tomxor

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by tomxor 8mo ago
> the number of bus stops might matter at the margins, we’re not talking about a system where marginal improvements will matter The central argument of reducing stops is increasing bus speed , not reducing margins, It's in the seco
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by tomxor 8mo ago
Yes, I ambiguously said "started this space"... and to be honest even in the most generous interpretation that's probably incorrect, maybe ZeroTier started "this space", in that it had NAT busting mesh networking fi
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by tomxor 8mo ago
I have the same fears. Last year they have publicly stated they are not interested in acquisition [0] > Pennarun confirmed the company had been approached by potential acquirers, but told BetaKit that the company intends to grow as a pri
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by tomxor 8mo ago
How about inverting the issue, highlight posts with an opt in label. e.g Show HN [NOAI]: Since it's too controversial to ban LLM posts, and would be too easy for submitters to omit an [LLM] label... Having an opt in [NOAI] label
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by tomxor 8mo ago
This study is measuring the wrong thing. Any diet that restricts calories will cause weight loss, that's just physics not biology. So long as the person strictly sticks to that diet it will work. Strategies like intermittent fasting
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by tomxor 9mo ago
That's great, but on the flip side > We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI generated. It's going to really suck when someone eventually gets removed based on false positives... Similar problem to a
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by tomxor 10mo ago
> The idea is unsettling because it reframes human agency Not really, it's called discovery, aka science. This weird framing is just perpetuating the idea of LLMs being some kind of magic pixie dust. Stop it.
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by tomxor 10mo ago
Terrible comparison. Horses and cars had a clearly defined, tangible, measurable purpose: transport... they were 100% comparable as a market good, and so predicting an inflection point is very reasonable. Same with Chess, a clearly defined
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by tomxor 10mo ago
> Road upkeep is from general taxation. Road tax was abolished in 1937 I was skeptical of this being true since fuel duty is notoriously high in the UK, so I did a quick fact check. Based on the change in 1937 you are "technically&q
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by tomxor 11mo ago
Thanks :D I like working with people who appreciate simple solutions. This sort of response to complex solutions used to be more prevalent on HN. When I got downvoted I was like "..this is the end isn't it" :P Maybe the unix
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by tomxor 11mo ago
Forgot that was a bash feature.. ls | xargs -I % bash -c 'cd %; pwd; [[ $(git status -s) ]] && echo WIP || echo clean'
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by tomxor 11mo ago
ls | xargs -I % sh -c 'cd %; pwd; [[ $(git status -s) ]] && echo WIP || echo clean'
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by tomxor 11mo ago
ls | xargs -I % sh -c 'cd %; pwd; git status -s'
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by tomxor 1y ago
Armed and dangerous until proven chips.
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by tomxor 1y ago
btop is a worthy and missing contender. It looks quite fancy but I actually like it more for it's functionality, particularly it's tree view for navigating the processes list. I'm not a big fan of full multicolor in these kin
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by tomxor 1y ago
> as they are the bill payer and entering into a credit agreement requires you to be over 18. If you wanted belt and braces the phone companies doing PAYG could set it to disabled unless you authenticate your age to avoid the "buy s
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by tomxor 1y ago
There are various international economic laws, treaties and agreements between cooperating countries, whether or not any of them cover this scenario for to US, and whether the US would honour any agreement in the current political climate r
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by tomxor 1y ago
> Components are bad for web accessibility (aria- property fatigue). I've been using web components as a vehicle to automate and auto validate accessibility aspects as much as possible, because I think the only way to truly make thi
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by tomxor 1y ago
> And proprietary browser plugins, really? So you're not looking to reduce complexity after all, then? Maybe they haven't lived through the world of pain that was Silverlight, Flash and Java Applets et al. I suppose from a more
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by tomxor 1y ago
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by tomxor 1y ago
> > the worst offender (by far) > This is disputable. It really isn't. This has been argued to death, this is the point of this article (to provide data) because so many people (fans or not) buy into Apple's marketing, to
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by tomxor 1y ago
No, the worst offender (by far) does not get a free pass just because the world is not perfect. All of the main contributors have corporate interest and are not acting out of the goodness of their hearts, yes. But Apple's level of anti
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by tomxor 1y ago
> 1. Unreliable Ordering If you think this is only a problem for distributed systems, I have bad news for you.
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by tomxor 1y ago
> There’s plenty of places on Earth to terraform I'm going to steal this.
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by tomxor 1y ago
I wonder what the difference between PM2.5 from cooking oil or fat vs PM2.5 from combustion engines is on the lungs. My instinct is that it should be less toxic from vegetable oil, if it's just vaporised... past the smoke point maybe t
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by tomxor 1y ago
Finally validated for writing my own damn ANSI escape codes.
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by tomxor 1y ago
> Could the user have trouble perceiving the change in state that just occurred? If so, then use an animation to help them visualize what happened I think this is the only justified use of animation in UI, however I wasn't satisfied
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by tomxor 1y ago
Good point, there's also sound. I suppose ultimately only server side rendering could solve that... although that is a thing now.
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by tomxor 1y ago
> What is a videogame cheat? [...] an external program that somehow manipulates the game or reads information from the game to provide you with an advantage over others. This has always interested me when it comes to the need for anti-ch
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by tomxor 1y ago
Spinrite is for HDDs, sure you can use it on SSDs but that's fairly useless in the best case and actively destructive in the worst case. The whole point of Spinrite is exploiting the magnetic nature of HDDs for recovery, that's th

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