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samuelec

40 karma · joined June 26, 2023

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samuelec··on Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA
If I remember correctly the Pentium 60 was the one that had math rounding errors, isn't it? What a memory
samuelec··on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
I had to disable from Android settings all LinkedIn notifications. I check it from time to time but I haven't missed anything, nowadays LinkedIn is mostly garbage
samuelec··on Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
Well, eventually it worked and astronauts can enjoy a good coffee :)
samuelec··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
In my experience you need exactly what you said, and I would add that he probably would have spent half day to do the refactoring himself and it would be sure he did right.
samuelec··on Raspberry Pi 500+
From 5$ to 200$
samuelec··on KDE launches its own distribution
It seems that they are going to divert development effort from KDE. If so, it's really a bad move
samuelec··on Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
Naah! it would ended up like Glassdoors which keeps deleting posts that don't serve the company narrative..
samuelec··on Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
Cool! now windoz users got both a corporate spyware and a new ads tool in any possible place
samuelec··on Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel chestnut
I'm puzzled as well, what the heck the article is talking about and why it's posted here?
samuelec··on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public
Today the world is a better place.

Thank you!

samuelec··on A Little History of the Anchovy
I love them! just by reading the title I've imagined them in a jar in olive oil and I felt I want them like Dr.Zoidberg from Futurama :)
samuelec··on LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
I'm EU based, I don't see this option under my settings. Maybe it is currently tested only on US entities or hopefully our legal framework about privacy prevents such disgraceful practices
samuelec··on Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
+1
samuelec··on Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics
Maybe a silly question, are those computers suitable for harsh environments such as in a rover on Venus?
samuelec··on Ultrasonic Coffee
As an Italian, if it manages to break into our market, it means that it's good stuff. Yes, we are still very strict to our food related traditions and coffee is definitely one of them
samuelec··on Sorry, iPads
an ad in disguise, I guess
samuelec··on The construction of the mafioso social capital and the Sack of Palermo (2023)
Without having to go that far in the past, there are many evidences that Berlusconi had deep connection with mafia. Instead for Andreotti there are no evidence nor proofs, Andreotti was a very intelligent man and if he did or not something nobody was ever able to prove it.
samuelec··on Rust 101
Still that you can't just avoid to explain lifetimes. There is a lot of code out there witch uses lifetimes
samuelec··on Rust 101
What about lifetimes?
samuelec··on The curse of the senior software engineer
While I was thinking he had rediscovered how to make "hot water" aka not a big secret, he's also sharing a truth that maybe not everyone knows especially juniors devs.
samuelec··on DBeaver – open-source database client
I have been using it for 3 years with Postgresql and it still buggy. When the db is throwing out an error dbeaver just say that there was an error on line xx followed by java exception stactrace forcing me to login into the db via command line and figure out what is wrong myself. If you want to write and debug a stored procedure then good luck! The ui had many issues and only recently seems to be just usable. At least with Postgresql, I can't really recommend for anything too complex.
samuelec··on Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)
Hahaha :D
samuelec··on A space station fell to Earth. An Australian boy brought it to San Francisco
This is a cool story
samuelec··on A coder considers the waning days of the craft
"I worried that it would rob me of both the joy of working on puzzles and the satisfaction of being the one who solved them."

I think every programmer feel it

samuelec··on A theory that Mars lost its magnetic field and then its oceans (2022)
A mere attempt to improve SEO.

The article is a non-news and a non-proof. It also contains recycled content, in fact, on top of the article: "October 12, 2023 ... First Appeared on Big Think"

following the link to Big think article we read "September 25, 2023" and "This article was first published on Big Think in February 2022"

samuelec··on Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation"
plus it feels like in the 90' where "webmasters" would try to impress you with an Adobe Flash animation. So bad