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sli··on Pi squared is nearly 10
That's why the time is Almost<T> instead of just T.
sli··on A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W
Well all of the linker script is just two standard memory map files, one for the 2040 and one for the 2350, so really it suggests that this needed very little code to make this work. The 6.4% shell represents a shebang line, two comments, and a single `set -e` call, after all.
sli··on Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain
This is one of the reasons why all of my browsers identify as a recent Chrome version. All of those problems just up and disappear. I started doing that when Google claimed (lied) that some of their products no longer support Firefox and would block me from accessing right up until my browser identified itself as Chrome. No bugs, no issues.
sli··on Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case
Previous versions of the Rust compiler don't just up and disappear just because I moved to a new workstation or setup a new build server. I understand it's not optimal to rely on a download always being available, but even then, that is not at all exclusive to any single language. Why would earlier versions of Rust be susceptible to this but not something like gcc? I don't see it.
sli··on 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
They're saying due to the real world effects, the current system isn't meaningfully different from violence. They aren't advocating for violence in turn.
sli··on The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]
I'm absolutely sure there are people who do. Chromebooks just have a practically nonexistant market share compared to Windows, and a lot of those users being kids being issued school laptops probably doesn't translate to a lot of visible complaining about Chromebook-specific problems.
sli··on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
This will start happening to Ring cameras as well soon if it's not already.
sli··on Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
I agree that the work culture promoting this is bad, but being sick is still simply not an excuse to fabricate quotes with AI. It's still just journalistic malfeasance, and if Ars actually cares about the quality of their journalism, he should be fired for it.
sli··on What dating apps are optimizing
Dating apps would go out of business if they did their job, because success means leaving the platform. They make more money if they hold out a carrot and make it difficult to succeed.

This is also true of those services that "delete" your data from data brokers. Their entire business model relies on them failing to do their job.

sli··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Only three years ago, too. That kinda surprised me.
sli··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
Even considering that one can personally control their own chat service is already a pretty big leap in technical knowledge. Many, many average users don't even know that's an option, nevermind how it's even done.
sli··on Claude Code is being dumbed down?
Every single website on the internet just says "whoopsie doodle, me made an oopsie" instead of just telling me what the problem is. This so-called mistake is so widespread that it has been the standard for at least a decade.

I agree it's a mistake, but I don't believe that it's viewed that way by anyone making the decision to do it.

sli··on Deno Sandbox
It's stated under the "Sandboxes?" heading.

> Deno Sandbox gives you lightweight Linux microVMs (running in the Deno Deploy cloud) ...

sli··on Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
Perceptual hashes are a type of locality sensitive hash.
sli··on Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
All of those are optional restrictions, not mandatory. On Windows, it's (practically) mandatory.

Maybe some Windows wizards could get around the mandatory restrictions, but an average Linux user can get around the optional ones.

sli··on Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
I've had a lot of fun training Markov chains using Simple English Wikipedia. I'm guessing the restricted vocabulary leads to more overlapping sentences in the training data. Anything too advanced or technical has too many unique phrases and the output degrades almost immediately.
sli··on `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)
You're missing the input type, essentially. Those are just array types. The TypeScript type signature more of a function type, it expresses flattening a n-dimensional array (input type) into a flat array (output type).
sli··on "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads
I'm skeptical that it's of any use considering it's only going to be installed by people who specifically want to dislike. It seems more likely that the like/dislike ratio is going to be heavily skewed towards dislikes just by the stated purpose of the plugin and who it appeals to.
sli··on All the sad young terminally online men
Entering two dashes on the iOS keyboard inserts an emdash, I would use them frequently when I had an iPhone.
sli··on Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US
Tiktok primarily causes harm and plenty of people voluntarily reject it. What's your point? We shouldn't do good things because sometimes people don't want them?
sli··on Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
I've always maintained that if a corporation breaks the law, the entire C-suite should be individually charged as if they personally committed the crime. It's their company and their responsibility.
sli··on Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
I'm using dev edition v143.0b2 and I'm apparently not seeing what everyone else is seeing, because I'm just seeing the axis tags moving around using some pretty simple math. Clearly something isn't working and I'm missing something, based on the comments here. Regression in Firefox?
sli··on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first
I found the OP comment amusing because Emacs with a Jetbrains IDE when I need it is exactly my setup. The only thing I've found AI to be consistently good for is spitting out boring boilerplate so I can do the fun parts myself.
sli··on Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits
It just seems to me like far less work to just write a real binary that execs this static command than it does to setup a whole Electron project.
sli··on My website is ugly because I made it
I spent far more time writing my own generator with Babashka than I have putting actual content on the site. I was almost disappointed when I finished it. It doesn't support compiling stuff like TS or Elm, but the only JS on my site is a console.log that says there's no other JS on the entire site.
sli··on Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what "vibe coding" means
> Because then you won't know the design of the code or how it even works.

I would argue that this is already true for people who practice vibe coding, because otherwise they'd spend less time just banging it out themselves instead of twisting prompts to get something that mostly works and needs hours of debugging.

sli··on Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what "vibe coding" means
Do you enjoy working for a manager whose opinions change every time they read something? Do they sound like an effective manager? Have you ever had a boss that needed to think the ideas were theirs before they'd sign off, even normal, everyday process stuff? It heavily implies they don't know anything at all about what they're doing or talking about.
sli··on Is Rust a good fit for business apps?
I like writing C and still write C from time to time, but I've migrated to Rust for my hobbyist embedded projects and I just cannot imagine going back. It took me some time to work out how to get Embassy working smoothly, but now I just have a project template that's (for my purposes) absolutely rock solid. Rust and Cargo made embedded fun again for me.

Basically all of my struggling now is entirely based around hardware specifics rather than ironing out kinks in my code and I'm into that.

sli··on Is Rust a good fit for business apps?
Last I checked, WASM support isn't quite there, yet, basically. I haven't checked in a little while, though.
sli··on Is Rust a good fit for business apps?
Serde is lovely, in my opinion. Not sure about React interop, though.
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