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danluu.com
178 points·by gm678·7 days ago·83 comments

Pulsar satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

space.com
3 points·by gm678·23 days ago·0 comments

From the Annals of Dubious Achievement (2009)

mcfunley.com
1 points·by gm678·2 months ago·0 comments

The IndieWeb Is Wonderfully Dionysian

brennan.day
4 points·by gm678·2 months ago·0 comments

ClickHouse Handles Strings

rushter.com
3 points·by gm678·6 months ago·1 comments

Carbon and water footprints of data centers and what this could mean for AI

cell.com
1 points·by gm678·7 months ago·0 comments

The Cost of Resetting a Password

pwndefend.com
4 points·by gm678·8 months ago·0 comments

Simple One-Time Passcode Inputs

cloudfour.com
3 points·by gm678·8 months ago·0 comments

Knowing When to Hold, Fold, or Walk Away from Tech

kyle.cascade.family
3 points·by gm678·8 months ago·0 comments

Use Git push –force-with-lease (2017)

brunoluiz.net
3 points·by gm678·8 months ago·0 comments

A closer look at Python Workflows, now in beta

blog.cloudflare.com
3 points·by gm678·8 months ago·0 comments

The São Paulo Interpretation of Immersive Sims

azhdarchid.com
1 points·by gm678·8 months ago·0 comments

Preliminary patches posted to boot Pixel 10 hardware on mainline Linux kernel

lore.kernel.org
1 points·by gm678·8 months ago·0 comments

Programming Paradigms

scharenbroch.dev
2 points·by gm678·8 months ago·0 comments

Embedding Universe

helboukkouri.github.io
1 points·by gm678·8 months ago·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by gm678·8 months ago·0 comments

What I Don't Care About in Software

blainsmith.com
4 points·by gm678·8 months ago·2 comments

Java 25, Ready to Perform to the Limit

hanno.codes
1 points·by gm678·10 months ago·0 comments

Designing a new button to visually show and hide alt text

jamesg.blog
1 points·by gm678·10 months ago·0 comments

iPhone OLED supplier BOE to be banned in US for stealing Samsung trade secrets

notebookcheck.net
32 points·by gm678·10 months ago·2 comments

comments

gm678
·16 days ago·discuss
> Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.

Clearly a lot of careful thought went into their strategy of using AI and firing engineers.
gm678
·21 days ago·discuss
I think people are reading it as a request every 0.8s that takes 1s to process, instead of 0.8 requests per second.
gm678
·2 months ago·discuss
Not sure what to term this as it's an acqui-hire without the acquire, but why did Anthropic want to poach most of Zulip/Kandra's team?
gm678
·2 months ago·discuss
I don't know what the Y-axis is supposed to be on that Wharton AI capabilities graph, but I am not really convinced that Opus 4.6 has more than double the intelligence/capability/whatever of GPT 5.1 Max.
gm678
·2 months ago·discuss


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gm678
·2 months ago·discuss
I am, I have an Nvidia 5070 Ti, Aurora for my OS (from the same people as bazzite, but I'm a light gamer so I'm fine using flatpak steam/heroic/etc). the only problems I've faced are

- occasionally an online game breaks and it's usually fixed within a day or two. for example at some point a Battle.net update broke the launcher under Wine some time last year, then for a while Overwatch would intermittently crash once every few sessions. I haven't gamed on Windows in years so I can't even compare anecdotally, but I suspect Windows is probably slightly more stable with live service games. I've never had any issues with a single player game, period. (YMMV)

- DX12 performance is 10-20% worse on Nvidia. This should be improved Soon (TM) - I think the last piece is https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/tree/descr...

- Some anticheats block Linux - the only times I've switched over to windows in the last year have been when some friends wanted me to play Marathon with them

- Running 'sidecars' alongside your games or modding works but is generally more of a hassle with wine

things I didn't expect to work but do:

- Game streaming with Sunlight works fine to Samsung TV via the TizenOS Moonlight app

- Nvidia had suspend issues for a year but those have all been sorted out the last few months
gm678
·3 months ago·discuss
Rates copper peptides for anti-aging as evidence-backed by 'phase 2 clinical trials' and cites a single still-recruiting trial "for Acute Skin Wound Healing'. I think the main purpose of this site is to provide plausible-sounding backing for snake oil.
gm678
·3 months ago·discuss
Same reason the livestream mentioned jobs about a dozen times in the 10 minutes I watched, NASA is in a fraught position and this is their way of fighting for some continued funding. A 'mass media' event captures more attention than a minimalist stream of chatter. (And a less cynical interpretation is also that getting the public interested in and engaged with space missions is part of their mandate.)
gm678
·3 months ago·discuss
Posted earlier at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548402
gm678
·4 months ago·discuss
> You’re getting worked up over nothing. Everything is going to be fine. So just relax, okay? You’re really overreacting.

> Trust me, it’s all going to work out perfect. Nothing bad is going to happen. It’s all under control.

> Why do you keep saying these things? I can tell when there’s trouble looming, and I really don’t sense that right now. We’re in control of this situation, and we know what we’re doing. So stop being so pessimistic.

> Look, you’ve been proven wrong, so stop talking. You’ve had your say already. Be quiet, okay? Everything’s fine.

https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mi...
gm678
·4 months ago·discuss
Also, many (I would even venture to say most) of the great artists most people know of earned their bread with intermittent commercial contracts, even rote advertising commissions in the 19th/20th century.
gm678
·6 months ago·discuss
I don't see any news source anywhere on the internet claiming that 3000 number - anti-government sources have said 'hundreds' of protestors have been killed, whereas the Iranian state media has been silent on the death toll except confirming 109 members of security forces killed.
gm678
·6 months ago·discuss
Different language, but I find this Kotlin RFC proposing union types has a nice canonical example (https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/projects/KT/issues/KT-68296/U...)

    inline fun <T> Sequence<T>.last(predicate: (T) -> Boolean): T {
        var last: T? = null
        var found = false
        for (element in this) {
            if (predicate(element)) {
                last = element
                found = true
            }
        }
        if (!found) throw NoSuchElementException("Sequence contains no element matching the predicate.")
        @Suppress("UNCHECKED_CAST")
        return last as T
    }
A proper option type like Swift's or Rust's cleans up this function nicely.
gm678
·7 months ago·discuss
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329109
gm678
·7 months ago·discuss
"Core Functional Utilities: Identity function - returns its input unchanged." is one of my favorites from `lib/functional.ts`.
gm678
·7 months ago·discuss
Yes, I have to admit my interest was piqued by the banner, and I then scrolled down, saw the first example was singletons, and closed the tab.
gm678
·8 months ago·discuss
Another great reference on this: https://3dreference.notion.site/Texture-Types-15aef4826bf04d...

Note that normal maps are still widely used in PBR workflows. The article doesn't mention them, but older renderers tended to use diffuse, specular, normal maps, and modern asset creation typically involves albedo, roughness/smoothness, metalness, and ambient occlusion maps in addition to normal maps for textures.
gm678
·8 months ago·discuss
I don't think this timeline is quite accurate - the 'transgender tipping point' Time magazine cover was in May 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_tipping_point
gm678
·8 months ago·discuss
Same pricing as Google search APIs, for what it's worth
gm678
·8 months ago·discuss
(title editorialized from the vague "I Don't Care")