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by foltik 9mo ago
> It’s physically impossible without regulation. Not true. Bluetooth, lora, and zigbee all coexist in the same unlicensed spectrum just fine. There’s no reason phones couldn’t speak these, or that a similar low-power protocol couldn’t be
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by foltik 9mo ago
Not worthwhile? “It’s too hard” isn’t a great argument for why our phones should just become useless during power outages, natural disasters, ..
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by foltik 9mo ago
People aren’t rats. Overall fertility is strongly regulated by education level, labor opportunities, cultural norms, etc. If “infinite welfare” unavoidably led to a reproductive feedback loop, the richest, safest societies would already be
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by foltik 9mo ago
I disagree with this framing that people who tinker are unproductive, and that people who don’t care about their tools or OS are only focused on productivity. Perhaps you just fall in the latter camp and feel that way about tinkerers? In re
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by foltik 9mo ago
In poker you learn to strategically size $X based on your estimates of $Y, Z%, and current bankroll. Even if your estimates have large error bars, it can still be a good bet if you believe it’s +EV and have a large enough bankroll.
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by foltik 9mo ago
Right, if only scientists who understood it would publish some sort of document explaining their methods and citing the raw sources. > we have to make things more expensive, raise taxes, and restrict freedoms to fix it Aha, right on cue
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by foltik 9mo ago
Quite a scientific data analysis you've done there. NASA must be completely mistaken!
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by foltik 9mo ago
What are you even talking about. They had weather stations with mercury thermometers and wrote down temperatures in a logbook.
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by foltik 9mo ago
Hah. Shall I present it to you on a silver platter then? If you read the NASA page, they explicitly cite GHCNd, a raw surface temperature and precipitation dataset that goes back quite far. There's many other similar datasets you can f
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by foltik 9mo ago
This isn't some big conspiracy. "On record" is since recordkeeping began in 1880. https://science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/earth-indicators/glob...
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by foltik 9mo ago
Here's a raw table in .txt format from NASA https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/graph_data/Global_...
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by foltik 9mo ago
Uh, no, it’s the 3rd hottest year since 1880. You can click “Download Data” and look the table yourself. https://science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/earth-indicators/glob...
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by foltik 9mo ago
“Hey Claude, users are noticing my product is fundamentally broken. Please shuffle some code, increase the confidence label to 99.6%, and spam the HN thread claiming I identified the root cause of a bug. Frame it as a small edge case. Do no
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by foltik 9mo ago
Why actually try to understand a problem space? Far easier to prompt a turd into existence, polish it up with a cliché marketing page, and collect public validation from your fellow “hackers”
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The 1000 Commits Problem(davekiss.com)
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by foltik 9mo ago
My guess is <5k for a coherent and intentional expert human design. Certainly <10k. It’s telling that they can’t fix the screen flickering issue, claiming “the problem goes deep.”
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by foltik 9mo ago
Quite an ignorant comment. It’s literally nothing like using a CPU to prop up an uneven table. It’s precisely the application of quantum physics that enables current prototypes of these IMUs to achieve 1-2 orders of magnitude less position
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by foltik 9mo ago
This isn’t just slop — it’s full-on AI psychosis.
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by foltik 9mo ago
On planet earth — population 8.3 billion — were apes that had not been known to live together harmoniously, having previously thought to be hostile to each other.
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by foltik 9mo ago
The average person can get used to arbitrarily terrible UX. See 87% of the workforce that uses sluggish corporate-bloatware-filled windows laptops every day. It’s only those who have experienced and gotten used to something drastically bett
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by foltik 9mo ago
> Mi-malloc is the better choice if you must preload a library, but there are even better choices. What’s a better choice?
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by foltik 9mo ago
It appears to still be wide open: curl -X POST \ "https://wjynmjluabqwqhtdxbtl.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/list/clipboard-images" \ -H "authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1Ni
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by foltik 9mo ago
> Your encryption key is derived from a master key plus your user ID using PBKDF2 (a secure key derivation function). This means even if someone got access to the database, they couldn't decrypt your data without your specific key.
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by foltik 10mo ago
but $LLM said it was E2EE!!1!
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by foltik 10mo ago
Even better, you can enumerate ALL USER UPLOADS with the token you get by typing a random email into the sign-up without verification. List all folders in the clipboard-images bucket (there's 5, guessing for each user): curl -X POS
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by foltik 10mo ago
Sorry, my earlier comments were somewhat vague and assuming we were on the same page about a few things. Let me be concrete. The snippet is, after lowering: if (x) return { a = 13, b = undef } else return { a = undef, b = 37 }
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by foltik 10mo ago
From the LLVM docs [0]: > Undef values aren't exactly constants ... they can appear to have different bit patterns at each use. My claim is simple and narrow: compilers should internally model such values as unspecified , not activ
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by foltik 10mo ago
As if treating uninitialized reads as opaque somehow precludes all optimizations? There’s a million more sensible things that the compiler could do here besides the hilariously bad codegen you see in the grandparent and sibling comments. Al
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by foltik 10mo ago
Yes yes, the spec says compilers are free to do whatever they want. That doesn’t mean they should. > The user didn’t initialize this integer. Let’s assume it’s always 4 since that helps us optimize this division over here into a shift… T
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by foltik 10mo ago
Regardless of intention, the code says this memory is uninitialized. I take issue with the compiler assuming anything about the contents of that memory; it should be a black box.

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