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Re:Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:11AM (#49989374)
I switched to a decision model for my local "AI" voice control thingy. faster-whisper produces the text then onnx scores all my HA entities to determine which one I'm talking about .. then it lists all its actions and a second scoring round to determine what action I want. some regex to extract numbers if I'm saying things like "water the lawn for 10 minutes". It's pretty dumb when compared to what an LLM can do but considering you now have semantic scoring "at your finger tips" without resorting to levenshteins or other crude algorithms like that it's insane how smart it can look.

And to answer the obvious question: because latency. This thing turns on the light or water valve in under 100ms on a laptop from 2001 with 8gb ram .. all running locally on the laptop.

Re:Sites in ChatGPT on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:08PM (#49935921)
luckily that's a prompt away from being fix^H^H^Himproved
Re:GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @02:49PM (#49820674)
based on Jev's Doom demo it should be ready for this test
Re:Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:35AM (#49654797)
so they trained it to be a 10x engineer?
can't say "I wrote it in Go" anymore
Re:Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications on Thursday June 11, 2026 @02:37AM (#48486986)
I have to say, after the recent Performative UI post here on HN, I was not expecting an apache foundation project to have gradient words on the landing page.
Re:Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @04:21AM (#48458228)
or use the already existing figma mcp
Re:Squares in Squares on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:03AM (#48276123)
if, like me, you're a non-native english and speaker don't immediately understand what this is about: the page shows for each `n` what's the minimum `s` such that `n` squares with side of length 1 fit in a square with side of length `s`.

what I'm curious about though is what a proof for something like this looks like. and why does it need a proof? not to mention the randomness of some of the `n`s. Math is most of the time beatiful and whenever I see something like `n=11` I think "it looks wrong so it must be wrong" yet it has a proof.

how can you claim in the readme "no per-language vendor SDK" and then link to a list of per-language client SDKs?
Re:StarFighter 16-Inch on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:17AM (#48035354)
that's actually one thing I don't like but they're essentially forcing you to go 4k for the 10khz pwm.

otherwise, why would you want a resolution you're going to scale to 150% or even 200% anyway just to be able to read it anywhere outside?

... and eating into your battery

there is great hardware other than what Apple produces. It's actually the OS the reason people are buying their hardware for.

I see nothing stopping you from buying a 16" Razer Blade and putting whatever non-Orwellian OS you want on it

Re:Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:28AM (#47364177)
I hope nobody wanted "ecommerce-admin". sorry
Re:Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @04:55AM (#47045566)
you have to reference Royal food tasting somehow. just saying
Re:Instagram's URL Blackhole on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:53AM (#47022134)
At this point it must be intentional that there's always something uncanny about these fake pages. That google logo is so old that if I see it I immediately know to get out of there.

So I find it fascinating how there's always the odd typo, the old logo, the impossible combination of iPhone needing an antivirus, etc and I refuse to believe is incompetence.

Re:AWS Adds support for nested virtualization on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:18AM (#47001096)
obligatory: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

spoiler though: I'm referencing the part where gimp is running in Wine running in asm.js in a Chrome browser running in another asm.js in Firefox

I used to run a cs1.6 server on an amd 800mhz with 256mb of ram in the 2000s. I'm looking these days to get a mac mini and while thinking that 16gb will not be enough I remembered about that server. It was a NAT gateway too, had a webserver also with hitstats for the cs server. And it was a popular 16v16 type of server too. What happened? How did we get to 16gb minimum and 32gb will make you not sad.
Re:Nova Launcher Added Facebook and Google Ads Tracking on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @03:43AM (#46689418)
that same moment I switched to Niagara launcher. After 10 minutes of using it bought the Pro level and that was it. I kept around 5 apps in main screen, YT music widget automatically pops up on top when I connect headphones. The side scroll is very well thought out. For each letter the most used apps are on top. This one clicked with me.
I think it's just someone learning something new most of the time.

I have home made url shorteners in go, rust, java, python, php, elixir, typescript, etc. why? because I'm trying the language and this kind of project touches on many things: web, databases, custom logic, how and what design patterns can I apply using as much of the language as I can to build the thing.

Re:Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop on Sunday December 07, 2025 @11:55AM (#46183093)
why are you so deliberately not getting the point?

if I ask you to choose between xbox 360, xbox one and xbox series s which one is the latest?

and then if I ask you to choose between ps2, 3, 4 and 5 which one is the latest?

what do you think are your chances to get it right for xbox?

Re:Dark Pattern Games on Monday November 17, 2025 @03:39AM (#45951861)
Chess:

- infinite treadmill: theoretically you can play all possible moves but not in a lifetime.

- variable rewards: sometimes you stumble upon (or try) a tactic that works.

- can't pause or save: except when you maybe play against a computer which is not the point of the game

- grinding: you need to play the same openings many many times to encounter all the responses that will let you know if your "build" is worthy

- competition: nothing to add

That's like Karcher opening a megamall to sell all their offering, vacuums, pressure washers, floor washers, you name it .. and then you, Bosch, complaining you can't sell your vacuum in Karcher's megamall where all the people go.

What are you even saying?

Whereas google was letting Bosch sell vacuums in their megamall, but only if it uses Google dust filters and people buy only Google made dust filters and Bosch isn't allowed to sell their own dust filters in the megamall.

Re:Valve is about to win the console generation on Thursday November 13, 2025 @08:34AM (#45914722)
Anyone familiar with how they're running x86 on a snapdragon? I'm more interested in that hitting your regular android phone .. think retroarch but you can play hades 2.
Re:Roc Camera on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:33AM (#45691917)
1. buy stuff for $50

2. 3d print a couple of cases for $10

3. repurpose highschool summer break crypto project .. free? (excluding time spent)

4. ???

5. profit from selling it for $400 a pop

Re:Why Today's Python Developers Are Embracing Type Hints on Monday September 29, 2025 @03:39AM (#45411226)
Is it me or is everything slowly moving to strong types but don't want to commit?

For PHP it slowly got introduced in php5.4 and now it's expected to type hint everything and mark the file strict with linters complaining left and right that "you're doing a bad job by having mixed-type variables"

In Ruby you get Sorbet or RBS.

What is JavaScript? Oh, you mean TypeScript.

and so on ..

My take is that if you need strong types switch to a language with strong types so you can enjoy some "private static final Map<String, ImmutableList<AttemptType>> getAttemptsBatches(...)"

Re:Prime Number Grid on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @07:02AM (#44950247)
I find the patterns from cols % 30 == 0 very interesting (30,60,90,120, etc.) .. just straight vertical lines.

And if you go up or down by one (119 or 121) they appear to "rotate" left or right.

Very cool viz tool.

Takes a look at pipeline that builds image in gitlab, pushes to artifactory, triggers deployment that pulls from artifactory and pushes to AWS ECR, then updates deployment template in EKS which pulls from ECR to node and boots pod container.

I need this in my life.

Re:Terpstra Keyboard on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:38AM (#44309794)
The article link is missing the scheme so the browser will default to https. I get an error about the CNAME mismatching the Host on https for example.
How would that feel as a traveler? Does all motion slow down to a crawl, all sub-atomic particles just "freeze" and essentially your thoughts and body aging too? So it would seem like you got there in an instant?

For sure you're not just sitting there watching people get born, live and die in second and shrugging your shoulders.

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