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by herf 1y ago
Google right now lists the title of putty.org as "PuTTY", even though right now this text is only in the footer. Up until August I guess it provided a download link, but the title was not "PuTTY".
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by herf 1y ago
Correlation isn't causation - the post here says smaller homebuilders can't get financing right now, and so a supply shortage is correlated with larger actors who can, but it isn't caused by concentration directly. The qu
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by herf 1y ago
Sometimes struct-of-arrays (in-memory column store) is the right solution, and you get automatic packing that way. C makes it so much easier to store an array of structs that people don't do this often enough, but column stores prove i
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by herf 1y ago
The average car on the road is over 12 years old, and maybe a laptop has maybe 1/3 as long a lifecycle? Not sure that tracking "Wh" as a replacement for "mileage" is that useful, it's either time to replace a b
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by herf 1y ago
Which SSDs do people rely on? Considering PLP (power loss protection), write endurance/DWPD (no QLC), and other bugs that affect ZFS especially? It is hard to find options that do these things well for <$100/TB, with lower-end
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by herf 1y ago
Agree, I really prefer luminance noise when simulating film grain rather than treating RGB so independently - the RGB here looks wrong to me. If you are thinking about film, you wouldn't model it as pure photon/detector noise, bec
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by herf 1y ago
The backup requirement shows a lot of self-awareness from Microsoft, but it's still too hard to migrate a Windows machine. Contrast with a new Mac, I wait a few hours, and all my stuff is identically copied over via the built-in tool
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by herf 1y ago
This article is from a week ago and it makes a similar argument about Sec 174: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533
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by herf 1y ago
Windows still has a situation where Chrome's updates use a special service to dodge around escalation issues, and Spotify and many others install in AppData for the same reason, and lots of uninstallers just don't work, leaving fi
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by herf 1y ago
This is a really hard problem. Just consider that there are ~150 Muslims for every Jew worldwide. In the USA it's the reverse - 2:1 in favor of Jews, concentrated in particular geographic areas. Imagine what it means to get ranking r
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by herf 2y ago
Absolutely agree. This week, I can't get Chrome to connect to local servers. ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE it says. Yes, I said Yes to the new permission. Yes the check mark is on in Privacy, I mean all 20 of them that say "Google Chrom
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by herf 2y ago
If it was his discovery, would be nice if they'd give him first author on the paper's author list (Farach-Colton, Krapivin, Kuszmaul). Though I understand if the proofs were not done by him.
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by herf 2y ago
Here is the new 2024 result (all ages) that says mean time to symptom alleviation didn't significantly change on Pax: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309003 I was surprised to read it.
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by herf 2y ago
Why is there only one "iCloud" to backup your iPhone and store photos? Lots of ADP users would use a corporate or self-hosted solution instead.
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by herf 2y ago
It's remarkable how much they have neglected the upgrade process if you compare it to macOS Time Machine/Migration Assistant (which is hands off and totally easy). Why do you have so many people with ten year old PCs? Because fo
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by herf 2y ago
People seem to like the WiiM streamers, but I have not tried one yet.
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by herf 2y ago
There are a number of places where mobile devices have replaced a "general purpose computer" - like replacing your internet connection or local/cloud photo storage. I guess it depends if you believe that these resources shoul
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by herf 2y ago
zfs encryption is still corrupting datasets when using zfs send/receive for backup (huge win for mail datasets), would be cautious about using it in production: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/12014
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by herf 2y ago
Just running Creative Cloud's daemons seems to double my Macbook's power usage. (I have a startup script to kill most of it because of this.) Maybe the battery life tail wagging the dog here, but there is something smart about dis
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by herf 2y ago
If you pay cash for a house and put 60% more in an annuity, you cover the total costs. Not cheap though.
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by herf 2y ago
This uniform b-spline is the same one used often as a "Gaussian" approximation (three box filters) - see Paul Heckbert's 1986 paper here (apparently done at NYIT in the early 1980s with help from Ken Perlin): https:/&#x
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by herf 2y ago
I was curious what the theoretical distribution of digits might be, did not know that there is an extension of Benford's law for later digits which suggests the uniform assumption is quite nearly right: https://en.wikipedia.
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by herf 2y ago
Please make it so my kids can watch a YouTube video required by school without watching 20 YouTube shorts after. That's all I want.
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by herf 2y ago
It's a good generalization of several techniques. The main thing I want to know is this: how does it look with actual HDR exposures, not the synthetic ones made by "increasing exposure and colorfulness significantly"? We shou
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by herf 2y ago
I think Takeout is a heroic effort, but it's pretty clear most of these datasets would be much more useful in "streaming" form, like you would use for a database migration. For instance, you almost always would want to trial
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by herf 2y ago
Yes, but one product cycle and there's metadata (like a background texture) that tells the OCR to skip this page. Or ask your local LLM if the user is talking about medical conditions? If you like the feature at all you can make these
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by herf 2y ago
Exactly - knowing the content of each webpage is pretty easy if you're "big brother" surveilling millions of people, even more so if you have a Chrome extension to help. It's "little brother" that benefits a lo
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by herf 2y ago
It's interesting to compare this to the Chrome/Safari/Edge browsing history, which is stored in an unencrypted SQLite database, and tracks what you do for the last 90 days. It's just a bit less visual, Incognito/Pri
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by herf 3y ago
I avoid all "cooling foam" or "gel foam" as it has a relatively fixed capacity to absorb heat. In other words, it seems cold in the store and also for the first few hours of the night. But after it does its phase-change
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by herf 3y ago
In addition to maxpath (which can be ignored in most regular apps), I remember short filenames used to have some severe performance implications. For instance, with Picasa we tried never to stat a file over Samba that didn't exist, be

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