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GloriousKoji

1,318 karma · joined November 4, 2019

Electrical engineer who programs too much python.

Purdue University Certified in Rat Tickling.

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GloriousKoji··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
That's part of the problem. "May contain" doesn't provide legal protection and then if you make it a standard there needs to be testing for compliance which ends up as the same original problem and you just add compliance tits to your food product.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34116211

GloriousKoji··on Hang on to Your Firefox
I might be the odd one out but I hate the awesome bar. What I do like about Firefox is I can make the awesome bar just a boring address bar and have a separate search bar.
GloriousKoji··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
It's a relic of SAT verbal analogies section which was removed in 2005. The syntax "A:B::C:D" represents the statement "A is to B as C is to D".

So on the test you'd get questions such as

  python:snake ::  ___ : ___

  a) lua:satellite
  b) swift:bird
  c) java:coffee
  d) pearl:gem
and you might select A because python is an interpreted scripting language and a type of snake in the same way lua is a scripting language and a type of natural satellite but you'd be wrong because the correct answer is B because the topic was actually about comparing animals.
GloriousKoji··on My favorite keyboards
Wish granted.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/MINI_M

GloriousKoji··on Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it
I built a Hadley 114 over the course of 3 weekends and I highly enjoyed it. Amazon has a convenient 2 piece mirror kit you can buy. The rest of the parts (springs, screws, rods) can be acquired anywhere and the stand can be as complex or as simple as you want.
GloriousKoji··on European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)
But they didn't do any actual testing? It's just some score based on ingredients and advertised SPF?
GloriousKoji··on I am retiring from tech to live offline
The mental gymnastics I've seen kids enable is Olympic level. Need to upgrade to a bigger house, need to upgrade the car to a SUV, need keep traveling 2-3 times a year, need to sign up for some crazy sports league and coach which means domestic flights and hotels every other week.
GloriousKoji··on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
So what's preventing companies from giving games for free and requiring a subscription or one time membership fee for online play? They'd only be required to refund the full price of the game: $0.
GloriousKoji··on 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
It's 2026, roughly 4.5 years after the release of the remastered version Diablo II: Resurrected.
GloriousKoji··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
You'd think with all that electronics it would be smart enough to use real brakes every now and then. The plug in hybrid Prius runs the gas engine every 100 miles or so.
GloriousKoji··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays!
GloriousKoji··on There has to be a better way to make titanium
As someone with a self proclaimed fetish I have to ask if you have ever tried working with the material? I find even the most basic manipulation to be wild compared to other common metals.

I was sanding and polishing a long handled titanium spoon to make it more smooth (slowly) by hand and the friction from that quickly made it too hot to hold. It's thermal conductivity is 1/10th of aluminum and roughly 1/2 of stainless steel.

Another fun thing is to anodize it to different colors. Compared to aluminum it can be achieved without the use of caustic chemicals.

GloriousKoji··on 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
One downside is it would motivate companies to get intellectual property registered under a trademark with indefinite protection rather than copyright. Even with our current lifetime + 70 year protection we have companies like Disney getting characters registered as a trademark.
GloriousKoji··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
I didn't want to believe you so I went to the source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

wtf.

GloriousKoji··on The R47: A new physical RPN calculator
Calculators are large enough that it should be possible to fit AAA or AA sized batteries, even possibly a 18650. They're lower power enough that a CR3202 lasts a long enough time but it always ends up dying at the most inconvenient time and they're really the only device I have that needs CR3202.
GloriousKoji··on The R47: A new physical RPN calculator
Am I the only one who dislikes the CR2032 that all the RPN calculators need?
GloriousKoji··on Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US
Places in California has this problem too. Installing solar panels today could result in a larger electricity bill than not having them.

Getting solar panels forces you onto a plan in which they charge more per kwh pulled from the grid. The surplus electricity is only credited at the generation cost which is only 1/4 the total cost per kwh. (Delivery costs is 3x the price of electricity).

So if you want to go solar to save money you need both batteries and solar panels which is not an insignificant amount of money.

GloriousKoji··on Apple Renames 'Apple TV+' to 'Apple TV'
Not to be confused with Apple HomePod.
GloriousKoji··on Pasta Cooking Time
I prefer to cook pasta like rice and starting it in cold water brought to a boil and then a simmer: https://altonbrown.com/recipes/cold-water-pasta-method/
GloriousKoji··on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
As someone also served by PG&E I don't think cheaper electricity will help. At peak hours electricity is $0.13/kwh but the delivery charge is $0.50/kwh.
GloriousKoji··on iPhone Air
Depending where you are in the world some banking apps only work with phones that have physical sim cards.
GloriousKoji··on SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker
16GB has been the new minimum for under a year. Give it some more time /s
GloriousKoji··on Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat
I live in the 3rd "wealthiest" county in the United States. The combined market cap of headquartered companies here total over 10 trillion dollars. I can't install solar panels and I can't be bothered to buy house batteries so I've only had power 98.6% of the time last year.

I've lost hope. In theory it can be done but it feels something on the same order as setting foot on the moon again. We have the technology and capability to do so but somehow our population collective decision results in keep things garabge.

GloriousKoji··on Pixel 10 Phones
I've said this before but the trackpad is too big and they could have fit both function keys and touch bar and everyone would have been happy.
GloriousKoji··on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu
I had foolishly given them the benefit of the doubt and after poking around their entire damn website site and I now hate them. I couldn't find a nutrition label but buried in text was information I need.

"4-5 grams of protein per 100 gram serving" "fats derived from canola, sunflower seeds, and algae"

Real Coho Salmon is about 20% protein and 7% fat so we're looking at less than 20% of the important parts being salmon. I retract my previous comment. It's not Salmon.

I believe the FDA defines a minimum of 40% of a meat product to be made of that meat to be labeled as that meat (eg. beef hotdogs needs to be made of 40% beef) and I'm not sure if this qualifies as that.

As a benchmark, the tuna used in a Subway tuna sandwich is 100% tuna, the beef in Taco Bell beef tacos is 88% beef, and the chicken in McDonald's Chicken McNuggets is 100% chicken but make up 45% of the nugget.

GloriousKoji··on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu
The large majority of the final product is salmon cells so I think it counts. I don't see how this is too different from fish paste products like imitation crab or chikuwa.
GloriousKoji··on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
What baffles me is that Discord is basically mIRC with some extra features but the culture just isn't the same.
GloriousKoji··on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]
Probably because the Apple Watch is effectively a modern 10 year old smart phone made tiny with an ARM Cortex A series CPU running at nearly 2GHz while the Garmin is a ARM Cortex M series microcontroller doing ~200MHz.
GloriousKoji··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
Something I miss with modern UI design is the location persistence of items. Like the old windows desktop widgets or the OSX dashboard. You should show the desktop or bring up the dashboard and the todo list would always be in the same location and show up or hide with a quick key strokes.
GloriousKoji··on Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)
I don't follow youtube links during work hours as a personal policy but an India government webpage outlines the water test for whole tumeric: https://eatrightindia.gov.in/dart/

> Test 14 : Detection of lead chromate in turmeric whole > Testing Method: > * Add small quantity of turmeric whole in a transparent glass of water. > * Pure turmeric will not leave any colour. > * Adulterated turmeric appears to be bright in colour and leaves colour immediately in water.

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