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Calculators were a part of life when I was studying math, but we used a pencil and paper because the answer wasn't the point, learning and practicing was.

"This outfit is bold and shows off your strong personality, a perfect choice for today!"

It's May and you chose a bright green and red sweater with a picture of Santa Clause.

"You're absolutely right! Maybe this would be a better choice for December."

Excellent, clear example.

I use a dotfile with aliases and functions, mostly to document / remember commands I find useful. It's been a handy way to build a living document of the utils I use regularly, and is easy to migrate to each new workstation.

Gaming is a special case imo, and more affected by the additional power drawn for the GPU. For CPU bound apps, there's still a night and day difference between new apple silicon vs the previous generation of x64 processors. I've used a laptop to DJ shows for several years, always requiring AC power for anything longer than an hour. With my m1 macbook, I've DJ'd 6+ hours with no power adapter, also powering hardware over USB. It's literally a 4x improvement over my previous i5 setup.

I remember saying "as soon as I can get 1GB for under $100, I'll switch from optical media..", and then the day that finally happened. That seemed like a bargain at the time.

No, they're going to pay a couple hundred dollars to replace the head unit with an aftermarket one that doesn't spam ads.

It's my goto VA synth too. I'll reach for it first, before Analog or other VSTs.

I use the session view for vocal recording. Recording multiple takes to new clips in session view, then copied into the arranger, it lets me comp several takes without messing up the final arrangement, and is great for project organisation.

I think in this case, the author means coding version logic into the app itself. eg. versioned API endpoints for backwards compatibility

I've always thought of RPGs as narrative focused games with character progression based on improving stats and equipment. I think both A Link to the Past and Chrono Trigger would fit that description. ALttP may not have the same depth of character traits, but there's still a progression unlocking extra health hearts and stronger swords iirc.

For the other games you mentioned, I would say they have RPG elements (ie. increasing player stats in Mario Tennis), but the narrative isn't really the focus of game in the same way as with a traditional RPG.

I know it's subjective style-wise, but I feel exactly the same.

> I've just had GPT-4o write me a full-featured 2048 clone in ~6 hours of casual chat, in between of work, making dinner, and playing with kids; it cost me some $4 in OpenAI bills, and I didn't write a single line of code.

This kind of example always confuses me. I don't see the value vs reading an article like this: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-2048-game-in-r...

If I said I built a 2048 clone by following this tutorial, noone would be impressed. I just don't see how reading a similar tutorial via a chat interface is some groundbreaking advancement.

Speaking of Stephen King, The Mist is another great example. The film adaptation completely changed the ending, and people almost unanimously agree for the better.

Giant Steps is a great suggestion, I second this.

Nearly every crypto wallet I've created, I've initiated a transfer the same day. With the public ledger I can look up the first transaction for one of my wallet addresses and know with near certainty when that wallet was created. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case for most people.

I was referring to peak vs off-peak demand, rather than generation.

Thanks for the additional context in this example. You're right that there are additional drawbacks if a finite reservoir is required.

I think its a valid point that this approach would be more useful when run by the energy provider themselves, and would make it much easier to justify turning the miners off / migrating them to newer projects as a way to manage demand. I think this capability would allow them to plan for a higher level of overproduction in the early stages, or scaling up ahead of the rise in demand.

Why not offer an agreement for off-peak use, and put profits into expanding capacity? This always seemed like a great use case for bootstrapping new power generation projects. It provides an immediate customer for excess base power generation that can be scaled back / migrated once demand picks up.

My first thought too!

This post shows some great examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/19chvm3/palworld_is...

They're not aiding an adversary, they are the adversary.

So does this mean gay couples shouldn't have same-sex friends? And bisexual couples shouldn't have _any_ friends?

This just sounds like an over complicated vending machine. Isn't this basically a solved problem?

35 was always old.. We are the oldies now, embrace it!

I use a calculator so rarely, I've found I mostly just type the equation into the closest browser address bar to see the result. Works great for most PEMDAS operations. For 90% of the time, I have my answer quicker than I would be able to open another app.

For anything more complex, I usually open a spreadsheet or drop into a python shell.

> this permits companies to increase prices, and produce higher profits. Note, their upstream providers are doing the same, and some of these higher profits will be passed on upstream.

No, upstream price increases are included as a part of their increased expenses. Any increase in profits is on top of this.

Is music an example of a non-physical commodity?

I'm convinced if the internet was created today, most of HN would be faxing each other, decrying it as a scammers wasteland and useless technology..