cpeterso

8 ms·

121.
by cpeterso 1y ago
Maybe that’s business opportunity for some to create and manage trusted personal portals for family members.
122.
Why Doesn't Google Maps Work in South Korea(cnn.com)
1 points by cpeterso 1y ago|0 comments
123.
by cpeterso 1y ago
Here’s a related talk: “NVIDIA - Securing the Future of Safety and Security of Embedded Software” https://youtu.be/2YoPoNx3L5E > NVIDIA is working with AdaCore to implement Ada and SPARK programming languages into certai
124.
by cpeterso 1y ago
How do you pronounce "pyx"? Pikes, picks, pie-ex?
125.
by cpeterso 1y ago
I switched to a free iOS indie game called "Word/off". It's a two-player Wordle clone where you choose a word for your friends to solve. I find stumping my friends or guessing their words more fun than solving the same W
126.
by cpeterso 1y ago
Matchmaking service for swapping unused domains with other side project hobbyists.
127.
by cpeterso 1y ago
Google’s own services generate goo.gl short URLs (Google Maps generates https://maps.app.goo.gl/ URLs for sharing links to map locations), so I assume this shutdown only affects user-generated short URLs. Google’s original
128.
by cpeterso 1y ago
Mozilla shipped an easier-to-use profile manager in Firefox 138. Here are instructions for enabling it: https://allthings.how/use-the-new-updated-profile-manager-in...
129.
by cpeterso 1y ago
True. Firefox's reader view is a one-click button in the address bar, whereas Chrome's is buried in the application menu > More tools > Reading mode. And even then, Chrome only shows the reader view in a narrow sidebar, leav
130.
by cpeterso 1y ago
AInterns?
131.
by cpeterso 1y ago
And not Arial!
132.
by cpeterso 1y ago
The reader view and translation buttons aren’t shown on all pages, just pages for which they are relevant.
133.
by cpeterso 1y ago
“be” was a reserved keyword in early Rust, intended to be used in place of “return” (or “ret”, as it was spelled at the time) for tail calls.
134.
by cpeterso 1y ago
And most of Chromium uses the BSD license, so OpenAI won't need to open source their magic sauce.
135.
Perplexity just launched Comet, an AI web browser(theverge.com)
5 points by cpeterso 1y ago|0 comments
136.
by cpeterso 1y ago
Lisp returns as the programming language for AI!
137.
Lightpanda raises pre-seed to develop first browser built for machines and AI(lightpanda.io)
1 points by cpeterso 1y ago|0 comments
138.
by cpeterso 1y ago
HN discussion about the Register article from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917595 HN discussion about the original blog post from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27892615
139.
by cpeterso 1y ago
To enter an em dash on Windows, hold down Alt and type 0 1 5 1 on your keyboard’s numpad. (Alt 0 1 5 0 for an en dash.) This only works with numpad number keys so laptop users are out of luck.
140.
Chicago Paper Publishes 'Summer Reading List' of Fake Books Created with AI(gizmodo.com)
3 points by cpeterso 1y ago|2 comments
141.
Dijkstra on Ada(craftofcoding.wordpress.com)
65 points by cpeterso 1y ago|47 comments
142.
by cpeterso 1y ago
Some biting critiques from Edsger Dijkstra: Red: “the proposal is both advanced and backward in such an incongruous manner that I am baffled” Green: “technical incompetence, probably enhanced by dishonesty” Blue: “the blue language is unacc
143.
54 years ago, a computer programmer fixed a bug, created an existential crisis(inverse.com)
3 points by cpeterso 1y ago|0 comments
144.
Open source project curl is sick of users submitting "AI slop" vulnerabilities(arstechnica.com)
7 points by cpeterso 1y ago|1 comments
145.
by cpeterso 1y ago
btw, Arc is in maintenance mode as The Browser Company focuses on building a new AI browser called Dia: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/2/24310944/dia-ai-browser-v...
146.
by cpeterso 1y ago
A film adaptation of Project Hail Mary wrapped filming last year and is set to be released in 2026. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary_(film)
147.
by cpeterso 1y ago
ChatGPT suggests the story is "Local Effect" by D. L. Hughes, published in 1968. An alien named Firefoal of Swaylone observes that human physicists mistakenly believe in a constant light speed because humanity was unknowingly situ
148.
by cpeterso 1y ago
Here's a link to that interview: https://youtu.be/2T6pIJWKMcg
149.
by cpeterso 2y ago
When evaluating successors to CVS back in 2007, Mozilla chose Mercurial because it had better Windows support than git. 18 years later, Mozilla is now migrating from Mercurial to git.
150.
by cpeterso 2y ago
One of my favorite virtual keyboards was a linear swipe keyboard called something like “Minimum” (minus some vowels). The QWERTY keys were laid out horizontally like a piano keyboard. Text input was fast and surprisingly accurate. This was

More ›