i-e-b

Re:Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM on Sunday August 09, 2026 @01:16PM (#49233356)

The complete works of Shakespeare are about 6MiB. I hate that 100MiB is considered efficient for telling me if it's going to rain later.

Re:Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:39PM (#48052322)

Wouldn't work with direct mapped input devices (such as Wacom pads)

Re:H.R.8250 – To require operating system providers to verify the age ... on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @12:20PM (#47781299)

This will be fun to implement in washing machines, and car ECUs; and for users that aren't humans, and...

Re:Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:32PM (#47592293)

"Don’t use bots or scrapers"

Says the bot based on scraped data

Re:AI chatbots often validate delusions and suicidal thoughts, study f... on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:05PM (#47430045)

An electronic monk

Re:The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph on Friday February 27, 2026 @02:55AM (#47177818)

I'd buy into the efficiency and economy arguments more if the truckers would stop dumping gallons of diesel on the roads.

Re:Writing code is cheap now on Monday February 23, 2026 @02:03PM (#47127062)

Writing code has always been cheap. Deciding what the logic should be, and being able to change course was the hard bit.

Re:Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D on Saturday November 29, 2025 @12:54PM (#46089398)

A lot of the noise and banding is reduced if you calculate the brightness by area instead of distance

https://jsfiddle.net/i_e_b/9kLro7ns/

Show HN: Data Encoding for Human Input

Posted by i-e-b on Monday September 29, 2025 @06:02AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/i-e-b/MultiCode

A combination of Reed-Solomon forward-error-correction codes, and a binary-to-text encoding that allows common human-input errors to be detected and possibly corrected.This results in a highly resilient code which is very likely to work.Use for recovery codes, coupons, user account IDs, document tracking, or anywhere else you really want the user to be successful even if they've written it down...

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Re:Grapevine cellulose makes stronger plastic alternative, biodegrades... on Monday September 15, 2025 @04:10AM (#45247292)

So, celluloid?