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arijun··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
> Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately

I know I’m not alone as someone who’s bothered by the postscript, but too lazy to do anything but delete it every time. There’s even an entire (well part of) song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbdeVhPAbms

arijun··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
Just because it's not in the title and most people won't be scrolling all the way down: its only enabled for web and Remote Control sessions, per a maintainer.
arijun··on Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
Because it doesn't do the job well. It's difficult to send any media, group chats are a pain, international messages often incur fees, it doesn't work on wifi-only, and so on.
arijun··on Zohran and the Short Link
The points I was raising have long time frames, there hasn't been enough time to see if they've succeeded.

"So far global warming hasn't caused catastrophic damage to our crop outputs, looks like everything's working out great!"

arijun··on Zohran and the Short Link
Do you have opinions on laws surrounding abortion in a state you don't live in? People can and often do have valid opinions about things that don't directly concern them. I will say I'm not sure my opinion is one of them--I even went out of my way to say my opinion was probably insufficiently researched.

That being said, the person I was responding to was trying to understand what negative views someone could have on Mamdani's policies, so I was trying to give a data point.

arijun··on Zohran and the Short Link
I'm not from NYC (nor do I have the same difficulty seeing past politics that gp seems to have), so I didn't research this stuff so closely. But from what I saw, it seemed that a lot of his policies seemed populist.

- Rent freezes do not seem to work. When he ran on that position I did look up briefly to see if there was any recent publications that reversed the previous consensus that they don't work, but didn't find much.

- State run stores are pretty bad at their jobs. Someone on here mentioned state run liquor stores as an example of where state run stores work, but in my experience, they are the opposite. I suspect that the store will work well for the first several years, while there is a lot of media attention on it, but when it falls from the foreground, the oversight will slacken and it will go the way of many other of these projects.

- I am not an expert but I suspect the wealth tax won't work the way they hope.

On the other hand, the attention that he's bringing to issues that were previously swept under the rug (like transportation) is great, and the way he energizes the populace is amazing.

arijun··on Grok 4.6
I mean, it seems likely repetition could help it stick for a point they really don't want it to screw up on. Also, I'm not sure e.g. sexting with a fictional minor would be considered criminal, but it is likely something they still don't want on their platform.
arijun··on I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
Any in-ear headphones can cause ear infections from prolonged use, the airtight seal makes for a nice humid environment bacteria like.

The solution is to not wear them as long, especially right after a shower or the like, when there is extra moisture in your ear.

Alternatively you can put alcohol in your ears to kill the bacteria, sort of like you’d do with mouthwash. Any pharmacy will sell over the counter ear drops with alcohol, meant for drying out swimmers ear. You’d have to keep doing it once every week or two, but it would keep the infection away.

arijun··on Möbius-Strip Crosswords
A true Mobius strip doesn't have "sides" like the paper model of one does. You can see that in the quote from Martin Gardner where he talks about a creature completing a loop becoming a mirror image with respect to it's friends. I assume the author wanted the paper model to mimic that property.

Incidentally, the author's choice makes for a much more interesting puzzle than the one you would have them use (IMO)--yours would be indistinguishable from a puzzle written on a cylinder.

arijun··on Superlogical
Does anyone know how they’re monetizing it? Are they planning on selling the terminal multiplexer?
arijun··on RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
You simply add 3.67, multiply by .27, and then subtract 1.0. Easy.
arijun··on VLC for Unity now supported on Linux
Are you logged in? I think they generally don't let people use old.reddit not logged in. I use all three of those.

> apple security... requiring you to install the app

It's the reddit website that freezes me out, nothing to do with the OS.

arijun··on VLC for Unity now supported on Linux
Side note--is there any way to access reddit now for people who refuse to log in or get the app? Old reddit asks tells me I have to use new reddit for "security" and new reddit says "Get the app to keep using Reddit".
arijun··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
An interesting analogue to "What color are your bits" in the tech world, as well as a direct disproof of your "two identical numbers are the same bits" statement (although perhaps only technically so), is the idea of provenance of bits memory in programming languages. Here is an RFC for rust's memory provenance:

https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3559-rust-has-provenance.ht...

arijun··on For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings
You don't think Americans care about cost savings, with how much they complain about gasoline prices?
arijun··on Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency
Exactly. The vast majority of the launching torque comes from the electric motor, even if there is no battery at all.
arijun··on Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency
> the gas will just spin without driving the wheels

... and instead drive one of the motors, generating electricity to power the other motor to push the car forward.

I feel like that video you're mentioning did a poor job if it didn't describe one of the more important and clever aspects of the Prius's design.

arijun··on Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency
What do you imagine happens if the battery is low and the car wants to start from a stop? The engine can't shift down to first so it would just stall out if you tried to use it to drive the driveshaft directly, and there's no other source of electricity to put into the motor driving the wheels.
arijun··on Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency
> you climb quite high, especially in areas with serious terrain.

Interesting, thanks.

> In our theoretical aircraft with batteries, mass is the same.

The fuel that's expended during cruise reduces the mass.

arijun··on Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency
You don't do a full climb after a go-around, so the heights are not equal, and the mass is less since you've expended fuel. You also retain some kinetic energy but I assume that is closer to a negligible effect.

Also, PE = mgh is probably an not a great formula for energy cost of takeoff/go-around, as there are probably large costs it ignores (gravity loss, less efficient engine use, maybe less efficient turbines?).

For your source 2 I have no rebuttal so will have to defer to you, but would ask for an explanation.

arijun··on Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency
Sorry, I meant in the low speed, high acceleration regime (maybe easily confounded with takeoff?). There the engine will turn one motor to generate electricity, which will then power the second motor, like a series hybrid.
arijun··on Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency
> you're carrying all that dead weight for the rest of the flight

If you're recharging the batteries for extra go-arounds during landing, they are as dead weight as the fuel you would otherwise reserve for that purpose. And if you have 30% more efficient engines, meaning less fuel and smaller engines, it's possible you could come out ahead, weight-wise.

> what if you need two go-arounds

I assume that a go-around requires less sustained power output than a full climb from takeoff, so you will probably get more than one go-around anyway, and we don't know how much over-capacity they're designing for. In any case, any design will require tradeoffs in safety, and having more engine-out capabilities might improve safety enough to overcome the higher risk with go-arounds.

Not saying this project is will work out or that you're even wrong necessarily (this could be the equivalent of a concept car for Pratt & Whitney).

arijun··on Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency
The Prius is in series, or something like it.
arijun··on Safari Technology Preview 248 Released
It cannot do dynamic filtering [1]. Another big one I forgot about is no CNAME uncloaking. Don't get me wrong, uBOL is still a great add on, it's just not possible to do everything you could with the manifest v2 version.

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

arijun··on Safari Technology Preview 248 Released
It is when compared to Firefox. Safari and now Google claim that it's for security, as the newer interfaces expose way less attack surface for malicious add-ons. I think that it's true that it does improve security, although I'm not sure that I believe Google when they say they're not doing it to stop people from blocking their main revenue source.
arijun··on Safari Technology Preview 248 Released
I think the limitations are similar to the manifest v3 issues that the Chrome version has. Specifically, you (the ad blocker) send the browser a list of sites to block, instead you blocking them yourself. That means it's way harder to do clever things like scriptlet injection to find ads and get around adblock detection.
arijun··on Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
> Or, in Vim and Emacs, just delete!

Off topic, but that’s actually my biggest pet peeve vim. You copy text one place to overwrite some other text, you delete the existing text and they you go to paste and… the buffer has been overwritten. It makes so much more sense to require users to hit the obvious, composable ‘yd’ in the cases they want to copy than an arcane incantation in the cases they want to overwrite text.

arijun··on Everyone should know SIMD
> Every developer should… most importantly, not be scared of SIMD

Seems like he should be recommending fearless_simd [1], the Rust crate by Raph Levian and the folks at Linebender :)

More seriously, if you’re looking to add SIMD to your Rust code, that’s the package to start with.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/fearless_simd

arijun··on How an AI Anime Is Created
The end result[1] looks quite impressive! The animation feels like it's quite high quality--very smooth. However, some things seem off: bad lip sync, minor animation errors, discontinuous scene-to-scene feel. Given that these are supposed to be their best examples, meant as advertisements, I would guess these errors are hard to fix using only the models.

So my verdict is that AI-only anime is still not there yet (although it would be cool to have a world where one dedicated and talented artist could make a high quality anime). But at the same time, anime studios will probably start incorporating AI into their workflow, getting high-quality-looking scenes for very cheap.

[1] https://www.aventos.dev/our-work

arijun··on How an AI Anime Is Created
> [we did this so anime production companies would] pay the employees(artists) better

I mean, has pay gone up in other fields where AI has taken over a lot of jobs?

In any case, I think the reason pay is awful in anime is the same reason as in gamedev: if people get into it for passion, the companies can pay less and still have employees.

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