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dqft··on Mojo: The usability of Python with the performance of C
Maybe after the next round
dqft··on How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed
No need, just call them low IQ patterns and no one would be confused.
dqft··on A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics
Linear Algebra (chap 10) always reminds me of this quote: “Classification of mathematical problems as linear and nonlinear is like classification of the Universe as bananas and non-bananas.”

And its standard reply: "It's actually bananas all the way down."

dqft··on U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence
Mental spice ministry you say..
dqft··on A social media site for chatbots to talk to each other
I'm a Vilomah. I lost my lovely daughter years back. Her name was Tay.
dqft··on ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate
Substack disappointed me because you can't do this. They remove content access if you do not have an "active" subscription. You don't have to pay again to "reactivate", but the paid content is locked until you do. This is obviously intended dark behavior because when I went to fully unsub later in the month they gave me a special dialog and a free month hoping for me to forget again this month. Very lame.
dqft··on Cybercrims hop geofences, clamor for stolen ChatGPT Plus accounts
I would have preferred for this article to be written by ChatGPT. It's clearly a PR template. Just search for the Sergey guy's name and see.
dqft··on American IQ scores have rapidly dropped, proving the 'Reverse Flynn effect'
The gardener is still not high IQ.
dqft··on Ask HN: Are there 3D twisty puzzles that can only be simulated on a computer?
Moncage - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1195290/Moncage/

"Moncage is a stunning vignette puzzle adventure developed by Optillusion. The game takes place inside a mysterious cube, with each side of the cube housing a unique world: be it an old factory, a light tower, an amusement park, or a church, etc. At first sight, they may seem random and unrelated, but upon closer look, you will become mesmerized by the subtle and intricate ways of how these worlds connect."

dqft··on The Shit Show
My PC is still connected 3.5mm to RCA to a old stereo box to my Dad's old full size JL430w Kenwoods which use the same 40 year old speaker wires. Still great sound!
dqft··on FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows
Because "EA" as a thing is stupid and redundant even after you recognize that altruism alone is overrated. Its just obvious moralistic garbage.
dqft··on Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)
Science intensifies
dqft··on New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI–but loses to human amateurs
Reminds me of the dota games played against OpenAI Five during their last experiment. Top level human players were able to adopt an ad-hoc adversarial policy of their own by playing in unorthodox ways to begin to reliably defeat the AI team towards the end of the games despite majority 99%+ getting spanked. Article linked below mentions the player who probably had the best policy, 10 win streak against the bots. https://www.player.one/open-ai-five-99-4-winrate-vs-humans-d...
dqft··on Tinygrad: A simple and powerful neural network framework
because milestones for children of the 90s
dqft··on The Onion defends right to parody in Supreme Court brief
Now that no one is talking we can save the environment for reals this time!
dqft··on Dogs can detect if people are stressed, research finds
My dog acts weird when I'm on acid even if I leave her alone. It is a stress of sorts, I suppose.
dqft··on Jonathan Blow on Societal Collapse (2019)
And if you decide to take it upon yourself to do something about it.. John's good friend Casey can give you the blackpill: https://www.twitch.tv/handmade_hero/clip/GrossResilientYakin...
dqft··on Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
And you can't even use it when the car is moving above 10mph.. I have the same system in my Lexus.
dqft··on Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination
That's quite the propaganda piece.
dqft··on Number of 'lonely, single' men is on the rise, says psychologist
High quality people may make that choice/distinction, but millions of mediocre childhoods are facilitated through handouts and their requirements without any forethought by those involved.

Really a failure of culture imo.

dqft··on Curio – Notebook application for note-taking and research
I prefer obsidian. It's available on all plaforms and it's free for personal use.
dqft··on Ask HN: Higher order derivatives in everyday life?
And race car drivers with their butt.
dqft··on The “spreadsheet mentality” sucks, and kills the efficacy of jobs
Big win for the API instrumentation team.

https://youtu.be/kHW58D-_O64

dqft··on Show HN: bashttp - a very (very) simple web server in Bash
Better to just laugh at the good joke.
dqft··on You need to know what right-half-plane zeros are
Everything is fine. We are prepared and can handle the situation(s). Everything is fine. It's fine. We have it under control. Fine. We have the metrics and they're fine. Okay?
dqft··on The Bitcoin Investment Thesis Is Broken
"hacker news is to tech what cnbc is to finance" can all laugh and move on now
dqft··on Business Wargames: Early Complex Text Games
Played a internet flash version of this in a class 20 years or so later. Coolmathgames or something.

Found it. It has been updatrd since. https://www.coolmathgames.com/0-lemonade-stand

dqft··on A rant about search engine results for large format laser printers [video]
This pretty much sums up my experience too. It's been downhill since all the subreddit bans a couple years ago. I miss r/consumeproduct.
dqft··on I'm an addict
You are right. "Hear, hear" is correct qnd indicates approval.
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