RichieAHB

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by RichieAHB 3y ago
The last 15 seconds sounds like it hit the runout groove on the IKEA phone system vinyl!
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
It feels like that might be a fair point in other context but as one of your sibling posts says: this is just double entry book keeping. Print out the transactions with their timestamps and it feels this should have been very clearly a comp
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
Nice little idea! As a slight aside I’m not sure where the timezone / city list has come from but it labels Hanoi as in Thailand (rather than Vietnam).
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
I guess the question would be, if indeed these suggestions would solve those problems, how much does this cost (I genuinely have no idea!) and how much do I want to spend on this versus putting up a webpage to direct people too. I want to s
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
IIUC cm precision should be fine if the algorithms looking for stable placement accounts for that cm (and reality id imagine it’d account for less precision than that). If a placement needs sub cm precision the algorithm would just discard
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
A store’s opening hours will probably remain 9am-5pm regardless of any time zone changes around it. If you run a bunch of stores across time zones you need to know where each store is and whether it’s summer or winter to work backwards to f
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
Makes we wonder how much of the investor’s money was put in to OpenAI as a company or in Sam and the leadership. I think the answer is probably the latter, and the fact that Sam’s firing was this easy (and would likely have the effect of ot
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
I feel like trying to infer valid JSON from invalid JSON is a recipe for garbage. You’d probably be better off doing a second pass with the “JSON” through the LLM but, as the sibling commenter said, at this point even the good JSON may be
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
My phone gets pretty warm when I zoom out but the UI remains nice and responsive …
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
I want to hear that at normal typing speed. I feel like, unless there are a good amount of slightly varied samples, it's going to have that TR-808 repetitive vibe going on ...
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
Here’s a good example of the test cases used for backspaces in Android[1]. It’s definitely more involved than just deleting a grapheme cluster. [1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+&#
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
Nice to see Clifford Stoll currently topping the page. I bought The Cuckoo's Egg after reading enough people recommending it on HN and so to see the author referencing the main events in that book as the most recent highlight kinda bri
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
This works fine as long as you’re happy to do the same task multiple times. I.e. the task is idempotent and cheap.
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
I read it every time!
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
While that is true for Platform 2 drones, from reading this article [1] it seems the ruling currently only applies to Platform 1 drones (ie. the specs I was referencing). Although it does seem like the Platform 2 drones would be more of wha
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
For others interested in how these Sparrow (“Platform 1”) drones operate: - Cruises at 80-120m and 60mph - Max payload of 1.8kg - 50 mile max delivery distance (although it can fly 190 mile on a single charge) - Payload dropped by parachute
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
Nice article! As with all CSS posts there’s always something in there I’ve never used. Today it was `display: flow-root;` [1]. I’ll probably never use it given Grid and Flex but still interesting to see this may have saved some small headac
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
Simpsons aside: I wish this was titled "Is there a chance the track could bend?".
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
Taking a picture is deterministic. You aim at something, configure the settings and the cells / CMOS will capture that light in the right manner. You can argue that autofocus and portrait-mode are eroding this but ultimately, if you, t
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
Given this is for a non-tech audience I think this is reasonable. It basically talks about it being a lossy encoding of things that represent the original. Also, if the words / chars were stored as an array or string already you wouldn
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
This is true for unwinding but from the Notes section on the linked page, panics can’t be caught using that function if the panic aborts the process.
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
I read “the last straw” as being the final bad decision among many (which I think is what the idiom means). A tipping point. Usually you can’t remove “the last straw” to fix the camel’s back. If the linking policy was the sole issue I think
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
What actually happens is people often just come back to TrueBlue - like when Paul Graham left Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1604556563338887168 .
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
One thing I’ve never found a name for (and, as a result, a good way to reference to people) is Typescript’s interesting behaviour around the Erased Structural Types mentioned here: https://github.com/gibbok/typescript-b
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
Interesting. That probably does makes it a bit harder to verify but there are still plenty of “words” that are to be expected. My point being that if a German receiver can’t parse it, then what’s the point of send it. And if they can parse
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
Remind me of “Deniable Encryption”[1], where a single encrypted input decrypts to multiple plausible plain texts (including the real one, obviously) so that, if, for example, you were caught and asked to decrypt it, you can decrypt to the n
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
I’m not sure being German or from 1945 has much to do with this. I’d think if I had some candidate plaintext that looked German and where a letter didn’t map to itself it’s likely to be right. Sure, you could argue that it’s not quite as un
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React “prop-drilling”, 10 years on – probably don't use Context(gist.github.com)
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
In my experience “large distributed systems” don’t tend to be idling for 20% of the time? I think often such systems have some dependencies 24h a day. Even if it’s much lower in a 20% window you risk leaving clients out in the cold in that
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by RichieAHB 3y ago
I feel like the Manim[1] library Grant created to make these videos is becoming some sort of "video matplotlib". I've seen it used in so many maths videos up to this point. There seems like a good amount of value in creating

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