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Re:US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind proj...
on Friday August 07, 2026 @12:18PM (#49212752)
The epitome of conservatism.
Re:The World's 2,400 Castles
on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @01:31PM (#48995467)
The ones in the area where I used to live are all missing.
Re:I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I love...
on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @03:17PM (#46966199)
Oh boy this hits home.
At this point I entered surviving mode, and curious to see where we will be 6 months, 2 years from now. I am pessimistic.
I want to tinker with my beloved Z80 again.
Re:Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:15PM (#46917599)
A web site as old as the internet, and still relevant.
Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:27PM (#46592266)
The idiotic rounded corners of Tahoe are so ugly I just wish I didn't upgrade. I hope Apple will make the radius configurable.
Re:macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:14PM (#46251010)
I didn't know they skipped 10 version numbers.
Re:Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
on Thursday August 28, 2025 @03:28PM (#45056066)
> hallucinations aren’t a bug of LLMs, they are a feature. Indeed they are the feature. All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful.
Nice.
Re:Volcanoes Can Affect Climate
on Friday July 05, 2024 @04:32PM (#40885741)
This post is most likely related to a recent post on HN:
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/so2-injection
Re:Ask HN: Why is nobody manufacturing low tech electric cars in 2024?
on Friday June 14, 2024 @04:21PM (#40684704)
The bicycle is definitively the best mean of _transpiration_.
Re:lsix: Like "ls", but for images
on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:21PM (#40600663)
Quite the list of deps (from brew install): dependencies for lsix: bash, libpng, freetype, fontconfig, jbig2dec, jpeg-turbo, libidn, libtiff, little-cms2, openjpeg, ghostscript, brotli, giflib, highway, imath, openexr, webp, jpeg-xl, libvmaf, aom, libde265, glib, shared-mime-info, x265, libheif, liblqr, jasper, libomp, libraw, m4, libtool and imagemagick
Re:Sieve is simpler than LRU
on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @09:22AM (#38854348)
This is presented like the best cache algorithm ever invented, but it's not simpler than LRU.
Re:Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles
on Thursday February 23, 2023 @03:58PM (#34916366)
From the article, now, this air battery is only vapor.
Re:Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles
on Thursday February 23, 2023 @03:53PM (#34916311)
People driving oversized cars from US in EU have no qualms about taking 2 parking spots.
Re:The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it
on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:20PM (#33181723)
I donate a little to the most useful site on the internet. It's a bargain. It doesn't matter if they don't need my donation to survive.
Re:The most dangerous road for cyclists in America
on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:58PM (#33039141)
If a driver cannot react fast enough to someone on a crosswalk, then the driver is driving too fast. Cyclists don't throw themselves right in front of a moving car. It's a lot safer to cross on a crosswalk, even on a bike.
Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human co...
on Thursday August 25, 2022 @01:47PM (#32597302)
I argue that the car is mankind's worst invention, by many metrics.
Re:GraphQL kinda sucks
on Saturday August 06, 2022 @12:18PM (#32369369)
I'm happy to read this. I had to use GraphQL once in an old job and I hated, hated the freaking thing with a passion, but there was so much hype about it I concluded the problem with it was caused by myself, a getting older and more close minded self. I see now that GraphQL may not be that wonderful, after all.
Re:In Praise of Writing (2021)
on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:31AM (#30441338)
Which Babel tool are you referring to?
Re:Ask HN: How did dark mode win?
on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:41PM (#30199317)
What I want to know is why I'm not reading this in dark mode.
Re:NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model
on Friday June 14, 2019 @11:31AM (#20183786)
Wouldn't this kind of problem be a perfect match for machine learning? It would have a huge dataset to learn from. Why isn't it happening or what prevents AI tech from forecasting the weather?
Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @02:04PM (#17240363)
No. We "moved to the cloud", everything became a "microservice", put together using existing libs, and I now spend my time trying to figure out why things running in obscure black boxes stop working in the middle of the night. I hate it. I wish I was coding instead of pushing buttons.
Re:Elmore Leonard's Rules for Writers (2010)
on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @08:21PM (#16426019)
I don't know about Chrome extensions, but there's Grammarly and the Hemingway App.
Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017)
on Saturday February 03, 2018 @08:34PM (#16300743)
> "[Intuit] regularly lobbies to keep the complicated U.S. tax code in place, and opposes proposals that would radically simplify it."
Nice.
Re:CDE – Common Desktop Environment
on Saturday February 03, 2018 @08:21PM (#16300699)
It looks like outdated shit, and that makes me happy. I worked on CDE HP systems for many years, and I liked it. The fact that it looks bad now is proof that we've come a long way and that great progress has been made, hence the happiness.
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Bat...
on Friday March 03, 2017 @12:15PM (#13784335)
Reading his name at the beginning of the article made me check my calendar to see if it was already April 1st.
Re:GIMP – 2016 in review
on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @09:07AM (#13417587)
GTK literally means the Gimp ToolKit. It's not based on, it's the toolkit that started it all.
Re:Montreal Is Leading the AI World Takeover
on Monday January 16, 2017 @09:47AM (#13410227)
A lot of people I work with in Montréal only speak English. It's not a big deal because everyone else is bilingual so the communication isn't broken. The main problem is when it comes to finding a job - speaking French and English is usually a core requirement. If you don't, you'll have to compensate.
Re:40-Plus Years of Man Page History
on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @08:49PM (#13173146)
Archive of the first edition of the Unix Programmer's Manual, 1971: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/1stEdman.html (PDF, PS, and images)
Re:Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet?
on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:42PM (#13108011)
What is the point when you have Vim, Atom, and Sublime Text?
Re:Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards
on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @05:37PM (#13066818)
I love Atlasboard because it's simple and you can do anything, anything at all. The only limit is your imagination. Welcome to Atlasboard.
Seriously now I wonder how Cyclotron compares.