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pierrefermat1on P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names

Yes, OP seems to have completely lost touch with what is actually useful vs optimizing metrics for the sake of it.

pierrefermat1on Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard

For those in the comment section looking for a split alternative to this, there is this Kickstarter(be warned of the usual problems with Kickstarters):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlpeterman/compose-s...

or this that is in stock but doesn't exactly follow Apple's layout

https://www.ozokeyboards.com/products/jiffy75-wireless-split...

pierrefermat1on ARC-AGI Leaderboard

What seems to implied is that some of his hold out testing suite includes simple/common tests that are out in the wild, and for those opus went straight to a memorised solution .

pierrefermat1on Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

There is no contrast lol, if you actually consider the other gear choices he made they are all equally terrible. The god awfully un-ergo chair, poor measuring LS50's, junk keyboard......

pierrefermat1on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

The instant on thing actually bothered me enough to make switch from windows back to Mac( by proxy the idle battery drain on windows was also pretty terrible)

pierrefermat1on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

Depends on your definition of "instant".

What we really mean is before you complete the action of fully opening the hinge to 120deg which is something like 1.5-2seconds?

AFAIK pre M1 days it would be still a few seconds after fully opening and now it's more like < 1sec.

pierrefermat1on Ongoing Lean formalization of the proof for Fermat's Last Theorem

The concept trying new science orgs is noble, but this is the typical Schmidt BS of saying every previous academic consortia is totally incompetent and I'm the only one that can inject the magic sauce of focus and coordination.

pierrefermat1on Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

Would really appreciate if you could add some options for download quality(with webm merge for 4k support), gave it a go and it just by default downloads the 360p MP4.

pierrefermat1on GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)

40% alochol consumption reduction did not lead to "a fundamental restructuring of the social economy"

The hyperbole is just painful to listen to

pierrefermat1on A Billion Pixels a Second: Inside Apple's iPhone 16 Camera Labs

The reality is journalists don't really have the knowledge to explain any specifics at all, so you just get this fluff. But hey at least there's pretty pictures

pierrefermat1on Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going

I think the better mapping of unit tests would actually be proofs of lemmas ?

pierrefermat1on NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway

Actually curious what the minimum bitrate/resolution they could store with to be still usable in court

pierrefermat1on Edging Toward Japan: In his mind's eye, Rembrandt was always headed toward Japan

See authors profile, he is stupidly biased in forcing this connection.

pierrefermat1on Rats learned to drive

Same here, refusing to load

pierrefermat1on Boxed – Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours

Curious if you could link some relevant papers on this?

pierrefermat1on Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good

It seems like in their mind the snake ate it's tail without realising, so they don't even know what's outside of Google's index.

pierrefermat1on Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good

Yes OP is hilariously out of touch, the storage would be sub 1% of total costs.

pierrefermat1on What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]

If you purely value scientists with some sort of Value Over RePlacement metric on their scientific contribution alone, I would like to think Einstein is tier 1 along side another 20-50 people.

pierrefermat1on What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]

Sure not your average scientist, but could I find a few hundred who have but who are themselves of no particular fame? Quite easily yes.

pierrefermat1on Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch

It seems like in this particular situation if you had a mainland chinese friend, he would have been able to source a replacement tablet panel for the cheap on 1688.com for ~50 USD.

pierrefermat1on The Future of TLA+ [pdf]

I've only play with TLA+ for a small amount of time but absolutely agree with the maths statement being way off the mark.

Building out any real maths with logic operators yourself is just not feasible in a meaningful timescale.

pierrefermat1on Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

Yes at the extremes where you have sufficient leverage the hours are irrelevant, but for any pre-IPO stage CEO my statement is clearly not a misconception.

pierrefermat1on Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

There is a difference between knowing if a blind spot exists vs knowing what in the blind spot.

I.E. taking a driving lesson and learning that there's a blind spot in your rear view mirror

pierrefermat1on Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

Your CEO may very well be working those hours too except for good reason since he's value aligned+ highly leveraged and able to capture the benefits from the extra work

pierrefermat1on Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

The biggest difference between him and a "normal smart person" is they realize they have blind spots and choose not to publicly spout opinions on them.

pierrefermat1on Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices

This is so hilariously bad, how does something like this end up needing to be a user created Github issue and not being caught when you guys launch.

pierrefermat1on Show HN: Hooper – AI-driven stats and highlights for basketball play

Are you using some sort of naive profanity filtering for profile names? I couldn't create an user name with "assist" in it due to "ass" being included?

pierrefermat1on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”

I suppose you are only referring to the young directly involved, but the young watching the comp could also be just as impressionable and start looking into using the same drugs.

But my real take is this hopefully gets everyone to understand how meaningless/ugly this all is and actually combats PED use that way.

pierrefermat1on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”

https://www.scott-sports.com/us/en/products/bike-ebikes-road

I think Scott has one of the cleanest looking road bike ebikes around, but many other brands do the same. With how chunky aero bikes are they are indistungishable to the masses.

pierrefermat1on Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices

Would be great if we could get some benchmarks on commonly available hardware setups.