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McNutty··on How to design, build and test small liquid-fuel rocket engines-ROCKETLAB
Thank you I was wondering!
McNutty··on How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design
Bring back more of this type of internet content!
McNutty··on Introducing Cloud WAN
I don't blame them for it, but I find it amusing how they present this as some wonderful new technology as opposed to simply that they're playing catch up with the other cloud providers offerings
McNutty··on Ask HN: What do you use to monitor website security (vulns, uptime, etc.)?
Shodan (with account, not just talking about the public search page)
McNutty··on Ask HN: What LLM tools to locally search and analyse your documents?
Welcome to the trough of disillusionment.
McNutty··on Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate
You have got more patience than me. I have tried to use these tools to generate (basic) network diagrams and by the time I reached your third step I already knew that it was time to quit and draw it out myself. Diagrams need to be correct and accurate otherwise they're just art. I also need any amendments to be made to the same diagram, not to have it regenerated each time.

I do like the idea of another commenter here who takes a photo of their whiteboard and instructs the AI tool to turn it into a structured diagram. That seems to be well within reach of these tools.

McNutty··on Claude can now search the web
I haven't used Claude yet, but heard many good things. So I'm surprised to see that they're so far behind on this feature.
McNutty··on Show HN: Wordazzle – Become eloquent by mastering elegant words, powered by AI
Nice and slick.
McNutty··on Your Invoice Is an Actor That Wants to Get Paid
Adverts that want to reach the target demographic, at any cost.

Sounds like the plot of a horror movie.

McNutty··on Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
Couldn't disagree more. Notepad is a place to dump snippets of unformatted text, for a temporary duration unless I explicity save the file. I already didn't like that they added the tabs feature and autosave recently.

If I want to do writing I'll use one of the 6 tools on my PC more suited to that task.

McNutty··on Ask HN: How do you develop and cultivate your critical thinking?
Aside from the logical fallacies have you taken note of your own biases? They're everywhere, not just in the obvious places.
McNutty··on Show HN: I built a web app to host live trivia at your events
I didn't look at the game, but re the website, I really like the way you've got the 'demo' links directly in the list of features
McNutty··on Ask HN: Cooking book/resource, expressed in terms of (Bio)Chemistry?
I'll add the OG Good Eats by Alton Brown to your list
McNutty··on Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
What is the appropriate number of times to "just move on and ignore" before finally deciding to say something because the integrity of hn as a platform is at risk?
McNutty··on Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
Strongly disagree. This platform for tech news should not become a place for political posts, nor even for posting regular news headlines. Yes we know that reddit sucks but stop trying to make hn into reddit.

Also the community can't handle it, just look at the handful of comments we already have here.

McNutty··on Show HN: Simple tool built for my manager is now becoming its own startup
Looks nice, but CMV...

Instead of beep I can take a screenshot, use the built in annotation tools easily accessible in my screenshot software to add highlights and notes, paste the screenshot into the chat window that I already have open to the relevant individual or team.

McNutty··on Open Source Game Clones
Great list! Maybe I can finally finish Police Quest!
McNutty··on LoRA Fine-Tuning Efficiently Undoes Safety Training from Llama 2-Chat 70B
No, because you can fine-tune a number of things in LoRa.

Why are you saying lora, just to b8?

McNutty··on LoRA Fine-Tuning Efficiently Undoes Safety Training from Llama 2-Chat 70B
Same also. I was fascinated with the idea that someone was trying to fine-tune some RF parameters using AI and accidentally undid some safety mechanism
McNutty··on Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
I just spent a while reading several pages of the grumpy.website, lots of good content there and should be mandatory reading for UI designers
McNutty··on Show HN: RF – a portable Reddit browser in the style of HN that still works
I like it
McNutty··on Omission of New Zealand from Maps
This should help

https://i.ibb.co/6RX6Vx8/Screenshot-20230708-182128.png

McNutty··on Ask HN: Are there any good open source screen sharing tools with remote control?
The personal version is free.

OP stated "remote controlling a friends computer" which would be the free version

McNutty··on How to calculate the weekday of any date in your head
Your own conclusion paragraph states that the code for 2024 is 1, but your pre-calculated table says different.
McNutty··on Ask HN: Are there any good open source screen sharing tools with remote control?
TeamViewer and Google's equivalent (Google Remote Desktop) are 2 that come to mind, and there is functionality built directly in to some versions of Windows.
McNutty··on Ask HN: How do you help junior devs improve faster?
Honestly I think it will be game changing for education (if people use it for learning). You get initial info from it then you say "simplify that further" or "expand on that". Like having a personal tutor who is a PhD in 1000 subjects,just answering all your dumb questions 24x7
McNutty··on Ask HN: How do you help junior devs improve faster?
GPT or Copilot

Take this comment with a massive pinch of salt as I'm not a dev, just a sysadmin who does some scripting, and I've learned a ton already from asking ChatGPT to "refactor this function".

One of my colleagues had paid for Copilot out of his own pocket, and the guy went from having never touched Python to writing functional applications in a few weeks.

Note that the copilot doesn't help with anything non-code that you don't ask it. For example, I asked my colleague why he doesn't use venv, and it was because he'd never heard of it. He certainly isn't using version control either! On the other hand, his documentation is great because copilot helps write that as you go.

McNutty··on Ask HN: Are there any good open source screen sharing tools with remote control?
Does it need to be open source, or just free to use ?

There are a few free tools out there.

McNutty··on How to calculate the weekday of any date in your head
What is the year code for 1947? For 1976?
McNutty··on Ask HN: Roast My Landing Page
To me this looks like a template page that I've seen 1000 times before.
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