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by eichin 9mo ago
... was that a real guardian article, or just an elaborate prank built around the phrase "shell company"?
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by eichin 9mo ago
"fetched this branch" needs to include "started reviewing the PR", and probably other cases; it does mean switching modes for devs who usually rebase privately.
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by eichin 9mo ago
> Except when playing a sound (when a cat is detected) PawSense occupies less than 120K of RAM. Maybe add a 1999 or 2000 datestamp to this (it won the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners...
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by eichin 9mo ago
Part of why these things feel "not fit for purpose" is that they don't include the things Simon has spent three years learning? (I know someone else who's doing multi-LLM development where he uses job-specialty descrip
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by eichin 9mo ago
indeed - https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/01/08/a-software-library-with-... appears to be exactly that - the idea that the only leverage you have for fixing bugs is updating prompts (and, to be fair, test case
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by eichin 9mo ago
Tried throwing a batch of known-to-be-in-Amazon ISBN's through (from a recent "export my data", so even if they're old amazon fundamentally knows them.) Got 500's for a handful of the first hundred, then a bunch of
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by eichin 9mo ago
How does the debian support compare to just using apt-ftparchive? (The swiss-army-knife aspect is interesting, but while I've needed different kinds of private repo building I've never really needed more than one at a time...)
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by eichin 9mo ago
I'm sure you meant the code was changing periodically, but now I'm expecting some pseudo-cyberpunk "rapidly spinning barcode" authenticator to show up in a movie...
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by eichin 9mo ago
That seems to be what Impulse is targeting - standard size drop in inductive with a lot of high tech features (for the price) and a ludicrous battery, so you don't need to upgrade the wiring (since you don't cook 24x7 after all.
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by eichin 9mo ago
To align this more precisely - 2015 was the year of the Blackberry Priv (I used one for a couple of years) and, being an Android phone, felt like kind of a last gasp for Blackberry.
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by eichin 10mo ago
I ended up separating out a "plumbing" blog, from the "real" blogs, with no discussion of the tinkering allowed on the real ones - so the plumbing blog grew in details but didn't "count" for the non-meta b
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by eichin 10mo ago
This is interestingly analogous to nelhage's memory sampling approach https://blog.nelhage.com/2013/03/tracking-an-eventmachine-le... where if something is leaking "at scale", let it - then gcore
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by eichin 10mo ago
As of 2024, literally none of the customers deploying the robots I worked on had ipv6 support on their networks. (We seriously considered switching to ipv6 for our backend controller-to-device network since it would inherently avoid confli
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by eichin 10mo ago
Hmm, is there a simple way to force chrome to use this for view source and/or Inspect? (didn't see anything in the earlier thread either, but those are the two really obvious places that a font would be a reasonable approach...)
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by eichin 10mo ago
"if you're not measuring, you're not optimizing"
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by eichin 10mo ago
> mathematical laboratory Love the image of mathematicians laboring over flasks and test tubes, mixing things and extracting numbers... would have far more explosions than day-to-day mathematics usually does...
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by eichin 10mo ago
That aspect makes it kind of a massively parallel "startup name or fantasy sword" challenge, once you get past the obvious ones (whether that helps or hinders I wouldn't claim either way, but it rhymes?)
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by eichin 10mo ago
Nice afternoon of puzzling, thanks for sharing it. (The one feature I could have used was either dragging items around - maybe only already-grouped ones - or the ability to pop back to the one that got merged, since I'd noticed someth
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by eichin 10mo ago
to quote an old academic research programmer: "Two-letter variable names are fine, as long as both letters are meaningful" :-)
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by eichin 10mo ago
This sounds a lot like the classic "the way to get a good answer on the internet is to post a wrong answer first", but in reverse - the AI gives you a bad version which trolls you into digging in and giving the right answer :-)
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by eichin 10mo ago
Linux already did one better: binfmt_misc (see https://blog.cloudflare.com/using-go-as-a-scripting-language... for using it for a much cleaner way of using it to use gorun on executable *.go files.)
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by eichin 10mo ago
When I went from a 2006 mini to a 2021 polestar 2, there were a bunch of things that were either "up in class" or "15 years makes things better" - traction control, non-invasive lane-assist (with invasive options), per-d
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by eichin 10mo ago
Wait, so someone took the "virus fishtank" from https://xkcd.com/350/ and did it with LLMs instead?
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by eichin 10mo ago
Yeah, staff engineer is a pinnacle "still doing engineering and maybe leadership but not management " position in engineering firms. The academic "staff" is just a "not really one of us" gatekeeping-the-s
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by eichin 10mo ago
Probably either (1) they don't request another jpeg until they have the previous one on-screen (so everything is completely serialized and there are no frames "in-flight" ever) (2) they're doing a fresh GET for each a
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by eichin 10mo ago
Usually I watch your stuff very closely (and positively) because you're pushing the edges of how LLMs can be useful for code (and are a lot more honest/forthwright than most enthusiasts about it Going Horribly Wrong and how much w
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by eichin 10mo ago
Anyone know how this compares to Espruino? The target memory footprint is in the same range, at least. (I know very little about the embedded js space, I just use shellyplugs and have them programmed to talk to BLE lightswitches using some
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by eichin 10mo ago
When they built the new High School in my old home town in western CT one of the local archaeologists (day job: science teacher) did some exploration on site and discovered all sorts of stuff - no funding for a proper dig so they capped it
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by eichin 10mo ago
https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuilt but the short form is that you keep the original sources untouched, then as part of building the package, you apply everything in a `debian/patches` directory, do the build, and then
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by eichin 10mo ago
GPS uses the atomic clocks on the satellites though. (Random search result from space force https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/Newsroom/Article/4039094/50-y... claims that cell phone tower-to-tower handoff uses

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