HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

bialpio

879 karma · joined June 23, 2016

FIRE. All opinions are my own and do not represent my employer, whom I don't have.
submissionscomments
bialpio··on iPhone Duo
Yup, because neither has significant advantage over the other. The only place where Celsius imo has a slight advantage comes from how often the phrase "below freezing" is used when talking about weather. That to me suggests that 0C/32F has some special significance, and thus makes Celsius a bit more elegant because it acknowledges that point. The granularity doesn't matter too much, as long as we agree to use decimals for ease of calculations, instead of using 1/32nds or some other barleycorns.
bialpio··on iPhone Duo
This is the correct take. The better system is the one that you have intuition in - just keep using that one if building up intuition in a different system is not worth the cost to you. At least when it comes to temperature. :)
bialpio··on iPhone Duo
I have a kitchen thermometer for making caramel (can't remember exact number but ballpark is 200C). I occasionally use my oven at 250C. My wife fires her ceramics in a kiln at around 1000C. I don't feel like I'm "wasting" anything here.

> Celsius isn't granular enough.

This argument would be reasonable if we didn't have to cut inches into 16 or 32 parts to approach decent granularity. At least we use decimal for cutting Celsius up...

bialpio··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
Do you mind sharing what (if anything) you're using to version that website? I'm wondering what folks use instead of git nowadays.
bialpio··on Where Human Sleep Went Wrong
Do you really need to know other kinds of sleep in order to know if you feel like shit after waking up or if you feel fine?
bialpio··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
I am willing to accept trailers but the split is closer to 25 minutes of random shit + 5 minutes trailers. Let's be generous and say that I'm misremembering & it's actually 20 + 10. That's still 20 minutes of ads that I'm paying to watch.
bialpio··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
The closest Alamo to where I used to live in the USA is 2 states away. My choices were AMC, Regal, and Cinemark. And now that I moved, my choice is to either go to the only cinema around me (with ads), or try to fish something from the treacherous waters of the bay.
bialpio··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
I'm already buying their overpriced popcorn and soda!
bialpio··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
Just tell me when the movie starts, not when the ads start.
bialpio··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
> That’s why movies (...) can clear a billion dollars,

And yet somehow I still get 30 minutes of ads before a watching a goddamn movie in a cinema.

bialpio··on Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)
Unfortunately, I could not find a dual-hose unit off-the-shelf in any of the local stores and didn't have any hopes of getting it in time if I ordered it online.
bialpio··on Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)
I had single-hose both when I lived in USA and now, and didn't have any issues with it cooling down the room I wanted to have cooled down. My bar is "survival of my pets" because rabbits supposedly can't handle more than 25C. Their room stayed well below that temperature both in USA (Seattle suburbs, west-facing in a house that wasn't insulated) and now in Portugal.
bialpio··on Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)
I just moved to Portugal and had zero issues installing a portable unit to help me survive the heatwave. For the hinged windows you just grab an installation kit that works with them and you're good to go. The only problem is that the portable AC I got is not a window unit (& it's single-hose), but I wanted to have it before the heatwave started and don't care too much about few percentage points in lost efficiency as long as it keeps me and my pets alive. Total cost was €320 with the installation kit for a 12000BTU unit.
bialpio··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
Pretty bad that there is no option of "I don't know". A couple of times I tried to guess the wrong word on purpose when I knew I had no clue what the word meant and accidentally got the right answer. I'd expect that admitting ignorance would be an option in such an app...
bialpio··on Midjourney Medical
Good point, I was not thinking about MRIs with contrast.
bialpio··on Midjourney Medical
My understanding is that both MRIs and ultrasounds do not introduce problems.
bialpio··on German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews
It doesn't matter if some people think good pizza should be burnt to some degree. There is no such thing as objectively good pizza, so one-star review "The pizza was burnt, I didn't like it." is entirely valid thing to say.
bialpio··on Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
Entry-level software engineering at Microsoft starts at L59.
bialpio··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
Good luck forcing a child to actually press the red button though. Especially a small child.
bialpio··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
Are you also forcing children to press a button or not? Because the answer to this question changes things *a lot*.
bialpio··on America's Geothermal Breakthrough
> But if you want to generate power, you need to get down to where temperatures can boil water.

Why is that the case? Can't you go down to where it's like 70-80 deg C and close the gap using heat pumps? Yes, you need to put some energy in, but I would expect that the whole process would still be energy-positive at some temperature that's lower than 100C?

bialpio··on XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?
From TFA:

The predominance of these idioms as a way to zero out a register led Intel to add special xor r, r-detection and sub r, r-detection in the instruction decoding front-end and rename the destination to an internal zero register, bypassing the execution of the instruction entirely.

bialpio··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
AFAIK it's the same in the USA, that's why one of the first questions when interviewing with a company is to ask them about their moonlighting policy if you do want to work on a side project.
bialpio··on 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone
There's no extension support for Chrome on Android. There's no way to stop Chrome on Android from hiding the address bar when scrolling. Those were mine, not sure if they still apply.
bialpio··on C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report
But you are specifying source files, although indirectly, aren't you? That's what all those `mod blah` with a corresponding `blah.rs` file present in the correct location are.
bialpio··on How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers
My wife started with wearing one mould for 7 days and went down to one mould for 4 days near the end of the treatment (but the orthodontist knew we wanted to move and may have accelerated the schedule). She started wearing them at ~36. She says they told her it may be up to 2 weeks per mould before she started the treatment but that wasn't the case for her.
bialpio··on The beauty and terror of modding Windows
Cereal is literally grass seeds so you may need to find a different analogy.
bialpio··on The beauty and terror of modding Windows
I'm in the camp of liking Windows and having had to put up with Linux and MacOS for work. Inertia and familiarity does play a role, but as a dev there are things I really like (ETW + WinDbg immediately come to mind) & really miss on other OSes. I'm not there yet to join an enthusiast group though. ;)
bialpio··on Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
> Seen from within the meeting, it does not really matter if you start 5 minutes late or end 5 minutes early.

It matters because there sometimes are meeting where it is very important to know how much time you have to prepare appropriately. As long as the expectations are set beforehand, it matters less.

I roughly agree with the rest of your post. "Just be punctual" is a cop out that ignores the fact that I need to have enough breaks between meetings before I can even think about being punctual. Make space for breaks and enforce the time allocated is imo the solution, it matters less where exactly the 5-minute break fits (but I tend to agree that people would more likely end on the full hour, so that would mean we need to start 5 past).

bialpio··on Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
I'd rather have a 5-minute break built-in for everyone by starting 5-past and actually enforce meeting end-times. Behaviors would change if people knew they had 25 or 55 minutes for a meeting and that folks would just leave when the time is up.
Page 1 of 17Next →