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anakaine··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
Apps like photopea exist because of client side processing. They shift cost to client compute and that makes them supportable by indie devs.

I'd wager we will start to see more web apps like this have greater obfuscation and dependencies on operating on a particular domain. Sure AI can help to circumvent many things, but at a certain point they pay-off may not be worth the effort.

anakaine··on A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
I reckon you might be asking for a little too much from a single web dev there.
anakaine··on A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
Because I learned on this, it made learning everything else that much harder. Even today I wish there was something as functional, basic, and intuitive, even though I well.understand the reasons for doing things different ways.
anakaine··on Windows 11½
Lmfao. What are they even doing with Copilot? Paying for premium and then handicapping it because they think that being able to search online sources might exfiltrate your sharepoint data? That is not at all how that works.
anakaine··on Windows 11½
Sounds like Proton and SteamOS are very successfully closing the gap with games. Ironically hardware pricing might be the reason SteamOS doesnt progress at the same speed that it has been as Steam machines are pricey.

Specialist software on the otherhand. I get that. Its the same reasonw hy I have a macboom for academic work and Windows for other work. Vendors not building across ecosystems is frustrating, though presumably thats due to tooling lock in.

anakaine··on OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
And this is why we see ever better attempts to mimic human skin, faces, movement, emotions, etc, with robot manufacturers.
anakaine··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
The issue is the breadth of scale. At the time of the industrial revolution those who we would consider knowledge workers were a much smaller percentage of the population. Today, they are a significant part of the workforce, and it is them who are being displaced first, and in increasing numbers.

The second issue is one of migration between skill sets. By the numbers, today is likely harder as non Ai-affected skilled professions take longer to train into in a general sense.

The third is the synthesis of AI and robotics. Humanoid help is good. As the Venn diagram overlap of capabilities between humans and humanoid robots increases, many professions defined by complex vision and environmental manipulation that are currently safe will not be.

There are, of course, upsides. But the world is right to wonder what the future looks like, and where people fit within that future in terms of earning an income if whatever path they choose seems to be able to be replaced by a machine within their lifetime. How do they achieve personal stability and safety if, even when thinking about their multitude of career options, the machines are so good that they can do almost anything.

anakaine··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
Cheap and poor decision by a company not acting in good faith. Right up there with the globally popular Ford Ranger whose oil change needs to be completed in under 10 minutes because thats how long it takes the oil pump to drain residual oil and it has no self priming capability, so itll run dry and seize the engine despite the oil sump being full.
anakaine··on Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++
Much like you, anyone who wants to get deep into emulation and reverse engineering will. They will do so because AI cant quite do what they want, and probably because they are curious. The upside is that when they are that deep they will have a bot to ask questions of along the way, and they will recognise where it comes up short eventually.

Yes people will lazy their way out of it. Many of us program, but few of us ever bothered to learn, with fluency, assembly. Those who wanted to did, and those who didnt stuck to higher level languages.

anakaine··on How we manage and engage with our horses shapes their personality
There are many cultures and parts of the world where dogs are considered dirty and dangerous and should not be anywhere near the home.

Now you and I know rather differently, but those places are still going through their own 'journey of discovery' when it comes to animal intelligence and social benefit.

The above said, I'd have not expected a Finnish researcher to be one making such a 'new' discovery as Finnish culture does include extensive animal husbandry and dog/horse culture.

anakaine··on I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold
Some farm, typically agriculture. Your average cattle, sheep, or other livestock farmer will not be running a 400+ HP tractor in most cases. 50-110 hp is common for general property use such as clearing, slashing, loading, material moving. In these cases a Mahondra, or any number of others is ideal. You can get John Deere in the same size, but would be mad to do so with the repairability issues and higher cost.
anakaine··on Pandas Should Go Extinct
Ive seen it in such a wide variety of scenarios where it causes vectorisation removal because of its implementation that I dont reach for it by default any more. I've a number of devs around me who have similar opinions. Each know how to use it, but you dont always write the code you're reviewing or optimising.
anakaine··on Pandas Should Go Extinct
Personally, I think the inclusion of lambda functions in the pandas code shows that the approach isnt ideal to begin with. Fine on smaller datasets, but typically becomes a slow and cumbersome overhead when interacting with larger datasets. More verbose per line vector operations are generally orders of magnitude faster, and become more so as the data grows. They also tend to be easier to read / identify what is going on or what the intent is for people unfamiliar with the code base.
anakaine··on 1M+ German households have hung solar panels off their balcony railings
Aussie here - exported 650+ kW to the grid last month from our solar, and consumed the remainder that was generated. Overnight covered entirely by battery.
anakaine··on The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
Shall we term this a Denial of Memory attack. Then in order to Contain it we have a ConDoM fix?
anakaine··on WeatherNext 3
This would not likely be a great idea since you reduce your ability to understand inputs except for a few parameters. Explainable inputs become very important for many down the line processes used by government and industry alike, because said inputs and their predictive certainty can be quite informative, even critical, for accurate mesoscale prediction.

If model members were available, with all the usual measures, thats a fantastic place to start looking at serious inclusion. It doesnt seem thats the case, however.

anakaine··on WeatherNext 3
The online viewer could really, really use Wind Direction as a compass bearing. Its super important considering wildfire/bushfire, air quality, ocean-going conditions, and a myriad of other things. It is produced as a set of vectors during model creation, so would be very useful to see.
anakaine··on Apple Is Suddenly an AI Infra Stock as OpenAI Buys 10k+ Macs
Perhaps only billions per 2u with the current trajectory of ram pricing. /s
anakaine··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
Test your string regularly and fill your hole. That should keep your bell ringing.
anakaine··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
Two wires, a button, a bell, and a battery pack.
anakaine··on El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades
No, sorry. I wont nail down further, but I'm not US based.
anakaine··on El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades
And yet our climate change denialists insist its just weather, and that Net Zero is the economic devil.

Im an environmental scientist and engineer with substantial disaster management and policy experience.

One or two very large events can totally eclipse the cost to economy of reducing emissions and focussing on long term stable low emission power. Those very large events are becoming more common. A couple of years back we ran a multi jurisdictional exercise about a high end cyclone hitting the local major city. Even with 4 days warning there was insufficient time to evacuate the entire population of several million, and rehousing was an almost unsolvable nightmare. That city is not cyclone ready or hardened, but the climate models enable high category events travelling where they were previously quite unlikely.

anakaine··on HTTPX2 – A next-generation HTTP client for Python
I've had to do similar in the past, and also wound up on urllib3.
anakaine··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
That's not the issue, though I recognise the poster above was remarking about fish. High surface temps means more cyclones / typhoons / hurricanes, more coral bleaching, lower fish breeding and feeding because reefs die, impacts out food chains and destroys our homes.

Im Australian, so it also means droughts, water restrictions, and significant increases in bushfire number and severity after a few years of drought. Drought followed by cyclone, or bulk rain events causes catastrophic flooding. Its a shit show.

anakaine··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
I reckon I'll buy some landscaping machinery and a truck before I ever sign up for that distopian nightmare. At least sound ordinance would prevent 24/7 operation.
anakaine··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Also M1 Air 8gb, though not the daily driver. Bought second hand, the machine is still an absolute champ with no slowdown and is my go to machine when I want a calm space for writing.
anakaine··on Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues on RGB Lighting Devices
Windows 11 was the time to do so, and they missed it. I'd bet it was assessed, briefly, as too big a change to be acceptable if old devices were not going to be compatible.
anakaine··on RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
Better is subjective. What is the bottleneck or resource allocation you're trying to overcome?

Going on what the poster above says about CPU and memory - if the network speed or bandwidth allocation is the bottleneck, then trading CPU and memory utilisation increases for lower bandwidth is likely acceptable. If, however, the device is low end and tying up memory and CPU with compression would lead to sluggish or impaired task performance but the network has adequate overhead for lower levels of compression or higher levels of data transfer then higher network utilisation would be preferable.

Different tools, different use case scenarios.

anakaine··on RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
So, to have end to end encryption you need to do something like:

Client -- Relay Server -- Host

That's certainly less than ideal since many remote desktop session will not be using a middle-age server but rather be direct between client and host.

anakaine··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Because, if you look at the image you can very clearly see that the frame and relative components partially occlude one leg and not the other.

The model is presumably aiming for an acceptable visual representation, not trying to produce z-ordered components and a lost of any other random requirement people might come up with. The task is to show a pelican riding a bike, not produce a technical design that is layer order correct, after all.

Also:

> Near leg: from (300,245) to (356,408): thigh+shin as a single slightly bent line: M300,245 C 310,320 330,370 354,406. Stroke #F2953F width 12, linecap round. Far leg: from (320,250) to (404,452): M320,250 C 350,330 385,410 402,448. Stroke slightly darker #E0802F (behind, drawn before near leg but after bike? Pelican legs are in front of frame? Pelican is drawn after bike, so legs overlap the frame. The far leg ideally would be behind the frame, but in flat cartoon this is acceptable — or draw the far leg before the pelican body but after bike; overlaps the red frame.

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