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OvervCW··on Live map of public transport in Belgium
Similar map for the Netherlands: http://ovzoeker.nl/
OvervCW··on Being ambitious and being a dad
I like your dog trick analogy, that definitely helped me understand it more :)
OvervCW··on Being ambitious and being a dad
Surely a lot of this can be experienced by associating with parents and their children rather than having them yourself, right?

This may sound somewhat reductive, and please correct me if that is the case, but I find that I can be around and play with my nephew and experience all of this wonder and how he progresses through life, while not being around for the sleepless nights and tantrums that I feel are the "work" part of being a parent.

OvervCW··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
Am I missing sarcasm here? Minecraft was developed in 2011 and Java was conceived in 1995; it was (already) an extremely mature and popular language at the time.
OvervCW··on MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C
What is the advantage of this compared to Dear Imgui?
OvervCW··on RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
There is: your browser or other type of client does not know it can repeat a POST request if it fails, whereas a QUERY request can be freely repeated in case of errors.
OvervCW··on Claude Fable 5
One does not need to be able to create it themselves to evaluate if the output is correct. Consider for example that you can easily determine if a meal tastes delicious without being an expert chef, or the fact that NP problems are very difficult to solve but make for easily verifiable solutions.
OvervCW··on OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
You can use ONNXRuntime with a TensorRT backend, so one does not exclude the other.
OvervCW··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
What exactly is the opposite side? Is it actively managing a portfolio? Because most people don't have the time to do that.
OvervCW··on London's Free Roof Terraces
Are we reading the same reddit thread? It looks like most of the people in the comments are against the decision.
OvervCW··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
Useless because you can use a camera to take a photo of a synthetic image.
OvervCW··on The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
I actually thought it was a joke comment, but I'm worried now that it's not the case.
OvervCW··on For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
You cannot deny that telling the entire world about this vulnerability before it is patched won't cause a lot of abuse that would not have happened otherwise.
OvervCW··on Copy Fail
Any program on your computer can just run "sudo" to escalate itself.
OvervCW··on FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers
That's exactly what I set out to do with my pet project :)

https://github.com/Overv/outrun

OvervCW··on How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform
Yes, world class in causing human suffering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7pgDmR-pWg

OvervCW··on Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
>unless the label is something too low signal to predict

>Also, crashes are statistically rare events on arterial and local roads, so it can take years to accumulate sufficient data to establish a valid safety profile for a specific road segment.

That is exactly what this article is about.

OvervCW··on Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires
I wouldn't be surprised if they did this to lower the support workload, since I have several 2.4Ghz devices that fail to connect to WiFi at all if I put both bands on the same SSID. I intentionally separated them for that reason and portable devices like phones know how to switch between multiple SSIDs based on signal strength anyway.
OvervCW··on jQuery 4
Vue can do progressive enhancement.
OvervCW··on CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift
No, Hacker News is generally about technology and startup news, not businesses in general.
OvervCW··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
Mullvad at least is funded by their VPN subscriptions.
OvervCW··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
In my experience Chrome does not just load faster, but it also uses less memory than Firefox because of its more aggressive tab hibernation that is enabled by default.

On my laptop I had to switch from Firefox to Chrome because it kept filling up all of my RAM resulting in other applications crashing.

OvervCW··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
The document you linked mentions $50M in advertising/subscription revenue.
OvervCW··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
You can install uBlock Origin on Firefox mobile; it's the only reason I use it.
OvervCW··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
It is the desktop where Firefox has a 4% market share right now. Once you consider all traffic it drops down to 2%.

Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...

OvervCW··on 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
Why do they use air for this instead of water?
OvervCW··on Nano Banana Pro
How would this stop people from using their iPhone to take pictures of AI generated images?
OvervCW··on Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster
In what way is it NP-hard? From what I can gather it just eliminates nodes where the pod wouldn't be allowed to run, calculates a score for each and then randomly selects one of the nodes that has the lowest score, so trivially parallelizable.
OvervCW··on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
Which is strange, since one of their measurement units is literally based on a body part.
OvervCW··on Go subtleties
>Did I add explicit checks for all the errors my function calls might return?

You can check anything with a linter, but it's better when the language disallows you from making the mistake in the first place.

>You can forget to use `with` in Python, I guess that's also C now too eh?

When using `with` in Python you don't have to think about what exactly needs to be cleaned up, and it'll happen automatically when there is any kind of error. Consider `http.Get` in Go:

resp, err := http.Get(url)

if err == nil { resp.Body.Close() }

return err

Here you need to specifically remember to call `resp.Body.Close` and in which case to call it. Needlessly complicated.

>Then stop writing spaghetti and use a higher level abstraction like `x/sync/errgroup.Group`.

Why is this not part of the standard library? And why does it not implement basic functionality like collecting results?

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