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arriu··on Ask HN: How do you navigate Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Get into astrophotography or winter sports
arriu··on Twitter begins rolling out $7.99 Twitter Blue plan with verification, fewer ads
The problem with relative numbers is that they provide a mechanism to increase absolute numbers without impact to the percentage. Thus, “fewer ads” today could be more tomorrow if we consider that we don’t know the absolute number
arriu··on Visualising Viruses
It’s absolutely incredible what blender is enabling and that it is open source.
arriu··on TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough
> Using non-silicon materials facilitates very tiny transistors—as small as 1 nm. However, as TSMC researchers acknowledge, the 1-nm process node is not likely to be used for years to come.

Is anyone else using non-silicon materials yet?

arriu··on Backlash after 500 drones light up New York City sky to celebrate Candy Crush
The next form of this could be in low orbit; far from the reach of local laws.

As we can see here, it’s not enough to ban drones within the city.

arriu··on Ask HN: Why JavaScript experts tend to not use TypeScript?
Fully agree.

Additionally, many of these devs are arguably masters at vanilla JavaScript. Some learned JS before modern features became available. They probably don’t need ES5 features to be productive, let alone the newer features or for that matter TypeScript.

The frustration is that they would probably benefit from using TypeScript in the long run.

arriu··on Map, magnetic, and grid north all align in southwest England
Will you need to move it as the magnetic north drifts?
arriu··on Swarm – Low cost, global satellite connectivity for IoT
I love this type of tech and want to get in on that sweet 144,000 bytes of data at 5 per month, but... it's not just 5 per month, it's a minimum investment of 500 unfortunately.

Also, not sure where to find a decent Commodore system these days to utilize this plan :)

arriu··on Swarm – Low cost, global satellite connectivity for IoT
Minimum order of 25, so roughly $3725 for one year unless you get the "eval kit" @ $449.

USD $5/MO PER DEVICE

Provides 750 data packets per device per month (up to 192 Bytes per packet), including up to 60 downlink (2-way) data packets

arriu··on Protobuf-ES: Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime
I disagree, especially if your goal is to reduce the payload size. Another point to consider is that not all programming languages deal well with JSON, adding support for it can be just as painful.
arriu··on Protobuf-ES: Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime
It has everything to do with automatic validation on both sides and little to do with the transfer size.
arriu··on Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions
I think many of us really wanted it to succeed and tried to love it. Unfortunately, it just isn’t what most people want.
arriu··on Firefox Beta for Android now supports custom add-on collections
Probably because popular ad-ons are too good at blocking revenue channels for well connected decision makers
arriu··on Copilot under fire as dev claims it emits 'large chunks of my copyrighted code'
I wonder if it is something simpler. For example, could it have been picked up as a pattern from a local file that is in your project?
arriu··on Rewriting a high performance vector database in Rust
I agree, rust has a difficult learning curve. I’ve often heard at least a year is required to really feel confident.
arriu··on AI converts between hundreds of programming languages
Sample 2, typescript to c++: infinite loop. It just keeps spitting out code
arriu··on Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
Why not a bit of both. Feed dialogue options in and have the AI generate a response that matches their character.
arriu··on Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
First, I’d like to say I really love this product. Thanks for making this.

Second, where are the companies that are doing this type of thing for NPC dialogue in games.

Imagine playing Mass Effect or Skyrim but where you get to ask whatever and the NPC responds with something that fits within the space of possible answers based on the prompt that defined their existence.

arriu··on Olive.c: a simple graphics library that does not have any dependencies
Any plans for text rendering?
arriu··on Ask HN: How does your company handle late running projects?
About a decade ago our company was way behind on a large e-commerce project for a big client. Not due to anything the devs did. The sales team oversold without talking to tech first. So one day the head of our North American branch decided it would be cool to call an all hands meeting to demand everyone puts in 70 hour weeks to “get-er done”. This meeting happened to be April 1st. Many of us thought it was some kind of weird joke. Unfortunately no. Regardless, we got-er done and I personally pulled some +450 overtime hours (unpaid) along with similar amounts from my coworkers by the time it was shipped. We were given a single hundred dollars or so in gift cards for our efforts. Many good folks resigned that day.

Don’t do this. If you’re on the receiving end, just move on. If you’re on the giving end of this how do you sleep… ugh

arriu··on Twitter trackers jeopardize military aircraft?
I don’t understand what this has to do with twitter
arriu··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
I’m genuinely interested. Where would you recommend a newcomer starts?
arriu··on Film: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion
It seems like this could be a good way to provide smooth weather / cloud animations using real or raw cloud images rather than those heat maps most apps use.
arriu··on 90s Cursor Effects
I can't believe these actually used to be popular but they were. I wonder if their over-the-top nature made learning how to use a computer mouse a little more fun.
arriu··on Hooking Go from Rust
This is really cool. Thanks for sharing.

Does anyone have any recommendations on how to do something like this but in reverse? Calling a go function from rust?

arriu··on GitHub “allows” unauthorized users “merging” PRs, bypass write permission check?
Could this cause a GitHub action to run?
arriu··on 3D print and build a 164mm f/2.5 lens for less than $15
I have a 3d printer and thoroughly enjoy this type of thing but this title is a bit misleading. It is likely you’ll spend more than $15 finding the right lenses plus the cost of filament.
arriu··on Why does gRPC insist on trailers?
Yup, and this is also why many end up proxy gRPC over HTTP/1.1 after giving up on making HTTP/2 work with systems that don’t support it…
arriu··on Converting from the Game Gear to the Master System
I guess this makes sense from a business perspective. Why build something brand new when you can reuse.

I love the technical breakdown.

arriu··on Safety: A comparaison between Rust, C++ and Go
I agree. However, my gut reaction was that the style of the go code was written differently than what I’d expect if asked to work off the rust version.
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