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by a_e_k 7d ago
$2000! I really don't get why people spend so much on flagship phones! I tend to aim for $200 Motos for me and my family, and it feels like it's a 90%+ solution at a tenth of the price. I can still browse the web, text with peop
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by a_e_k 14d ago
That's the the difference between a low-discrepancy sequence and low-discrepancy set . The first can generate an infinite number of points, the later targets exactly a specific number. You can often get lower discrepancy if you kn
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by a_e_k 23d ago
See "The Cuckoo's Egg" [1] by Cliff Stoll (who sometimes posts here [2]). A few related HN threads: [3] [4] [5]. The book describes tracking down a hacker in 1986 who exploited a vulnerability in early Emacs' movemail
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by a_e_k 26d ago
NEW Reddit has recently started blocking logged-out access too. Stupid modal popup with "Join the most real place on the internet" (yeah, right) banner that appears after about 20 seconds. I'm not logging in to my privat
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by a_e_k 29d ago
"Usually". The case when they say it's not: > The study finds annual mileage thresholds below which the replacement EV’s manufacturing emissions are not recovered: about 7,054 kilometers for cars, 6,837 kilometers for SUV
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by a_e_k 1mo ago
Like the old proverb: "The marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all."
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by a_e_k 1mo ago
Earlier today I started getting a "Get the app to keep using Reddit" popup when browsing while logged out on my phone. (I prefer to use Firefox Android exclusively in private mode to reduce the temptation to doom scroll and to ha
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by a_e_k 2mo ago
Neat! You might be interested to know then that at the same conference, HPG 2026 [1], that this tetrahedral animation ray tracing work was presented at, the last of the 14 papers presented was on that sort of soft body simulation for surgi
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by a_e_k 2mo ago
Disclosure: I work with the authors of this paper. I'm going to answer this in two parts. First, you absolutely can update the BVH, keeping the tree topology the same, and just updating the internal bounding as the triangles and othe
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by a_e_k 2mo ago
"What do you call the person who graduated bottom of their class in medical school?" (At least that's how I've heard it phrased before.)
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by a_e_k 2mo ago
From what I've read, lefties are typically classified into "over-writers", "side-writers", and "under-writers". That video caught my attention too, as it shows pretty clearly that he's an over-writer
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by a_e_k 2mo ago
I've seen that sort of thing before - I told it I was going to go take lunch or dinner, and it told itself this would be a great opportunity to try to keep plugging along while I was AFK.
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by a_e_k 2mo ago
Once on a late-night session, I had Cline!Claude spontaneously point out the time to me and suggest that I get to bed and come back fresh the next day. I don't think it's in the system prompt, but that the harnesses time-stamp eac
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by a_e_k 3mo ago
I became a fan of Kaitai Struct [0] when doing some amateur sleuthing last year. It has a web-based IDE [1] for writing and testing structure definitions against hex dumps, and can generate binary parsers in Python (and many other language
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by a_e_k 3mo ago
Off topic, but that photo is amazing , and got a good laugh out of me. It definitely falls in the "pets and owners who look alike" category.
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by a_e_k 3mo ago
I do like that general idea. I bet it would be possible wrap in a handy elisp macro.
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by a_e_k 3mo ago
Yep. `C-h k` to look up what a key does, `C-h f` to look up a function, and `C-h v` to look up a variable/setting will get you pretty far. I'd also add `C-h b` to show you the key bindings. (And `C-h` after a prefix key will usu
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by a_e_k 3mo ago
> The only problem is that, in the name of not breaking backwards-compatibility (or something like that), the archaic defaults have remained. As a user since '97, I've often felt that this philosophy is entirely, well, backward
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by a_e_k 3mo ago
On the other hand, crafts like knitting and other fiber arts can be very repetitive and people still enjoy them. (Personally, I've also enjoyed unit origami, which involves folding the same module many times over and assembling them.)
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by a_e_k 4mo ago
I loved the keyboard on my HP-48G. It had such a nice crisp tactile feel to the key presses - a bit of snap - that I got to where it could usually operate it by touch without looking. (These days it's stored safely away with batteries
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by a_e_k 4mo ago
I had that experience with the last house we rented before we bought. We were quiet, predictable, don't-rock-the-boat tenants, and the rando owner mentioned that they valued that enough that raising rents wasn't worth the potentia
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by a_e_k 4mo ago
Yes, I get that and meant to imply it with "frontier". But my question was more about how my biggest uses by far of data center-provided AI in terms of tokens have been in things like experimenting with agentic coding on my deskt
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by a_e_k 4mo ago
Analogous to that, this is something that I'd been wondering about with respect to hardware prices as silicon is reallocated from consumers to data centers: how am I to make heavy use of frontier (edit: i.e., cloud/data center-pro
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by a_e_k 4mo ago
I'm reminded of The Hobbit with the phrase "Good morning" in the first chapter: > "Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from und
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by a_e_k 4mo ago
From the linked post, it didn't read like a separate KV cache was needed: > The draft models seamlessly utilize the target model's activations and share its KV cache, meaning they don't have to waste time recalculating con
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by a_e_k 5mo ago
Ah. We're back to the days of Emacs' old `M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead`, then. (Psychoanalyze-pinhead ran the Eliza chat-bot and fed it bizarre quotations collected from the Zippy the Pinhead comics.) Or better yet, pitting Eliza v
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by a_e_k 5mo ago
At least for the CPU/GPU split, llama.cpp recently added a `--fit` parameter (might default to on now?) that pairs with a `--fitc CONTEXTSIZE` parameter. That new feature will automatically look at your available VRAM and try to figur
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by a_e_k 5mo ago
From my recollection of doing fun palette stuff back in the DOS VGA days, I'm betting it was more like: pal.r = pal.g = pal.b = (77 * pal.r + 150 * pal.g + 29 * pal.b) >> 8; Hardware floating point was rare before the 48
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by a_e_k 5mo ago
I think the point the GP was trying to make is that the GitHub UI ought to be able to allow you to submit a branch with multiple well-organized commits and review each commit separately with its own PR. The curation of the commits that you
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by a_e_k 5mo ago
Cave Johnson here. I'll be honest, we're throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks. No idea what it'll do. Probably nothing. Best-case scenario, you might get some superpowers.

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