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by rmunn 1y ago
Practical question for HN: How do you all label your PoE cables so that you don't accidentally plug the powered cable into a socket that wasn't expecting 48 volts on those pins and fry something? (I know the power injector is supp
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by rmunn 1y ago
It would seem logical, until you learn what allergies are. They are the body's immune system overreacting to something that would normally be harmless, and acting as if it's an invading pathogen. Once you learn that, then realizin
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by rmunn 1y ago
Please update the title to mention that this is MacOS only; I got excited to try this out, but I only have laptops running Linux and Windows.
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by rmunn 1y ago
Was either "yes" or "no" clearly the right translation in context? I'm very curious to know which one was correct, the dub or the sub. Or was it one of those ambiguous situations where either one would be a correct
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by rmunn 1y ago
One part of what's driving cars to all look the same is mandated fuel-efficiency targets, which make aerodynamics a primary design factor that overrides nearly all others. Sacrificing any amount of aerodynamics is unlikely to happen
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by rmunn 1y ago
Quote from the article (emphasis in original): "Our target for a suitable exploit delivery vehicle is open-source applications where the collection and distribution of high-frequency mouse data is not inherently suspicious. Therefore
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by rmunn 1y ago
Best use for location sharing I can think of is traveling in a convoy of more than one vehicle, when you plan to meet up for lunch somewhere along the way. At least one person in each car shares their location with each other during the tri
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by rmunn 1y ago
> And another reason people don't like them is a record of pairing them with abnormally short yellow lights. This. I heard an anecdote, which I can't prove but I'm sure has happened dozens of times in various places, about
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by rmunn 1y ago
I've known that the correct pronunciation of "mic" was to sound like "mike" (because it's short for "microphone") for so long that the pun in the "Mic-E-Mouse" name escaped me until after I
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by rmunn 1y ago
Canon also makes a line of printers with refillable ink tanks, no chip involved. I've owned one for a couple years now, and I helped my father set one up about three months ago. Rough back-of-the-envelope math suggests a cost of 1-2 ce
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by rmunn 1y ago
> Most programmers that write JavaScript for a living don't really understand how to scale applications in JavaScript, which includes data structures in JavaScript. There is a very real dependence on layers of abstractions to enable
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by rmunn 1y ago
I am extremely confident that AGI, if it is achievable at all (which is a different argument and one I'm not getting into right now), requires a world model / fact model / whatever terminology you prefer, and is therefore n
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by rmunn 1y ago
Better algorithms is one of the things I meant by "better ways to tweak the models to make better use of the available training data". But that produces slower growth than the jaw-droppingly rapid growth you can get by slurping pr
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by rmunn 1y ago
NOTE IN ADVANCE: I'm generalizing, naturally, because talking about specifics would require an essay and I'm trying to write a comment. Why predict that the growth rate is going to slow now? Simple. Because current models have alr
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by rmunn 1y ago
The "never create your own encryption" advice is specifically because crypto is full of subtle ways to get it wrong, which you will NOT catch on your own. It's a special case of "never use encryption that hasn't bee
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by rmunn 1y ago
All those things were done under Gates and Ballmer. When Nadella stood up on stage in his first year as CEO under a big banner that proclaimed "MS (heart) Linux", I said "I'll believe it when I see it." Well, over t
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by rmunn 1y ago
Some varieties of in-code documentation do support links, e.g. XmlDoc which is the de facto standard for documenting C# code (and therefore the most relevant to my comments about MSDN because I was referring specifially to the .NET API do
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by rmunn 1y ago
This has nothing to do with the content of the article, but is anyone else annoyed by that link style, or is it only me? To me, the link style where the underline partially overlaps the baseline of the text (not just characters with descend
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by rmunn 1y ago
If you don't honor contracts, then you should go out of business, because nobody will trust you (if they're wise, though there are always some people/companies who will be foolish). If you make a contract that involves you
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by rmunn 1y ago
Thank you for correcting my mistake; that helps.
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by rmunn 1y ago
Thank you for correcting my mistakes; I appreciate it.
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This is just one example of how metrics can distort things, of course. Someone in management said "We want 100% documentation coverage of every method," so the staff dutifully wasted everyone's time by writing "setDefaul
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by rmunn 1y ago
I was confused by my first several readings of the projectbluefin.io site, due in part to not having prior experience with some of the techs (e.g. their 2023 announcement said "Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue by a bunch
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by rmunn 1y ago
Bingo. All my experience is on Linux, and I've never written anything for Windows. So recently when I needed to port a small C program to Windows, I told ChatGPT "Hey, port this to Windows for me". I wouldn't trust the r
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by rmunn 1y ago
The only AI-assisted software work I've seen actually have a benefit is the way my coworker use Supermaven, where it's basically Intellisense but suggesting filling in the function parameters for you as well. He'll type `Merg
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by rmunn 1y ago
Rephrase it as "Youtube doesn't care about you, just about putting ads in front of your face" and it's not a contradiction. As long as you don't get irritated enough to go away and stop using Youtube entirely, they
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by rmunn 1y ago
Interestingly, in theory UTF-8 could be extended to 36 bits: the FLAC format uses an encoding similar to UTF-8 but extended to allow up to 36 bits (which takes seven bytes) to encode frame numbers: https://www.ietf.org/rfc&#
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by rmunn 1y ago
Upvoted despite your final sentence being incorrect. :-) You're absolutely right that React is miles better than Angular, but Svelte and Vue (which feel very similar to each other, I just switched from one project written in Svelte to
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by rmunn 1y ago
That is indeed why they limited it, but that was a mistake. I want to call UTF-16 a mistake all on its own, but since it predated UTF-8, I can't entirely do so. But limiting the Unicode range to only what's allowed in UTF-16 was s
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by rmunn 1y ago
That's not what I'm saying at all, I'm saying that in the absence of a BOM header a Unicode-aware app should guess UTF-8 first and then guess other likely encodings second , because the chance of false positives on the &qu

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