bigiain

26 ms·

511.
by bigiain 1y ago
Back in 2014/2015 I was racing FPV drones. My most insane one could accelerate from stationary (on the ground) to doing 160kmh (100mph) straight up, in about 2 seconds. It wasn't much faster horizontally, but it'd top out at
512.
by bigiain 1y ago
You need to be insanely dedicated to burning rainforests and boiling oceans so that people can have AI write emails that other people will use AI to summarise and never even read the summary.
513.
by bigiain 1y ago
"Prepare to die."
514.
by bigiain 1y ago
Awww, come on. cgi-lib.pl was all you really needed! <smirk>
515.
by bigiain 1y ago
Ahhh, right. I guess that'a a distinction that makes sense. Thanks.
516.
by bigiain 1y ago
This is a very off topic tangent, but that makes me quite curious. What is the difference between "veterans" and "retired military personnel"?
517.
by bigiain 1y ago
Xyla Foxlin has a video related to that: https://youtu.be/aj0H8oVS7qg?si=xfkjvbqNFMIz1tfh She talks about Pilot Mental Health Campaig https://www.pmhc.org/ and a campaign to lobby for changes. She's al
518.
by bigiain 1y ago
For me, and I suspect a lot of other HN readers, a comparison/benchmark on a coding task would be more useful. Something small enough that you can affordably run it every day across a reasonable range of coding focused models, but non
519.
by bigiain 1y ago
Probably not? But I barely understand how shit works when you operate at Google scale. I wonder how many "Android-ish" devices like maybe in car entertainment systems are out there and reporting all their telemetry data back to Go
520.
by bigiain 1y ago
Lots of people get the weather forecasts from tv or radio for free. Weather forecasts aren't "utterly inaccessible" the way the Disney monorail is.
521.
by bigiain 1y ago
It kinda was, but they did this same rugpull and closed their free api way back before covid. They do still claim: "250,000+ Weather Stations Weather Underground is a global community of people connecting data from environmental sensor
522.
by bigiain 1y ago
I'd be a little surprised if Google (or even Apple) haven't considered trying to use cell phone temp and pressure sensor data collected across the entire fleet of devices running their OS. Similar to the recent Android earthquake
523.
by bigiain 1y ago
A more appropriate output might be ``4'33" -- John Cage, 1952``
524.
by bigiain 1y ago
I haven't looked too carefully, but I suspect those "needs to be strong" parts could mostly be cnc machined with an inexpensive hobby CNC like a 3020, from aluminiumn sheet/bar stock.
525.
by bigiain 1y ago
> Clear instructions go a long way, asking it to review work, asking it to debug problems, etc. definitely helps. That's exactly what I learned. In the early 2000's, from three expensive failed development outsourcing projects.
526.
by bigiain 1y ago
> my keyboard is mine and isn't just going to disappear one day, have its price hiked or refuse to work after 1000 lines. I dunno, from my company or boss's perspective, there are definitely days where I've seriously consi
527.
by bigiain 1y ago
Implement all of them, with slightly different edge cases that result in glaringly obvious RCE when two or three of them are misused in place of each other. (New startup pitch: Our agentic AI scans your access and error logs, and automatica
528.
by bigiain 1y ago
> Unpopular opinion: I think I’m going to wait for version 4 In my personal timeline, people giving up waiting for Perl 6 were a huge source of early Python developers.
529.
by bigiain 1y ago
I'm like, come on! It's a South Park reference? Surely everybody here gets that??? <google google google> "Original air date: December 16, 1998" Oh, right. Half of you weren't even born... Now I feel ooooooold
530.
by bigiain 1y ago
I mean, aren't we already? My Pi-holes both use OpenDNS, Quad9, and CloudFlare for upstream. Most of my devices use both of my Pi-holes.
531.
by bigiain 1y ago
There are kinds big step/jumps as the size of a company goes up. Step 1: You start out with the founders being on call 27x7x365 or people in the first 10 or 20 hires "carry the pager" on weekends and evenings and your entire
532.
by bigiain 1y ago
I agree it's not "inscrutable corporatese" It's carefully written so my boss's boss thinks he understands it, and that we cannot possibly have that problem because we obviously don't have any "legacy compo
533.
by bigiain 1y ago
That's not correct. LetEncrypt are trialling ip address https/TLS certificates right now: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/07/01/issuing-our-first-ip-addr... They say: "In principle, there’s no rea
534.
by bigiain 1y ago
> It is fairly rare to see an ex-employee put a positive spin on their work experience. Sure, but this bit really makes me wonder if I'd like to see what the writer is prepared to do to other people to get to his payday: "Nabee
535.
by bigiain 1y ago
Sadly "I'd like Firefox to not be owned by an advertising/surveillance company" is unlikely to be considered in that forum (even if I were prepared to sign up to comment). Everything else is minor details compared to tha
536.
by bigiain 1y ago
I think the thing that finally might drive union membership in the software development industry, is going to be the need to be able to tell your boss "No. I will not debug or add features to any AI coded or assisted codebase."
537.
by bigiain 1y ago
> "I didn’t actually execute Python scripts ... my “test” was a mental simulation based on my knowledge" Pretty sure the part of the training corpus that produced that was written by an ex cow orker of mine...
538.
by bigiain 1y ago
I have at times carried a Firefox Phone and a Pinephone, and deeply enjoyed asking work or other people who insisted I needed to download an app to do (whatever) "Where I can get your app for my phone? No, it's not an iPhone. No,
539.
by bigiain 1y ago
> They may as well just have titled it "Protecting My Attention At The {Insert Arbitrary Hormone or Neurotransmission Chemical} Carnival".... I disagree. I am absolutely certain that the vast majority of the readers here would
540.
by bigiain 1y ago
> This creates an ever-growing chain of promises that never gets garbage collected. Modern frontend development performance best practise is to allow for garbage collection only when the browser crashes.

More ›