rogerallen

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by rogerallen 3mo ago
Same as it ever was.
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by rogerallen 5mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555642
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Be careful: chatting with AI about your case is discoverable(harvardlawreview.org)
34 points by rogerallen 6mo ago|13 comments
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by rogerallen 6mo ago
In United States v. Heppner, Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York ruled that written exchanges between a criminal defendant and generative AI platform Claude were not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product d
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by rogerallen 7mo ago
I wonder if putting this choice on the user would be most appropriate? People fearful about being scammed should buy a phone with a hardware lock to prevent it from ever accepting sideloads--no option to go to dev mode, ever. You could eve
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by rogerallen 8mo ago
This is really, really well done. I’m very impressed by all the features implemented here and I wish I could look over the source. I wonder how it is done.
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by rogerallen 9mo ago
This is the content I come here for.
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by rogerallen 11mo ago
Followup here: https://excamera.substack.com/p/the-great-ads1115-pricing-my... And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658163
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The great ADS1115 pricing mystery, part two(excamera.substack.com)
3 points by rogerallen 11mo ago|2 comments
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by rogerallen 11mo ago
James returns with a followup to his earlier article https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582462
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by rogerallen 1y ago
Can someone give more info on the relevance of this particular code?
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by rogerallen 1y ago
They could at least fall back to "context sensitive" ads like you suggest. Also, don't try to make me feel guilty for having an "ad blocker". I don't specifically block ads, instead I have a "tracking me
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by rogerallen 1y ago
Very nice article. I don’t think I was aware of these experiments, but maybe I’ve forgotten? Apologies if I just missed this, but is there a link to Maxwell’s original findings?
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by rogerallen 1y ago
Wish it worked on mobile and used the xyz accelerator...
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by rogerallen 2y ago
and only 1 link still works. 19 years is a long time to the internet.
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by rogerallen 2y ago
My top post ever on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/6dwg/wired_unve...
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by rogerallen 2y ago
They also post to Threads https://www.threads.net/@fireflyaerospace
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by rogerallen 2y ago
Is there a wisp frontend? Seems like it would be appropriate. :-) https://github.com/stereobooster/wisp
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The Threads API is finally here(developers.facebook.com)
6 points by rogerallen 2y ago|0 comments
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by rogerallen 2y ago
Found this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633668
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by rogerallen 2y ago
Would like to hear more about this. I thought there was an effort to adjust this...did that fail?
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by rogerallen 2y ago
If you're interested, Wikipedia also has a decent discussion of this function and it's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
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by rogerallen 3y ago
Wish my VRML Spirograph still worked. :) https://web.archive.org/web/19970617133952fw_/http://reality... [1997]
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by rogerallen 3y ago
Wow -- TIL Bill Budge put the code for this up on github. I had no idea! https://github.com/billbudge/PCS_AppleII
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by rogerallen 3y ago
Twenty-year-olds should not be in charge of UX.
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by rogerallen 3y ago
There is a nice article providing more information about gamma in Graphics Gems 3 Chapter 24, available at https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-iv-image-...
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by rogerallen 3y ago
I wish it was easy to render western text to multiple columns that are fit to the screen. Reading like a multicolumn paper newspaper and scrolling horizontally. I think this shows that it would be pleasant to read text on the web this way
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by rogerallen 3y ago
What you say can be true, but it sets a certain bar for clearly conveying the message artistically. I would say that bar was not met in this case. I found it so distracting I was compelled to go off to Desmos to draw it myself.
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by rogerallen 3y ago
Egads, why hand-draw a graph like that when there is Desmos? https://www.desmos.com/calculator/f61mxuqurc [update] https://www.desmos.com/calculator/aqhcs63r2e [first version]
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by rogerallen 3y ago
I said I despised the algorithm, I did not say I hated Twitter. Now I at least know why I hate it. Yes "Following" is what I use. The reason I use it is because of this algorithm that thinks I could possibly want 50% tweets that

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