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ossm1db··on NASA satellite discovers a new crater on the moon bigger than the Colosseum
In case you have never seen the Colosseum in person to put it into perspective, it's almost as big as this crater, which you have also never seen in person.
ossm1db··on Project was assigned for my Software Architecture course
When I did something similar in a Software Engineering course, we forked the repository first. Our professor obtained permission from the authors as well. Your response was understanding and kind.
ossm1db··on Google will let all U.S. users change usernames as of today
April Fool!
ossm1db··on Ask HN: Books on Unit Testing and TDD?
"Essential Test-Driven Development" by Rob Myers was just released: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0134494156
ossm1db··on Show HN: BananaOS, vibecoded operating system that boots on a 486 with ~11MB RAM
I was excited to learn TI BASIC and AppleSoft BASIC at 10 years old ...
ossm1db··on Agentic Engineering Best Practices
This begs the question, is chat an indicator of ability? I would suggest not as how you converse with a coding agent changes as you learn. This is new to most of us - we're still trying to get a grip on it while it changes daily.

Also, if you had a rubric, you could just make it a training document after hiring the engineer using normal methods. Problem solved.

ossm1db··on Show HN: VaultAI – 42 AI models on a portable SSD, works offline ($399)
I like the idea, but performance is not described. What are the FP8 TOPS? When you pay for a monthly subscription, not only do you performance higher than a local model, but also performance increases as they become available. With this unit (the CPU/RAM specification is also absent) the hardware you get is the hardware you will always have. If you are going to compare the price of your product directly to the price of a subscription, you are obligated to describe the differences because it is not an apples-to-apples comparison. You're going to want to include some sort of multi-agent ecosystem because using it for just "chat" or "RAG" is so 2025 ...
ossm1db··on Real Estate Brokers Are Profiting from Warehouse Sales to ICE
The warehouses aren't for immigrants. They're for political prisoners. Immigration enforcement is just a practice run before it gets real.

No one seems to realize this.

ossm1db··on Thirteen Constants from Zero Free Parameters? What Did I Find?
Have you given any thought to using symbolic regression? Copilot suggested looking for: 1. Leptonic CP‑violating phase δPMNS 2. θ₂₃ octant (PMNS) 3. Neutrino mass ordering (NO/IO) I admit I am not qualified even to understand what my post means let alone find the answer, but it sounded pretty convincing.
ossm1db··on No Code Is Dead
I agree completely.
ossm1db··on We discovered an ancient 'party boat' in the waters of Alexandria
I feel sorry for the guy that woke up the next morning and forgot where he parked it.
ossm1db··on Show HN: I built an open-source Linux-capable single-board computer with DDR3
It's quite an accomplishment for an individual. You might find the Pine A64 interesting. I got 6 of the 512MB models for $15 each. [1]

I plan on running Kubesolo on them since 1.0 was recently released.[2]

[1] https://pine64.org/devices/pine_a64/

[2] https://github.com/portainer/kubesolo

ossm1db··on McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
I'm more concerned the creators think it's great simply because they spent 7 sleepless weeks patching a broken mess.
ossm1db··on Forget the 80-20 Rule. Follow the 1-50 Rule Instead (2019)
TL;DR The article (from Sept 2019) applies the 80/20 rule three times in succession to illustrate that 50% (0.8^3) of consequences come from 1% (0.2^3) of causes. Thus, "I encourage all business owners to ... block three to four hours out of their day ... to work on the A-level tasks and projects that really matter. Avoid distractions"

Not unfamiliar advice with a simple principle: identify and focus on your priorities. That is the heart of the matter, and is why this advice works. David Allen in "Getting Things Done", and other well-known authors and speakers have similar techniques.

Which is to say that it is very likely for someone either to have experienced or to have seen this.

ossm1db··on Next-Gen Toyotas Will Now Last for Almost a Decade
There was no real information in this article. The model designs will last longer because most new development will be in software updates. That's it. The page is bloated with ads to the point of uselessness.
ossm1db··on A Mysterious Jupiter-Sized Planet Is Heading Toward Our Solar Neighborhood
The author of the article, James Thompson, has "more than a decade of science journalism experience" yet fails to provide sources for his articles, something a high-school student would understand. Another "AI-Generated" article on the "Alabama Gazette" names the planet "Nomad-X." The lack of information leads me to believe it is entirely an AI hallucination and a completely fake story.
ossm1db··on The Incompleteness of Ethics
"Gödel’s incompleteness theorems apply not only to AI, but to any ethical reasoning framed within a formal system." - no mathematician ever
ossm1db··on Why the Moon Needs Its Own Time Zon
“On the Moon, your clock is going to tick faster because the celestial body is substantially less heavy than the Earth.”

There is no way a physicist of Patla's stature would say "less heavy" instead of "less massive."

ossm1db··on The "Careless People" Who Make Up Elite Institutions
These people are not "careless." They care very much for the knowledge they hoard, the power they hold, and the assets they possess. They just don't care about other people.
ossm1db··on His Life Savings Were Mailed to Him by Paper Check. Now, It's Gone
"Where's the other $100K?"

As mentioned in the article, there were two accounts: a 401k and a Roth. The $14k was for one, the rest was the other.

"It also strikes me as so weird that they expected Mr. Handy to essentially be the middleman to receive checks he couldn't cash."

As mentioned in the article, that is standard practice, and has been for a very long time.

"There are a lot of things in your article that don't add up."

You didn't read the article closely enough.

ossm1db··on DDD: The missing piece in AI app generation?
DDD is just the beginning. A successful architecture for AI app generation will apply DDD using data-context-iteraction (DCI) in conjunction with Data-Oriented Programming as described by Yehonathan Sharvit: https://blog.klipse.tech/dop/2022/06/22/principles-of-dop.ht... Note that the "DOP" espoused by Brian Goetz and others complicates AI app generation. It stipulates strong typing, that when combined with "making illegal states unrepresentable" (a concept borrowed from functional programming), makes change -- which is inevitable -- more difficult.
ossm1db··on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night
except I live here and have to suffer for their incompetence.
ossm1db··on JetBrains AI Pro now included in regular subscription
"A 20% continuity discount applies starting from the second year of uninterrupted subscription. After the second year, it increases to 40%, which you keep for as long as you continue to renew your subscription on time."

I get the "all products" pack for $173. I mostly use Java/C++, but I love being able to dabble in other languages in a familiar environment.

ossm1db··on DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say
If you believe it's for immigration enforcement, I have a bridge to sell you.
ossm1db··on Mark Rober's Tesla video irregularities
This twitter post has already been fact-checked as an inaccurate rant.
ossm1db··on Steve Wozniak says Tesla 'is the worst in the world' at improving its technology
I have the mstick4. If you have android auto, it is amazing. https://www.m-gears.com/
ossm1db··on US FAA says 240 flights disrupted by explosion of Musk's SpaceX Starship
Rookie numbers
ossm1db··on Steve Wozniak blasts Musk's DOGE over 'sledgehammer' approach
Woz: it’s a process that should be done “more surgically, with a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer.”

Precisely. The fact they are not using a "scalpel" means they do not want surgical results. If you want the entire system to crumble you use a sledgehammer, wrecking ball, etc., on the most fragile parts.

That's what they want: to break the entire thing. I don't know why that is such a difficult conclusion for people to understand.

ossm1db··on Starlink to take over $2.4B contract to overhaul air traffic control comms
"Musk orders FAA to give him $2.4 billion" would be more accurate.
ossm1db··on Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.
GDP is 4 trillion. It's going to take at least that to convince Musk to sell it. He's not in it to lose money.
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