AceJohnny2

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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
> Claude Code doesn't notify you when it finishes or needs permission. You tab away, lose focus, and waste 15 minutes getting back into flow. On macOS, in iTerm2, Claude will trigger notifications. I was impressed! (and also annoy
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
> Downvoted within 1 minute. This website is a trash fire. because your comment was completely offtopic.
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
argh, don't remind me. Certainly we have lots of horrible inefficiencies in my team, but stringing along hiring was not one of them. I understand this is not universal even at our company.
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
that's taking yak shaving to another level!
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
I don't buy it. Seems like a waste of everyone's time. Even if you don't respect the candidate's time, it's still a waste of the employee's time, which is valuable to the company.
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
How is that image 670 KB!? Definitely some optimization low-hanging fruit there. Edit: dang, even pngcrush can't get it below 580 KB. Disappointing performance on PNG's part.
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Anecdotally, the reason my career is in embedded software is that I kept wanting to know how the (software) system works, and embedded is as deep as you can get without changing disciplines altogether. The cost is you lose those layers of a
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
The US govt already tracks the geopolitical status of "Critical Minerals" at the USGS: https://www.usgs.gov/tools/critical-minerals-atlas
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
you can code-sign with open-source tools. That's not the hard part. Signing with a certificate trusted by macOS , that's where there's no avoiding having to go to Apple.
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Apple has been slowly tightening the screws on app notarization (code signing) requirements for running apps on macOS. To do it properly you need to be a registered developer ($100/year), and they're certainly not making it easy i
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
IIUC, there's a confusion of meaning for "World Model", between Waymo/Deepmind's which is something that can create a consistent world (for use to train Waymo's Driver), vs Yann LeCun/Advanced Machine Inte
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Accelerando's algorithmic company structure and (near?)DDoS the corporate legal system is the one idea from Accelerando that has stuck with me the most over the 20 years since I first read it, and I came here to make the exact same ref
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
I agree. Having watched Google shift from its younger idealistic values to its current corrupted state, I can't help but be cynical about Anthropic's long-term trajectory. But if nothing else, I can appreciate Anthropic's cur
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Nah, it's earlier than that. The move to online, plumetting paper ad-sales, and the online expectation that you could access all the articles for free (and ad-block) (oh hey look above the comment with archive.is to bypass the NewYorke
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Or, just saying, we should eat babies because they are abundant and full of healthy nutrition for adult humans. [1] Just because an idea has some factors in its favor (Space-based datacenter: 100% uptime solar, no permitting problems [2]) d
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
some people really gotta stop huffing VC fumes
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
my partner got shingles a couple years ago, it was a very painful experience! (to be crystal clear, I am making a joke equating the failed SolarCity/Tesla solar shingles to the (generally considered very painful) Herpes Zoster manifest
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
> It does say he's planning an AI sun Everything I've heard from Musk in the past decade has been against my will and has made me dumber. (no I do not care to verify or know whether the above is true) Edit: ah fuck ya got me
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
I can't tell how many layers of sarcasm are here, but I just want to highlight that aktshually cooling in space is quite difficult because there is no convection, so the only cooling option is radiative. Which gets a bit hard when the
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Musk is notorious for shuffling assets across his companies to make some financials look better. For example, shuffling Twitter servers (and then all of Twitter) under xAI.
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
- plugged into DFU capable USB-C port This is what I'm contending. No, I don't think this is true. All he found was the upgrading macOS on the external disk, which as documented must not be on a DFU capable USB-C
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
The author did not test the DFU flow, so I'm not sure why they're blaming the DFU port documentation. Certainly there is a bug in the external disk upgrade sequence if switching the disk to a different (also non-DFU? They didn&#x2
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Thanks for the highlight. Doesn't seem like there's much activity on his Ko-Fi for being on the front page of HN. I sent him a tip, although privately.
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
It's like a dream come true! I've been thinking of something like this for decades, as I mentally compared the utopian displays at construction sites to the existing buildings next to them. Like "wow your fancy new building i
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Correction! The actual video I was thinking of was this one, also by Mathologer but from 2018: https://youtu.be/ubHVK71F01M This one actually has the geometric (rectangle subdivisions) animations I had in mind.
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Aw thanks, but I think the Mathologer and Numberphile videos are sufficient for me if you haven't already uploaded yours. I don't want to bother you doing extra work for little return!
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Thanks! Do you have a version of that talk published anywhere? I tried searching your YouTube channel [1] for a few things like "golden ratio" "ratio", "irrational"... but didn't find anything. [1] https:
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Absolutely. In fact my post above originally said "infinite series" instead of "continued fraction", but Googling again, Google AI did mention "continued fraction" in its summary, so I edited my post and tried
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by AceJohnny2 8mo ago
Edit: years of searches and minutes after I post this I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaasbfdJdJg thanks to using "continued fraction" in my search instead of "infinite series" X( Original: Tange
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by AceJohnny2 9mo ago
> Yesterday I was supposed to have a call. I have the app open and it never once let me know that there was a meeting. Lol, we use WebEx, and someone actually went and developed an internal app to make it usable by piloting WebEx throu

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