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rbirkbyon Big tech wants to make AI cost nothing

Google is to Android as Meta is to Llama. But this time it’s all about AR glasses.

rbirkbyon Polestar eliminates the rear window in latest electric car

Sat in the rear, it feels claustrophobic. I’m told they will solve that with extra daylight lighting installed behind the rear headrests.

rbirkbyon FAA closes SpaceX Starship mishap investigation

It’s known as Atwood’s Duck. https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

rbirkbyon Taos Operating System (1995)

I “founded” and ran the acorn computer user www server at this time. The remains of the site still have a Taos press release on it.

http://www.poppyfields.net/acorn/docs/acorndocs/taos2.shtml

rbirkbyon Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”

Is the abomination that is “I’ll revert on that” a wart?

rbirkbyon The Big Dictionary of MLOps

Distillation. Corpora. Zero-shot. One-shot/few-shot. Labelled and unlabelled. Self-supervised.

rbirkbyon Retry XMLHttpRequest Carefully

Just use axios and https://www.npmjs.com/package/retry-axios

rbirkbyon Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare?

Debugging CrashLoopBackOff

rbirkbyon Terraform should have remained stateless

“level triggered” vs “edge triggered” is the kubernetes term for stateless vs stateful. It’s one of the reasons why any cluster configuration drift becomes eventually consistent with desired state.

rbirkbyon The UK’s delta surge is collapsing

ONS sampling disputes this.

rbirkbyon The Crown Estate

As one of the 60%, its not about deity worship, but more about a sense of stability. Especially where the monarchy has effectively zero involvement in daily life. When looked at from a P&L basis the crown is pretty good value. Certainly compared to all the alternatives that have been tried.

rbirkbyon A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name

I had a large tree in the garden of my previous house. I used to make significant quantities of medlar jelly every year and give the jars away to family and friends. The house was 400 years old, but the tree was significantly younger.

rbirkbyon Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time

Just be glad no-one thought of running Internet Explorer as the desktop background....oh wait....

rbirkbyon Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)

> Davis Adams, who works at Honda and drives an S2000, told me about a Lotus Elise he used to own that had a motion sensor. "If you locked the door, and moved your hand in the open air," he said, "the alarm would go off. So if you left a dog in the car, or someone leaned in the open convertible to look, it'd trigger the alarm."

20 year Lotus Elise owner here. I have had thieves slash the roof and and steal items. And I would never leave a dog alone in it.

rbirkbyon GoDaddy employees told they were getting a holiday bonus in a phishing test

These corporate phishing test emails come from phishd and similar services. Very easy to fingerprint them with smtp headers and set up mail rules to bounce them to your corporate phishing sink...

rbirkbyon Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019)

For those that have access to Menlo Security’s safe browsing saas service, it’s worthwhile analysing what client side JavaScript can tell you about the runtime environment. Device aspect ratio is just one of the strange things reported.

rbirkbyon The Chrome Root Program

What about Edge and other Chromium browsers? For Edgium on Linux, will this likely result in a change of store?

rbirkbyon What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014)

Perfect example of the trough of disillusionment. The ORM slope of enlightenment comes when you realise the power of the unit of work, not just a single query. But that was then, and microservices mean we no longer use large units of work. So ORMs without complex UoW make less sense.

rbirkbyon Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release applications across any platform

Waypoint feels similar to Skaffold mixed with some Eirini or Google’s dead kf project.

rbirkbyon Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS?

Got to wonder whether it’s something like ncipher/Thales due to the van someren/aleph1 connection.

rbirkbyon Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel

https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/wiki/Error-Handling-Oper...

Lots of love for it in Rx

rbirkbyon SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B

Mali was an ARM acquisition. It makes sense for NVidia to smash Mali and RTX together to allow Android manufacturers to compete against Apple.

Apple built their GPU studio from ex-Imagination staff and will introduce 3 GPUs over the next year: Sicilian, Tonga, Lifuka to support their mobile and desktop plans.

The question is whether ARM will sub license this combined GPU tech, or if it will be NVidia silicon only.

rbirkbyon Ask HN: I've been promoted to Architect. What do I need to learn/do to excel?

As suggested by the previous comments here, there are different types of architect in technology.

The software architect elevator is a new O’Reilly book that explores this.

I have no connection with the author or publisher.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=X-_bDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=...

rbirkbyon Show HN: Zoom Redirector

https://medium.com/zoom-developer-blog/zoom-url-schemes-748b...

rbirkbyon Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’

A friend once explained that boys are like dogs. They need exercising twice a day. A back yard and a ball are sufficient for that. A paved area is more likely than lawn to provide yet more trips to ER.

rbirkbyon The Crystal Palace

Except if you go around the rear to TNMOC.

rbirkbyon Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence

Sounds like they are building a new OS written in rust sitting at the level of bios, beneath a standard Linux kernel. This will be an open source bios running at or below the hypervisor supervisor ring level.

rbirkbyon Quiet.js – Transmit and receive data in the browser at 44.1kHz

Could do with a dog frightener sample. Some people in our wework are allergic to dogs, so this would help them.

rbirkbyon Nvidia Makes Arm a Peer to x86 and Power for GPU Acceleration

“There are no GPUs in this system because there are no European makers of GPUs”

Cough cough. Mali. Imagination. Even Apple.