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makeset··on Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
Don't you need a serger for the overlock stitch used on most t-shirts? Those are neither cheap nor easy to use.
makeset··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect
makeset··on typ.ing
Maybe it's harder at that size where you have to move your hands, but I use a 3x5 split, and my eyes never leave the screen, so printed keycaps are just pointless.
makeset··on Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
JLCPCB.
makeset··on Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
It's also the immense know-how Chinese manufacturers have accumulated at this point. For a 5-piece hobby order $25 shipped, I got feedback confirming a wrong-looking part of my design before they printed.
makeset··on Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP
> while P != NP

You don't know that!

makeset··on What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?
That is TFA.
makeset··on Privilege is bad grammar
> respect for the people you're communicating with

That is exactly why executive grammar is so bad.

makeset··on Claude Opus 4.6
> it weirdly feels the most transactional out of all of them.

My experience is the opposite, it is the only LLM I find remotely tolerable to have collaborative discussions with like a coworker, whereas ChatGPT by far is the most insufferable twat constantly and loudly asking to get punched in the face.

makeset··on How I estimate work
I am sure you make this work on good faith at a small size, but how is it doable at large without insider trading, manipulation, and perverse incentives? People doing the work will be more informed and in a position to affect the outcome.
makeset··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
"Harun Yahya" aka Adnan Oktar the Turkish sex cult leader? Yeah he stays in the same place because he's serving 8658 years.
makeset··on Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
How does that work for you? Last I tried, any interruption during a remote Time Machine backup corrupted the entire encrypted archive, losing all backup history.
makeset··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
Thank you. Someone else suggested that, but I never actually asked him why, felt awkward in the moment to probe when he left it at that, without sounding like putting down his driving job. I was also too busy thinking "Holy crap in ten years I might be a driver!"
makeset··on Galleri test: Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers
There is also a nontrivial chance of every CT scan to cause fatal cancer. It's a ton of radiation[1], and ERs love pushing it indiscriminately on vulnerable people.

[1] https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info/safety-xray

makeset··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
Some 20 years ago I started a job at Google in Mountain View, and they were paying for a rental car, so Enterprise sent a driver to pick me up to do the paperwork. On the way I was chatting with him, telling him how amazing life at Google was, all the restaurants and the stocked kitchens and massage rooms on every floor of every building etc etc. He said "Do you know what this campus used to be before Google?" I said "Yeah, they told us at the orientation, it was SGI." The driver said, "Yes, and ten years ago it was exactly like that at SGI, too. I was an engineer there."
makeset··on Heroin addicts often seem normal
The analogy is apt only in that financial markets are "a form of gambling" exactly as much as sports is.
makeset··on Learn to play Go
Far from it, there is no need to learn any joseki before dan level. It's even counterproductive often enough ("Learn joseki, lose two stones") before the player can study why each move is joseki and whole-board implications. A lot of it makes little sense before beginning to understand thickness and influence. A 1-dan should have strong enough tactics to play reasonable corner exchanges without any joseki knowledge, and won't be losing many games because of that.
makeset··on Adjacency Matrix and std:mdspan, C++23
Note that GCC/libstdc++ (as of v15.2) does not yet implement std::mdspan [1], so it needs to be imported from another reference implementation like Kokkos [2].

[1] Merged in for v16: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107761

[2] https://github.com/kokkos/mdspan

makeset··on Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022)
I remember working through Appel's compiler textbook in school, in SML and Java editions side by side, and the SML version was of course laughably more concise. It felt like cheating, because it practically was.
makeset··on That XOR Trick (2020)
Fun fact: you can show that there is another binary operator that performs the same triple assignment swap.
makeset··on The Claude Bliss Attractor
My favorite is when I typo "Why is thisdfg algorithm the best solution?" and it goes "You are absolutely right! Algorithm Thisdfg is a much better solution than what I was suggesting! Thank you for catching my mistake!"
makeset··on Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures
No true Scotland.
makeset··on Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language
I knew the name sounded familiar:

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

makeset··on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
Then came a nifty upgrade called "LED control" which installed a red LED next to that screw so all you had to do was turn until it was brightest, significantly reducing ?LOAD ERROR. Good times.
makeset··on First C compiler source code from 1972
That's sed-able, if it were just that.
makeset··on A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset
You can learn to touch-type on any keyboard and never ever look at it (actually gets confusing to look), and many where you never have to move your hands around either, before you need to get anywhere near chordal.
makeset··on Write to Escape Your Default Setting
Oddly my handwriting is aesthetically better than ever in old age, but I find I just have no patience left for it. Halfway through scribbling a word my brain is screaming "come on already!" for a keyboard, and by the next word it's completely checked out of whatever thought I was supposed to jot down. It's like watching the most boring scene unfold in slow motion. I've been hearing the handwriting->memory argument for decades, but screw that. Give me >100wpm.
makeset··on Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood
That example is literally Beato demonstrating that it's perfectly attainable through deliberate training. Adulthood is a separate discussion.
makeset··on Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings
I signed up, typed "c++" in the search bar, and the results were... gay porn.

I might reinstall and try again when the Rust lobby chills out.

makeset··on Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets
Very cool. What tooling do you use/recommend for the "small game over the weekend" scope? I keep running into either the oversized industrial end that requires serious investment to even get out of the gate, or the very lightweight offerings where you have to reinvent everything from scratch.
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