bobbiechen

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by bobbiechen 5d ago
It's a variant of a Chinese wintermelon soup like https://thewoksoflife.com/winter-melon-soup-pork-ribs/ ! It's a great sponge for the soup flavors.
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by bobbiechen 5d ago
I do like to save watermelon rinds and cook them into soup. Anyone have a use for banana peels?
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When declaring an incident becomes everyone's favorite workaround(greatcircle.com)
20 points by bobbiechen 16d ago|6 comments
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How the Heck Do Record Players Work?(perthirtysix.com)
2 points by bobbiechen 20d ago|0 comments
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Understanding Server-side Commercial Fingerprinting [pdf](sysnet.ucsd.edu)
2 points by bobbiechen 22d ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 23d ago
Shocking, this site assigned me a UUID and I found it listed here! https://everyuuid.com/
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by bobbiechen 26d ago
It's an interesting story as some people see facial biometrics (with increasing fidelity) as an escape from document verification deepfaking threats. But people's biometrics really can change over time, and I don't think ther
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Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode(interconnected.org)
23 points by bobbiechen 26d ago|3 comments
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by bobbiechen 28d ago
Very impressed by the responsiveness of this. But I gotta say, it's much more fun to play a physical theremin, which has slightly different controls (two antennae, one controlling volume and the other pitch). https://www.gau
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by bobbiechen 1mo ago
>Is it that I want it to be done? Would it have been done if I didn't? (Additionality) >Is it that I want to have done it? Would I be happy if someone else did it? (credit) >Is it that I want to be doing it? (achievement/
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Groupon founder Andrew Mason's farewell letter to employees (2013)(theguardian.com)
4 points by bobbiechen 1mo ago|0 comments
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Interview with Amit Patel (Red Blob Games) on Making Things(digitalseams.com)
3 points by bobbiechen 1mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 1mo ago
Is it accurate to say this is something like long polling except you continue to hold the connection open for subsequent updates? Does this mean a server potentially needs to hold open a very large number of connections (one per client) eve
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by bobbiechen 2mo ago
It looks like this is a project for nicer signed attestations. But it doesn't seem very opinionated about: 1. What is the attester (signer) attesting to, exactly? This URL example is exactly this problem. And if you're really prec
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Keyboardion(ianthehenry.com)
2 points by bobbiechen 2mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 2mo ago
I had an interesting conversation with an coworker recently - If you give an agent a budget of $500 to buy a flight, and the airline knows this and bumps your price to $499 even though it will offer the same flight at $300 to someone else,
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Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding(redblobgames.com)
352 points by bobbiechen 2mo ago|41 comments
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by bobbiechen 2mo ago
That's a shame, I wonder where he draws the line. While herding to the majority of latest Chrome makes his life easier, there really is a very long tail of real users who are not there. I get way too many challenges on my personal lapt
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Most Googlebots Are Fake(digitalseams.com)
9 points by bobbiechen 2mo ago|3 comments
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Zero-defects code: the prescient Microsoft memo from 1989(digitalseams.com)
3 points by bobbiechen 2mo ago|1 comments
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by bobbiechen 2mo ago
The vast majority of Googlebot user agents are lying. Real Googlebot is pretty well behaved in my experience. You should use reverse DNS or IP lists to check: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fe
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by bobbiechen 2mo ago
Here's another similar project: https://writetrack.dev/ There's plenty of microbehavioral analysis we can do that is initially effective but will get bypassed (with GANs being the purest way, or something more dom
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by bobbiechen 2mo ago
I've used Merlin for a while and I'm still impressed by Merlin's sound identification, it continues to inspire me. I wrote about it last year: https://digitalseams.com/blog/what-birdsong-and-backends-can.
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by bobbiechen 2mo ago
AWS saw Anthropic billing a guy for $16 million on zero usage and thought, why stop at the millions? https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320266/20260712/anthropic...
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LLMs and Shaders(amitp.blogspot.com)
2 points by bobbiechen 2mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 2mo ago
TK is a very standard term, see William Safire's usage in this 1996 NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/06/magazine/of-hacks-and-tk....
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by bobbiechen 2mo ago
Oh yeah, just like all cryptography is just a way for bad people to hide their criminal activity. I'd read the confidential computing post! (used to work in this space myself)
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by bobbiechen 2mo ago
He's right up there with Neal Agarwal (neal.fun) and Nolen Royalty (eieio.games) for me. I recently got to interview Nolen on keeping the internet fun and creative for my blog: https://digitalseams.com/blog/nolen-r
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Zero-defects code: the prescient Microsoft memo from 1989(digitalseams.com)
9 points by bobbiechen 2mo ago|1 comments
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When anything is possible, how do you decide what to create?(digitalseams.com)
1 points by bobbiechen 3mo ago|0 comments

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