niccl · HackerTrans

il y a 4 joursdiscuss

yes. TLA and XTLA overloading is a real problem, particularly when going cross domain.

Maybe we should insist on some standardised expansion of TLAs and XTLAs so you know unambiguously what any particular Three Letter Acronym or eXtended Three Letter Acronym means. I wish I could think of a way of doing that...

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il y a 8 joursdiscuss

Thank you for posting this. I thought I knew a bit about what was going on with audio sampling and reproduction, but I learned a surprising amount from this well presented introduction

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le mois dernierdiscuss

Darwin Award recipients!

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le mois dernierdiscuss

until quite recently I dealt with a machine that had uptime in excess of 16,000 days. Before anyone panics, it was on a closed network. It was a second hand machine and we were very worried that if it was shut down the disk wouldn't recover, hence just not touching it. It was in a hut in the back of beyond so exceedingly tedious to replace if we needed to.

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and the comment there about using emacs for the different shells in different modes possibly explains the un-resolved nit in TFA about proportional and monospaced fonts in different areas

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le mois dernierdiscuss

I think it's more like the old adage 'the first 50% of the job takes the first 90% of the time, and the other 50% of the job takes the other 90%'.

Except that with vibe-coded AI stuff it's more like there's yet another 50% of the job to deal with the edge cases that takes yet another 90% of the time

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

There's much more information in the linked github repo at https://github.com/krauseler/muxcard

It even includes an eInk display as well as the battery.Insane, but really impressive.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Having associations with Aotearoa/NZ, I read it as w-eh-roh, which is part of the traditional Maori greeting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(M%C4%81ori)

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

That wouldn't work (for me, at least). As soon as I figured out the pattern, I'd know I had a week after the 'deadline' and then the pressure is off until that week is passed/nearly up

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

How about Bill Gates as US's Benevolent Dictator For Life?

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

Sturgeon's Law (2026): 99% of everything is crap or slop

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

Another anecdatum: it definitely seems better to me in the last few days.

Thanks again to you and tomhow for all your stellar work on keeping the site as close to its original intent as practical these days

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

you've got me. What's the typo?

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

And then there's trucks flashing an indicator to say it's safe to overtake if you're behind them. In the UK it's the nearside indicator, which makes sense: it's a bit like the truck is pulling over to let you pass. In Aotearo, it's often the off-side indicator, so you think the truck is going to pull out in front of you. I've never understood what the Aotearoa drivers are thinking there

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

thank you. I knew there was something I was missing

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Sadly, I think the only answer is some other form of payment than ad clicks. I've no idea what that could be, though.

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

All. The. Time. And I hate it. Imagine giving a customer a rebate based on buggy code. You fix a bug, the customer comes back and wants to check that the rebate was correct that last time. Now you have to somehow hard-code the rebate they did get so that your (slightly less buggy) code gives the same result. But hard-coding has the risk of introducing other errors on its own. Oh yes, and you've never enough time to do things properly because Customers (or maybe Management). A tangled mess of soul destroying lifeblood-sucking code and pressures ensues.

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

But at least they're taking _some_ stance. Yes, it could be higher, but it's better than nothing, and requires courage

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il y a 5 moisdiscuss

I invoke Hanlon's Razor [0]. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

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il y a 5 moisdiscuss

back working on my lighting desk, after a couple of years of hating it because the communications bus between the many different modules was flakey and so the whole thing wasn't fun to use. I bit the bullet last year and re-implemented everything with CAN-bus communications and it's actually fun to use now.

Current work has been improving boot time. Was nearly two minutes because of one board, and that's a long time for the lights to be out if you have to reboot during a show. I'd wanted to use buildroot to get a custom kernel that should boot much more quickly, but the buildroot learning curve was steep for me, particularly as I've no expectation of ever needing the knowledge again.

Independently but concurrently I decided I really ought to understand what all this AI stuff was about, for fear of getting left behind. That coincided with the release of opus 4.5, and holy heck has it made a difference! With a little guidance from me Claude got the buildroot environment working and the boot time down to less than 10 seconds. I've been _really_ impressed. I've had Claude write a few boring utilities that I could easily have done but Claude managed much faster and with less boredom on my part. Fortunately for my AI revolution I think I'm a better Business Analyst/writer than I am a coder, so it fits with my temperament.

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