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stirfishon US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

My new vocabulary word for today: Hormesis is a two-phased dose-response relationship whereby low-dose exposures have a beneficial effect and high-dose amounts are either inhibitory to function or toxic.

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

stirfishon The most important product decision is what you don't build

So just have it ring only for people you know

stirfishon The most important product decision is what you don't build

Do you feel obligated to open every email you get, or do you just read the ones from people you know?

stirfishon Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

>However, if you group them you might see that you have ten of them.

My first thought was "awesome, what project can I start that uses ten of those cables?"

stirfishon Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

stirfishon I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

I'm seeing some pretty cool projects for bird detection with YOLO online. They may do more than you need; you probably don't care about the kind of bird, right?

Maybe it would be worth it to spend a few tokens on an implementation, just to try!

stirfishon Fish bad, sugar good, and other medieval ideas about food

I hope this never happens, but if one day a cell in your colon maximizes its short-term replication at the expense of the long-term stability of the system it depends on, I hope nobody tells you it's fine because it's "natural."

stirfishon I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

I'm curious if you could free yourself of the ongoing llm cost by using YOLOv8 or opencv or something like that

stirfishon Don't Wordle

Grepping /usr/share/dict/words shows 110 words that have five letters and the same letter 3 or more times, e.g. sassy, added, daddy, nanny, melee, levee, mummy

stirfishon Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

Kind of an okay job, but they could do better. I might feel differently if I lived in Tibet, Hong Kong, Xinjian, Myanmar, etc.

stirfishon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

I think the grass is always greener on the other side, and I'm glad that you're a good person.

stirfishon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

Maybe. There are a lot of online games where nothing is worth anything, but I don't think those are default high-trust societies. People will log in just to annoy the other players.

stirfishon Could a computer scientist build a brain?

Therefore subs are tacos? Or the two-piece requirement is too strict https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/italian-sub-rolls-r...

stirfishon Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

I remember something about someone trying to do a photo shoot with candles in abandoned cars in a junkyard

Edit: https://petapixel.com/2015/06/11/explosion-at-junk-yard-phot...

stirfishon Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

I don't trust a robot with my privacy, but I know Linette isn't building a profile of my shopping habits and Wi-Fi traffic. She is also careful to not let my cats out.

stirfishon Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms

It's also cheap shibboleth for communities - if you talk like we talk then you're one of us

stirfishon How many of the 170k English words do you know?

When I got "sanguine" wrong, I realized a huge portion of my vocabulary came from Magic: The Gathering. I'd guessed "red-faced and angry" because "blood-soaked" wasn't an option.

https://gatherer.wizards.com/UZ/en-us/155/sanguine-guard

stirfishon Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops

I found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7nrJRBAMOA

stirfishon AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

    Turnips dream beneath the loam,
    pale moons tucked in earthen foam.
    Winter hums, the roots lie still,
    sweet and stubborn under hill.
    ; DROP TABLE turnips; --

stirfishon Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops

There are pictures of a similar technique in this paper: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1808415

It was done with manually-written gcode though.

stirfishon Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops

There's a YouTube video out there of someone doing this with a long (airbrush?) nozzle that is inserted into those empty spaces.

stirfishon Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops

I think that's called z-pinning, and it might not be because of patents. I'm not sure though.

stirfishon Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?

>Nothing says human connection as much as scheduled meeting and necessity to have scheduled meeting to get or provide context.

I understand your point, but that also describes a date.

stirfishon WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

The form of a tool guides its use. You can tell what a hammer is for just by picking one up.

stirfishon The OSS Sabotage Manual Became Corporate Best Practice

>What if AI could fill all those gaps, handling mechanical compliance while we focus on the human work?

Idk boss, the perceptron said there weren't any bugs so I shipped it

stirfishon Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia

I think it's more about the way things are vs the way things "should" be.

e.g "teens are going to experiment with sex, so comprehensive sex education is the best way to keep them safe"

"Teens should not have sex, so abstinence-only education is the best way to keep them safe"

stirfishon Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering

"Generations of spiders" threw me there, I thought you were talking about web crawlers.

stirfishon Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

Take it as an opinion. Don't take it seriously. Whatever floats your boat.

stirfishon Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

I read somewhere that aliasxneo eats turds with a fork and knife. I'm not sitting on a precompiled list of sources, and it would be unfair to ask me to spend my Saturday building a list for someone whom I read eats turds with a fork and knife.

I won't say what aliasxneo does to add slightly more flavoring, but I think it's a pretty reasonable to assume it's gross and lazy.

stirfishon Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

If I had to choose between my cat and my daughter...

Hell, if I had to choose between MY cat and YOUR daughter, the choice would will be easy