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jaydeegee··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
Much much smaller scale but we did a 'Salem Witch Trails' tour and it was a grey dreary autumn day and I felt it complimented the story.
jaydeegee··on Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
They are in the shovel sales business in this gold rush.
jaydeegee··on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
With CSS and JS Libraries I can create a 'good' looking and usable web interface in minutes.
jaydeegee··on -2000 Lines of code (2004)
In an old ops role we had a metric called ticket touches. One of my workmates had almost double of everyone else but only for that metric. We had a look and it was due to how he wrote notes in tickets instead of putting all his findings in a comment he would do it incrementally as he went along. Neither of these ways were wrong it just inflated that stat for him.
jaydeegee··on Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
All gone :( let us know when you have more stock please.
jaydeegee··on Ask HN: Anyone switching to security due to LLMs?
Something I've considered for a while, it's a field of complementary skills but a different mindset. I'm not sure I want to work in the world of compliance reporting and audits.
jaydeegee··on Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
Myself and my 6yo son watch a youtube channel Real Civil Engineer as he plays cool games like this. We saw the Ballionaire video and instantly got it we play it a lot.
jaydeegee··on Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparable harm,” judge rules
In Finland schools teach media literacy maybe that's a start.
jaydeegee··on “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
Finally someone using GIS data for the great good of humanity.
jaydeegee··on Always go to the funeral (2005)
Funerals aren't for the one who passed they're for the ones left behind. Be there for the ones left behind and remember you are one of the ones left behind.
jaydeegee··on QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM
I'm sure I work with someone who gets stuck in these
jaydeegee··on We can mine asteroids for space food
Every* food is processed food the amount of processing varies.
jaydeegee··on On finishing projects
I hadn't realised people finished projects.
jaydeegee··on G1 AR Glasses
When Google glass was announced we proposed a POC for our field and datacentre folk (Telco industry). Lack of availability killed it off as we were in Australia and never made the cut for trial. The ability to feed information to them while they can use both hands, not have a laptop balanced somewhere or not be on the phone was invaluable in theory. I'm hopeful this sort of thing can become what it has potential to but I feel it will be undercooked and die off.
jaydeegee··on The other side of Formula 1: Barcelona residents protest for race-car exhibition
I'd assume the slower traffic and more people in the area would bump up pollution a bit.

Formula 1 is aiming to be carbon neutral by 2030 and engines from 2026 will be run on sustainable (ethanol based) fuels. The fleet of trucks to cart them around Europe also now run on biodiesel.

jaydeegee··on The other side of Formula 1: Barcelona residents protest for race-car exhibition
Normal NIMBY stuff we see every year at the Melbourne GP too. I'm all for their right to protest but they're not really selling me much on their subject choice.
jaydeegee··on Optical PCIe 7.0 connection hits 128 GT/s
A transfer is 1 action to the size of the width of the channel.
jaydeegee··on Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
You guys haven't been great at sharing the Bledisloe Cup with us Aussies.

That said also geoblocked here in Australia.

jaydeegee··on Honda's Hidden Resonators Keep Tire Noise to a Minimum
NVH is a big contributor to perception of quality in the car world. This is a very elegant solution to a problem that probably wasn't all that high on the list.
jaydeegee··on Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
Outside of all the security aspects which look to be handled quite well on the surface I do enjoy that the client mainframe architecture is still a staple of computing.
jaydeegee··on Mitsubishi robot solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305s
2 things it's a marketing exercise but it's also R&D an actual test use case for high speed precision motors/controllers. I can imagine this video is almost nsfw for folk building industrial machines.
jaydeegee··on Workmanship standard for crimping, interconnecting cables, harnesses, and wiring
Haha we had one roll of wire and it was 1am so we made do, I would have much preferred something a little more suitable. But hey you gotta do what you gotta do.
jaydeegee··on Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
I had a colleague who was old school and loved optimising, everything he reviewed come back with tiny changes that would save fractions of a ms. His nemesis was a guy who was arguably the best coder I have ever worked with. Things come to a head in one meeting and old school said if we did things his way our code would run quicker and the response was legendary 'If we coded like you it'd run quicker because most of the functionality would be still in the backlog.' I still think about that when it comes to optimisation.
jaydeegee··on Google releases smart watch for kids
Awesome info cheers I have a feeling my 6yo will have a vivofit jr 2 in a few days.
jaydeegee··on Workmanship standard for crimping, interconnecting cables, harnesses, and wiring
I once rewired a racecar engine loom with red 18gauge wire and used different colour heatshrink to differentiate power, ground, signal etc.. also happy to answer any questions.
jaydeegee··on Google releases smart watch for kids
Gamifying fitness and activity I really like. The rest is something I don't think we need.
jaydeegee··on App designed by Indigenous people in W. Australia preserves language, culture
Such a great idea, I have always wondered how much knowledge we have destroyed surely we could've learned a lot from a culture that has been around for 60k years.
jaydeegee··on App designed by Indigenous people in W. Australia preserves language, culture
Yes it is a cultural practice in many indigenous aussie communities.

https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/indigenous-cultural-prot...

jaydeegee··on WP21
WP is the perfect tool for 95% of the job with the last 5% of tweaking being incredibly frustrating. I've used it extensively and it's longevity is a testament to its usefulness may it be around for another 21yrs.
jaydeegee··on Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
A similar technique is just keyword flooding your footer in white text. A friend did this and got a remarkable hit rate for interview requests.
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