jval43

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by jval43 9d ago
It was so much faster you could not believe it. It was a revelation and even though "degoogling" was already a thing, Chrome was so much better than the rest that you just had to use it. Tabs actually worked without crashing your
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by jval43 9d ago
Google Chrome did this in 2008. Full-text search over all visited pages, stored offline. It was very useful and I miss it. Nobody seems to remember it, even though it was a headline feature. Was removed in 2013, I think due to technical con
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by jval43 9d ago
No. If you're the leader you should know what you're leading. It's literally the job. But the problem is right there: "non-technical" leaders. Never work for one if you can avoid it.
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by jval43 12d ago
Reading that, the execution is now deterministic but the soundness is still probabilistic and <100%, no? Unless I'm reading it wrong.
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by jval43 12d ago
No pictures from 1832, but I found a photo describing the phenomenon. So low-res one can barely see the effect: https://onehundredmountains.blogspot.com/2008/04/sunrise-on-...
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by jval43 12d ago
It's standard cryptography, not some new-fangled tech! Wikipedia even has some easy examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof Main caveat is that ZKPs are probabilistic. The protocol (number of
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by jval43 13d ago
Site is down. This should be the same PDF I think: http://wexler.free.fr/library/files/necker%20(1832)%20observ...
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by jval43 14d ago
I disagree. First we got everything as HTML/Electron apps, now the trend is everything as TUIs. Cross-platform, better, but still worse somehow. What falls to the wayside are the actual and real productivity and usability improvements
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by jval43 15d ago
It's entirely possible future models will refuse to answer if they notice you're using an external harness. Instead they'll point you to their respective vendor APIs for the specific use cases. We're talking about trilli
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by jval43 17d ago
Especially Apple. Buying a first gen Apple product hasn't been great since like 1999 at least. Very few exceptions.
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by jval43 2mo ago
Play the Gameboy version. I bought every single official Tetris version and they all suck in conparison. Gameboy emulators are now available again in the iOS app store or even as a a web app. Or just play on real hardware.
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by jval43 2mo ago
It was so close! I could already see the end of all the predatory publishing and flourishing of open-access. Some even required by law. Knowledge was finally going to be free. But no, it will presumably get much worse as LLMs are inserted i
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by jval43 2mo ago
My ACM papers are published in full on my website. Not preprints. In fact thats the only reason I have a website, just in case someone actually wants to read them. The copyright agreement (actually copyright assignment/transfer) with A
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Canbus – Networking so simple, even YOU can understand it [video](youtube.com)
3 points by jval43 2mo ago|0 comments
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by jval43 2mo ago
A paperclip always worked, even on the slot loading iMacs.
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by jval43 3mo ago
Impressive debugging skills, and thank you for the benchmarks. Now I'm wondering if mlx-engine / mlx-lm have these bugs too. One minor thing: as you are concerned with honest numbers, the graphs should be logarithmic on the y-axis
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by jval43 3mo ago
Very carefully - and I mean extremely carefully - word it so that it describes what it does, while implying what it should do without confirming that it actually does that. Also helps if you fix the bug or change the behavior, the docs are
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by jval43 3mo ago
This is one of the reasons I currently use Gemini for daily use and research. Google has lots of experience with search history, and presumably handles this better than new companies.
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by jval43 3mo ago
There was this article recently, which I personally found interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208573 Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering (maderix.substack.com) 376 points | 3 mont
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by jval43 3mo ago
Same for me, when riding the bus. Really wanted it to work and tried over the course of several weeks, unfortunately it didn't help.
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by jval43 4mo ago
Thank you, that's a good response and I agree with many of your points.
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by jval43 4mo ago
Problem-solving is not the same as engineering or computer science though. Problem-solving can be done by an "analyst" or whatever these types of jobs are usually called.
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by jval43 4mo ago
I've found two things to matter: 1. experience, i.e. knowing why and how a rule matters (in general, but also to auditors) 2. willingness to think If these aren't present, you get overly restrictive compliance that at the same tim
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by jval43 4mo ago
My work laptop just started doing this 3 weeks ago! It's insane. Rather new machine too. It gets so hot in my bag I actually worry about it starting a fire one day. I now take it out every night. Obviously I tried googling but no dic
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by jval43 4mo ago
Always trust your gut. Especially when it comes to people. Don't overthink, never rationalize it. Accept your feeling, it's valid. If I learned anything from all my past mistakes in life, it's this.
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by jval43 5mo ago
Realistically it's 48 M5 Pro vs 128 M5 Max due to constraints on how you can configure them. So a more substantial difference of ~2k US.
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by jval43 5mo ago
Counterpoint: the touchscreen in my car DOES work with gloves. Of course the knobs do too. The screen is some different tech and not quite as responsive as an iPhone screen and does not do multitouch, but otherwise works fine.
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by jval43 5mo ago
Even Toyota is going touch now, with the 2026 models lacking climate control knobs. I don't know why. Every review always praised the previous models for the physical buttons, and literally nobody asked for them. The physical buttons w
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by jval43 5mo ago
We can't. It's just that everyone and their dog has an interest in selling you that lie because money. Stochastic parrots can code yes, but that does not make them experts. Don't trust them with your life.
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by jval43 5mo ago
I did, in Java 2ME for my Nokia. That was a completely different experience and much harder to get going. I did make a color 2D game though in about a week. The TI-200 was much more accessible and fun, creating small little programs during

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