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cjsawyer··on Log by time, not by count
My personal answer to this is logging very little during normal operation and then logging a lot during errors. Depending on the maturity of the system “a lot” might mean the entire state so I can debug afterwords.
cjsawyer··on Windows on ARM on a Smart Watch
Excellent dedication to the pun!
cjsawyer··on Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates
Mostly noun recall. I can mentally picture and describe thing or person X, but when I'm having the problem it could possibly take me 30 minutes to figure out the name of X without looking it up.
cjsawyer··on Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles
I prefer the density of the original, but your addition of "Today", "Yesterday", "Wednesday"... buttons is excellent. That is much more useful than the infinite scroll on the vanilla homepage.
cjsawyer··on New era of slop security reports for open source
I've started enjoying older printed books again. There's solace knowing that it was at least made by a person.
cjsawyer··on Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates
Taking methylcobalamin B12 supplements essentially fixed my memory problems. Early on I tried out the cyanocobalamin type and got absolutely nothing from it.

If I stop taking the supplements for a few weeks, the memory problems come back. If I start again, a week later my memory is excellent. It’s well worth the minor effort.

cjsawyer··on ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project
I believe the opposite. The issue is that destroying requires much less effort than creating.
cjsawyer··on Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard
I was talking about clients and servers in the classic setup, not for cloud gaming. My parent was talking about game ping and I was pointing out that cloud services are even more sensitive since you’re not interacting with the game client locally.
cjsawyer··on Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard
The latency between peripheral input and visual feedback is much more important than the latency between a game client and server. The servers have all sorts of mitigation strategies to compensate. For inputs, it’s all on the human. Which feels bad.
cjsawyer··on Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
Keyboards are an endless money pit for me. Every year or so I’ll randomly get dissatisfied with my setup and seek to somehow upgrade it. At some point I’ll have to admit that it’s because I just like playing with new hardware… but maybe not today :)
cjsawyer··on Mozilla restricts extensions on some domains on Firefox 115
I’d be 100% on-board if they changed this from a list of URL’s they define to a list I define. Web extensions sound great until you realize how much power you’re handing to arbitrary code once you allow it reading and writing to the DOM. They can forward anything to anywhere, sandboxing goes out the window
cjsawyer··on I booted Linux 293k times in 21 hours
This is the same logic in avoiding link-only answers on Stack Overflow. They’re both good rules.
cjsawyer··on Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
There’s also Not Tetris https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/
cjsawyer··on Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA
For apples-to-apples, you’d look at Denver. We’re talking about the state’s 4th largest city which is 65 miles away from the capital and otherwise in the middle of nowhere. It’s extremely expensive for what it is
cjsawyer··on PyPI Was Subpoenaed
Sounds like they’re the ones who implemented the bad code in the first place, as a honeypot. That just extortion with extra steps.
cjsawyer··on Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA
I am from Colorado and went to school in Fort Collins. It maybe be small nationally, but it’s probably the 4th biggest tech area in CO after Denver, DTC, and Colorado Springs. Cost of living is surprisingly high unless you live in student housing.
cjsawyer··on The Struggle to Make Lab-Grown Meat
Consider that without modern efficiency gains there would be significantly fewer people alive today, and that you might not be in the “extra” portion that we do have now. Is that a fair trade off? If we dropped all further advancements in the name of tradition I’d say that’s equivalent to giving up as a species.
cjsawyer··on Fictional Brands Archive
The FONY (ie SONY) logo in Akira is really important to me. It’s a flawless pun, a fake brand, and does it in only 4 characters!
cjsawyer··on Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
I made a drastic improvement in my mindset with regards to media backlogs when I realized that they they exist to entertain me and that my whims are the only thing that matters. I don’t owe that pile of books anything. Now they’re not allowed to generate stress, only entertainment!
cjsawyer··on The wet bird (2000)
Blast from the past! I’m not sure where I saw it originally but clearly remember liking it.
cjsawyer··on Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives
This is something society needs to deal with. If not for groups like them eventually the media will be lost. IMO there should be a rule that if something isn’t for sale by the rights holder for X years it becomes legal to distribute copies freely.
cjsawyer··on True 3D is much tougher than 2.5D
Don’t forget games played on a 2d plane but rendered with 3d models and cameras! Those are also called 2.5D
cjsawyer··on Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof
This is my exact worry with things like chat gpt polluting the scrapable internet. The feedback loop might eventually ruin whatever value the models currently have by filling them with incorrect but plentiful generated nonsense.
cjsawyer··on I use cheap notebooks
I’ve recently gotten over this sentiment with my electronics. When I was a kid, each device was an irreplaceable gift from a parent or represented the investment of a long time saving. So each device was treated with the absolute care. As a result I spent a lot of time babying hardware. Now I’m a few generations of hardware into being an adult and am retiring perfect condition objects that are just too slow. For what? I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m allowed to use devices exactly how I feel like it. They exist as tools for me to use! Looking back at my chunky MacBook cover in college is funny, now. What’s the point of a fancy surface finish on the hardware if you never get to see it?
cjsawyer··on AirPods Pro case converted from Lightning to USB-C with open-source PCB
Criticizing someone hacking hardware for fun on Hacker News... bold move!
cjsawyer··on Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution
I'm imagining firmware level checks, but both directions should probably be investigated
cjsawyer··on Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution
My biggest hurdle reusing old phones and tablets is the battery failing over time wile living on the charger. We need a project or company that makes dummy batteries that just report 100% full all the time.
cjsawyer··on Take more screenshots (2022)
Why? That’s hundreds per day.
cjsawyer··on TI-Basic interpreter written in JavaScript
This brings back fond memories of ignoring my highschool math classes to make little graphics programs with the set pixel function.
cjsawyer··on Backyard Ballistics
This was one of my favorite books growing up
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