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plucason Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

Are you sure? I thought that's what "xiǎo" was doing here, with "rén" being repeated meaning "everyone".

plucason Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

The first. In German, many words that refer to a person (e.g. Fahrer/Fahrerin, male/female driver) have a plural which is identical to the male singular. For a while now, many writers have used a typographic style to make the plural gender-neutral by writing the male plural, an asterisk, and then the female plural suffix (e.g. Fahrer*innen).

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

plucason Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript

Would have been interesting to connect back to Java's own journey to improve its time APIs, with Joda-Time leading into JSR 310, released with Java 8 in 2014. Immutable representations, instants, proper timezone support etc.

Given that the article refers to the "radical proposal" to bring these features to JavaScript came in 2018, surely Java's own solutions had some influence?

plucason The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

plucason Severe turbulence forces Delta A330 to make emergency landing, 25 injured

This study from the University of Reading found that severe turbulence has indeed increased significantly and measurably over the last 40 years: https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/2023/06/28/avia...

plucason It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine)

My assumption is by creating a service account with limited privileges and activating it for gcloud when running this.

plucason Hunting up-to-date Wikidata datasets

Interestingly, the page you linked is missing Germany.

plucason Std: Clamp generates less efficient assembly than std:min(max,std:max(min,v))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify

> Trust, but verify (Russian: доверяй, но проверяй, tr. doveryay, no proveryay, IPA: [dəvʲɪˈrʲæj no prəvʲɪˈrʲæj]) is a Russian proverb, which is rhyming in Russian. The phrase became internationally known in English after Suzanne Massie, a scholar of Russian history, taught it to Ronald Reagan, then president of the United States, the latter of whom used it on several occasions in the context of nuclear disarmament discussions with the Soviet Union.

Memorably referenced in "Chernobyl": https://youtu.be/9Ebah_QdBnI?t=79

plucason Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of assembly code

For those interested, the competitive AoE2 scene is alive and well with one of its biggest tournaments, NAC5, going on now, an in-person LAN in Berlin.

https://liquipedia.net/ageofempires/Nili%27s_Apartment_Cup/5

https://www.twitch.tv/nili_aoe

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXeY7zz-1LsyZdnpFbffdqA

plucason The Heresy of Decline

https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...

plucason More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

That sounds like a bold statement. I would imagine the large majority of players of any mass-market title don’t know about or use any non-built-in mods.

plucason Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages

What exactly do you mean by "damned" here?

plucason Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]

Gigabits, I presume, so 100 GB/s.

plucason Ask HN: How do you record your personal finances?

Beancount (https://beancount.github.io/) plus a script for formatting bank statement CSVs.

plucason Are film critics losing sync with audiences?

Maybe you're aware of how Rotten Tomatoes scores work, but in case someone reading this isn't: the score is not some average of individual scores like IMDb uses (I think), but just the _proportion of critic scores that are positive_.

So, if a film has 100x 2.5/4 star ratings from critics and 50 1.5/4 star ratings, it would have a Tomatometer score of 67% (100 positive of 150 ratings).

plucason IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts

This is a mischaracterization of P.A.s (well, not the being-paid-less bit). Do you know any personally?

plucason Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered via the Server Auction

My monthly electricity bill went up by ~29%, so sounds about right. In fact, my electricity provider raised everyone's rate, even those with a contract, but giving an option to leave and find another provider, and shortly thereafter went bankrupt.

plucason A delightful quirk of relativity theory

Note that Thread Reader loses the images attached to some of the tweets (at least for me).

Edit: strike that, it was Firefox's social tracker protection blocking them. Just need to click the shield icon left of the address bar and temporarily disable it.

plucason Canyon.mid

I encourage you to read the first sentence of QuadrupleA‘s comment to this post in LGR’s voice.

plucason How we built EGo

What are you trying to say, exactly? "Confidential computing" doesn't _use_ anything, it's a technology for working with encrypted data, mate.

plucason News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945

They did not mention the US government.

plucason The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register (2013)

Written December 29th and updated 9 days later. :)

plucason Stellar collision confirms theoretical predictions about the periodic table

Ctrl-Z, kill -9 %

plucason An Application Manager for Stream Processing and Apache Flink

I'm an engineer working on this project at dA.

Right now I'm pretty busy with Flink Forward in Berlin, but if you have any questions on the technical side I'll try to respond when I can!

plucason “BRAAAM”: The Sound That Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack

Tharkun.wav

plucason HP Unveils Mini Workstation

Third paragraph:

> ...and has the ability to support six displays right out of the box.

plucason Intel driven MacBook Pros have secondary ARM processor for Touch ID and security

He's probably referring to the iPhone 7's lack of one.

plucason Advancing our amazing bet

TWC was bought by Charter recently.

plucason The Math Inside the US Highway System

In Charlotte (and other places, I'm certain) the signs referencing I-485, the local loop interstate highway, refer to "Outer" and "Inner", which is just as useful as long as you know to drive on the right!

plucason On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995

I need to read that one. I really enjoyed his "In the Kingdom of Mao Bell" from February '92.

http://www.wired.com/1994/02/mao-bell/