 09, 2023 @02:12AM (#38579437)
Modern problems require modern solutions: https://ctif.org/news/see-swedish-lithium-ion-battery-expert...
Re:Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for on Saturday December 09, 2023 @01:07AM (#38579116)
Would be useful to be able to filter by multiple concepts: Charts and Javascript.
Re:You are never taught how to build quality software on Saturday December 09, 2023 @12:56AM (#38579059)
> We need to speak about money. As developers, we need to speak about the cost of not doing QA.

Yep!!

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