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stanac··on HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI
I wasn't expecting it to use Web Components, I guess that's what happens when you give something a generic name. Similarly if some company named a code editor Code.
stanac··on Cosmic rays streamed through Earth's atmosphere 41k years ago
> periods in which the intensity of the magnetic field wanes and the dipole (or two magnetic poles) that we're familiar with can disappear, replaced with multiple magnetic poles

If this was a basis of a movie plot I would think how stupid the movie is. Apparently it was normal for earth to have more than two magnetic poles before earth core started to solidify [0]. Was earth core composed of multiple elements where each had two magnetic poles?

Also somewhat relevant wiki articles: Geomagnetic excursion [1], Laschamp event [2] and Geomagnetic reversal [3].

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a21528/... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_excursion [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laschamp_event [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

stanac··on AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
My thoughts exactly, like I just finished portal.
stanac··on Headline Driven Development
That's what I do when writing libraries, now I have a name for it.
stanac··on Show HN: Data Geo-Distribution. Solved
Can you add some technical description on what it does? Is it for DB data (and what kind of DBs does it support) or just for blobs?

I was hoping to see something on CAP and and where does this solution lay on the Euler/Venn diagram.

stanac··on Show HN: Faster-than-light ping (April Fools')
On windows after some time I am getting:

Request timed out.

And on linux:

ping: Warning: time of day goes back (-173217us), taking countermeasures 64 bytes from [redacted]: icmp_seq=31 ttl=55 time=0.000 ms

stanac··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
That means I cannot install uBlock origin and other extensions on FF, so we can call it one way or the other, but it's restricting.
stanac··on Show HN: Let's Build AI
That sounds even better than training LLM on my own. Thanks.
stanac··on Show HN: Let's Build AI
I'll have to read first what Claude 3 is. Thank you.
stanac··on Show HN: Let's Build AI
Looks neat, kind of those "awesome X" list. Maybe adding a wiki would be interesting (so uninitiated can learn what is what and where to start if they want to build/train their own AI).

Tangential question I am not sure where else to ask: Would it be possible to train AI at home on a book? I was thinking about how sometimes I start reading a book and then get distracted for a month or two. Summarizing chapters and characters up to a point in the book sounds like a good fit for GPT AI. I could possibly find and extract PDF or epub of the current book I am reading and I have RTX 4080 at home I am barely using.

stanac··on Arthropod Intelligence? The Case for Portia (2020)
Third book is a bit weird, but I enjoyed the second book more than the first one. I don't want to spoil the book for anyone but new intelligent species were shocking and more interesting than spiders. Now I have have to check what Tchaikovsky will publish this year.
stanac··on Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]
I am currently reading the book (halfway trough) so I am not going to read the paper out of the fear of spoilers. I just want to recommend the book and say that the book is incredible, emotional roller coaster like nothing I have read so far.
stanac··on Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana
AMD 7700X is probably factory overclocked 7700, it would be cheaper to just buy 7700. Probably the only difference is that some of the 7700 chips cannot guaranty same clocks and stability when overclocked to 7700X specs.
stanac··on Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
I just checked pricing on hetzner (not affiliated with them). First 20 TB are included with VM price, after which it's 1.19 euros per TB. If this happened to someone hosting there it would cost them additional 50 euros. Can't believe the difference in traffic pricing. Netlify is over 1000x more expensive per TB.
stanac··on It's OK to abandon your side-project
Maybe your friend could ask for donations for hosting or find a relevant sponsor to sponsor hosting.
stanac··on Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
Maybe your cat was angry with you and that was the way to tell you "I don't want to talk to you"
stanac··on WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters
Are you saying that they are just copying MS or MS is controlling the standard, or that we don't need the standard because we have CLR?

Regardless I think WASM and WASI are huge step in right direction since most if not all relevant languages are going to support it.

stanac··on Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought
It is possible (at least for playstation) to buy single game accounts. Then change the password, play the game and sell the account once you are finished with the game.
stanac··on Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes
No, attached storage is not part of the node (not directly). It's something like attaching external (host) directory to a docker container. Your can kill the node/pod and storage is not affected, later you can attach new pod to the same storage.
stanac··on 4B If Statements
The whole article is full of jokes.

> the C programming language as it’s by far the fastest language on the planet to this day (thanks to the visionary genius Dennis Richie)

Which would be more or less true, but:

> I decided to use the slowest language on the planet, Python (thanks to the visionary genius of Ross van der Gussom)

> So I let the mighty snake do its work and after getting a cup of coffee and getting back to check on the program 48 hours later I was left with a beautiful c file

stanac··on HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO
> why anyone would choose IBM's offering over Hashicorp's offering

Because everyone know IBM and mostly only devs know about Hashicorp. There is that saying "No one ever got fired for buying IBM".

stanac··on .NET 8's Best Blazor is not Blazor as we know it
I was there for silverlight and web forms as well. Web Forms had to die IMHO, it was unnecessary abstraction for those who didn't want to learn web. Silverlight on the other had was not (in my opinion) killed by MS but by browser vendors. It was the same time when flash and other plugin based tech died because browser vendors didn't want to support browser plugins.

On the other had MS gave Silverlight 10 years of support when they announced the death of the tech, MS couldn't do anything else about it. If they waited long enough they could have ported silverlight to wasm today. I think there was a company offering dev tools for compiling silverlight to js and wasm, not sure if they are still around.

stanac··on .NET 8's Best Blazor is not Blazor as we know it
Porting MVC to MVC core was not very complicated. ASP.NET Core, MVC Core, Razor Pages are all relevant and in use today. And all of them are using same rendering language (Razor), same language Blazor is using. It's not like your knowledge becomes obsolete when you move from one framework to another.

Same thing with most of Windows GUI frameworks MS built. They all use same rendering language/interface (xaml).

stanac··on I think I need to go lie down
FF + Nitter Redirect extension solved most of the problems I had with Twitter.
stanac··on The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud
They already have gaming cloud, wouldn't be unthinkable to offer gpgpu cloud.
stanac··on [dead]
Recently posted (600+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361947
stanac··on Leonard vs. Pepsico, Inc
> On November 17, 2022, a docuseries about the case titled Pepsi, Where's My Jet? was released on Netflix.

I think it's four episodes. The only problem is that we know the outcome and series tries to keep you in suspense.

stanac··on Chrome Removing Theora Support
IIRC flash was a plugin but it was integrated into chrome install. I don't remember if it was part of FF default install or not, but I can guess it wasn't.
stanac··on Google’s dominance under siege: Antitrust trial threatens sweeping changes
I thought it was related to the article. Probably automatically matched by "google" tag or something like that.
stanac··on One game, by one man, on six platforms: The good, the bad and the ugly
.NET was pretty stable. I remember porting old .NET Framework 4.x MVC web app to .NET Core 2, and then to .NET 5. Both times it took less than an hour to port. Old directory structure and APIs still work even if they are not the new hot way to do things. Microsoft is known for backward compatibility.
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