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Re:I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:42AM (#49488111)
Interesting and potentially has applicability in deriving logical rules from regulation, contracts etc. Are there already formal languages that can be used to codify, that sort of information.
Re:Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days? on Saturday August 15, 2026 @02:38AM (#49308283)
RSS to only see new links that hit 100 points https://hnrss.org/newest?points=100. And then selective reading of those.
Baulk - refuse to comply
Blasted out at 20 times the force of gravity: what ejection from a fighter jet does to the body
Re:I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:18PM (#46874863)
Or perhaps they want to stop any company that doesn’t want to play by the rules as defined by the laws of society. So doesn’t matter whether it’s a US hyperscaler or an EU wanna be.
Re:A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch on Sunday January 25, 2026 @01:34PM (#46756745)
Walking the dog is my go to for thinking through problems. The dog really loves the hard problems as they get a longer walk.
Is the influencer career being short lived any different from an athlete
Re:Ask HN: My AI app builder has users, not buyers – why? on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @03:11AM (#46509861)
Is the user base churning or are you getting multi day active users? Which one will point you in a different direction.

Once the page has been generated where can I host it? The answer will influence your target audience.

And then on pricing what does a credit get me in terms of something tangible - a page, 5 pages?

And for the target audience do they know which model is better? And if so why is it better to use your site than just direct prompt?

Re:Why Software Systems Must Default to the Metric System on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:09AM (#45964386)
If globally we collectively used metric for all units then this becomes realistic. But whilst we have different units being used and a person needs to view this is going to happen.

If the output of a sensor that records in metric, then needs to be viewed in imperial it needs to be converted. Is it better to convert at write or read time always depends on use case and geography. Or do we just force the human in the loop to know that the speed limit is 112km/h even though it’s non digitally signposted at 70.

Re:Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @01:49AM (#45756785)
“Those systems will continue to receive security updates for 3 years.” - looks like 8 years in total.
Re:Microsoft Azure Outage on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:14PM (#45749919)
Whilst the status message acknowledge's the issue with Front Door (AFD), it seems as though the rest of the actions are about how to get Portal/internal services working without relying on AFD. For those of us using Front Door does that mean we're in for a long haul?
Joint account for everything for the house and family. Both salaries get paid into it, in full. Spend is jointly agreed.

We then both have an individual account for our monthly allowance. Monthly allowance is funded from combined account, and is same amount for us both. Our allowance funds personal items and hobbies.

Re:Flags Are Not Languages on Sunday May 05, 2024 @12:04PM (#40265856)
It's also terribly annoying when I've found a page through a search engine and the site decides that I don't want that language. Navigates me to the language of my accept-language, decides that's on a different domain which is managed by a different team/CMS and doesn't have or can't find the page I was looking for in the first place.
Are you thinking something like https://www.forecastadvisor.com/?
Had exactly the same with a bunch of developers who could change the queue priority on a mainframe for their own work. They couldn't work out for themselves that if everybody set their work to the highest priority it had no benefit to any of them. Trying to educate them failed, so we revoked access.
Probably not, but right now that small inconvenience is financially noticeable. We've (2 adults, 2 teenagers) made an effort in the last 6 months to reduce our base load, result is that our December 2022 electricity usage was 75% of December 2021 - for the same house, same occupancy, same demand (light, cooking, washing/drying, showers, household tech but not space heating or other hot water).

If we go to bed and the house is using > 200watts, then something has not been turned off. Turning off our TV and the associated devices for 20 hours hours per day adds up to a nice meal out for one person each month.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year? on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:47PM (#34223432)
I'm going to be working on a personal itch problem. I first spotted the problem about 20 years ago. I solved it as a brute force manual screen scrape 15 and 10 years ago. I tried to solve it programatically 5 years ago, learnt lots but ultimately went round in circles on scaling an approach.

I'm now excited to be playing with Arquero [1] and Uber H3 [2] and hopefully I'll scratch the itch and release something!

[1] https://uwdata.github.io/arquero/ [2] https://github.com/uber/h3-js

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