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Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:07AM (#45964333)
> What's the point of having a status page if it lies ?

Status pages are basically marketing crap right now. The same thing happened with Azure where it took at least 45 minutes to show any change. They can't be trusted.

It's actually the opposite. Calculating an asteroid impact is much easier because it primarily involves basic Newtonian physics. In contrast, the climate is a chaotic system, making long-term predictions far more complex.
Re:BrainFlood: Runtime code generation via reflection in .NET on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:04AM (#42852411)
Desktop mode in mobile seems to work fine.
Re:Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @03:18PM (#42784733)
I believe the description as a "wall" is not completely correct. Yes, it's a wall as a unpassable obstacle, but the description they gave when walking into it seems more like a field "can't turn around just walk backwards". The field was just dense enough to stop people from continuing moving forward similar to molasses.
Re:Reports of the Death of Dental Cavities Are Greatly Exaggerated on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @03:27AM (#41576813)
Sometimes red tape is good in situations that might affect a large part of the population. Remember the whole Thalidomide situation.
Re:Sisk – Lightweight .NET Web Framework on Saturday August 31, 2024 @10:56AM (#41409328)
This project might have helped me when I needed to implement a console app that might or not start a web server.

Asp.net is very overbearing (even using minimal APIs) when you want to use other Microsoft utilities like DI, logging or config since it wants to be the main entry of the application.

Never found an easy way to use the host feature with a optional web application where they both shared the DI. Note that this is more a problem with the generic host than asp.net itself.

Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @03:38PM (#41238900)
He already did it with a 1km diameter ball (https://what-if.xkcd.com/12/) and the destruction was terrifying. Please keep him away from these other bigger water balls.
Re:Up to 90% of my code is now generated by AI on Sunday July 28, 2024 @08:21PM (#41097043)
> Some coworkers seem to be having better success but I definitely get the sense they are reading and editing the results carefully.

Yes, you need to consider the AI as if it were a junior programmer that sometimes makes mistakes. I use it for boring work that can be quickly checked. For example, the other day I asked for a 'give me next workday' algorithm based on the code structure I had, and it worked fine.

It's just one more tool in the toolbox.

Re:Up to 90% of my code is now generated by AI on Sunday July 28, 2024 @08:10PM (#41096991)
That's what I've been saying: AI is just a tool that can't yet replace programmers—maybe one day.

I use it for the boring work like generating comments, basic algorithms, API endpoints, and naming stuff. Even with the need to double-check the output, it still takes a load off my brain.

Re:Anti-Crime Humps in Medieval Venice on Sunday April 07, 2024 @05:17AM (#39959502)
I always thought this was only to avoid public urination. I wonder if they added the anti-crime as PR excuse.
Funny that it's so noticeable because of the hostile architecture.
Re:Sell your micro startup for less than 25k dollars on Sunday December 31, 2023 @07:46AM (#38823707)
On the other hand without a commission this means there isn't a perverse incentive to fake data and sell stuff like it happens with other services.
So what you mean is that we need an standard compatible with multiple brands and later versions. Like AA batteries.
Interesting. I don't have tinnitus but when I jut my jaw forward I hear really low white noise.
Re:Awareness at Death on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @10:08PM (#37852699)
It's much easier that way to make people self sacrifice for the religion, gives a meaning to their life and pacifies their fear of death.
Re:Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @09:14PM (#37839833)
With those prices I'm not surprised.
The problem is that Unity is a game engine, not a game framework. That means that any code you do will be following their architecture and using their features. The game logic gets really tight to the engine.

...unless you are Brian Bucklew https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1703163364229161236.html

Note: That is not the "normal" way to use a game engine.

Because the missing device might cause something similar to this crash but instead with a internal mechanism. You really don't want loose stuff around moving mechanisms.
Re:The Free Movie on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @07:34AM (#36693019)
Well, the problem is some of those aren't even drawings. Some minimum effort should be made even if you don't want to trace the frame.
Re:Rebellious birds make nests out of anti-bird pins on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:40AM (#36691120)
He could've easily built some heated bird houses with all the effort he wasted.
Re:You didn’t just do that, Heroku on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @01:41AM (#35610356)
This is why I use the git commit short hash as part of the identification of the service (eg: container name). Allows for quick check of which is the running code version and identify problems like these.
Re:ManyCam dishonored my lifetime license on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:29AM (#35540322)
The difference with your Ford car is that no one is changing how the roads work every year. Compared with other areas IT is really unstable.
Re:Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:14PM (#35484898)
When people say that humans are "autocomplete engines" they are being a little facetious on the fact that we are pattern recognizing machines that require sensory input to function. Basically "autocompleting" the input we receive.
Re:The Electric Vehicles We Need Now Are E-Bikes on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @02:32AM (#35435868)
I have a electric scooter that I use for shopping. It's pretty nice if you just want to buy enough to fill a big bag.

It is definitely more expensive (if you want something decent) than a e-bike but it occupies less space in the house.

Re:Ask HN: Is Google Slowly Dying? on Saturday March 25, 2023 @09:17AM (#35302354)
No, they aren't doing that. It's just a result from the revenue source that they have which is ads.

Little by little, like by natural selection or AI training, the search got worse because revenue increased.

Re:Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:32AM (#35299424)
I don't understand what you linked. Don't they believe in technological singularity?

I would think a intelligence capable of self modification could use the scientific method to increase it's performance (even if it means scaling in size like a matrioshka brain).

When you can't find the source of revenue then that generally means you are the source of revenue.
Re:This site was styled by YouTube comments on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:49AM (#34724725)
Surprisingly seems to work pretty well on mobile.
You should try a reverse colorblindness test like this: https://www.colorlitelens.com/color-blindness-test/secret-of...
Should work with any device. The web page needs to implement the driver/protocol to communicate with the hardware.

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