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Severian··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
Uhhh.. for a page thats about GUIs, this seems awfully sparse for the actual look and feel of said GUIs.

How about some screenshots?

Its very difficult to compare X to Y anywhere on this site. Its just an aggregator, not really an exemplary resource.

Severian··on LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request
What's the reason you asked this question? I mean, yeah, you could have stayed silent, and nowadays everyone assumes that pointing out obvious things in a condescending tone is kind of insightful, just because you used enough ellipses.

Back then we all knew: vague rhetorical questions aren't arguments.

Technically, it's not a big surprise at all that someone would restate "you are the product" like it's a revelation. There is nothing novel at all.

And non-technically, yeah, as you said... You tried to weather a paragraph of empty meaning. You know that this comment says absolutely nothing actionable. You've known since word one. Nobody can actually be stupid enough to not instantly see that. It's impossible to not understand it.

Your strategy so far was to just scold. Who of you has expected a productive outcome, given this "mediocre" contribution, to say it veeeeeery friendly?

Severian··on Vm0
I cannot find anywhere in the documentation that shows exactly where or how this "cloud sandbox" is deployed or maintained.

Is this Docker, Kubernetes, KVM/Xen, AWS, Azure, GCP, Fly.io, some other VM tech, or some rando's basement ?

Very little detail and I don't trust this at all.

Severian··on Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
Incorrect, only some UUIDs are random, specifically v4 and v7 (v7 uses time as well).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

> 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444

This would technically be version 2, which would be built from the date-time and MAC address, and DCE security version.

But overall, if you allow any yahoo to pick a UUID, its not really a UUID, its just some random string that looks like one.

Severian··on Gemini 3
The video shows closer to 2 seconds for it to finally throw itself over in what could only be described as a "Thunk". I figured it would be a little more smooth.
Severian··on Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++
I use NP++ almost my entire day, and this would be great for short breaks. Awesome job!
Severian··on Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources
I 100% agree with this take: adding Bandcamp to this "media" app is a really shitty thing to do.

I personally know a few musicians who use Bandcamp to either exclusively make a living (along with touring), or to supplement their income. Some are overjoyed when they get a few sales a week on a release. This POS software denies that opportunity.

Either way, 99% of the artists are small independent musicians, and this just skips the Purchase album or track and just freeloads off the small MP3 player on each album page.

Its disgusting.

Severian··on The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
I've had the same issues as you, and here are some things I've done or tried as a remedy.

Try going into Android "Developer options" and enable the option "Disable Absolute Volume". Some devices cannot handle the way Android maps the "master" volume of the system to Bluetooth. With the option enabled you will have a separate slider to adjust the Bluetooth volume, and the volume buttons will instead only control the "Media" volume.

An alternate thing to do is under the same Developer Options is instead of disabling Absolute control is to change the Bluetooth AVRCP version to at least v1.5. v1.5 AVRCP introduces the Absolute Volume control functionality.

But, it could also be what you may have are Bluetooth devices that do not support Absolute Volume, or lack AVRCP v1.5 compatibility. If none of this works, I suggest purchasing the "Precise Volume 2.0 + Equalizer" app. I use this as it gives you more fine-grained control over the number of steps in the volume slider (for example, I now have 100 steps). It also allows you to calibrate the number of steps to a specific device, so you can literally change how many steps from quiet to loud. It's worth all of the $10 it costs, and has other nice quality of life features as well.

Severian··on How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower
We need another Bell Labs where people can experiment without immediate monetization. Look at the history of lasers and such. Took decades but now we have femto pulse lasers for Lasik and such.
Severian··on Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy
Kinda related, anyone know of something similar for Windows? This is definitely going in my toolkit, but I need something similar for Windows client traffic inspection (tls 1.2+) to get the full picture. Working with proprietary client/server coms over tls. Can use a special debug build, but requires shutting down and replacing. Need something in-sutu.
Severian··on Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI
Funny what his passions turned into, so yeah, ironically agree.
Severian··on Russia's Dead Drop Drug Revolution
You need to read the PDF, there is a ton of information in the report, with 214 references to the sources cited.
Severian··on Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
Indeed
Severian··on Scientists use magnetic nanotech to safely rewarm frozen tissues for transplant
So, induction heating, got it.
Severian··on AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis
I may not email as it isn't a serious pursuit, but more curiosity. Thank you for the invitation! My current fascination is in separation and classification. And modular synthesis where I guess DSP stuff comes about if translating into the digital domain.
Severian··on AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis
Are there resources you would recommend reading regarding ML and audio?
Severian··on Metal thieves in America's cities
Prosecute the scrap metal yards more harshly, have a "police book" like used car lots and pawn shops. Document the person selling, get a photo of the same with the persons face, etc, etc.

Only allow maximum amounts of metal to be recycled unless said person has a registered business, per day/week/whatever. Regulate it.

There isn't an incentive if you can't sell it. As a commentator indicated below people were scrapping fire hydrants. Wouldn't this be a huge red flag??

"Oh yeah, I see you have 5 hydrants here to sell. I can't think of where these could have possibly have come from."

Severian··on How to Use Secure Sockets in C on Linux
Yeah, not verifying server cert or OCSP/CRLs is a problem. DNS attacks can redirect and you'd be none the wiser.
Severian··on Backdoor in D-Link routers enables telnet access
So, what is the count of D-Link exploits in their routers now? I swear there is at least 1-2 per year for as long as I can remember.

Do they just hire some rando code monkeys with 0 security audits?

Severian··on McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test
The biggest challenge to this is weather. Do you really want to roll down your window and get soaked in a rainstorm to pick a #1 with a diet coke?

Most drive-thrus I've ever seen (Ohio, US) have zero cover and you are completely exposed to whatever mother nature wants to throw at you. Even the service window itself may have a tiny 24" awning that barely helps. In fact in my experience during rain it makes it worse as you get runoff right on top of the vehicle since they don't have rain gutters.

Severian··on Intel is trucking a 916k-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab
Oh god, 33 and Gender Road. That's not going to be pretty for traffic.
Severian··on Legal models hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or more) benchmarking queries
For sure, I agree with you 100%. This is basically "Legal Analysis for Dummies" if you choose to rely on a machine to give you help here. Medical is also a bad domain.

What do you call a person who just barely passed the bar exam?

Severian··on Legal models hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or more) benchmarking queries
JFC, this is why lawyers exist. If you trust AI LLMs to answer your legal questions accurately you are a special kind of fool.
Severian··on IBDNS: Intentionally Broken DNS server
Perfect addition for me. I use with badssl.com in my toolbox for training and coding tests. Need more "bad example" tools to cover corner cases and understand common failure modes.
Severian··on Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song
Wow, I'm feeling lucky. I have the exact same turntable. Using a different app (since I use Android) I was able to gyroscopicly measure just 1.3% average difference.

I have a sense of tone and it's always seemed fine to me.

Severian··on Competitive Bass Fishing Cheaters (2014)
Yup, I once worked in a 18lb freshwater drum on 6lb rated line. Took me about 1/2 hour. Was in a dam spillway with some noticeable current. Both the fish and I was worn out. And the poor dude was thrown back in, they aren't really very eatable.
Severian··on Competitive Bass Fishing Cheaters (2014)
Unless it was something brand new, it was the Walleye species:

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2022/10/12/walleye-...

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/crime/2023/05/11/la...

Severian··on I broke IKEA (2023)
Haha, awesome. Would be good to get the uncompressed audio, I bet you could decode that binary stream into bytes.
Severian··on Permutation City (1994)
I got a copy of the Antimemetics division too after a read through on SCP wiki. Well worth getting a physical copy to support the author.

qntm is becoming one of my favorite authors as well.

Severian··on The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects
The broom would actually be useful for some applications. Top of objects, concrete texturing, etc.
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