theamk

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by theamk 4d ago
What happens if you make a mistake while committing - maybe forget the file, or commit wrong one? Fossil has no way to fix it, by design, and I find it an absolute showstopper. I do stupid mistakes all the time, and I am so glad that gits l
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by theamk 4d ago
This talks about open source _AI models_, not open source software in general
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by theamk 4d ago
not sure what this has with my point? I am not talking about "some language", I am talking about specific row in the table, "Python + Trio", which can be ABC or ACB depending on how exactly you implement the code. For th
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by theamk 5d ago
Very similar dimensions also apply to threads, the async/await is not really that different there.
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by theamk 5d ago
Linux has 8MB thread stacks by default, Windows apparently has 1MB ones, and that space is not going anywhere. As long as people are worried about memory, they will need something lighter than threads. (Yes, golang managed to create dynamic
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by theamk 5d ago
Great post, but the quiz is unfair - it assumes there is only one "true way", but a lot of frameworks give you options For example, Trio has no global "spawn" method, by design. Judging by the results, authors assumed &q
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by theamk 6d ago
EXIF already includes extensive metadata, including phone model and GPS location. For professional cameras, there is often camera and lens serial numbers too. This has been the case for many years, and so far social media sites never care -
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by theamk 6d ago
If there is signed metadata too, then it's pretty hard. You will need to match focus distance (it will be very small if photographing picture), GPS location, exposure and other settings. If there is a depth map, you'll need to mat
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by theamk 6d ago
Yep, that breaks this scheme, making it useless. But it's far from the only thing making it useless, and the github page even explicitly lists those: - "Small content edits slip under the threshold. [...] A localised edit covering
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by theamk 6d ago
Easy! I put exclusions on my labels "USB cables, standard" "USB passive/special, except pigtails and USB->AV" "AV, including USB-AV cables"
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by theamk 6d ago
TL/DR: Ethereum nameserver provider applied to be in PSL, and had great trouble getting in, as it had dozens of malicious domains. They had to stop serving malicious domains to get in (the horrors!) I can kinda see where the both parti
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by theamk 7d ago
That's why GP mentioned "Smart TV". A random Internet-connected smart plug made by KOCKJAKD and sold on Aliexpress? Almost impossible to catch. A major brand like LG, with US presence and sold in brick-and-mortar stores? Much
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by theamk 7d ago
Those drones can only stay up for a few hours at most. Then they need refueling and relaunch, with plenty of human-only steps. Even if you have terminator-style AI uprising, all you need to do to be safe from those drones is to wait a day.
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by theamk 7d ago
> more and more scientists have argued > a philosopher at Adelaide University Ah, philosophers, not scientists. Important not to mix them up. Philosophy is an intellectual wordplay, and it's dealing with word definitions. Science
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by theamk 8d ago
what? their docs explicitly say nosy of them are not going tobe cloudflare-hosted > Cloudflare does not offer web hosting for most websites https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/manage-domain...
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by theamk 8d ago
AI slop is strong with this one... I saw "per-runner swap" and I was wondering how it's implemented, given that Linux did not support swap partitioning last time I've checked Turns out it's just a lie. The script c
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by theamk 8d ago
This is an ad for "an open-source agent workspace" product There is some talk about how amazing human brains are, and then OP introduces the product when claims to be brain-inspired, but in reality is just another AI orchestrator
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by theamk 8d ago
The author has 3 problems with codeberg + sourcehut specifically: 1. They are limiting resources - no more unlimited storage, no more free CI runners, adding Anubis to protect server load. 2. They have banned cryptocurrencies and blockchain
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by theamk 10d ago
That's MS Windows .bat files. Not even Powershell. I was going to say, "Hey, that's some nice retro dedication", but apparently those games are using VT100 control characters, meaning it's Windows 10 or above. So no
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by theamk 13d ago
AI and Wikipedia have completely opposite goals Wikipedia: "Our goal is accurate knowledge. Anyone can fix mistakes, we have processes to make sure articles are as accurate as possible" (you can argue if they are successful or no
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by theamk 13d ago
A very verbose wrapper for simple functionality On windows, uses winsound or windll.winmm.mciSendStringW On Linux, execs "aplay" On MacOS, exec "afplay"
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by theamk 13d ago
you are an outlier - most Blink users use cloud, most Blink users do not insert SD cards, most Blink users power cameras by batteries. Those users have no use for continuous recording. Could Blink implement it? they sure could. Would the co
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by theamk 14d ago
I think it's the specific pages - some Javascript is much more memory hungry that others. A few hundred HN or Wikipedia tabs work absolutely fine, I've tested. But there are much heavier sites, and only a few of those can cause th
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by theamk 14d ago
This is a very good example what I meant when I said "it's designed for a different person"! For me, it's pretty clear that a much better idea is not to fix the broken concept, but do what the Chrome does, and show the b
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by theamk 14d ago
Is it? Bipedal is the easiest one: very few environments require 2 feet in particular. Sure, ability to cross uneven terrain is needed, but this can be done with 3, 4 or 8 feet. But in a lot of places, including most of the retail and a lot
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by theamk 14d ago
This uses 1-wire protocol and is very specific for Makita power tool batteries. Other battery types, like laptop batteries (uses I2C) are not supported. This info should really be in the top-level README
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by theamk 15d ago
Needs [2003] in the title. It has a list of regex'es which behave differently in different regex implementations, but does not name those implementations. Pretty disappointing.
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by theamk 15d ago
Chrome != Chromium engine Most of the Chromium-based browsers remove Google's telemetry and integrations, so if someone has a problem with Chrome "looking over my shoulder", then they have many more alternatives. And sure, Ma
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by theamk 15d ago
Firefox's button is flaky - it seems to disappear depending on the page. For example it appears on HN comment page, but disappears on HN's top-level page. There is clearly some sort of heuristic which maybe tries to determine if t
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by theamk 15d ago
I am using firefox, but it is pretty hard to keep using it. I don't want the whole world to converge on one browser engine, but I also want things to work, and Firefox does not make it easy. Firefox on my laptop has a propensity for ea

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