neilalexander

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by neilalexander 4mo ago
Having services be accessible on a link-local address and then advertising that service via mDNS is a completely legitimate use-case that works extremely well and is extremely common with Apple devices amongst others. The advantage being th
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by neilalexander 5mo ago
I would add that there is no particularly good reason for an EV to have a push-to-start button. With Volvo, Polestar etc, you get in and shift straight into Drive or Reverse, and when you’re done, you put it into Park and climb out again. T
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by neilalexander 5mo ago
It matters if it's relevant to the person asking the AI agent for help with what they're doing with the software that they already have.
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by neilalexander 5mo ago
Because there is a world of software out there that isn't CLI-based and much of it may never be updated to expose LLM-friendly APIs.
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by neilalexander 5mo ago
HaLow is just Wi-Fi on sub-1GHz frequencies and narrower channels. You get normal MTUs and TCP & UDP work just fine.
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by neilalexander 5mo ago
None of MeshCore, Meshtastic or Reticulum will scale well, especially not on top of a heavily constrained radio technology like LoRa. Flooding is inefficient for obvious reasons, AODV-esque routing (which MeshCore tries to do for DMs and Re
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by neilalexander 5mo ago
Incoming voltage monitoring is a requirement for EV chargers in the UK. The sudden huge demand would result in a voltage drop, the chargers would then detect the under-voltage condition and they'd stop charging.
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by neilalexander 5mo ago
If only I had a penny for every HN comment about naming conflicts.
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by neilalexander 6mo ago
They didn't. Apple contributed the core logic to the Wi-Fi Alliance to build Wi-Fi Aware, which they now also support.
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by neilalexander 6mo ago
That's precisely what Wi-Fi Aware (NaN) is and it is heavily based on AWDL. It's even built into recent versions of iOS and Android.
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by neilalexander 7mo ago
Vegetable oil will cause long-term damage in modern diesel engines with direct injection or common rail injection systems. Older indirect injection diesel engines could tolerate it much better because of the pre-combustion stage.
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by neilalexander 7mo ago
I'm a fairly average HN user but I earn my livelihood by working from home. Backup connectivity is cheap.
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by neilalexander 7mo ago
No platform is perfect but I'd argue that desktop Linux still has far more many rough edges to contend with when something goes wrong. There are way too many problems for which "well just open the terminal and..." is the only
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by neilalexander 7mo ago
Useless padding and borders seems to be par for the course in the last couple of years. Another thing redesigned for no tangible benefit.
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by neilalexander 8mo ago
Random Bluetooth MACs are already possible. iOS devices have been doing it for years alongside the random Wi-Fi MACs.
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by neilalexander 8mo ago
There is not a single good XMPP client for macOS or iOS either. There are a couple of minimally functional ones that are aesthetically dreadful, but nothing that would come even close to replicating what people would expect even from Signal
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by neilalexander 8mo ago
You might want to check that charger. I have the same option set to ask every time and it never appears for chargers.
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by neilalexander 9mo ago
I have been using the exact same G4201TM devices at home for approaching five years now to do much the same: reuse some unused telephone wiring for a meaningful purpose. They are rock solid and have needed exactly zero attention since being
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by neilalexander 9mo ago
One advantage with LLMs is that they are often more able to find things that you can roughly explain but don't know the name of. They can be a good take-off point for wider searches.
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by neilalexander 9mo ago
If you assign a subnet to a host, or allow the host to claim multiple addresses via ND from the link subnet, then you can use as many addresses as you want. You could give every process on your machine its own IPv6 address for example.
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by neilalexander 9mo ago
You can go to https://privacy.apple.com , log in with your Apple ID, select "Request to transfer a copy of your data" and then select "iCloud photos and videos to Google Photos".
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by neilalexander 9mo ago
Because there isn't "empty space" in the IPv4 packet header (or even the pseudoheader format from which TCP or UDP checksums etc are derived) to expand your new bits into. By breaking the packet format, you just invented a ne
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by neilalexander 10mo ago
> Old farts making laws about things they know nothing about. Who's going to stop them?
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by neilalexander 10mo ago
As I understand it, Volvo's relationship with Luminar broke down, not that there was an obvious problem with the technology itself.
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by neilalexander 10mo ago
I would think that if they actually spent the time and money fixing the core functionality of their core products (like Windows and Office) that they might have a much easier time promoting things like Copilot. Instead they leave their user
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by neilalexander 11mo ago
You seem to be desperate to talk about blame but ultimately they're called accidents for a reason. Not because we want them to happen, not because we can always prevent them. Regulations like this are about changing the outcome, not th
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by neilalexander 11mo ago
You know what else will be braindead in your nice world? The child who runs out in front of a car after a rigid tight-angled metal corner drives into their skull. These regulations aren't about blame or "drivers/pedestrians&#
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by neilalexander 11mo ago
EU legislation requires a number of design considerations for pedestrian and cyclist collisions, like specific energy absorption requirements for front-impact and side-impact protection, restrictions on sharp corners/steep angles that
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by neilalexander 11mo ago
Yes.
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by neilalexander 11mo ago
> I have serious doubts who are the target of this or what is the point of this to exist at all. It is literally worse than email. Yggmail is a fun proof-of-concept and that’s about it. It isn’t perfect, nor does it have to be. “It’s ema

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