javawizard

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by javawizard 24d ago
Figure out how many humans are required to make the decisions, then hire that many humans and have them do it. I swear this is like a restaurant chain complaining that they shouldn't be required to follow foodservice regulations becaus
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by javawizard 1mo ago
> Some guy in Australia's OpenClaw just hacked their gym Whoa, you weren't kidding. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/tech-industry-is-buzzing-a... Edit: looks like it happened a few months ago:
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by javawizard 2mo ago
Really? It's better than Opus 4.8, that's the point. When they release new versions of Sonnet, no-one expects them to be better than Opus.
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by javawizard 2mo ago
LIN bus isn't masterless though, if I recall correctly. That's the nice thing about CAN: every node is equal, and every node can send a message whenever it wants. As far as I know, LIN doesn't do that: you have one node on a
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by javawizard 2mo ago
I really, really wish that CAN had caught on more for sensor networks in the hobbyist community. It's so much nicer than I2C in so many regards: much longer range, masterless (any node can talk directly to any other node), packet pri
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by javawizard 2mo ago
> HuggingFace got hacked by an AI. What stuck out to me was the guardrail asymmetry. The attacker had no constraints, but HF's response ran afoul of the abuse guardrails, forcing them into an unplanned switch to local models. This,
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by javawizard 2mo ago
I just had this happen today. It was indeed a segfault. From what I could tell it looked like it was in JS code that had been JIT compiled. I haven't attempted to troubleshoot further beyond setting all my future Claude Code instances
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by javawizard 2mo ago
Please read the article. This post is over a month and a half old.
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by javawizard 2mo ago
Lot of armchair quarterbacking going on, on both sides. I'd love to hear an actual farmer weigh in on this. Anyone in the room care to volunteer?
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by javawizard 3mo ago
At least AES membership gets you free access to all of their standards, which is more than can be said for IEEE. Source: I'm a card-carrying AES member.
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by javawizard 3mo ago
There's a Wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17-animal_inheritance_puzzle You are correct that it's not solvable in a rigorous mathematical sense as stated.
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by javawizard 3mo ago
Oh! You did. I just saw the two in adjacent sentences and assumed you were referring to the Netflix CEO and had mixed up his name. Nothing to see here, move along...
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by javawizard 3mo ago
> This is what Netflix has always been advocating for. Reid Hoffman also wrote the book The Alliance I think you might have Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn) mixed up with Reed Hastings (founder of Netflix). :)
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by javawizard 3mo ago
They didn't say that HN is turning into Reddit, they said that the conversation quality has gone to shit. I don't agree with that statement universally, but I have to say I do when it comes to this article. I came here hoping for
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by javawizard 3mo ago
Which of course pays off precisely because doing the easiest thing cheaply is usually hard. As someone once said: any fool can do for $2 what it takes an engineer to do for $1.
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by javawizard 3mo ago
> it will also make it more difficult to identify who to invite to join the priesthood The point that this announcement is trying to make is, of course, that AI has already made that particular signal approximately worthless for that pur
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by javawizard 4mo ago
That's not what the parent comment is talking about. Calling over the cellular network has been prohibited since time immemorial. What the parent comment is talking about is carriers also prohibiting making calls over airplane-suppli
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by javawizard 4mo ago
> I’ve never seen a C to Micro. Do they even exist? They do, in spades: https://www.amazon.com/3FT-Micro-Data-Charge-Cable/dp/B0DDWH... I look forward to the day when they're no longer necessary.
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by javawizard 4mo ago
Same. It's not a good look to have happen right when they roll out a new model.
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by javawizard 4mo ago
That's why nextpnr exists :) https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr As someone actively working on nextpnr support for a fairly new FPGA architecture, it really is amazing that we have something like that in the open
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by javawizard 4mo ago
Fun story: I used to own a Prius, and it turns out they expose the speeds and torque values of MG1, MG2, and the engine independently on the OBDII port. What this means it that you can set up an app like Torque[0] and add widgets that show
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by javawizard 4mo ago
No, it's usually because it finds sources that I would not have even thought to search for in the first place. Agentic AI has its faults, but one thing I've found it to be very good at is surfacing the "unknown unknowns"
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by javawizard 4mo ago
Because it finds the sources much quicker than I would have been able to on my own, and I can then synthesize them into data I know is correct, as correct as any human-generated data can be of course.
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by javawizard 4mo ago
Exactly. Back when I worked at Google there was an internal page someone put up that denoted what they called "the YX problem": the observation that the XY problem, applied to a sufficiently great extent, creates an environment wh
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by javawizard 4mo ago
People want the option . There are many reasons one might prefer OrcaSlicer over Bambu Studio. One might be perfectly fine using Bambu's cloud services while preferring OrcaSlicer for different reasons; this is for those people. Other
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by javawizard 4mo ago
Oh for god's sake. In the 99% of cases where this status page is used, it is in fact the truth: we'd throw it up when we had e.g. data migrations to do as part of a rollout that wouldn't allow for our normal zero-downtime dep
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by javawizard 4mo ago
The "scheduled maintenance" thing is likely just because that's the easiest maintenance page to throw up site wide, or at least it was back when I was on the Canvas deploy rotation back at Instructure ~10 years ago. That does
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by javawizard 4mo ago
Define "as they're supposed to be". Back when I worked for Instructure ~10 years ago, Canvas was effectively a single, giant, monolithic multitenant app with one instance backed by several thousand app servers and ~100 separa
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by javawizard 4mo ago
ex-Instructure employee here (though it's been about 10 years since I worked for them). That's just the quickest page/status update to throw up; it was a one-liner to push it live back when I was on the deploy rotation. I&#x2
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by javawizard 5mo ago
It annoys me so much when new electronics do this because the fix is both well known by now and only requires 2 dirt cheap components on the circuit board (5.1k resistors to ground on the CC lines). As a hardware engineer among other things

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