Why “amount” is being discussed
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From the MIT-AI Lab's file "AI:HUMOR;PDP-* LIST", the inimitable Marc Crispin weighs in on DEC's PDP's: https://github.com/PDP-10/its-vault/blob/ma…
by DonHopkins · Oct 31, 2026
Or renewables. I remind you that nuclear power is completely economically unviable today because it is the single most expensive way to generate power. Even with Trump rolling b…
by mitxela · Oct 31, 2026
I noticed this a lot with java where most of what I needed that wasn't specific to our company's business logic was already available in the standard library, and a lot of the O…
by ctkhn · Oct 31, 2026
Thank you for the nod to Metamorphosis of the Prime Intellect! I’ve been meaning to revisit it for dog’s years and now I have the impetus :) Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom co…
by alwa · Oct 31, 2026
5k is nothing for the amount of headache you just saved them..
by Zeruxe · Oct 31, 2026
Great article :D The rabbithole actually goes even deeper because buffering on the read side is almost always good, but reads are often way more latency-sensitive than writes. W…
by Pannoniae · Oct 31, 2026
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Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "amount" over time.
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "amount" over time.
Quantity or amount is a property that includes numbers and quantifiable phenomena such as mass, time, distance, heat, angle, and information. Quantities can commonly be compared in terms of "more", "less", or "equal", or by assigning a numerical value multiple of a unit of measurement. Quantity is among the basic classes of things along with quality, substance, change, and relation. Some quantities are such by their inner nature, while others function as states of things such as heavy and light, long and short, broad and narrow, small and great, or much and little. Read more on Wikipedia