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Last year I was in a Samsung shop when one couple remarked to me that it was the second time they came to buy the same phone for the wife in a month. Then naturally I asked for the reason why, I thoug…

I sense FUD in the OP article towards AI, and we have similar article every week on HN now it's starting to become repetitive and tiresome. As of now this OP article is close to 1000 points and 1…

It's only my conjecture. While these 3 companies namely Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung produce RAM modules, TSMC does not. TSMC from day 1, is mainly focusing on outsourced fabrication for computi…

I think D got it right by not supporting any macro, and become very fast in compilation while being consistent in the syntax, easier to maintain and debug. This remind me of a famous quote, "Debu…

> What is happening in West Papua is horrific I'm not sure what happened in West Papua but need to check that out, but what happened in Champa to Cham Malay people is even worst, they totally …

IMHO, for effective computing in the Internet era, we should not be depending on classical OS or application centric but data-centric. Otherwise it will be always a mismatched of abstraction between O…

Need to check the veracity of this 1000 population claim by the master colonial no less. The British took over Malaya from Dutch with minimum effort, by exchanging some of their Indonesia colonies aft…

That explain it, thanks. My comments point at one time at double figure and then it went south to zero now, but it probably can be negative soon, c'est la vie.

> I wonder what's the responsibility of various factors behind their success. Is it mainly the people? Strategic location? Great governance and policies? It's mainly its strategic locatio…

>Earlier you claimed 'originally settled by Malays' now you're saying Malays inter-married with the actual indigenous population. I said what you have quoted of me previously: "…

>So when the Portugese found the way around Africa and landed in Calcutta on May 20 1498, the trade patterns changed forever. This new route discovery actually significantly increased the importanc…

You can considered Stanza as modern version of Dylan, as admitted by its author Patrick Li.

>As to your other point, again, you’re overlooking that places change over time Not much change for Singapore, I know this because I learnt my history and geography properly, I hope you too. Strait…

>Ptolemy’s maps of the world I can assure you Ptolemy never been to India let alone Singapore. But hey you just deleted your Ptolemy narrative, are you misleading a narrative? Ironically although P…

Naturally they inter-married, the first wave from out of Africa people (e.g Perak man) and the second wave from the Taiwan diaspora [1]. This as you probably know happened over many thousands of years…

>Aboriginal peoples (pre-history "colonizers") What nonsense, colonizers do not live and settle there for thousand of years. Would you called majority Japanese now a colonizers since the …

>Stamford Raffles stands – according to the plaque attached to the plinth – on the ‘historic site’ where he first landed as an agent of the British East India Company on 28 January 1819 and, therea…

>Type systems restrict which programs can be expressed and increasing expressiveness often requires increasing type-system complexity (which, speaking from experience, both humans and agents will s…

It's just earlier this week we have an HN front-page news on the sophisticated Rubin telescope [1]. According to its Wikipedia entry, "Rubin is expected to catalog millions of supernovae, mo…

Honest question, in the era of vibe and AI assisted coding is there any advantages of using untyped programming languages, apart from the fact that non-typed languages has more traning data for the LL…