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It's often simply misleading / bad writing. Here's one I just got about some crashes:

"If the crashes stop, the factory overclock is marginal; run a small negative offset."

This looks like it's saying: "If the crashes stop then we know the factory overclock is marginal." (This makes no sense.)

What it's trying to say is: "If the crashes stop then we can run a small negative offset, because the factory overlock is marginal."

What I would write: "If the crashes stop, we can avoid crashes by underclocking slightly. The speed difference between that and factory clock is marginal."

My first job, in California, was just transitioning to leetcode-style interviews in 2007 following the industry trend. So it was probably spreading around that time.

Take a CO2 meter into a hotel, office, convention center, etc in summer. In many, it will be at 1200+. I've seen up to 2500. This is due to "green" interior air recycling that just happens to save companies a few dollars on air conditioning. How much of society is operating under this lower IQ condition?

I take it as a sign of typical increasing corporate dysfunction. Obvious problems, some even easy and uncontroversial, don't get fixed. Why?

The people who can fix them are not in control. The org must be very top-down. But Steve Jobs had a top down style, so what's the difference? Its: Using and caring about the product.

It's top down direction with the people at the top not using/caring about the product. Presumably they're concerned with other things like efficiency, stocks, clout.

They don't understand consent. [0]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774770

> The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

Plus there's a gambling mechanic: Push the button, sometimes get things for free.

I appreciate the answers. For others reading, I also just ran across another thread where you posted relevant info [0]. In the case of my game, I'm going to consider SSE, since most of the communication is server to client. That said, I already have reconnects etc implemented.

In my research I recall some potential tradeoffs with SSE [1], but even there I concluded they were minor enough to consider SSE vs WS a wash[2] even for my uses. Looking back at my bookmarks, I see that you were present in the threads I was reading, how cool. A couple WS advantages I am now recalling:

SSE is one-way, so for situations with lots of client-sent data, a second connection will have to be opened (with overhead). I think this came up for me since if a player is sending many events per second, you end up needing WS. I guess you're saying to use UDP, which makes sense, but has its own downsides (firewalls, WebRTC, WebTransport not ready).

Compression in SSE would be negotiated during the initial connection, I have to assume, so it wouldn't be possible to switch modes or mix in pre-compressed binary data without reconnecting or base64-ing binary. (My game sends a mix of custom binary data, JSON, and gzipped data which the browser can decompress natively.)

Edit: Another thing I'm remembering now is order of events. Because WS is a single connection and data stream, it avoids network related race conditions; data is sent and received in the programmatically defined sequence.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43657717

1: https://rxdb.info/articles/websockets-sse-polling-webrtc-web...

2: https://www.timeplus.com/post/websocket-vs-sse

Useful take, thanks for mentioning specifics. Some of these I wasn't aware of.

- What makes load balancing easier with SSE? I imagine that balancing reconnects would work similar to WS.

- Compression might be a disadvantage for binary data, which WS specializes in.

- Browser inspection of SSE does sound amazing.

- Mobile duplex antenna is way outside my wheelhouse, sounds interesting.

Can you see any situation in which websockets would be advantageous? I know that SSE has some gotchas itself, such as limited connections (6) per browser. I also wonder about the nature of memory and CPU usage for serving many clients on WS vs SSE.

I have a browser game (few players) using vanilla WS.

Still one of my fastest drives, and extremely durable. It's too bad.

There's a Copilot thread I've been subscribed to since 2022 [1] about disabling autocomplete of comments in code.

The practical solution: Manually toggle it.

My favorite solution: Start the comment with a curse word.

1: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/8062

An intriguing idea! I like this approach for being an innovative interface to SQL. I wonder if it would reduce cognitive load when interfacing with the DB.

I'm a game dev and often need to avoid situations where I'm using '.map' to iterate an entire array, for performance reasons. It would feel odd to use the concept, knowing it wasn't really iterating and/or was using an index. Is that how it works?

I don't care if VCs take risks, I want to be nice.

> Tokens Don't Lie

> But how do people feel about these topics

I find it notable that tokens don't necessarily express people's feelings. Put another way, tokens aren't how people feel, they're how they write.

Samstave mentioned in this thread that Twitter is a 'global sentiment engine'. I'm sure that's literally true. Sentiment measurement is only accurate to the degree that people are expressing their real feelings via tokens. I can imagine various psychological and political reasons for a discrepancy.

If you did sentiment analysis of publicly known writings of North Korean administrators, would that represent their feelings?

I think the interplay with free speech is interesting here: In a setting where people feel socially and legally safe to express their true opinion, sentiment analysis will be more accurate.

Is there no harm, or is there harm that is hard to show in court?

I looked into that for VR headset eye tracking, which uses IR lights plus cameras to see the eyes inside the dark headset.

Here someone did some calculations [0].

> The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection's Guidelines of limits of exposure to broad-band incoherent optical radiation (0.38 to 3 µm)[1] states:

> "To avoid thermal injury of the cornea and possible delayed effects on the lens of the eye (cataractogenesis), infrared radiation (780nm < > λ < > 3μm) should be limited to 100 W m⁻² (10 mW cm⁻²) for lengthy exposures (> 1000 s)"

0: https://docs.eyetrackvr.dev/getting_started/led_safety#about...

1 (pdf): https://docs.eyetrackvr.dev/safety/ICNIRP_optical_radiation....

I agree that there's a lot of benefit to sticking with a thing. I've only seriously used Perl, PHP, Erlang, and Node, over 20+ years, deliberately. For productivity.

One reason for switching and trying is a fascination with finding the next amazing thing, always hunting for something new and better. Usually it's only slightly better, or not better. But sometimes you find Elixir, Laravel, or Deno. And it's more fun and productive, plus you're ahead on the resume.

Laravel has been amazing for a long time. I heard its 'convention over configuration' approach was inspired by Rails, and the ecosystem is competitive with anything.

For small to medium web projects, the benefits of having JS across the stack has kept me from using Laravel again. That doesn't apply to all projects, though, and I still love it.

Waiting for the next thing. Toying with Deno Deploy (no association).

That story is not about speed, it's about Copilot. To be fair, everything is called Copilot now, so maybe fast Surface Pros will be called Copilots too.

How does the memory bandwidth compare? Based on my usage, that's key in responsiveness between Mac and PC now. Also for LLMs in memory. I compare the current top Surface Pro with the current Macbook Airs.

51-83 GB/s for current Surface Pro 9 with Intel Core i7-1265U (3200-5200 MT/s). [0]

100 GB/s for current Macbook Air 13/15" M2/M3. [1]

0: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/226258/...

1: https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/specs/

I wonder if the training to be compliant to the propter is part of the problem. Both of those statements are similar to saying "I refuse to answer your query".

Or maybe this is inherent to continuation?

The behavior reminds me of the human subconscious, which doesn't say no, just raises up what it can.

Sort of. I was using Erlang in 2007, well before switching to Node/JS. Erlang/Elixir has its downsides, which is why I switched.

The entire industry has been twisting itself in knots trying to solve ops problems that Erlang/OTP solved in software long ago.

I'm trying Deno Deploy though, because it seems like an attempt to combine those benefits with the JS ecosystem. That has advantages in: Language usability, frontend/isomorphic, libraries, and serverless.

So far it feels like the future. Something like this will be, though I'm almost expecting a new language for it.

If powerful or opportunistic criminals were at risk of being criminally charged by the government, they're then utterly incentivized to influence and control said government.

And that has already happened since forever, which is why you have to ask if there are politicians threatening this. It's all already tied together.

Thanks for the tips, I didn't know about /active!

This was on the front page but completely disappeared. Guess it was being flagged for no good reason. It's a good article.

Luckily I can still find yesterday's article about credit cards rewards at the top. I think there's a perverse incentive around flagging.

No True Git fallacy. If you don't enjoy Git, it wasn't Git as it's meant to be!

There's always something 'wrong' with Git because it's incredibly complex. Most developer flows don't require that complexity, but have to pay for it anyway. That's the article.

When I have significant changes, I copy the directory before messing with Git beyond regular commands, because it's so easy to nuke code with it. Someone could tell me I'm doing it wrong, but an LLM could generate that comment at this point, so don't bother.

What if it's obvious ahead of time what the prayers will be? I know a thrown ball will return to the ground before it happens. So it can just "answer" them 8 minutes ahead of time.

This was posed 20 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39724247

Not sure why I can't downvote articles, ah well.

I'm enjoying this thread. I want to add that building a network of experts has other costs too.

Sticking to a network will limit the variety of people you get to meet, everything else the same. Local maxima.

It also isn't practical in some circumstances; if I travel for work or move cities every few years, the local network for mechanics gets lost. The cost of keeping the network would be staying in one place.

So, these are all options.

I tried to do a SMS verify when I couldn't login, and the text never came. That service must be overloaded. That's when I realized it was an outage. Hundreds of thousands (millions?) must be doing that.

Also, going to /r/facebook doesn't load, heh, there must be per-subreddit load issues?

The new way to build communities: SE-anti-O. Trying to rank as low as possible. Things will flip and sites will try to be uncrawlable to Google. I guess it's already happened with Discord.