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blueblob··on AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
The parent wasn't arguing he should come back but saying that "defected" is not the correct word. The correct phrase is probably "took asylum."
blueblob··on Early Apple Vision Pro adopters alarmed to learn VR porn doesn't work
Ah yes, because they blocked porn sites in the safari browser and default hosts files, right? Or maybe they don't have control of those?
blueblob··on DIY Espresso (2020)
As someone that's been looking into it, it's not just for the Gaggia. It's also for some Silvia models and they have a small list of others that people have gotten it to work for. The list is, unfortunately, on discord and the discord server has some really petty rules and a lot of superiority complexes.
blueblob··on Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage
supremacists
blueblob··on An Algorithm for Structuring Flowgraphs (1977) [pdf]
A lot of the foundational papers in NLP were written like this too. Clear and concise without grandiose overstatements. Dana Angluin comes to mind.
blueblob··on Simply Parse in C
I don't know if I agree with the premise:

> People are terrified of parsers and parsing

But this implementation of a reduced feature set version of .ini file parsing does not convince me that I should write my own parser instead of using one that implements a more full feature set

> No newlines in keys, values, or section names. Empty values are not allowed. Comments only on their own lines (minus whitespace). Whitespace-insensitive (whitespace at the start of line, end of line, around the “=”, is all ignored). No need for a terminating newline either.

I think it's reasonable that people want to use a parser that has better error handling and gives an idea of where the ini file may have parsing problems than just a barebones implementation such as this provides.

I also think that using a library for parsing instead of writing your own parser does not imply that you are scared of parsing.

blueblob··on San Franciscans disable robotaxis by placing a traffic cone on the hood
Because if they don't have their own vehicle then prices will rise for using uber/lyft/taxis.
blueblob··on Jim Keller on AI, RISC-V, Tenstorrent’s Move to Edge IP
I didn't downvote you; I think you make a reasonable, albeit exaggerated, point. I think it's also important to look through the lens that a lot of things linux supports are reverse engineered and that's why they take a long time to implement. This is de facto different with everything being open so I expect support will come faster. There's also the fact that this aligns better with the ideologies of a lot of free software enthusiasts so they may be more likely to work on it.
blueblob··on Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
Your Reddit posts absolutely can have personally identifying information and therefore are subject to GDPR.
blueblob··on Jim Keller on AI, RISC-V, Tenstorrent’s Move to Edge IP
Yeah, an open source architecture sounds like it could be a game changer for the SBC market
blueblob··on Jim Keller on AI, RISC-V, Tenstorrent’s Move to Edge IP
Is RISC-V any more efficient than arm?
blueblob··on Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers
That's a tiring argument that's reiterated every time teacher pay is involved. Most teachers also don't get the luxury of working 9-5, they have to do additional planning and grading outside of hours. Also, if you want to compare with the private sector, there are teachers in the private sector who make more.
blueblob··on Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks
If I were to try to do this without symlinks, maybe I'd try mount
blueblob··on Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?
Definitely. Quirks like this are also what makes AI difficult.
blueblob··on Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?
The people I know that like it use artificial and the people that won't try it use fake.
blueblob··on Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?
Have you been around people who say "fake meat?" Every time I've heard it, it was said derisively and implied fraudulent meat.
blueblob··on Realistic computer-generated handwriting
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
blueblob··on Why Use Make (2013)
I think Windows comes with nmake
blueblob··on Function keys productivity trick
On Windows, win+number will open the item in the number position in your bottom bar. I rarely use it for the same reason as you.
blueblob··on O Holy Crap
They also complained about pyrex not being durable because they dropped it. My pyrex has lasted 2 decades of use and I think it's an example of a durable product.
blueblob··on O Holy Crap
I had the same gear fail. It's called a worm gear and is, indeed, intended to fail before damaging the other gears. They're much cheaper if you buy a non-oem part. I bought one from amazon for ~10 USD.
blueblob··on Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
You guys seem to be more informed than me since I didn't use the pebble. Do you know how the pinetime compares?
blueblob··on Duck DNS – About
I currently use no-ip free tier for this. My only complaint with no-ip free is that I have to login and verify that I am still using it after a while. Does Duck DNS do this too?
blueblob··on I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems
A lot of the items described are problems in ontologies
blueblob··on Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
I work from home and have very limited desk space. Great idea though.
blueblob··on Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
I feel this in my soul. My work uses Mac and I'm not used to it. Fn and cmd keys block my reach for alt and control in my vim sessions and make it awkward to go through tabs in the browser with the keyboard.
blueblob··on Kill-sticky, a bookmarklet to remove sticky elements and restore scrolling
Honestly, if they have those elements on a page, usually the content is not worthwhile enough for me to suffer through their design. I usually just leave the page.
blueblob··on Color fonts on Google Fonts
With the ability to add parameters to fonts, I wonder how long it will be until we have Turing Complete fonts.
blueblob··on When to use Bazel?
It was definitely not the only thing that was required to build, but that may be as much Apple's fault as bazel's.
blueblob··on When to use Bazel?
I used a M1 Mac to try to build tensorflow and tensorflow-text and it is very untrue that everything is guaranteed to build on other machines with no additional setup.

The parenthesized comment is funnier to me because I had to download a specific bazel version to build.

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