BHSPitMonkey

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by BHSPitMonkey 5d ago
A few excerpts from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html worth a careful re-read: > In Comments > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comment
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by BHSPitMonkey 6d ago
Would mandating the use of CO2 as a refrigerant also somehow economically motivate efforts to capture more CO2 out of the atmosphere, in a kind of virtuous cycle? Or would there be a Cobra Effect in there somewhere? I'm not familiar wi
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by BHSPitMonkey 7d ago
Of course, if too many people heed this advice there won't _be_ a second version to wait for.
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by BHSPitMonkey 12d ago
I'm not referring to the HN audience; I mean the larger evergreen cohort of people in the world who are still building their mental model of how the web works. They will each eventually be doomed to the same misconceptions because it&#
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by BHSPitMonkey 13d ago
Yes, but you have to admit that the existence of these SLDs (like co.uk) is always going to be a point of confusion for anyone with a basic knowledge of how the domain hierarchy _usually_ works. Needing to be familiar with all the special c
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by BHSPitMonkey 1mo ago
But Matter _is_ locally-controlled. Matter-over-Thread is better as there's no side channels to abuse; Matter-over-Wifi also guarantees local control though the presence of Wifi means a high probability of some additional onboard softw
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by BHSPitMonkey 1mo ago
There's always sunrise
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by BHSPitMonkey 1mo ago
Under-represent relative to what, exactly?
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by BHSPitMonkey 1mo ago
I just think it's highly amusing (in the absurd sense) that you consider a visual artist to be a political ideologue simply for applying color theory to render realistic characters in their art.
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by BHSPitMonkey 2mo ago
Why? A dual-hose portable is more efficient than a single-hose, but a PTAC should (in theory) be more efficient (and possibly quieter) on account of having the heat-emitting side of the cooling loop outside of the living space, which is clo
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by BHSPitMonkey 2mo ago
I was going to say, neither of those forms of exercise are expressions of a natural talent... they're things you simply do (at whatever levels you can currently manage) to stay healthy. They're good for your mental state, too! (An
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by BHSPitMonkey 3mo ago
On the contrary, I worry about the ability of these grassroots user-generated content distribution systems to withstand the barrage of generated slop uploaded by armies of autonomous agents. Fighting it off is an asymmetric battle that make
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by BHSPitMonkey 3mo ago
That satellite's orbit very clearly did decay, though. The problem in that instance is the descent wasn't controlled, but that's a different kind of failure than the one this thread is worried about (i.e. satellites lingering
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by BHSPitMonkey 3mo ago
I think there's a big difference between jazz and corporate landing pages. Should we be surprised or shocked when different brands of microwave ovens have very similar controls?
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by BHSPitMonkey 3mo ago
Do you not believe that the design of the "stolen" landing page was not itself 97% stolen from marketing landing pages that came before it? It's unusual seeing the process stated so bluntly, but for something as cookie-cutter
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by BHSPitMonkey 3mo ago
Same goes for the ICCU, I guess! (Mine hasn't blown yet, knock on wood...)
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by BHSPitMonkey 3mo ago
It's being worked on! https://github.com/orgs/streetcomplete/projects/1
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by BHSPitMonkey 4mo ago
On any device you can install KOReader, PG is one of the default options in the builtin OPDS browser. https://koreader.rocks/
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by BHSPitMonkey 4mo ago
I'm planning to attempt this soon!
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OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control(openvehicles.com)
99 points by BHSPitMonkey 4mo ago|14 comments
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by BHSPitMonkey 4mo ago
Not a new project, but one that's relevant to a lot of recent discussions of privacy-invasive connected systems built into modern cars
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by BHSPitMonkey 4mo ago
ChatGPT and similar are, in some sense, a semantic web search engine combined with an operator that's able to jot down its findings, pivot to different lookups, and filter/combine outputs.
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by BHSPitMonkey 6mo ago
It's highly reasonable for them to limit image size/quality to whatever looks fine to 98% of their readers. They store and serve an absolute ton of ever-changing content to browsers/apps; The very small (and likely revenue-ne
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by BHSPitMonkey 6mo ago
Now imagine that adversaries maintain and monitor profiles on known military personnel with leaky online accounts such as these, supplemented with intelligence about their rank, unit, specializations, and so forth - correlating all of these
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by BHSPitMonkey 6mo ago
All the more reason to draw lots of attention to this issue now.
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by BHSPitMonkey 7mo ago
An earlier post to a news article rather than to a tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186662
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by BHSPitMonkey 7mo ago
I can't recall if the PS2 was cheaper than available DVD players when it launched, but I do distinctly remember it being true of the PS3 and Blu-ray for some time given how new it was then
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by BHSPitMonkey 7mo ago
Could be a sort of canary, with the timing being a spotlight on the highly-visible pressure coming from the U.S. government.
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by BHSPitMonkey 7mo ago
You can add a dependabot.yml config to regulate when Dependabot runs and how many PRs it will open at a time: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/reference/supply-ch...
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by BHSPitMonkey 7mo ago
I'm always left in awe by not only the Dolphin team's work, but the quality of their articles and release notes. This was no exception!

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