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Re:My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants ...
on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @02:36PM (#42321162)
Where/how did he learn to code? What resources?
Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic?
on Friday October 11, 2024 @04:20PM (#41813319)
Can these negative effects be countered/offset by continuing weight training? I lift 2-4 days a week.
Re:Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
on Saturday February 03, 2024 @12:52PM (#39242841)
It's written in Java. Jesus.
Re:Tell HN: Cryptocurrency transactions >$10k require filing IRS Form ...
on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:20AM (#38852858)
If you want to send a million $ in USDC, BTC or another digital asset, can't you just send 9999 100 times and resolve the difference on fees?
Re:A New Blog for 2024
on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @10:32AM (#38842617)
Blog post, not blog?
Re:Tell HN: Merry Christmas
on Monday December 25, 2023 @05:01AM (#38761302)
Merry Christmas :)
Re:
on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:26AM (#38601962)
The EUR is below parity with the Dollar. Heaps worse.
Re:OnlyFans: Who is Leonid Radvinsky, the elusive owner of a porn empire?
on Sunday August 27, 2023 @07:30PM (#37287699)
> The negative outcomes are mainly due to societal stigmatization. Which explains the 'not telling the whole story' pretty well too. It's not exactly great dinner conversation.
Source please?
> Ps I'm not advocating it as a career option but I know some people are drawn to it and genuinely like it. Reddit is/was full of people doing it for free and I don't think it's a bad idea to try to make a job out of it for those people.
This content, free or not is a net negative on society.
Re:OnlyFans: Who is Leonid Radvinsky, the elusive owner of a porn empire?
on Sunday August 27, 2023 @07:26PM (#37287676)
Not everyone who finds it objectionable is prudish or an American "Chirtian".
I personally find it deeply harmful and a net negative on society and I'm neither of those things.
Re:LangChain Agent Simulation – Multi-Player Dungeons and Dragons
on Monday August 14, 2023 @07:01AM (#37119585)
LMQL - https://lmql.ai/
Guidance (microsoft) - almost abandoned - https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
Re:Python: Just Write SQL
on Monday August 14, 2023 @06:58AM (#37119567)
Low quality naive summary.
Re:Introducing TypeChat from Microsoft
on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:19PM (#36818265)
Your analysis is based on what's possible now. This is the worst it'll ever be.
Re:Introducing TypeChat from Microsoft
on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:06PM (#36818080)
Look at Guidance - that's being ignored by Microsoft yet it's an official repo
Re:Introducing TypeChat from Microsoft
on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:06PM (#36818071)
Anything like this but for Python?
Re:Openjob: best distributed task scheduling framework
on Monday June 19, 2023 @04:45AM (#36388754)
Consider Argo Workflows.
Re:KeyDB – multi-threaded Redis fork by Snapchat
on Sunday May 21, 2023 @01:11PM (#36022886)
> B) there’s a lot of tricky stuff with indices on PG and you generally need a DB admin from day 1
Sorry this is absolute nonsense. Any software engineer worth their salary should be comfortable working with RDBMS index concepts and interrogating their relational model to determine best practice and direction for table indexing.
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses for buildi...
on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @06:42PM (#35968749)
Is the old MS tactic of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? Albeit through the mask of OpenAI / Altman?
Re:FDIC set to take First Republic Bank into receivership
on Saturday April 29, 2023 @09:52AM (#35752851)
You are clearly lying here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barrack#cite_note-:4-19
Re:After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as the clear ...
on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:21PM (#35073526)
I second this.
Zero regret. Leaving is heart surgery and within 10 years of officially leaving I don't think we'll be worse off.
Re:Show HN: ChatGPT and Document Parser = Ghost
on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @04:03PM (#35061174)
Re:Ask HN: How did you rebuild yourself after having hit rock bottom?
on Sunday March 05, 2023 @04:13AM (#35028070)
I recommend whatever you do you must:
* ensure good nutrition
* ensure good sleep patterns
* exercise 3-5 days a week
Re:DuckDB: Querying JSON files as if they were tables
on Saturday March 04, 2023 @04:27PM (#35024655)
What project?
Do you mean polars reading Parquet into DuckDB to process that amount of data?
Re:Ask HN: What is the most disappointing thing someone you respect ha...
on Monday February 27, 2023 @02:05PM (#34960549)
> I wonder sometimes how much of it is down to dotty old age and approaching dementia, and if you should forgive people for that.
Or maybe not everyone shares the same views as you?
Re:Newspapers have dropped the 'Dilbert' comic strip after creator's r...
on Sunday February 26, 2023 @12:21PM (#34947273)
He is not terrible person for these views. If you disagree with his views then do so with counter argument rather than the "wahh racist see now I don't have to engage" approach.
Furthermore I'm sure I don't have to quote Voltaire for you
Re:Google adverts direct pregnant women to services run by UK anti-abo...
on Saturday February 25, 2023 @10:24AM (#34937315)
Indeed. 215k abortions in the UK last year: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics...
Outrageous.
Re:UK supermarkets run out of turnips
on Friday February 24, 2023 @05:03PM (#34930758)
100% this. Thank you for the nuanced response.
My village general shop has all fruit & veg as normal. This shortage is a media obsession.
Re:Warner Brothers Plans Revamp of LotR
on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:05PM (#34928503)
Wow yeah please give me more woke nonsense reboots to perpetuate the demoralisation
Re:Only people building software systems get to have opinions on how t...
on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:38PM (#34915341)
Toxic attitude. I hope to hell to not work with someone like that.
Re:Why UK supermarkets are rationing fruit and vegetables
on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:10PM (#34914197)
My village shops don't have this problem in the south of the UK here.