zaroth

29 ms·

271.
by zaroth 4y ago
To me it’s as much an indictment of the field of software engineering that $13B couldn’t buy enough talent and creativity to make something even remotely interesting or compelling. Seems like there must be a hell of a lot of very expensive
272.
by zaroth 4y ago
Cutting off your control authority at the worst possible time would definitely be the risk trade-off!
273.
by zaroth 4y ago
My ancient autopilot certainly doesn’t support it. Nor the engine panel. I’ve never worn a tether except at night in “blue water”. It’s a bit of a stupid risk, but it’s absolutely true the most likely moment to go over is when standing righ
274.
by zaroth 4y ago
My first thought is a great safety feature would be a remote engine cutoff you could wear when you are single-handed. Something like what jet skis have but maybe Bluetooth? (downthread: wireless lanyard) Must have been absolutely terrifying
275.
by zaroth 4y ago
Oh I thought this was going to be every headline on the front page just making GPT generate what it thinks the article is. I often see the title and just make up what the article must be, and jump straight to the comments, so it would be fu
276.
by zaroth 4y ago
Preferred shares get paid first. Most investors get preferred shares that give them a “liquidation preference” which means they can get the money they put into the company back out (or some multiple of that money) off the top of the purchas
277.
by zaroth 4y ago
“Exceptions” are just a name we give to a particular type of flow control and syntactic sugar. In this case the syntactic sugar helps deal with passing data across function boundaries and up the stack in a way that can make the code more re
278.
by zaroth 4y ago
Oh come now that’s just silly! I’ve interviewed 8 web devs over the last two weeks, each with years of experience, each asking $115k+, and more than one couldn’t figure out how to take an array of objects each with a ‘category’ property and
279.
by zaroth 4y ago
This is a fun example; First hit in DDG for that query is a trash site but at least the data is there… https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/MA/Boston/... Versus trying to pull the data from
280.
by zaroth 4y ago
So true and very well put. I often tell people that a child takes up an infinite amount of time and resources. But one counterpoint on divorce. If you can manage to do it well, split custody, and continue to co-parent effectively, then yo
281.
by zaroth 4y ago
Pretty sure that regexp is wrong though? Wouldn’t having ‘\b’ on both sides match beginning AND end? It’s got the parenthesis for the ‘|’ in the wrong place.
282.
by zaroth 4y ago
Seems like the biggest change between those two quarters is stock based compensation expense?
283.
by zaroth 4y ago
Nikola’s model truck drove exactly 0 miles under its own power. There have been more than 3 billion miles worth of real-world driving using AutoPilot.
284.
by zaroth 4y ago
But it’s absurd. Companies are not supposed to only ever hire . Some things are cyclical and you need more people for some amount of time, and then you find you need less. It’s not always predictable/seasonal like farming or holiday r
285.
by zaroth 4y ago
These types of addresses are useful for publishing static directions for receiving payment (what they call a “meta-address”) that doesn’t then reveal every transaction that has been sent to it. It is orthogonal to / does not impact se
286.
by zaroth 4y ago
There’s no reason for there to be any sharp edges or foot guns. The “meta-address” published by the receiver has everything in it needed to generate a one time address on the sender side, and it should all “just work” from a sender’s wallet
287.
by zaroth 4y ago
So they are solving the teacher shortage?
288.
by zaroth 4y ago
You can’t say you can’t chose an item from a set because you can’t describe the item. If it is sufficiently impossible to describe the number, how did it get in the set. Irrational numbers are not impossible to identify symbolically, so i
289.
by zaroth 4y ago
Stealth addresses are super simple bit of crypto and also pretty easy to implement. When Peter Todd wrote a paper describing the technique for Bitcoin in Jan 2014 I wrote the first implementation. [1, 2] At the time I wanted to call them re
290.
by zaroth 4y ago
It’s exactly as absurd as the alternative legislation to “phase out” (what a bizarre turn of phrase) ICE vehicles. And I say this as an EV owner. The concept of banning one tech or another in this way is backwards thinking and stems from ig
291.
by zaroth 4y ago
Except those won’t have any indexes on them, so any joins will be horrifically slow?
292.
by zaroth 4y ago
But then it’s not gaining root which is the problem, it’s (as always) what you proceed to do with it.
293.
by zaroth 4y ago
Why have I never heard this? It’s actually brilliant and almost too simple.
294.
by zaroth 4y ago
This is what happens when HN can’t complain about the contrast.
295.
by zaroth 4y ago
Why are you pressing buttons in the “cockpit” while you’re supposed to be driving? </s> The “cockpit” button-obsession on HN is really cute sometimes. As if most drivers with button-filled “cockpits” actually feel around for them
296.
by zaroth 4y ago
Those microwave towers are transmitting some number of milliwatts of power though, with super high gain antennas. Not kilowatts.
297.
by zaroth 4y ago
Interest rates are actually the predominant driver of demand for a currency!
298.
by zaroth 4y ago
Why do you have to manually lock a car door? I’ve never pressed the lock/unlock icon on the screen in 4 years of driving my Model 3. But by the way, you don’t have to hunt thru a menu for it, the lock status icon is pressable and it’s
299.
by zaroth 4y ago
I for one absolutely love it. It doesn’t just look cool, it’s maximally functional for all of my use cases.
300.
by zaroth 4y ago
So in fact the people in the US decrying Federal ID are exactly correct as shown by the reality in Afghan?

More ›