PhantomGremlin

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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
When it was Toyotas fictitious problem it came down to a bunch of old people. Yeah, right. Blame it on "old people". Certainly not the code base with 10,000 global variables: The design review found things like: Other egregious
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
My biggest takeaway from that link is: BEVs can't get here fast enough. ICEs are too complicated. But I should be careful what I wish for. Current BEVs have many user-hostile clown-car features.
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Yeah you got me. I didn't pay careful attention to the wording of the submitted title. I may have been confused because of the wording of the actual tweet: I tested a random selection of four NVMe SSDs from four vendors. The word &qu
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
That said, this narrows one of the data losers down to Hynix. Not really. Samsung builds a plethora of SSDs.
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
the MIPS R3000 processor ... raises an exception for signed integer overflow, unlike many other processors which silently wrap to negative values. Too bad programmer laziness won and most current hardware doesn't support this. As a t
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Well, you still have lots of tracking stuff loaded probably, unless you got something extra for blocking trackers. Yes I'm sure I have that stuff loaded. But I don't care because it's quite ephemeral: I exit Firefox multipl
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I usually do read the linked content but I agree with GP poster that comments are often more informative. Yes there is sometimes an echo chamber here, but it's only for limited topics. It very much has a Silicon Valley feel to it, but
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
HN totally usable for basic functionality w/o JS. profootballtalk.com works great if you don't want to vote or comment macrumors.com great functionality nitter.net happily takes the place of twitter.com drudgereport.com works grea
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Crazy how evil Google is. Just wow. Yeah, but there are a lot of employees there who check their bank accounts twice a month and say: "Just wow". Venial evil is easily bought. Edit: As a EU citizen I really hate to even say th
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Maybe using an archive.is-like service No that has turned to shit (for me anyway). Used to be fine, now presents a captcha when JS off. Okay so I switch from Firefox to Safari (where I leave JS on) and it still presents a captcha. I'
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I'm curious what evidence do you have that he is any better? I don't have any such evidence. I don't think the way I phrased my question implied I did. awarding his brother the top NYPD job There's a long history of
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
He does seem utterly clueless. However, is he better than de Blasio? Is he better than Sliwa? That's all that matters.
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Needs 2006 in title. Needs stupid JavaScript needed just to read it. Does stupid JavaScript games. But it's actually decent content. It's an overview of how Babbage's Analytical Engine was intended to function. The implementa
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Here's the really sad part: The agency acted in response to a petition filed by Toyota Motor Corp in 2013 to allow the lights. Perhaps something by the end of 2023. So it took a full decade for them to act!
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
rate-limiting is manually applied by the moderators Given: 1) HN was started by / is moderated by "computer nerds" (IMO you're hardcore if you write it in lisp) 2) 'dang' is the only acknowledged public moder
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
There's probably a market for a sub $1 "smart chip" that can be added to a design. Something that can be factory programmed with a unique serial number. To keep from being cloned, verification operation wouldn't be as si
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
the openbsd community seems to like calling people idiots Even the title of this article reflects that mindset There's cultural history about that very phrase. There was a series of books written with that exact title. They were in
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Special shares having 20x the votes of plebeian shares is still better than the Snapchat situation. As someone on HN quipped at the time: No, the shares have no voting power. They are Snapchat fun bucks basically. https://news.
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Dude, Where’s My Hydrogen-Powered Car?(wsj.com)
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
CBP is still chasing people down and turning them away. If you make it into this country it becomes mostly catch and release. And then comical stuff like this happens: TSA reveals illegal migrants flying without proper ID can use an ARRE
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I think in English exclusively But can you still think in your native language if you try to? I was born in the USA, a child of immigrants. So I didn't speak English until perhaps 3 or 4 years old. But I can still think in my native
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Hmmm. Maybe that's why we haven't detected any signs of an advanced civilization elsewhere in the universe. Steps: 1) quantum mechanics 2) semiconductors 3) AGI 4) the machines take over We're about 100 years into that progre
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I used a Superbrain way back when and it was wonderful for its time. Laptops didn't exist. Most other computers had separate boxes (screen, CPU, keyboard, floppies) that needed to be connected together. This thing was a practical, rela
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
No idea why they are higher ranked than the original GitHub issues. Not to be too cynical about it, but who serves the ads on those sites? If it's Google Ads, then I think you have your answer as to why they are higher ranked.
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Could you get by if you just charged while in the shower? How long of a shower do you take? :-) A very related question is just how intensively will you use it. Here are some guidelines from Apple: https://www.apple.com/wa
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I’ve had multiple comments removed over the years By "removed" do you mean: a) "flagged" such that only people who are logged in and have changed their preferences to showdead -> yes can see them? or b) the words no
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
My info was about the current Minutemen silos. I figured they were all the same. The older missiles were liquid fueled, unlike Minuteman. Which means kerosene added when placed on alert, LOX added just before launch. Probably much simpler
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
it's just amazing how little abstraction there was That was deliberate and made a lot of sense. The functionality was split between two programs. The VM/370 part emulates the raw machine. CMS is the "operating system"
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
So many sites. For example much of MSN is totally non-functional w/o Javascript. E.g. this brings up a totally blank page: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/they-had-covid-19-once-the... And of course Go
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I use a netcat and similar TCP clients and a text-only browser on today's web and this works quite well for mine own purposes. For 99% of what I do I use Firefox + NoScript and I think I'm relatively secure. My solution probably

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