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fscaramuzza··on My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
Google Street View is one of the most incredible engineering work produced by humans, it's just incredible.
fscaramuzza··on Google changes its search box
What scares me about this new AI mode thingy is that every answer sounds like a systematic literature review, but only for the results. For example, if I look for users feedback about a specific product, it says "People think that..., but also that...; It's important to notice that some people ..." where with 'people' it means just a random comment on a random website just because it thought it was a good contribution to the results. Sounds like it's giving a ground truth from "multiple" data, when instead it's just aggregating almost random stuff. In the context of a systematic review, the feature that I would love the most is augmenting my initial query, so that I can just get more results that I could find interesting. I am 100% sure they thought about this, but ignored it for the most profitable option.
fscaramuzza··on Linux Kernel Explorer
My bad, the network I was connected to didn't like the certificate for some reason. Cool project!
fscaramuzza··on Linux Kernel Explorer
Am I the only one that can't access the website due to certificate problems with the .dev?
fscaramuzza··on Pasta Cooking Time
Well, Italian *nonnas rarely used more than one pan for cooking, and it was very common to just put pasta without the sauce in the plate, and a generous spoonful of sauce on top. This is what you used to find in restaurants, too.

The cooking water in the large pan is a rather new thing. Or maybe it's something just from my region :)

fscaramuzza··on Strange CW Keys
I like the Aluminum Finger Pieces from the first URL.
fscaramuzza··on Monodraw
or even the "export to ascii" of draw.io? I would be happy to hear what the advantages could be.
fscaramuzza··on 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
There are plenty of these here :)

https://artsandculture.google.com/search/asset?project=art-c...

fscaramuzza··on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience
New Gemini models are quite good, Gemini 2.5 Pro is 1st in the user-benchmarks [1]. They also have Gemma, very good model that can run locally [2]. Benchmarks are not oracles of truth, but I feel like Google is not a kid who arrived late at the party anymore.

[1] https://lmarena.ai/

[2] https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-3/

fscaramuzza··on Rost – Rust Programming in German
waiting for the italian version Past
fscaramuzza··on Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]
> Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. This is so true. It has happened too often that a professor has decided to explain the most difficult topic in 5 minutes overtime. Before lunch. What a mistake.
fscaramuzza··on Content Injection Attack on GitHub
GH just fixed it, but there's a snapshot from few hours ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20240608060046/https://github.co...
fscaramuzza··on Cracking the Scheduling Code in Hay Day
This kind of project reminded me of the homework we had to do in uni for the "formal methods for real-time systems" course. We had to use UPPAAL [1] to verify the stability of a transportation belt with some machines doing things with some delays and other stuff. As far as I remember UPPAAL provides also some python libraries, that can be used to make automated tests. It would be interesting to see how Hay Day scenarios could be implemented in UPPAAL and test different approaches. Anyway, very nice project, the article is really well written as well.

[1] https://uppaal.org/

fscaramuzza··on Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot
OMG, the French "pissette". Last semester I was there for an internship, took me a full week to get used to it. Then there was the "râteau", used only by one of my colleagues (the strongest) when he was clearly loosing (very rare).
fscaramuzza··on History of the Paper Clip (2016)
Thank you very much, now I want to play Universal Paperclips so bad.

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

fscaramuzza··on Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time
As others have done, I first looked for my house. I noticed something I hadn't noticed ever, namely a spot in the neighborhood that is shaded for most of the day. A good trick to know when summer comes and you want to keep your car cool.