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asutekku··on Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared
Average buyer googles "best cheap zigbee temperature sensor" and reads this article.
asutekku··on Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
Bun is much much more lighter than node or deno. If you don't mind the controversy around the rust rewrite, it's objectively the better option in most cases.
asutekku··on How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
Compile can take minutes on large codebases, LLM turns usually seconds. How are these even comparable?
asutekku··on Clipboard Normalizer
It's up to the developer to choose where to publish it.
asutekku··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
Using analogies like "reading" to describe AI training is quite misleading imho. Training effectively embeds the book's contents into the model's weights. Changing the format doesn't change the content; a better analogy is distributing a book's text within software.

Current copyright laws are simply not prepared for this unprecedented use.

asutekku··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
If you would go on a tv and read out loud a book you have not purchased rights to present, according to the most copyright laws in the world, yes you would and you would get a fine. Similarly if you broadcast a tv-show you have not purchased rights would.

Whether this is right or not is a seperate question.

asutekku··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
Those some people can't recite a book to any given person in the world at any given time. There's a difference.
asutekku··on OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
Most people can't recite a book they've read verbatim. However, if you ask an LLM to continue a random sentence from a semi-popular book, it can sometimes provide the exact text, unless the system flags the response.
asutekku··on Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
2.1MB is a huge most of the world where the internet speeds are not gigabyte etc. Yes, storage wise it's not a lot, but it's extra 5 seconds or so the user needs to wait for the site to load.
asutekku··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
Between 2018 and 2022, we saw the widespread adoption of social media and the rapid digitalization of education. Focusing on these key shifts, it seems clear to me that any kind of electronic learning has had a negative impact on education :p
asutekku··on Jev Based Code Review
"Double the cost" so jev is half the price. That's a huge difference.
asutekku··on Jev Based Code Review
You don't need to train it, you can throw pretty much whatever at it and it'll work and it's extremely cheap. That's it.
asutekku··on If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right
I'd argue for most people LLM produces much better code than they would be able to write themselves.
asutekku··on iPhone Duo
I see AirPods Maxes daily, I hardly ever see iPhone mini in the wild, anecdotal of course.
asutekku··on iPhone Duo
6 to 7 million units at the scale of Apple is not necessarily worth the investment.
asutekku··on In defense of two-state theme toggles
Most OSs provide theme toggles by default, thus it has conditioned people to also expect it from websites.

Arguably, I personally loathe it when the site has no dark mode cough Amazon cough as I'm doing some late-night shopping on the bed and the screen blinds my eyes with the white background.

asutekku··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Golf courses do not emit noise, they are relatively nice looking and they are not a threat for people to be unemployed.
asutekku··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
I've had a completely different experience. I usually know the problematic part and then ask the AI to optimize that exact part with benchmarks, telling it to try various different approaches, and it very often gains massive performance increases on various tasks, with me of course steering it and giving it pointers every now and then.

I was able to optimize a physical water simulation that was almost unrunnable on browsers to a buttery smooth 60fps version.

asutekku··on 7.1 Earthquake in Japan
The regulations got hardened in 1991. Obviously there has been earthquakes forever, but the buildings were not built to withstand them. That's one of the reasons why Japanese do not buy old homes: they are not earthquake proof.
asutekku··on 7.1 Earthquake in Japan
Like half of the buildings are non-resistant since they are old and made of wood. IIRC only buildings built after 1991 are guaranteed to be earthquake resistant.
asutekku··on The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)
Note that this is mostly true in cheaper/chain restaurants. Overwhelming majority of izakayas have the menu's to be handwritten / written on the wall without any pictures.
asutekku··on Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way
Most people use hepburn these days, it's people who learned japanese 20 years ago or so who are still stuck with kunrei.
asutekku··on Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way
Hepburn is the official romanization chosen by the Japanese government (it's a relatively recent change), kunrei-shiki has been deprecated and all the signs etc are in the process of being converted to Hepburn.
asutekku··on Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way
Kunrei has been deprecated, Hepburn is the official one even the government of Japan recommends these days and matches better the pronunciation of the language.
asutekku··on The Harajuku Moment (2024)
By eating different foods. I frequently get filling bento boxes in japan that are ~500-600 calories. And drinking when is extremely counterintuitive when trying to maintain/lose weight.
asutekku··on ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
> What do I gain by using this over ggplot2 in R?

You don't have to use R.

asutekku··on M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan
I use NERV, it gives you a countdown timer and i like to know whether to prepare or not
asutekku··on M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan
Depends on the location, the alert comes usually as soon as the initial tremors are registered. If you're at the epicenter, tough luck. For example, for me in Tokyo, the alert came 2 minutes before it hit, and even then, the actual earthquake was extremely subtle.
asutekku··on The secrets of the Shinkansen
Having followed some tourists coming to Japan, a large amount of the people appreciate convenience, and the rail pass gives them that. The price is secondary.

Hell, there are even people paying the equivalent of 100 USD just to have someone pick them up from the Haneda airport and accompany them to the hotel. Not even a taxi service, just to be with them to buy them the train tickets, etc.

asutekku··on The secrets of the Shinkansen
They actually started doing that very recently, converting old Shinkansen into a freight trains. Obviously you can't fit large cargo, but it's a good option for fast transport of parcels etc.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/03/24/companies/f...

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