jrockway

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by jrockway 2y ago
Onboard audio frustrates me greatly. For a long time, I always used my onboard audio to an external DAC + amp. With my most recently build (circa 2020) there is something wrong with the USB bus that it's on (gone are the days of PCI
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What's most interesting to me about that is that they are willing to disclose that data to your email provider. Amazon, for example, is pretty cagey about what you've bought when sending emails, probably because they don't w
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Yeah, not sure what the original commenter is complaining about. I did "git clone https://github.com/facebook/zstd ", "cd zstd", "make" and have a working binary. Doesn't get easier
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This was on HN a while ago https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/ and reaches the same conclusion. I am inclined to use Zstd even in cases where people would use lz4. Zstd is very fast.
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I suppose the point of open source software is to edit the source code and make your own version. If you can't build it, you can't do that.
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> You spend an inordinate amount of time trying to organize it I mean, I don't. I've been doing Go for well over 10 years, so I'm well aware of the limitation and intentionally avoid running into it. "Well I hate th
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This bothers me from time to time. When I first started using Go, I think I complained to the Go team about it. They told me to think more carefully about where package boundaries are. Having the smallest package possible doesn't ne
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There's also electronic medical records in there somewhere.
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Yeah, I've always been a fan of having something like this going. I have found bugs in my software just from having the continuous graph somewhere. "Why am I using 100% of the CPU for no reason right now? Oh, after 10 minutes w
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by jrockway 2y ago
A PCB is a layer cake of fiberglass and copper, with the green stuff just being paint on top to make manufacturing easier. The copper is glued to the fiberglass and etched according to your design files. (This turns a plate of copper into
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by jrockway 2y ago
> They seem scatterbrained and unable to remember what either of us said a minute ago. I've never used weed and definitely have moments like this from time to time. I think I'm old. And that having 3000 Slack channels piping
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by jrockway 2y ago
Github is definitely quite the source of spam. I ended up realizing that when I was tired of having two .gitconfigs with two email addresses (work/personal) and switched to just putting my @users.noreply.github.com in there. No more
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I get a ton of emails from people on HN and I dunno, it's really my fault for putting my email in my profile. I don't blame HN for this; I don't think it's particularly supportive of this kind of "abuse".
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This was my first thought. You see both of them with front row seats to the inauguration, and now they have a product together? That said, this whole project probably started before either of them got involved in politics.
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Bazel prints a message when you invalidate the in-memory cache in a perhaps accidental way; you can supply it with a flag to make this an error and skip the cache invalidation. If you try to run two Bazel invocations in parallel in the same
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by jrockway 2y ago
My gloves work well on my Apple watch. Wet is always a disaster, though. If it's going to be moist outside (like hiking with a rain jacket), you have to remember to apply water lock immediately, or you're done for. In that case,
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by jrockway 2y ago
Apparently there is some transit system in China that uses this format for payments. So you can get one of those cards, add it to your watch, and program the RFID system to accept the ID of the card you got. There was an HN article about
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by jrockway 2y ago
I think there are upsides and downsides to starting young. On the one hand, you don't have much to lose, so failure is softer. On the other hand, you're missing some experience that would be useful. I worked for a startup whose
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Dark Reader turns dark mode sites light, if you want. You can control the contrast ratio on dark mode websites with the "brightness" control on your monitor. It changes the emissivity of the pixels. Turning it down keeps black t
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by jrockway 2y ago
The TPM is a computer running code that says "after 3 bad password guesses, forget the underlying key forever". That's the value it adds here. It's assumed that typing the password is the only way to get the actual enc
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I think the victim is "the state". The law seems to say that by creating a model using CSAM, certain outputs are CSAM, and the law can say whatever it wants to some extent; you just have to convince the Supreme Court that you&#x2
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I have mixed feelings. The Supreme Court did the right thing; the democratically elected government did decide upon a ban, so it should likely continue as was made law. I am not sure that banning forms of media feels good. The point of fr
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It's always felt like the best way to lock myself out of my own machine. While I don't really keep any important data on it that's not backed up, I also don't build my workstation image from a config file or anything, s
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> making cheap ethanol poisonous and with different color closes the loophole in healthcare policy I have never seen this as anything other than the death penalty for evading taxes. If the tax were designed to reduce consumption acros
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Linux development is also centralized. Instead of Github they use an email list that has patches sent to it. If that goes down, your change isn't going into Linux today.
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People aren't making hiring decisions based on protected classes. Rather, they're looking for qualified candidates in new areas. One thing that's common is for people to recommend their friends for jobs. Most of the time, t
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That one's IBM but of course not. It's just snake oil.
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I kind of expected that reply and it just sounds like cold fusion to me. "We'll tell you how it works some other time, what matters is that it's going to change the world!" It didn't.
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I mean, what products are even unique to Google or Meta? The cloning is already done and the cloners are established businesses. Or, Google just cloned someone else. Did they independently discover cloud computing and make GCP? I think
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Yeah, it's just an ad for Agentforce. They have been aggressively advertising on TV lately. One ad shows a restaurant seating customers in the rain because they aren't using AI. The other ad shows someone buying clothes that don

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