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Having worked at Epic on Mumps code, I am almost certain that article was about Epic.

DaemonAlchemiston Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

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DaemonAlchemiston Rider is now free for non-commercial use

I see specific classes on the page that specify a one degree angle, so it seems to be intentional. I would guess it's to call your attention to the cells.

DaemonAlchemiston Meta Movie Gen

The first real movies made 100 years ago looked like something someone today could put together in their garage on a shoestring budget. AI-generated movies have existed for just two years, and are only going to get better. This is bleeding edge research, and I haven't seen any sign yet of AI models hitting a quality ceiling.

DaemonAlchemiston A. K. Dewdney has died

His book "The Planiverse" was one of the first books I read as a kid that really made me think. I was fascinated by his detailed descriptions of a 2D universe and its implications for how that would affect biology, society, and everything else.

DaemonAlchemiston My daily driver is older than I thought; it's positively vintage

My desktop is a 2013 custom build, and is still going strong with all of its original parts. My wife's previous computer was a near identical build from 2012 and also lasted nine years.

DaemonAlchemiston The quadratic formula: a tutorial

I dropped off at about 70%. For me, it was a few things 1) Too much intro material - The explanation of what a root is was too long. By the time I got to the start of the derivation, my attention span was already running out, due to: 2) Too much tedious algebra - I felt annoyed that I needed to do a bunch of basic arithmetic to advance to the next section. 3) Complicated derivation - Like another commenter mentioned, I think the completing the square method would have been shorter and easier than this method.

DaemonAlchemiston I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer

Bash Liif: https://youtu.be/1jTHBBkillM?t=85

DaemonAlchemiston Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)

Agreed. I once worked for a company that built custom e-commerce sites. One of our clients decided to bring development in-house, and wanted the codebase for their site. I had to go through every source file line by line to remove all of the expletives the core team had put in the comments before handing over the code.

DaemonAlchemiston Show HN: Unstateless – A hook-based state management library for React

Also, here is an example of managing shared state with Unstateless vs. Redux: https://andy.wittrock.us/redux-vs-unstateless