qubex's comments

On: Ask HN: What was your best experience with a VC?

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None.

On: Symbolica 2.0: programmable symbols for Python and Rust

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This is truly a huge leap forward but I’m addicted to Mathematica like a starlet to heroin.

On: Splash Is a Colour Format

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Ah so let’s avoid analysis paralysis by having only black, as Ford famously ruled for the Model T.

Of course that’s a reductio ad absurdum, but it’s also completely arbitrary to maintain that fewer options is better. The opposite is also equally arbitrary.

On: Splash Is a Colour Format

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Which is, in Splash, just five colours away from HN orange. So close.

On: Splash Is a Colour Format

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As somebody who works in the coatings industry and is aware of the extremely complex field of colorimetry this horrifies me.

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I cherish the month I spent helping a printing press company. RGB is just the start. Heck, CYMK isn't enough for all the weird inks like neon pink, silver or UV.

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I present you the Interior Designer’s weapon of mass disruption: NCS.

Worse still: European urban development projects have adopted it. I never knew there could be so many varieties of ‘ochre’.

On: I Built a Thing

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Once upon a time, before the horizon of the Wayback Machine, there was a company called Starburst Computers that Faggin of Z80 that proposed what they called a “Hypercomputer” which was an agglomeration of FPGAs that were reconfigured on the fly as software was compiled to hardware.

On: OpenAI's Altman says AI unlikely to lead to 'jobs apocalypse'

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Gosh it’s almost like a crack of common sense has appeared in his natural stupidity and brought him to realise that without jobs that provide wages his artificial intelligence will have no market.

On: Security and Protection of Data in the IBM System/38

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Oh what memories! When I was a really young kid (under ten, in the 1980s) my family’s firm had a System/38 running a rudimentary ERP system and my first experiences with corporate computing were shaped by that,,, QSECOFR and QSYS and DASD…

On: We're starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple's MacBook Neo

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To the extent that soiling your underwear is a ‘response’, yes, we are.

On: My IP Address – MyIPNow

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How the hell is this on a subscription model?? Does anybody even think about buyers’ utility anymore? I can go to FindMyIP for free but you’re planning to repeatedly charge me for basic IP utilities built into UNIX since the early eighties?? Are you serious?!