aitchnyu

42 ms·

721.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Around 2004 there was an invite only email that... took you straight to inbox once you logged in, not to a landing page with news and weather. Years later, I'm dumbfounded by other Google products like Firebase and GCP which send massi
722.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
US used to maintain bat houses so they kill insects and drop guano. Wars were fought for guano caves. Then synthetic nitrates (Haber process) happened and the bottleneck keeping population below 1 billion went away.
723.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Cowdung was/is used untreated as manure in India, also as flooring and medicine. IIRC it was/is low in the list of health concerns.
724.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Tangential, did AI devs take a stab at maintaining a soft fork from a diverged codebase?
725.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Is there any serious document/person on how many jobs were lost to AI? So far the headlines have been from CEOs playing with Other Peoples Money (fellow comment stating 1 of 76 quarters were profitable), giant consulting orgs etc.
726.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
I admire Japanese taxis for mounting mirrors on the bonnet so they dont stick out. I'm Indian and I'm glad I had a choice of 170ish cm wide Japanese sedans meant for Asia and hate the new 180ish cars. The Jaguar is 213 cm wide.
727.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Could you describe your stack and how its much more effective than two years ago? I heard of printed-table OCR and doc classification years back.
728.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Could be a good candidate for factobattery. Overbuild the system, run them at full speed at peak solar generation, then underclock them at night. https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/factobattery/
729.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
So thats why we were made to extract fossil fuels and "dispose" plastic and research bacteria. Hope Life 2.0 writes footnotes about biped cities making plastic mines like we write about Jurassic shellfish providing soil suitable f
730.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Transmission makers (ZK), turbocharger makers, who else are going to survive EV migration?
731.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Will this benefit sites or internal wikis which have well written content, good search and SEO? I interviewed at a few companies which apparently enables managers to use AI as an excuse to implement text search.
732.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Its as effective as Shortcat, which needs time to collect clickable elements and build overlays, and of course can be used in more than browser. I changed keys to ASDFGHJKL;RVTBUM (18 characters) which is home row and index fingers and ok e
733.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Did you control for off-center trackpads for laptops which have number pads and small trackpads?
734.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
The package name will be sl-vcs like chromium-browser
735.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Umm, what does social media reveal?
736.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Is this remarkable? I see "acquitted by lack of evidence" in India and think its the same.
737.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
IIRC 10 year old report states 100 million usd net worth is enough to buy whatever you want.
738.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Tangential, has anybody replaced private container registries with a place to upload and download container tarballs?
739.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
If I were running a medical insurance company in India I'll not harass doctors and administrators with tons of paperwork, since they hate one provider with a passion and are not afraid of telling patients.
740.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
You mean a hospital next door to an ammonium nitrate godown and 23andMe will be rejected by the same actuaries?
741.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
A MFing website in the wild.
742.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
In India, Namma Yatri is zero commission and does lots of great initiatives. Uber drivers request me to install it and enjoy the win-win. Too bad the VC funded competitors are losing money to keep us on the enshittification treadmill. Behol
743.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
How big are they? I thought its the 100gb order of magnitude as (dead tree) libraries.
744.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
I just learned the AWS truck has been retired for months https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowm...
745.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
I saw the powers that be sit on requests for access for readonly BI tools on existing DBs. How do the low code vendors get VIP treatment?
746.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Do orange cats act/be dumber than the rest or is it Internet legend?
747.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Tangential, I realized I can be satisfied by Redis from 2013. Who are relying on recent Redis versions?
748.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
What does the ultrasound do?
749.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
Actofit body composition smart scale. They insist on tying measurements to phone numbers/profiles. I have to go to my phone, hit record and stand on it to sync. The login broke, so I left a play store comment and they denied the proble
750.
by aitchnyu 2y ago
To save a few moments stalking his profile yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38762380 TLDR: 20 years as SWE, then used his skills for his calling.

More ›