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Re:Spaghettifying DRAM
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @11:19AM (#49287344)
Verbing weirds language.
Re:Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious
on Monday April 27, 2026 @12:10PM (#47923465)
“The question of whether Machines Can Think is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.”
— Dijkstra
Re:Tailscale's new macOS home
on Friday April 03, 2026 @01:00PM (#47629157)
Re:Vanguard's Average Fee Is Now Just 0.07% After Biggest-Ever Cut
on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:43AM (#42933821)
The full list is at the bottom of their press release:
https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/c...
Re:Abusing Go's Infrastructure
on Saturday May 25, 2024 @01:25PM (#40476442)
No inside information, but presumably this means Delivery to other organizations, which, among other things, includes maintaining outbound IP reputation, which is closely related to Spam and Abuse.
Re:Peter Norvig: New Python Operators (2023)
on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:37PM (#39435110)
Semi-related, in a past life, I used ... to indicate "not implemented yet":
def not_implemented_yet():
...
Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago
on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:36PM (#38798294)
> MS-DOS shipped with a TUI text editor since version 5 (1981)
MS-DOS 5 came out in 1991, not 1981.
Re:Implementing Tic Tac Toe with 170mb of HTML – No JavaScript or CSS
on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:10AM (#38231524)
A long, long time ago I also implemented tic-tac-toe in HTML. But just as a set of HTML pages with links for each X move (and an implied O move by the "computer" player). Total size of all the pages combined is about 60 kilobytes.
Re:Google's Green Light project retimes traffic lights for 30% fewer s...
on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:03PM (#37906606)
The middle light in a traffic light is called yellow in the US, and orange in (some parts of?) Europe.
Fly.io: Bottomless S3-backed volumes
Re:Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip
on Sunday September 24, 2023 @11:19AM (#37633908)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093933
Re:Google Deprecates Google Domains, Sells It to Squarespace
on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @07:56PM (#37140955)
Didn't this happen a few weeks ago already?
Re:MyNOR – The yet minor computer. No CPU, no ALU, one NOR-gate is enough
on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @08:58PM (#36426819)
And you can buy a modern reimplementation:
https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/tynemouth-products/min...
Re:Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm
on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:30PM (#36301451)
This reminds me of challenge 28 from the game Human Resource Machine.
Re:Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:06PM (#36203579)
Unless I misunderstand, it's less than a frame at 60 Hz (= 16.7 ms per frame).
A Chiral Aperiodic Monotile
Google Trust Services ACME API available to all users at no cost
Re:An Aperiodic Monotile
on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:14AM (#35247399)
From the paper:
> A single hat is asymmetric, and so in any patch we can distinguish between “unreflected” and “reflected” orientations of tiles.
Re:FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried
on Saturday November 12, 2022 @10:20AM (#33573862)
Re:Map of the Internet
on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:28AM (#33561987)
I thought this was going to be a link to https://xkcd.com/195/
Re:Key staff driving Apple search engine leave to rejoin Google
on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:25AM (#33561948)
> He is reportedly the company's new vice president of engineering.
Google has dozens of “VPs of engineering”.
Re:Toyota patents plans for EV with manual transmission and clutch
on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:13AM (#32725224)
As an owner of both a manual transmission car and an EV, I enjoy driving them both, but I don’t want the manual transmission experience with an EV power train.
Art is crime [NFT artist funds seized]
Re:DALL-E 2 generates images of Kermit The Frog in various films
on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:55AM (#31610065)
These are so good I am scared.
Re:Resurrecting an Old Plotter (2019)
on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:51PM (#30201320)
No first hand experience, but perhaps vpype with this plugin: https://github.com/zxsq-cc/hpglpype
Re:NeoPixel Christmas Tree Lights Controlled by a Raspberry Pi
on Monday December 20, 2021 @12:35PM (#29627414)
Here's Matt Parker's video from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvlpIojusBE
And he ran a bunch of viewer-supplied programs on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7eHTNm1YtU
Re:Happy birthday Vim (2020)
on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:33PM (#29114149)
What blows my mind is that vim is now twice as old as vi was when vim was released.
Re:All 16,777,216 RGB colours (2005)
on Saturday September 25, 2021 @06:31PM (#28656729)
It appears to be interlaced:
all16777216rgb-scrambled.png: PNG image data, 4096 x 4096, 8-bit/color RGB, interlaced
Re:Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]
on Sunday September 19, 2021 @10:23PM (#28589835)
The content is already encrypted anyway for DRM.
I'd assume TLS is used in large part for privacy reasons (so ISPs can't sell info on what shows are popular)