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jgtroshon Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

It shows the author have a deep understanding of the fact that premature optimisation is the root of all success

jgtroshon Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

Regarding storage, a single data center using only slow but dense storage (magnetic tapes) can store far more data than a data center providing regular web services.

jgtroshon Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_%28surveillance_progr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Public information shows that the NSA has been active intercepting as much data as possible.

It doesn't require the budget of a FAANG to peek through a significant volume of internet data.

jgtroshon A/I shuts down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making alternative political movements care a lot about how decisions are taken. For instance, authors like David Graeber consider that majority voting only makes sense in the context if backed by violence.

jgtroshon Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

This went both ways https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim

jgtroshon Splitting a Git Commit

Also, `jj split` can use alternative tooling to the built-in TUI, whereas I don't think `git history split` can.

jgtroshon As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

The VCR became widespread during the 1980s

> The industry boomed in the 1980s as more and more customers bought VCRs. By 1982, 10% of households in the United Kingdom owned a VCR. The figure reached 30% in 1985 and by the end of the decade well over half of British homes owned a VCR.

jgtroshon KOReader

I wish you could disable fullscreen (enable the navigation bar) on Android though :-(

jgtroshon Almost Always Unsigned

> Where unsigned does benefit here is when these are used as indices into an array. The signed behavior will almost certainly produce invalid indices which leads to memory unsafety issues. The unsigned way will never do that, it’ll stay bounded, even if the index it produces is actually wrong. This is a much less-severe logic bug, but can still be used maliciously depending on context.

The argument for signed often goes that it's easier to detect an invalid operation on an index by checking for bounds, or the higher probability of segmentation faults, than if your index is always “valid”. Granted, even with signed your invalid operation might still give a valid index. Simply put, seeing a negative index in your debugger is an obvious red flag you lose with unsigned.

In general I want to complain about the idea that a subtle bug is less severe than an obvious bug. Obvious bugs can be caught automatically or manually and are therefore less severe than subtle ones. This is a mistakes all students do btw. Segmentation faults are your friends!

jgtroshon The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)

Also in French, different similarity, av2il hav2e

Slightly worse in English, av2age mav2ick

jgtroshon Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu

I believe this is the most common scenario, yes. If you're used to actively pushing and pulling from the same branche as your colleagues, you need to learn how to manipulate diverging changes and conflicting bookmarks, but other than that all the jj magic is limited to your local activity.

jgtroshon Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

I intuitively feel like more realistic games could be more fun, and that I might just have fondness for Space Cadet from growing up with it; but the more I played other pinball games the more I appreciate that space cadet is a simply great game to play, it feels great and there's a great variety of things to keep you hooked.

I wish I could find another pinball game I enjoyed as much. The closest experiences I could find are Xenotitle and Demon's Tilt but I found them harder to get into and get good at.

The next best thing imo is Yoku's Island Express.

jgtroshon Poland is now among the 20 largest economies

To those who do not know about this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Moldova_and_Rom...

(My external barely informed understanding is that proponents of unification are largely right wing nationalist, pro-Russians call for a unification with Bessarabia while ceding Transsinistria to Russia; Moldovans are largely against union in polls.)

jgtroshon Make some art with your phone sensors

Even just the plain etch-a-sketch using motion sensing is cool enough.

I suppose this might have been done already?

jgtroshon HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

I was not aware of Radicle; it's a truly peer-to-peer Git forge which aims to guarantee commits are signed by current maintainers (among, I suppose, other goals).

The article mentions an us and a you, but I feel like it would have been an useful occasion to explain why move (from where?) and why Radicle. Maybe this was already discussed elsewhere?

I suppose similar discussions regarding GitHub are happening today and could explain why this was posted to HN.

jgtroshon I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

After a quick search, there is an NFC web API, but with no general support https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_NFC_API

jgtroshon Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

Sounds like they might have been working the gigs? Maybe a sounds engineer

jgtroshon The Clock

Yeah, this screamed US date format to me! (Though there's no year in this clock)

jgtroshon LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua

I like the Trosh game

jgtroshon JSLinux Now Supports x86_64

Similarly I've used it for technical interviews.

jgtroshon System76 on Age Verification Laws

To my surprise, this graph [0] shows that even when taking into account vaping, it seems that smoking has truly gone down in the US.

[0]: https://ecigone.com/featured/vaping-statistics/

jgtroshon Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs

Your instinctive reaction matches with scientific consensus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing

> Each historical invention of writing emerged from systems of proto-writing that used ideographic and mnemonic symbols but were not capable of fully recording spoken language. True writing, where the content of linguistic utterances can be accurately reconstructed by later readers, is a later development. As proto-writing is not capable of fully reflecting the grammar and lexicon used in languages, it is often only capable of encoding broad or imprecise information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_speech

> vocal languages must have begun diversifying at least 100,000 years ago

jgtroshon A CPU that runs entirely on GPU

The dedicated term GPGPU [0] didn't catch on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

jgtroshon Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes

These rely on undoing within a game's constrained environment. There isn't a way to magically undo any possible procedure with side effects.

jgtroshon Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop

I appreciate the fact that they waited two months to check their results before sharing them publicly. However, this feels like there should be a hypothesis for explaining the difference other than “this fits expectations”, especially after the author extensively claims this does not fit their own expectations. Did I miss something?

jgtroshon HTML Slides with notes

A vimmer*

jgtroshon I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]

His crusade is in part about how pods are overdosed which can reduce their effectiveness (and be super wasteful)

jgtroshon The Farmer Was Replaced [video]

The game looks fun and pretty, but am I the only one to get triggered by the “replaced” naming?

All of these eager claims to replace humans feel violently antisocial. (And in many instances hypocritical if coming from people who defensively claim “it's just a tool”…)

jgtroshon NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times

Is this bait? The whole context is malicious software being installed en masse via NPM micro dependencies.

jgtroshon Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

It's equivalent to xargs -I {} rm {}

       -I replace-str
              Replace occurrences of replace-str in the initial-arguments
              with names read from standard input.  Also, unquoted blanks
              do not terminate input items; instead the separator is the
              newline character.  Implies -x and -L 1.