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axismundi··on Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear
while we're at it, what gear would you recommend for a beginner stargazer?
axismundi··on Should You Buy a ThinkPad?
You can get ThinkPad L14 Gen 3 AMD Ryzen 7 5875U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD refurbished on eBay.co.uk for roughly £320
axismundi··on Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
> Frankly, dependency cooldowns work by free-riding on the pain and suffering of others.

Snyk and socket.dev take money for the pain and suffering...

axismundi··on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
Come to Europe, we have cookies ;)
axismundi··on A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh
From my experience WebSockets are harder at scale. For load balancing you either need sticky sessions or an L7 proxy that can route consistently, and reconnect storms amplify this. Long-lived upgraded connections mean more complexity with rolling deploys, drains, autoscaling, and regional failover. Many managed LBs/proxies have tighter limits/timeouts for WS, so you must tune idle timeouts and ping/pong.
axismundi··on Radicle: The Sovereign Forge
The simplest way to use kingfisher is global pre-commit hook. Works with any git repo. rad could suggest to install this as a part of privacy hygiene.
axismundi··on Radicle: The Sovereign Forge
There's https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks

and https://github.com/mongodb/kingfisher

axismundi··on NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models
Did you mean 4-6 hours?
axismundi··on Valid Polish: Polish is the language of the Digerati
Yes. Kurva is used kinda like sudo ;)
axismundi··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
Maybe that 90% transferred into lots of low quality code caused by reckless vibe coding? That slop now sits there as kind of technical debt?
axismundi··on Ask HN: Which merge tool do you use?
I value simplicity and stability over bells and whistles. Meld looks simple. I mostly use macos and they seem to have good approach to support it.
axismundi··on Ask HN: Which merge tool do you use?
I really like the rubberband connections. They are like mental glue.
axismundi··on Ways to Improve Node.js Loader Performance
import-maps (supported via "imports" in package.json) improve developer ergonomics, not performance. Node still resolves the mapped path normally; there’s no measurable “boost.” They’re helpful to replace ugly relative imports, but they don’t change Node’s lookup speed.

Aliases in vite.config.js tell Vite (and its dev server/bundler) how to resolve imports during build and dev time. They don’t make runtime faster because your bundled output already contains resolved paths.

axismundi··on Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction
In weather it's called hindcast
axismundi··on Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction
It's most likely ERA5: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-s...
axismundi··on Ask HN: Agentic Coding Alternatives to GitHub Copilot
Cline or Roo Code with Openrouter.
axismundi··on Programming SDF animations of Rick and Morty
math rick, the arch enemy of pickle rick
axismundi··on Simple Weather maps for Germany with Live precipitation radar
not bad! leaflet is quick to get stuff up and fun to work with.
axismundi··on Forcing people to change their passwords is officially a bad idea
Would it make sense to apply the same recommendations to expiring certificates?
axismundi··on Protect Act Could Require Removal of All Existing Porn Online
If you delete all porn, the rest of the Internet should fit on 2-3 servers.
axismundi··on What kind of bubble is AI?
There is already a lot of real value in scientific domain-specific models. One such example is weather forecasting. We can suddenly create forecasts with astonishing accuracy on commodity hardware in a matter of seconds, versus several hours with traditional numeric models. This is life-saving.

And it's open source, e.g.: https://github.com/NVlabs/FourCastNet

axismundi··on Major Power Outage to Ecmwf Data Centre
From: ECMWF Operators

Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2023 3:17 PM

Subject: ECMWF products delay due to power outage

Dear colleagues,

Due to a major power outage the dissemination of ECMWF products for the 12Z cycle will be delayed.

As soon as we have further details we will inform you.

Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused by this delay.

Kind regards

ECMWF Duty Manager

axismundi··on Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he's found fragments of alien technology
So... Spaceballs?
axismundi··on Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework
2advanced Studios was always my favorite, especially

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8

I remember Eric Jordan, the man behind it all, mentioned in an interview that the key was to make the animations flow with a rhythm.

axismundi··on OpenLLM
I find Discord quite versatile and a bit overwhelming at the same time. As to SEO, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36383773

AFAIK most of the gamers choose it for voice chat (Anyone remember TeamSpeak?)

axismundi··on Show HN: WasmGPT – “ChatGPT” in the browser, no WebGPU and no server needed
User: What's the difference between USA and USB?

Assistant: The USA is the same as USB, but is a type of universal serial bus. The USB is a class-less, low-cost type of bus, available in virtually any computer, platform, and OS.

axismundi··on [dead]
I use CleanMyMac X. It packs several useful tools: uninstaller, system junk cleanup, free up memory, files analyser, apps updater etc.
axismundi··on Virginmedia Major Outage in UK
Even their website and phone numbers are out of order.
axismundi··on Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA
They're here. We have to stop them before it's too late!
axismundi··on Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?
[ ] Fnurbication

When enabled, created nurbs are automatically converted into fluffy nurbs.

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