nippoo

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by nippoo 25d ago
You can absolutely prompt agents not to write tests, or not to write extraneous asserts, or whatever, and I find that generally quite useful for the kind of code I write. I don't think it's "months of users training it",
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by nippoo 1mo ago
I use News Feed Eradicator (works for Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, HN etc etc) it's wonderful and has changed my life! https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/news-feed-eradicato...
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by nippoo 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.
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by nippoo 2mo ago
This is the weirdest AI philosophi-slop I've read in a while. The whole website appears to be completely AI-generated - the 'portfolio' page is a doozy!
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by nippoo 2mo ago
How did you navigate the world of compliance testing and certification, with all the different countries involved (FCC, UL, etc). Are there any markets you've decided not to sell to as they're not worth the paperwork?
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by nippoo 3mo ago
Here's an example of his latest presentation slides: https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investor...
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by nippoo 3mo ago
Great analogy. Li-ion batteries have several layers of defense against exploding, one of which are vents that, if all else fails, let the hydrogen gas safely escape rather than building up. It's perfectly fair for independent testers t
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by nippoo 4mo ago
Except scratch cards are a guaranteed statistical loss. Trading cards, if you're skilled and know what you're doing, can be a sensible side-income. It's the difference between poker and roulette...
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by nippoo 4mo ago
I mean, it happened to the FBI... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/hoax-email-blast-abused-...
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by nippoo 4mo ago
To each their own. I find soldering (with a nice iron!) very therapeutic, much like knitting. I'll put on a good album or catch up with some friends on the phone. If you're impatient, plenty of fab houses (like JLCPCB) will do all
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by nippoo 4mo ago
That's effectively time-based request sharding which seems sensible but you'd still have to reconcile trades and any open positions (etc) across the time boundary where one system stops accepting requests and the other one starts.
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by nippoo 5mo ago
I can't find the original source, but I remember reading a study showing that this rise was closely correlated to states which had legalised or loosened laws on gambling!
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by nippoo 5mo ago
Above 400MHz or so, the on-die/on-chip capacitance starts being the most important thing (you're going to have inductance through the legs or balls of the chip). Putting your decoupling capacitors next to the power pins _does_ cos
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by nippoo 5mo ago
Truly! As someone who's worked with HPC and GPUs in a scientific research context, trying to get a service like this to work reliably is a different ballgame to your usual webapp stack...
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by nippoo 5mo ago
This is probably a good place to debunk the usual wisdom that "decoupling capacitors must be placed very close to the IC pins". If you're using a solid power plane, rather than routing power through traces (and honestly 4&#x2
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by nippoo 5mo ago
So, the concentration is 1000x less than the carcinogenic threshold in mice, and it's possible that our carcinogenic threshold is even higher than that, but the advice is "be careful how you store your potatoes and don't fry
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A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management(lcamtuf.substack.com)
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by nippoo 5mo ago
"I went through about a dozen AI tools I've personally authorized in the last year after reading this. Nine of them have Google Workspace OAuth permissions that include reading all emails and accessing all Drive files. Nine. I aut
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by nippoo 5mo ago
It's hard to avoid, but there are steps we can make towards fixing it. I spent years in academia building open-source data processing pipelines for neuroscience data and helping other researchers do the same. Most quantitative research
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by nippoo 5mo ago
I'm always curious what RoI analysis goes into this kind of decision - whether to leave on-prem and join the cloud, or vice versa. The numbers always seem huge, and in opposite directions. "Moving from onsite datacenters to AWS sa
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by nippoo 5mo ago
This is called a "series hybrid" rather than the more common "parallel hybrid" (eg Toyota Prius) and has been around for a while, including the BMW i3 with range extender (and London buses, and various other vehicles!).
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by nippoo 5mo ago
It's ironic that Backblaze themselves wrote a blog post a couple of years ago explaining why Dropbox isn't enough as a backup service and you need Backblaze as an additional layer of protection: https://www.backblaze.co
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by nippoo 5mo ago
If you play the game, you realise this ends up in stalemate.
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by nippoo 6mo ago
In other "incorrect calendars" bugs, there's the Rockchip RK808 RTC, where the engineers thought that November had 31 days, needing a Linux kernel patch to this day that translates between Gregorian and Rockchip calendars (wh
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by nippoo 6mo ago
Good $3 MEMS gyros are about 100x better than that now - look at anything new made by Invensense in the past couple years. And their drift is pretty Gaussian-distributed, so the error scales as sqrt(n). If you combine 8+ of them on one boar
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by nippoo 6mo ago
I can't prove it either way, but it's pretty clearly LLM-generated slop!
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by nippoo 7mo ago
> We hire a senior Paid Ads Specialist. They set up a dedicated work account, which, by the way, is standard professional practice. It's not "standard professional practice". It's explicitly against Meta's TOS.
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by nippoo 7mo ago
The irony isn't lost on me that it's the USA, the country with some of the most permissive gun laws in the world, that's imposing these draconian rules on 3D printed guns - or is this pressure from the gun manufacturing lobby
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by nippoo 7mo ago
They've taken it down now and replaced with an arguably even less helpful diagram, but the original is archived: https://archive.is/twft6
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by nippoo 7mo ago
This kind of thing, widely implemented, would be a game-changer for dealing with assets after someone's death! I maintain my family's IT infrastructure (Google Enterprise admin, webserver etc) and I've been tempted to write d

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