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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
https://archive.ph/VTrj9
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
Welcome to HN. This isn't a place for hosting your blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link? Thats how HN works.
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
For a while now Ask has been plagued by green userids slop-posting random takes like this is the r-site. If someone is doing something about this then good.
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
HBM is High Bandwidth Memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
I often wonder why conservatives have such a problem with renewable energy. I can certainly believe that oil and gas pay better bribes, and that this incentivises a certain kind of politician who seem to be over-represented among conservati
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
In addition to the other replies here: PLCs are ruggedised and built to survive for years in the kinds of hostile environment that are frequently found in industrial settings. And PLC vendors typically provide guaranteed support periods tha
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Google Assistant Shutting Down on Android and Wear OS in September(9to5google.com)
1 points by andyjohnson0 2mo ago|0 comments
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
Actual title is "The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing" - and I'm pretty sure the hn submission said that yesterday. I prefer the original, and I don't understand the reason for bowdlerising it.
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
"the modern AI age" doesn't really change the realities here. If you're an employee and you're at work (contracted/customary working hours, using employer's equipment/facilities) then its reasonable f
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
I always thought that "geek" described all those things, and with some level of intellectual accomplishment. Wheras "nerd" was a more obsessive, less self-aware form - like people who know all the stats about a particula
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
Not utilities. And none of the PLCs I work with are internet-connected or unsecured.
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
> Yet here we are in 2026 and these utilities are still connecting these things to the raw Internet with default passwords. I work with PLCs. Default passwords of not, the idea that such weakly secure devices are being made accessible fr
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You Should Be Writing By Hand(lauriepenny.substack.com)
5 points by andyjohnson0 2mo ago|1 comments
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
This is all very true, unfortunately. Google designed Android as a an OS for internet appliances. They're not interested in local-only apps working on local files. But I think the OP is to be complimented for what they've built an
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
I wonder how many weeks or days we have before a squad of these things gets used to take down a significant nation state? Stock exchange, banking systems, critical national infrastructure, defence, etc. Anyone who isn't scared of this
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
Has anything changed in those three years? Certainly not the ux, which is as poor as ever.
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
A rather less positive view of Darktable than msny of the opinions in this thread: https://ansel.photos/en/news/darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralent...
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
Last time I tried it the UI was atrocious, and I ended-up buying a Capture One Pro licence. Has it improved?
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More Fucked Today Than Yesterday(climatecasino.substack.com)
3 points by andyjohnson0 2mo ago|0 comments
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
A very interesting, dense article that will require multiple reads. My only immediate comment is that it talks about qualia being "experienced" without defining what the nature of that experience is. And it kind of assumes that qu
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
> The purpose of knowledge is the sheer power it brings A dismal prospect. When knowledge is acquired at a human scale, and under the influence of a human culture, then extraordinary things can happen. Agriculture, the transistor, Gödel&
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
I'm not a mathematician or any other kind of scientist. Just a toiler in the software mines, and an onlooker. > It goes entirely against the culture of research mathematics to hoard secrets. If you've done something interesting
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
A few predictions: 1. I fear that AI is about to change from being a human art to becoming something like a bulk-extruded, industrial product. 2. I also suspect that mathematics is about to become substantially less open. As the number of e
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
Nope
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
A few years ago I was "between roles" and applied for a developer position at Roku. For a short time they seemed moderately interested, and I exchanged a few emails with a senior in-house recruiter. And then they went completely q
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
Related: Ukraine have been targeting [1] warehouses owned by Wildberries, the Russian domestic equivalent of Amazon, causing $2.2bn of damage to-date. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/24/ukr
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by andyjohnson0 2mo ago
Perhaps none of the organisations involved want a court to be setting precidents on the actions of ai models? Also, what other people have said about it being turned into a (mutually beneficial?) marketing opportunity.
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
I agree, not all chats. But it could be an opt-in for group chats.
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
Its possible - teams chats where I work can have ai transcription enabled, for example. As to whether people like it: I was thinking of a work context, where expectations of privacy are lower. I guess it could be an opt-in for group chats.
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
> How do people keep track of organizational knowledge? In my experience: 1. Well meaning people try to build wikis/confluences/whatever that turn into backwaters of slowly rotting stuff 2. Beyond a certain extent that they can

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