jonhohle

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by jonhohle 5d ago
I worked on Prime during the rollout of Prime Video and shortly after (maybe a year or so) pre-roll for other Prime Video content was inserted. I brought it up in a meeting with our org (but the Amazon Video team wasn’t present) and one of
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by jonhohle 5d ago
The stats say otherwise. Of the stats that are most correlated, with winners he was the biggest upset.
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by jonhohle 6d ago
Why encode the length at all in the extension? Either the next byte is a continuation byte or not. Are there real world use cases where the length encoding is used in UTF-8 where individual bytes don’t have to be read anyway (for example, c
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by jonhohle 6d ago
We’ve had 30 years of people killing digital people, often controlled by actual people without any obvious impact on violent tendencies. I’m concerned about campaigns by misguided people to “protect” the bots. Seeing the response to the Uni
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by jonhohle 6d ago
Expand this to 1-minute before birth, 1-month, 4-months, keep going. Fetal brain development is mature enough by 6 weeks that reflex and movement start. Sleep and hypnotic conditioning are a thing.
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by jonhohle 6d ago
The first and third most correlated stats are completely out of the player’s control. The confessional stat is reasonable if you’re trying to guess the winner, but as a player, there’s no obvious way to control it. Interesting to see Russel
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by jonhohle 6d ago
In the FreeBSD section he mentions loading the AMD GPU drivers lower the power. I have less experience with AMD GPUs, but with Nvidia cards on FreeBSD I’ve had to load drivers, then open the GPU device (/dev/nvidia0) to get powerm
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by jonhohle 8d ago
I think more intuitively for speed - you are multiplying the things per period. If I’m making widgets 9x faster I have 9 x the previous number of units per period of time. To get the amount of time, you invert the ratio to period over units
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by jonhohle 10d ago
Air gap?
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by jonhohle 11d ago
Dominic Giampaolo may be who you’re thinking of. He’s shown up on HN before, IIRC.
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by jonhohle 11d ago
/meta let me just say how cool it is to cool it is to make a comment on HN and have responses from folks who worked on legendary teams. Thanks for your work on BeOS.
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by jonhohle 11d ago
The exception list includes South Africa with a comment that it can’t be rendered with just rectangles, but I don’t think that’s correct. Layering and rotation should be able to reproduce the effect. South Korea’s Taegeukgi can be created w
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by jonhohle 11d ago
It’s really sad, because they mostly aped search from BeOS and had best in class search for a decade or so. Now indexing frequently breaks or works when an external disk is not attached, but won’t find local files after it’s connected.
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by jonhohle 13d ago
Safari just reloads the page instead of going back.
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by jonhohle 13d ago
It was really just a bad design decision that was exploited. It should be deprecated and removed. Allow it on intranets or some legacy website specific setting, but it should be blocked on the public internet.
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by jonhohle 14d ago
I’ve worked on enough internal and third-party SOA to know that documentation could be in an email, a slack chat, or a hallway conversation. The public docs go through writers and reviews. How many software teams could make their service or
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by jonhohle 14d ago
Let’s invert the car analogy: if someone writes an app with a backend service or library, should they be required to document the API for people to build their own tools on top of? Where between software and car does this requirement or reg
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by jonhohle 14d ago
I can poke at OBD and try to interpret values. CAN bus sniffers exist. You want to force companies to publish and maintain repositories using your preferred toolset?
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by jonhohle 14d ago
That’s why I said, at what level should this disclosure be required? Obviously a small open source utility shouldn’t have to document everything. What about a $20 electric screwdriver with an unpopulated JTAG header? a $200 door buster TV?
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by jonhohle 14d ago
I’m not sticking up for car manufacturers, but at what size or capacity should you be required to document and publish these things? It requires employer time and effort and has a cost associated with it. As a counter argument: I was just l
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by jonhohle 16d ago
Older kids tend to get fewer, more expensive gifts. I recently did the nested boxes gag, but with gift bags. What started out as a 2’x1’x6’ draw string bug turned into two gift cards. It was a lot of fun for a shaggy dog payoff that otherwi
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by jonhohle 17d ago
I personally wouldn’t choose 1984 for a 14 year old, but would consider it rather tame compared to modern fiction. Some of it would make the grocery store check out isle romance novels blush but also don’t contain any profound message.
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by jonhohle 17d ago
Reading with kids before bed was our wind down activity. I attribute that and limiting screens to an hour most days to their interest in reading.
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by jonhohle 17d ago
My wife instilled a strong love of reading in all of our children from a young age. They all ask to go to the library, but my oldest became the most voracious reader. If we didn’t limit screen time, he probably wouldn’t sleep, but with unli
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by jonhohle 17d ago
If you're patient, you can find a PC with a floppy drive at a thrift store/goodwill for $10-$15. In my area, I see them several times a year. I have a handful of USB floppy drives, one IBM, one generic drive from the Bondi blue iM
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by jonhohle 17d ago
> Dyson: That's right. There's no way I'm gonna finish the new <model>, not now. Forget it. I'm out of it. I'll quit <Anthropic> tomorrow. > Sarah: That's not good enough. > Terminator: No
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by jonhohle 19d ago
Things we take for granted, like washing hands, were pivotal in reducing illness in hospitals. If 50% of the population walk out of a public bathroom without tracking urine on their feet or anything else that touched the floor and custodian
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by jonhohle 19d ago
I’ve been a TiVo holdout because it is a great for OTA and can stream recordings to mobile devices, even over the internet. It really just works. That said, I paid for a lifetime subscription for a specific feature set. I’m sure there terms
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by jonhohle 20d ago
Your grandmother sounds incredible, and her story tragic. I read your earlier comment a slight towards her. Perhaps that’s not what you meant. Since OP was adding a counter argument to the article that some people shouldn’t be trusted, you
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by jonhohle 21d ago
I’m dense, apparently, and have no idea how disowning parents relates to Jim Crow. Back up to OP: he has conservative friends. They’re all cool with each other. I mentioned, in _that_ context, that I have not experienced conservatives causi

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