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Re:The Grug Brained Developer on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:19AM (#38081228)
The only reasonable comment here
Just ask chatgpt
Yes and that component of Firefox is called chrome. It was named before Google Chrome was created.
Flutter on web is horrible if you do it that way. There is a native renderer that renders to dom and is much faster.
By that logic emulators and virtual machines shouldn't be possible.
Re:My Left Kidney on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:15AM (#38036271)
He also assumed that the risk increases linearly.
Re:Animated AI on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:07AM (#38024995)
Very nice illustrations.
Very important information for the target audience of HN.
No surprises here. Google is a huge company. Linux doesn't understand the entirety of Linux kernel anymore either.
Re:PyPI Security on Thursday October 26, 2023 @08:58AM (#38024908)
Good to finally see people working on this.
Re:Advice to a Novice Programmer on Thursday October 26, 2023 @08:56AM (#38024889)
Most of this would be useful for intermediate level programmers as well.
Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language" on Sunday October 22, 2023 @11:41AM (#37976325)
A lot of the points he made are wrong. Shell shock is physical damage to the grey matter of the brain, caused by an explosion. PTSD is mostly psychological and can be caused by shell shock.
Re:My website is one binary on Sunday October 22, 2023 @05:24AM (#37973969)
Thank God for that
Re:The exam that broke society on Saturday October 21, 2023 @01:25PM (#37968796)
There are professions other than software development
Re:Introducing Ruvy on Friday October 20, 2023 @01:58PM (#37959389)
Ruby is even more dynamic than js and python.
Re:Flappy Bird Implemented in TypeScript Types on Friday October 20, 2023 @01:43PM (#37959191)
It's a whole category of programming languages. Search for lolcode and cheflang.
Re:GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:02AM (#37954565)
Why do you think open source banking is impossible?
Re:NASA asteroid sample contains life-critical water and carbon on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:08PM (#37947239)
There's a kurzgesagt for that...
Re:Show HN: One makefile to rule them all on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:05PM (#37947192)
Can it do cross compilation?
Re:Netflix is raising prices, again on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:04PM (#37947175)
Why don't they display the list of available shows to unsubscribed users?
Re:GitHub stars won't pay your rent on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @04:21PM (#37934260)
It's pretty clear his dream is to make money as well.
Re:What is the Demoscene? An obscure but influential art form on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:39PM (#37933706)
You don't know what 10% you are going to need.
Finally, llm space is littered with closed standards.
Re:Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:25PM (#37933516)
Indeed
Very unlikely
Re:Is there such a thing as the perfect game? on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:51PM (#37919789)
Rocket league meets the authors criteria. The fact that it's a physics simulation means that the player who's better at predicting the bounces/other player has an inherent advantage, but if the other player puts a top corner shot at unsavable speeds it doesn't really matter how good your predictions are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2kcGht3vGA

Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:26PM (#37865414)
http://knmw.link/posts/constexprjs.html

A static sites generator which uses JavaScript instead of a template language. It evaluates the javascript in your pages ahead of time.

Re:It's MY Monitor on Sunday September 10, 2023 @03:52PM (#37459330)
Psyonix implemented the vehicles in original Halo game after which they made supersonic acrobatic rocket powered battle cars followed by rocket league.
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