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Re:Jmail: Gmail except it's Epstein Files on Saturday December 20, 2025 @04:23PM (#46339754)
the J suite of products grows larger
Re:Show HN: Fastest vector database made in NumPy on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:23PM (#39946778)
love it. vector dbs are so bloated and unnecessarily expensive/complicated for very little return.
Re:Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:51AM (#39813644)
Starlink.sx is really great and has a lot of data I haven't added yet. Working towards getting coverage hexagons + ground stations + more asap.
Re:Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:49AM (#39813635)
Great suggestion. I'll add this as soon as I get the time. Being able to color code each shell would be super cool.
Re:Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:49AM (#39813633)
Yep, they should be.
Re:Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:48AM (#39813627)
Yep, just a fan of the mission and have some friends on the team (and needed another statistic to fill out the bottom lol).
Re:WebGPU GPT Model Demo on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:00PM (#35649332)
Thanks for the tip!
Re:How to build a chess engine on Sunday July 03, 2022 @01:13AM (#31965260)
For sure, ChessProgramming.org is one of the best resources out there.

Wrote this just trying to be a bit more of a straightforward guide to how to really get started - hard to sort through how many strategies there are out there when building an engine :)

Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] on Sunday November 08, 2020 @04:28PM (#25029232)
lol it may be time for Base_Emoji encoding. Good luck proving that my sequence of laughing crying faces and cats is an encrypted message.
Re:How Discord Won on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:44PM (#24830809)
I think you're right but you're wrong.

The thing that Discord is missing and is failing at is that it doesn't have any sort of a friend graph or social structure. Discord users want this sort of Reddit anonymity where people are semi-social but not really.

Discord isn't a social app and Reddit looks like where Discord will grow to, not mass market, not super data heavy because there's no friend graph and structure.

Re:I built a lay-down desk on Monday October 05, 2020 @07:29PM (#24693199)
Fascinating.

I guess you have to find a low weight VR set though.

I completely get it because of how easy it is to get lost in the VR experience and forget about the outside worlds. Seems great for productivity. Might have to try it out sometime.