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nebsteron Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware

Ah, reminds me of playing mega-lo-mania and sonic the hedgehog as a kid... I played mega-lo-mania recently and I still enjoy it!

nebsteron Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you

Some are even worse than this. When I was in Portugal, the machine said "Press (1) for GBP. Press (2) for EUR.", then on the next screen, after you select "(2) for EUR", it says "Rate will Apply. Please confirm. (1) Accept conversion (2) Reject Conversion". If you select "Accept conversion", it overrides your currency decision and you pay in GBP with their markup fee...

It's a complete con...

nebsteron Scientists edited genes in a living person and saved his life

Is there a reason why I'm seeing squares between each of the characters in your message? It's making it pretty hard to read...

I'm using Chrome on Android

nebsteron A Tale of Two AI Failures: Debugging a Simple Bug with LLMs

I... still don't understand the issue. It looks like both examples in the table would evaluate to the same thing. Am I missing a stray "\n"?

nebsteron ChatGPT-4o vs. Math

I tried to work out the problem myself first (using only the text) and accidentally used the diameter as the radius just like ChatGPT! Granted I haven't really tackled any maths problems for many years though.

nebsteron Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL

I'm not sure I really understand this.

If you mean one instance in each pod, then each should be labelled differently and you can filter down to one instance.

If you mean running multiple instances in each pod (and container?), then the standard kubectl log output will also have them all joined together. For both of those, you would need to add another unique identifier to each line, or run each instance in a separate container so you can submit the logs with the pod name and container name combined being the unique identifier.

nebsteron Still no love for WPA3 on the Raspberry Pi 5

Have you had a look at AsiaRF[1]? If you are building an access point you are probably looking for more specific cards. You do miss out on things like hardware offloading if you go down that route afaik though but it may not matter due to the extra processing power you tend to get.

I don't know much about it but things like DBDC/MIMO are probably wanted. Other people may be able to comment more about this though.

I just went down the route of using a Banana Pi R3 with OpenWRT in the end though[2]. The R4 does exist now with Wifi 7 though[3].

[1] https://asiarf.com/product-category/wi-fi/wi-fi-module/wi-fi... [2] https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R3 [3] https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R4

nebsteron Show HN: mystery-o-matic offers a daily random murder mystery

Is there a way to see the optimal solution? It would be great to be able to see why I'm so bad haha

nebsteron Ollama for Linux – Run LLMs on Linux with GPU Acceleration

Also, some of us weird folk have both an AMD and NVIDIA GPU in one machine...

Actually, I guess that is more common now that AMD CPUs have a GPU built in?

nebsteron PID Control Challenges

The "Ball on Platform: Edge Balance" one seems super interesting to me.

Is the sample solution just hardcoded or is there some maths behind it to make it work from any location/initial speed?

nebsteron Cuber: Deploy your apps on Kubernetes easily

Pretty sure he is disputing that it could be 81% cheaper that the original comment said. "Up to 80% cheaper" means 80% or less, not 80% or more.

nebsteron The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked

Do you mean the key for XP? If so, you can recover it using a command or through the registry.

You can use rainbow tables to crack passwords for XP which was super quick though!

nebsteron Show HN: Terragen.dev – Automagically Generate Terraform for AWS

I don't know much about trademarks, but from a quick search I found there are two terragen's that exist, one for agricultural stuff and one for something like rubber? (according to the classes associated to the trademarks).

Are names automatically trademarked? Or did I search incorrectly? (I did only search on the UK and US pages though)

nebsteron Ultrathin fuel cell uses the body’s own sugar to generate electricity

I wonder if this can also be used for weight loss. I guess it would have to be a much larger device but would it be possible?

Is this the same thing as your body burning calories?

nebsteron Using LEOs and GEOs

Simplified/Rough results:

  Terrestrial Fibre:                20.6ms IPv4 / 21.5ms IPv6
  Geo-Stationary Satellite Service: 660ms IPv4
  LEO Satellite Service:            60.6ms IPv4

nebsteron Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

But when you have differing behaviour based on argument position like putting -ss / -t before the -i or after (fast seek vs accurate seek), it gets confusing pretty fast.

nebsteron Flow Browser: Flow makes HTML faster

I doubt it as it has a "proprietary rendering engine", but Servo (https://servo.org/) has been doing a similar thing and from what I remember, it is basically a safe multi-threaded rendering engine.

nebsteron Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but I'm pretty sure CPU limits will only limit the amount of CPU used even if there is more available. It will not kill off the pod.

Memory limits however will kill the pod if the pod uses more than the limit.

nebsteron End-to-end encryption in the browser

The article explained how the fragment part of the URL (everything after the #) isn't sent to the server. It's only client-side.

So even if the URL isn't encrypted in HTTPS (it is though), it wouldn't matter.

nebsteron Noclip

It's working on my Macbook late 2013 / 10.13.6 / Chrome 72.0.3626.109

nebsteron 808 Cube

Cheers! Was wondering why it was all black!