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by zxexz 5d ago
Huh, looking at the photos, they really don’t do the board justice. It’s a gorgeous thing to look at and one of the only “bare pcb” tools I’ve used that still functions after years of being thrown in a backpack. It is Fully passive I think
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by zxexz 5d ago
This is the thing I almost , but don't quite, get. Throw away what doesn't work - either because it is complicated or...its protocol is needlessly contrived. Next step: do whatever you want. Upstream it, downstream, whatever.
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by zxexz 5d ago
Somewhat recently, on a wild night out on the town, I ended up buying a USB-C <> USB-C cable tester[0]. Using it, I managed to find a few amazing cables amongst my collection. Gave away the others with context. I want something like t
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by zxexz 7d ago
How is that open source? There’s not a single line of code. No CAD. Nothing. Sure, there’s a “coming soon” CrowdSupply link, which I guess is more than a KickStarter. But open source?
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by zxexz 7d ago
I've heard it as shorthand, in-context. Never heard it being chat-as-in-kleenex. I've supposedly been in the industry since before ChatGPT. Maybe that's where I went wrong :D
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by zxexz 12d ago
Socrates was a man. Socrates was creative. Ergo, Socrates is on HN. Ergo, we’re all dead.
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by zxexz 12d ago
Used to regularly take the shortish flight from Boston to Chicago, and then a bus >3x as long to Madison to see family, because the puddlejumper was too expensive or not even running.
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by zxexz 12d ago
Depending on the cost, and availability, 125 miles gets you within easy public transit range of NYC from Boston. Now, of course, most of the hassle of getting to NYC from Boston is transit to and from the airport. And of course, transit fro
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by zxexz 12d ago
GP is referring to GGP’s last paragraph. 150k t/m, yes, and 128k context.
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by zxexz 17d ago
As a user, I’ve not thought too much about this before now. I agree with you mostly, but the keyup on space behaviour actually feels so innate I’d hate any change to it. Keydown on space is “jump”; nothing else.
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by zxexz 18d ago
Oh, wow https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...
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by zxexz 18d ago
Windows i686, tier 1, what? I’ll do some digging when I’m home but I feel the sudden need to understand this.
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by zxexz 25d ago
He also posted it on a public blogging platform - https://xcancel.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491 People there still behave the same though
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by zxexz 25d ago
I used to scrap to make an extra buck, it was super fun. I did it for about half a year as my primary income. That was wicked fun, and exhausting. I’ve never been anywhere near that strong at any point in my life, before or after and did no
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by zxexz 1mo ago
> Edit: Does anyone else notice the switching between dashes and em-dashes between paragraphs? Tells you a lot about the man, doesn't it. That he doesn’t know how to use basic word processing, or even agent SKILLS.md or whatever it’
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by zxexz 1mo ago
I had floaters for years, they slowly disappeared. Occasionally start coming back again and disappear. When they disappear, I initially kinda miss them, because I start using them as stopwatch. Just spent 5 mins checking; I don't hav
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by zxexz 1mo ago
Not relevant at all, but I find that interesting and funny. As a rule of thumb I tend to accept unknown callers after 3 missed calls in rapid succession. Everybody I know closely knows this, and its come in useful. Though tbh I’d it’s a r
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by zxexz 2mo ago
I think in this case - where an editorialized title is better representative of the article, but the published title is too long - it’s usually left to someone like you to give a suggestion, publicly, which is then seen by @dang or their ki
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by zxexz 2mo ago
I don’t want to be a downer here, but the structure of this repo and the verbosity+language of the docs feel 80% vibecoded. Not that that’s wrong; I just feel kinda gullible for even clicking on this. One uses xargs or parallel only a few t
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by zxexz 2mo ago
I wish this form of Veganism was more well-known. I know a few Vegans who went down a similar path and who were told by a few people they were no longer Vegan. They took the easier path and stopped calling themselves Vegans, which I thought
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by zxexz 3mo ago
Caffeinate is burned into my muscle memory at this point. I attribute that to the realization that you could repeat opt flags. There's something catchy about caffeinate -dimsum
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by zxexz 3mo ago
Bookish teens will read them anyway. Giving them the option to do so in school, I would imagine would be met thankfully by them if done well, and a "no thanks" from the less-bookish - who very possibly will go on to read them late
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by zxexz 3mo ago
Yeah. Redis (valkey now for me mostly) is where I go for that extra oomph if the patterns make sense (or some level of scripting for dev work makes sense; the lua integrations is chef's kiss .).
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by zxexz 3mo ago
Yeah that's super frustrating. It sounds like a classic IT dev issue when IT is ops though to me - and I'm happy to be wrong. I personally believe (notice the caveat here) that debugging relatively well designed databases on a goo
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by zxexz 3mo ago
What does that...mean?
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by zxexz 3mo ago
I always thought that too. I spend a lot of time outside and check rigorously. Very often I find a recently attached tick. Found a fully-engorged deer tick half-detached not too long ago - pulled it off jaw-intact. In treatment for early-mi
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by zxexz 3mo ago
slide 28 https://s27.q4cdn.com/524696391/files/doc_presentations/2026...
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by zxexz 3mo ago
If that's all it took to make Deepseek so good, I'll gladly ship High-Flyer all my personal 150k claude/chatgpt conversations in exchange for Deepseek 5 (and a rack of B200s or Ascend chips)
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by zxexz 3mo ago
What I'll never understand about this whole thing is why most people seem to easily tolerate the rigamarole of maintaining an entire host SBC OS and sending or even cross compiling binaries to it, for microprocessor work. I much prefer
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by zxexz 3mo ago
I still find his pattern recognition book useful and informative. It may be dense, but some of us consider that a positive for 'reference' literature. That book was one of very few that still holds up well fr when it was published

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