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codeulikeon Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

I've never seen any adverts in Windows. Just saying.

How many of the people pearl-clutching in this thread actually use Windows?

codeulikeon Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

I resisted upgrading to windows 11 for as long as I could because of all this hysteria. I actually did upgrade 6 months ago and it seems ... fine? I havent seen any adverts; they must be somewhere I'm not visiting. The start menu search still excludes web results like i told it to with Windows 10 (the setting must have come across). I havent seen copilot pop up anywhere annoying in Windows (although it is everywhere in ms office as similar things are popping up in whatsapp, jira, google search, every app).

I'd say the problem these days is not Ads, its Content. Firefox and Chrome (desktop and android) and Edge start with a tab of content - celebrity tat and sensationalistic world news. Windows taskbar was the same, weather and news gave me a load of tatty Content. You go and find the setting to turn it off and it goes away. But I hate Content much more than I hate Ads. Content is the problem and on that front Windows is about the same as everything else.

codeulikeon Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)

You're absolutely right! I should have sent $5.00 for that transaction and not $500,000. I will generate a letter for you to print and sign and send to your bank to notify them of my mistake. Would you like me to generate a bankruptcy filing for you as well?

codeulikeon Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line

But less. Total money from them going into system is lower than it otherwise would be, which must have an effect

codeulikeon US Job Market Visualizer

Definitely not going to dinner round your house

codeulikeon Kona EV Hacking

At some point later I got around to playing with DC fast charging ... That market still has a long way to go as far as sorting out its business model, as billing based on time vs energy is completely unfair ... An excuse that's offered less and less often is that pricing by kilowatt-hours delivered is prohibited in some states by utility regulatory rules.

I didn't know they were billing for DC charging in the US based on Time instead of kwh. Thats odd. In Europe its just kwh.

codeulikeon Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found

You may not understand it, but it is grammatically correct.

codeulikeon Are LLM merge rates not getting better?

This means llms have not improved in their programming abilities for over a year. Isn’t that wild? Why is nobody talking about this?

Because hype makes money.

codeulikeon Lock Scroll with a Vengeance

Yeah I suspect its something like that. Its been hard to track down because its only noticable once you fire excel up

codeulikeon Lock Scroll with a Vengeance

My pc, maybe because of the external keyboard I'm using, occasionally decides that Scroll Lock is On and then Excel becomes unusable ... The solution is to bring up the On Screen Keyboard and toggle the virtual scroll lock key ...

codeulikeon Google Workspace CLI

But manually going through your API resource by resource, parameter by parameter, etc. takes a long time.

This CLI dynamically generates itself at run time though

gws doesn't ship a static list of commands. It reads Google's own Discovery Service at runtime and builds its entire command surface dynamically

codeulikeon Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died

Loved the show back in its heyday. From what I remember, the novels are pretty good too

codeulikeon First Website (1992)

1992 seems a bit late. Wasn't this first website put online on 20 December 1990?

codeulikeon My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

But on most of them the power setting just changes the percentage of time the magentrotron is 'on', but while it is on, its full power. So something like 'low for 40s' becomes a game of russian roulette

codeulikeon My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

This is fascinating because I remember this era when Microwave ovens were a new thing and my parents got one, along with a glossy cookbook with a roast chicken on the front. All of that 'roasting things in the microwave' gor quietly forgotten about in the late 80s, along with the idea that CDs were 'indestructible'.

But somehow modern microwaves always have a button on the front with a picture of a roast chicken. Why are microwave UIs so delusional? Just need power %age and time.

Microwaves are good for making porridge (oatmeal) though. And I've had some success with scrambled eggs, if you get the method right results are very consistent.

codeulikeon Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums

Smartphones at least have some semblance of security, whereas iot devices are a free for all

codeulikeon What Is OAuth?

The central paragraph of this is still really hard to parse:

"At its core, OAuth for delegation is a standard way to do the following:

The first half exists to send, with consent, a multi-use secret to a known delegate.

The other half of OAuth details how the delegate can use that secret to make subsequent requests on behalf of the person that gave the consent"

This paragraph has a bunch of words that need defining (the word delegate does not appear on the page until then) and a confusing use of 'first half', 'second half' .... First half of what?

Surely it can be explained better than that?

codeulikeon Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

Reads to me like it is not accessing other users mailboxes, its just accessing the current user's mailbox (like its meant to) but its supposed to ignore current user's emails that have a 'confidential' flag and that bit had a bug

codeulikeon Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams

Right, but why is it "Clawe" specifically - is that supposed to sound like something trello-ish? What is the e on the end supposed to remind me of?

codeulikeon Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?

Modern chips made via EUV lithography can be thought of as 3d printed. Like the most mind bogglingly complicated 3d printing imaginable.

I dont think TSMC make ROM chips using their 5nm process but I think they _could_, if needed. So that would be a very compact way of storing info.

codeulikeon The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory

The sun expands and gets hotter

Yes, in approx 4 billion years.

I agree that is a concern but I think we should also pay some attention to some of the problems we will be facing in a timescale somewhat shorter than billions of years.

codeulikeon Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams

I dont understand what its riffing on

codeulikeon Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams

This is not for people

codeulikeon Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed

Always loved the Royal Festival Hall, nice views and things to do.

That whole stretch of the south bank really benefits from the ban on advertising.

codeulikeon Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed

hand drawn architectural cross section from the 1960s

https://shop.barbican.org.uk/products/pod1049390

edit: misread the title, thought we were talking about the barbican again

codeulikeon Why is the sky blue?

In terms of "qualia", its the other way round probably? Like the way we see colours would have evolved (within the available environment of wavelengths and scatterings and the possibilities with rods and cones) so that the things we want to see are more likely to stand out. So we see the sky as blue because leaves are green and berries are red.

codeulikeon Offpunk 3.0

I didn't really get what "a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline" meant, like how is it offline? So I think this is the bit of info I was missing:

Every content you visit is cached and can be visited later while offline. If you try to visit a content not available in your cache, it will be marked to be downloaded later. Offpunk allows you to synchronise you computer once every hour, day or week and work offline without being interrupted.

(from: https://offpunk.net/whatisoffpunk.html)

So its kindof designed to be offline with occasional sync. Interesting.

codeulikeon Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

Exactly

codeulikeon Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

It recommends Consider Phlebas over any of the other Iain M Banks Culture books - surely thats not right

codeulikeon A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw

Yes its clear as mud