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notagoodidea··on A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
Depending on your definition of space, this is what the Earth To Sky does to finance their helium balloons runs: https://www.earthtosky.store/about. I got a pendant for my partner, it was a nice gift.
notagoodidea··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
I would be interested to learn a bit more on the how after reading also [0] and the worlk done on patching the Ableton Move firmware with the Schwung [1]. Slightly different but there is an increasing amount of work done on either old hardware and new one exploring patching, swapping or developing new firmware from scratch thanks to LLM/GenAI currently.

[0] https://mforney.org/blog/2026-05-28-patching-my-guitar-amps-... [1] https://schwung.dev

notagoodidea··on Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia
I am curious if you have any projects example, writing or example around audio processing and dsp with Julia?
notagoodidea··on How Trump's crypto venture and Iran's top exchange tapped into the same networks
Complete original title: How Trump’s crypto venture and Iran’s top exchange tapped into the same industry networks
notagoodidea··on Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)
Urushi has been going through a revival in fountain pen and watches (dials) the last five years. There is also more and more amateurs having access to urushi and learning it as a hobby.
notagoodidea··on Show HN: Antenna – RSS reader with a built-in MCP server
I had the exact reaction to be honest. And after reading the page, I am not even sure if this is an RSS reader as I would expect one to be.

I would guess you have some agents doing some summary of some sort of, pushing something to your knowledge graph/database/obsidian, or is it a good time to revive RSS as another way to trigger some agentic system based on publications and pulling every now and then?

notagoodidea··on Binary Synth – Binary File Interpreter for Audio Generation
Source Code: https://github.com/MaxAlyokhin/binary-synth
notagoodidea··on Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom
I have that cheesy-ish phrase I carry around with me since a teenager: “Freedom is the ability to choose your regrets and your remorses”.
notagoodidea··on Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML
Congrats on the facelift of raku.org! Interesting to see the mix of HTMX/PicoCSS and Cro.
notagoodidea··on Big Book of R
There is a lot of way and the most common is shiny (https://shiny.posit.co/) but with a biais towards data app. Not having a Django-like or others web stack python may have talks more about the users of R than the language per se. Its background was to replace S which was a proprietary statistics language not to enter competition with Perl used in CGI and early web. R is very powerful and is Lisp in disguise coupled with the same infrastructure that let you use C under the hood like python for most libraries/packages.
notagoodidea··on How does Ada's memory safety compare against Rust?
I guess this is due to the tag line of the company. I am not familiar with the compiler/LLVM space so unsure how the different branches (compiler maintenance and AI tool infrastructure for example) are covered by the PHD internships, etc.
notagoodidea··on Why Pascal Deserves a Second Look
Same but in both case, I am not sure what to actually program with Ada every time I try to learn it again. I am a bit to used to web/data programming I guess.
notagoodidea··on Lichess: Post-Mortem of Our Longest Downtime
Would you recommend it as a deep-dive to observe Scala in production?
notagoodidea··on Reading Google Sheets from a Go Program
You are in for a whole lot of magical bad ideas :) Also Google Sheets are "vulnerable" to CSV injection [1] too for "here is a link to an evil CSV, import the data yourself" scenario.

Honestly if there was a way to Auth (even basic Auth or Bearer) via classic Google Sheets, you could create a monster so easily.

[1] http://georgemauer.net/2017/10/07/csv-injection.html

notagoodidea··on Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus
I guess, I live in the wrong country and wrong profession if I want to make that much of money. This is an stupidly gigantic amount of money. I know that I will not make this much gross any year of my life, actually this is around 7-8 years of my gross annual salary.. I know US vs UE etc. Still this is crazy. Not sure how UE salary in the same field/category compares.
notagoodidea··on Early Bitcoin Investor Roger Ver Charged with Tax Fraud
Some countries don’t allow dual citizenships like the Netherlands and others allow it like Belgium.
notagoodidea··on Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series
I always worked in R for time series analysis. This cookbook has everything you would need for a plan to analyze a time series [0] and this book provides a strong base and understanding while being focus on forecasting. [1] Have fun !

[0] https://rc2e.com/timeseriesanalysis [1] https://otexts.com/fpp2/

notagoodidea··on My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website
And they can be open in Excel for the best and the worst.
notagoodidea··on Public restrooms are hard to find in America
Not sure about the corollary as long flights always have restrooms and the time to use them. But maybe you are just uncomfortable on airplane toilets which is fine.
notagoodidea··on Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking (2020)
And it is also why every company that works with countries having contentious borders tends to have multiple map decks depending yo whom you interact with.

And some states are playing funny games with their geography restrictions like China : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_d...

notagoodidea··on Django Views – The Right Way
Or a good opportunity for match/case if >3.9.
notagoodidea··on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
I don't know your special teams/managers etc.

I switched from a technical position to a manager one one year ago. My team is remote mostly, myself included in different countries/continents. I do travel to the office to meet colleagues going to the office and having face-to-face time with some.

I don't need to see my team everyday but I do need to have a vision of what they are doing and busy with because we are working on a lot of different projects, pursuing sales opportunities and trying to balance the work based on skills/time available/opportunities to learn or emergencies. So I tend to do 1 team meeting weekly and weeklies with most of the time on the side at least, track project on slack/jira/crm and try to have a board view of my team while being read to deep-dive when needed.

Do I like being on site? Yes but mostly to talk with project manager and product owner, it is more easier to brainstorm/have meaningful discussions in a semi-informal setting of a coffee. For technical colleagues on my team, it is different depending on the tasks : creative/architecture/whatever or routine/operational.

Can't see my team on site everyday anyway but would prefer for some specific type of interaction.

Well that's just me trying to find my way in management so grain of salt and personal bias and imposter syndrome warning :)

notagoodidea··on Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014) [video]
You want to be able to follow speaking pace? Learn steno, it is made for that. https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/
notagoodidea··on Has ChatGPT Been Neutered?
You never read the Yemen Wikipedia page or this kind of information is too neutered for you ? Being snarky or humorous is not needed to provide a feel of the place.

> Since 2011, Yemen has been in a state of political crisis starting with street protests against poverty, unemployment, corruption, and president Saleh's plan to amend Yemen's constitution and eliminate the presidential term limit.[19] President Saleh stepped down and the powers of the presidency were transferred to Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Since then, the country has been in a civil war (alongside the Saudi Arabian-led military intervention aimed at restoring Hadi's government against Iran-backed Houthi rebels) with several proto-state entities claiming to govern Yemen: the government of President Hadi which became the Presidential Leadership Council in 2022, the Houthi movement's Supreme Political Council, and the separatist Southern Movement's Southern Transitional Council.[20][21][22][23][24] At least 56,000 civilians and combatants have been killed in armed violence in Yemen since January 2016.[25] The war has resulted in a famine affecting 17 million people.[26] The lack of safe drinking water, caused by depleted aquifers and the destruction of the country's water infrastructure, has also caused the largest, fastest-spreading cholera outbreak in modern history, with the number of suspected cases exceeding 994,751.[27][28] Over 2,226 people have died since the outbreak began to spread rapidly at the end of April 2017.[28][29] The ongoing humanitarian crisis and conflict has received widespread criticism for having a dramatic worsening effect on Yemen's humanitarian situation, that some say has reached the level of a "humanitarian disaster"[30] and some have even labelled it as a genocide.[31][32][33] It has worsened the country's already-poor human rights situation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen

notagoodidea··on Prolog for data science
Not sure if you are talking about this (https://www.swi-prolog.org/pack/list?p=pubmed) or something else ? R tends to have solid library for meta-analysis research.
notagoodidea··on Meta stops offering remote work in new job postings
Why in the future? It is already the case in a lot of companies that are not able to make WFH and office work in parallel, especially on the information sharing, on the spot decision making and so on. My personal biais says that most companies actually failed to transform to viable remote-oriented companies and are not ready to remove the bandaid and bring everyone back to the office.
notagoodidea··on USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in 2023
It is for the .doc format and other Office firmat until Microsoft Office 2008 included and do not provide a standard for the the post-2008 Office format (ending with the `x` in the file extension), AFAIK.
notagoodidea··on Build Unix, Not Uber
Galileo:P
notagoodidea··on How far can you go by train in 5h?
I do a similar travel distance (between 213km - 230km by car on the highway) monthly minimum between Amsterdam - Brussels taking the inter-regional train (NS) (understand the "slow") : 2h45 for around 25-29 EUR each way if booked a few days in advance. The fastest one with the Thalys is 1h55 for around 90EUR. Driving take around the same time than the slowest way ~2h30.

The Amtrak trains are slow? I mean even adjusting for the potential 40 to 10km difference and the fact that the NS does between 8 to 10 stop depending where you want to go out in Brussels or Amsterdam, 4h for a 241km trip is slow.

It is a bit cheating as if you want to do Brussels - Arlon, a 190-ish km trip inside Belgium, it will take you 2h45. And if you want to more or less cross Belgium from North to South (Oostende to Arlon), 310-ish km trip will take you around 4h15 by train and between 3 to 4h by car due to the fact that you will take the Brussels ring road. So small country, yep. Still 4h for 241km is slow.

notagoodidea··on Strudel: live coding environment inspired by TidalCycles
Strudel REPL: https://strudel.tidalcycles.org/
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