gary_0

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by gary_0 3y ago
Previous discussion (2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21486494
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by gary_0 3y ago
I would normally agree with you out of hand, but using hydrogen for temporary grid storage isn't as obviously stupid as, say, using it to power cars. Sure, most proposed uses of hydrogen are blatant red herrings invented by the fossil
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by gary_0 3y ago
I just added substack.com##.post:has(.paywall) noahpinion.blog##.post:has(.paywall) to my uBlock filters so I don't waste my time in the future.
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by gary_0 3y ago
I dream of having a laptop with a standard tenkeyless layout. If I end up buying a Framework at some point I might build my own TKL keyboard, or pay handsomely to have one custom-built, such is my burning desire to keep my existing muscle-m
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by gary_0 3y ago
So if I'm checking local server log files to debug a problem that started a few days ago, I can't easily tell where the incoming connections are coming from?
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by gary_0 3y ago
Doesn't that mean if you move, or if your ISP changes your IP, all your local devices will end up with different addresses? I have an internal DNS server and it would be annoying if it could randomly break and require me to update all
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by gary_0 3y ago
It was probably more of a co-evolution as the design of the Internet and Unix solidified, building on earlier established principles. But you can see the same thinking in both designs, the idea of plumbing together simple systems in a flexi
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by gary_0 3y ago
TCP was clearly designed by people who strove for elegance and understood the Unix philosophy, and you almost want to blame something else when all the wonky edge cases show up. Witness all the NODELAY issues, DDoS mitigations, and contorti
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by gary_0 3y ago
Movie cyberpunk makes the ugly pretty and the sordid exciting, upping the saturation until the fluorescents become psychedelic. The cyberpunk we are living has no such aesthetic filters. An adventure is something terrible that happens to so
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by gary_0 3y ago
Maybe their engineers were lazy or rushed by management, and didn't keep things organized, so GPL code, proprietary/internal code, potentially-patent-violating hardware documentation, and secret keys all got munged together, and t
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by gary_0 3y ago
True, I am biased towards mostly-digital systems that keep anything analog-ish (sensors, amplifiers, converters and power supplies, PHYs, RF, etc) at the periphery, connected via digital buses, where all the scary analog stuff is taken care
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by gary_0 3y ago
Strong Sad taught me that word back in 2003: https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/58-dragon
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by gary_0 3y ago
Yes, but isn't it cyberpunk as fuck ? Welcome to living out your wildest nightmares.
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by gary_0 3y ago
I might be off base since I've been an electronics hobbyist (plus one time I got snookered into doing it for a job) for 30 years, but I feel like there's isn't that much electronics-specific theory behind designing larger pro
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by gary_0 3y ago
The rules of Go are not exactly "programmed in" to AlphaGo; they are only provided so the model knows what the valid moves and win conditions are as it self-trains. The latest versions of the model can be quickly adapted to play o
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by gary_0 3y ago
Similarly: Terrorist attack. After 9/11 I remember that some websites for WTC-based companies went offline, presumably because they were hosted on computers in the building.
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by gary_0 3y ago
I'm referring to the various times biological neurons have been (and will likely continue to be) the inspiration for artificial neurons[0]. I acknowledge that the word "inspiration" is doing a lot of work here, but the resear
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by gary_0 3y ago
It depends on what kind of simulation you're trying to run, though. You don't need to perfectly model the physically moving heads and magnetic oscillations of a hard drive to emulate an old PC; it may be enough to just store the b
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by gary_0 3y ago
This looks promising: https://gitlab.com/eidheim/Simple-WebSocket-Server It includes http/https/ws/wss client and server code in just a few files (although last I checked, some files are needlessly dupli
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by gary_0 3y ago
Any thoughts on how it compares to libcurl?
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by gary_0 3y ago
iPhones are pretty locked down, and stand a good chance of allowing parents to totally block adult content. Android and general-purpose computers less so, naturally. But VPNs have already come up as the way around these new age-verification
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by gary_0 3y ago
And a VPN bypasses these age-verification restrictions some states are adding. And kids find ways of buying alcohol too (when I was in high school eons ago, just about everyone was underage drinking, and a lot of my friends had porno mags t
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by gary_0 3y ago
Google Play and the App Store already have account-based restrictions and fairly annoying rules about apps that can access unrestricted content. When I was a kid and smartphones weren't a thing, I knew kids whose parents had installed
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by gary_0 3y ago
My point wasn't that this should be done, just that it's a more viable option if moral busybody legislators actually want to legally restrict children's access to adult content instead of finding creative ways of harassing
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by gary_0 3y ago
I'm sure that there are browser extensions that use that meta tag. There is no shortage of software options for blocking adult content.
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by gary_0 3y ago
This should not be that hard. How about: - At point of purchase for a consumer device that can view Internet content, the salesperson (or web store) is required to ask if the device is for an underage child, in which case either the device
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by gary_0 3y ago
> I think it’s perfectly reasonable to expect “trust me, I know what I’m doing” users to have to step outside of the language to accomplish their goals and use facilities like inline assembly or implementation extensions. I agree with mo
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by gary_0 3y ago
> instead of every frame It's wasteful to recompute paths every frame, since people don't entirely rethink their gross movements every 16ms. Way back when I coded some monster pathfinding, I also randomized the re-pathing inter
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by gary_0 3y ago
You wouldn't really want to mess with the OS in cases like that, though. If you did, a lot of the OS-included drivers would probably not work due to removal or bit-rot, or 3rd-party drivers might not work with a much newer OS. The only
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by gary_0 3y ago
Does Intel or anyone still sell 32-bit x86 chips for non-embedded use? A quick Google was inconclusive, although it seems that while Intel sells low-power x86 chips under the "Pentium Silver" brand, they all seem to be 64-bit now.

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