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abejfehr··on You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow
I made the same mistake as the other person. When I click the breezewiki link I get a full screen banner (on mobile) that directs me to a wiki page with different information.

I didn’t realize there was content underneath the banner on the first page

abejfehr··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
It seems like Kobo eReaders don't come with a mic.

You could probably use an ESP32-S3-PhotoPainter (which comes with a mic) to do this for even cheaper: https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-photopainter.htm

abejfehr··on Whoisinspace.com/
It's disappointing that a YouTuber who presumably doesn't need extra cash resorted to an ad-ridden copy of this great, ad-free, already-existing site.
abejfehr··on Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
The page you linked says "Attack type: Double tap missile strike"

Edit: it also explicitly says "double tap" under "Events" and links to the article for "Double-tap strike"

abejfehr··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
I saw beads at a bead store today that were clearly Pepsi/Sprite but they were "Pepsis" and "Spritc", presumably to be legally distinct.

Is it important that the beads looked like Pepsi/Sprite? Kind of, people want recognizable brands

abejfehr··on LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices
How does someone unaffiliated with LG make use of this feature? If they don’t have an API for it then presumably you’re safe from third parties unless the TV is rooted, right?
abejfehr··on Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive
It’s because all sites are made by the same “person” now.

If you get past the anthropomorphism, it’s basically that Claude is just a set of knowledge, including opinions (things they’d more likely do than other things) and everyone is getting the same person to make their sites which is why they all look the same.

Also the same reason everything ends up with the same tech stack (if you don’t steer it specifically) which probably contributes to why GitHub is overwhelmed.

abejfehr··on I 4x'd a 367x479 stamp-sized photo through 8 upscaling models
I can only see a mouth and nose on mobile
abejfehr··on Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16
> Bun stopped shipping a Zig-based runtime after 1.3.14 — the project moved on to a Rust rewrite. Cruller forks that last Zig-era Bun and ports it forward to Zig 0.16 instead of following Bun into its rewrite.

I might be missing something, but where does it mention why specifically they're interested in having this be Zig and not Rust?

abejfehr··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
They might be referring to the e-Points system, where hitting targets awards points and you can trade the points in for drones, etc
abejfehr··on Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP
isn't that what they're saying with "not both at the same time"? the papers both have opposite signs, one has != and the other has =
abejfehr··on My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
I do this.

I have a gaming PC connected to my living room TV, but sometimes I’m lazy and want to play games from my bed.

My solution is that my bedroom TV has a Steam Deck dock connected, so I take my wireless controller to the bedroom and stream the games there instead.

abejfehr··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
Elbow, Eyebrow, Heart’s Content, Heart’s Desire, and Heart’s Delight
abejfehr··on Life is too short for a slow terminal
This wasn't an option for us because as an org we used their recommended hook (1) to automatically change node versions when switching directories, but it effectively undoes the lazy loading.

With mise you get the behaviour of automatically switching when you change directories effectively for free.

1. https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#zsh

Edit: unless you aliased it to `node` or `npm`, which would be fine I guess but super annoying if you ran node or npm commands often. It is not worth the hassle, no one should use nvm in 2026 imo

abejfehr··on Life is too short for a slow terminal
I'm surprised people are still using nvm, considering it's impact on shell startup time.

I can't recommend switching to mise highly enough: https://mise.en.dev/

abejfehr··on CSS-Native Parallax Effect
I don’t think it did for me. Are you on iOS 26?
abejfehr··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
I just found the theory referenced on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/1tsts...
abejfehr··on I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC
Based on the title I was really hoping to see how this was used for gaming, but they just ran an LLM on it
abejfehr··on Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says
> ... they won’t want rich people to vote.

I think it might be more than that

abejfehr··on Incident with Actions and Pages
Yes, I truly believe that GitHub is recommended by an LLM orders of magnitude more frequently than any other forge
abejfehr··on GitHub Actions down again today
I think it’s much more than 80%, it’s probably the default recommendation and folks who aren’t technical would just accept it. Probably closer to 95% or more
abejfehr··on Leave Me Behind
It definitely doesn’t hold true for the average person, I was only thinking of the fittest today.

I’m not sure what it means if we want the average person to be fitter, it seems like we’d have to reinstitute manual labour if that was the goal.

Which is maybe a good analogy for not using AI in the classroom and forcing kids to use their minds

abejfehr··on Leave Me Behind
I think probably actually. The fittest people back then probably weren't as fit as people today with specialized diets and medical science, and surely those findings were a result of better equipment, which were a result of better tooling to manufacture that equipment.

Introducing a machine to a manufacturing role obviously makes the manufacturer less fit, but it enables society to break through fitness barriers in general

If your point is that it's not orders of magnitude fitter, that's a good one. I don't think people will be much more intelligent in the future than they are today but they'll probably just be more specialized and have deeper knowledge

abejfehr··on Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street
There’s a few sites that do what I think you’re asking for, not navigation though. This is one I’ve used recently: https://shademap.app/
abejfehr··on Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
I’m pretty sure I heard the same quote at my high school and university graduation ceremonies, and those were many years before AI. It’s a standard way to inspire new grads, right?
abejfehr··on Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
Reminds me of this short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVl0NS0vu8
abejfehr··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
I don’t know how they know it’s an axolotl and not a newt larva. If it’s the latter it’ll be very jarring when it changes forms later
abejfehr··on Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
You might find this talk interesting: https://youtu.be/W20t1zCZv8M

It’s one of my favourites

abejfehr··on Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
There’s a lot of debate about whether this reduces model accuracy, but this is basically Chinese grammar and Chinese vibe coding seems to work fine while (supposedly) using 30-40% less tokens
abejfehr··on Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs
It’s commonly “they”

For example: “Meta released a new product, they (Meta) are calling it …”

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