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shric··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Doesn't excuse it but in case you or other readers are unaware, there are some ways to mitigate it: https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-maco...
shric··on Now is the best time to write code by hand
Yeah, my father is now 70, I do remember he wrote assembly language in the late 80s but not since.
shric··on AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
You had ~160,000 times more storage than I did for my first personal computer.
shric··on Claude Code Cheat Sheet
It exists on my work enterprise account but not my personal account which is a monthly flat rate. I assume if I exceed my quota and I choose pay as I go then it will become available.
shric··on The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
I agree, but I struggle to think of a cleaner way without sacrificing the minimalist and mostly accessible theme.

I love that there are no images, not even Unicode emojis, no ads, no side bars, etc.

shric··on The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
There is either an unvote or undown option once you’ve hit one
shric··on Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]
Australia
shric··on Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth
It means a straight line that you can see to the other end while still being on the ground.

Long lines of sight are between stuff at high altitudes because at near sea level the horizon becomes a problem after only a few miles/kilometres.

shric··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Anthony Albanese.
shric··on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over
The username literally contains “jester”. I’m surprised anyone took it seriously.
shric··on Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong
> The only news site I read

If you haven’t tried it already I highly recommend Hacker News.

shric··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
I think it was just to show that the performance is comparable to Windows, implying that it also will be fine for games/settings where fps is in the range that does matter.
shric··on How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
Why is it a bad idea?
shric··on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
I am very interested.
shric··on Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding
It’s fine to not know what it is, but what is the rationale for commenting that you don’t know? Why not just look it up? Or don’t, as you’re too afraid to ask.
shric··on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
I don’t know what interviewing at Google is like now but I interviewed for Google in 2008 (no offer) and 2012 (offer) and the questions on both occasions were not of the nature that leetcode could have helped with much.
shric··on This Should Not Be Possible
This is a weird post as the generated program doesn’t even output results.

I tried a similar test using Python and Claude Code and it generated something that outputted a sorted list of directory contents, like ls.

However, unlike the author, this doesn’t lead me to think this is AGI. How many posts are there out there that these models would be trained on have people explaining strace outputs and comparing code to them?

shric··on NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock
> Isn’t the second defined as a specific number of cesium transitions?

Yes

> How can anything …

So your cesium counting device will fauthfully provide such a count and depending on their altitude it will be at different rates.

Both clocks are each experiencing time at the usual one second per second but gravity dilates spacetime.

Locally, a second is always a second, but from everywhere there is no such asbsolute, just as there is no universal "now".

shric··on Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
Somehow today (I reached the limit yesterday) the delay has gone away, so I can’t reproduce it.

What happened, from memory:

1. Tap piece at original location

2. Tap piece at destination

3. Piece animation commences

4. Piece animation finishes

5. Move sound occurs

Everything was smooth except there was an approximately half second delay (may have been less) between 2 and 3.

shric··on Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
I have an iPhone 16 Pro and there is an annoying delay between tapping a move and the piece moving
shric··on What happens when clergy take psilocybin
It’s also worth noting that there isn’t exactly strong quality control on the product. There is a good chance what is labelled 150 micrograms is actually closer to 50 micrograms. Or it could really be 150…
shric··on A leap year check in three instructions
I would, an LLM has never produced an original idea.
shric··on docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable
> or bundling CLIs without asking people to install Docker.

Except it requires people to install Docker.

shric··on Zuckerberg: "The average American has 3 friends, but has demand for 15"
He likely has people pretending to be his friends, much like the AI friends he proposes.
shric··on The True Size Of
I thought it would be about the C sizeof operator.
shric··on Open-source interactive C tutorial in the browser
I get no ads as I've been using ad blockers for as long as I can remember.

It is, however, a terrible tutorial (it's full of beginner errors made by people who don't understand C but think they do based on behavior by whatever compiler they're using at the time).

There is presumably some correlation between sites riddled with ads and having terrible content. Perhaps ad-blockers should show how many ads they have blocked more prominently.

shric··on How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet
Only if he has a time machine -- the OP article was written in 2012.
shric··on Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
You're well into https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/ so enjoy the fame!
shric··on North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise pollution
https://archive.md/Mu7KJ
shric··on McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover
But Subways, at least here in Australia, are usually empty or almost empty. McDonald's are almost always packed.
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