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tkzed49on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

Yeah this is wild. If someone joined my meeting while driving I'd end the call and reschedule it.

tkzed49on Reasons I still love the fish shell

I think once you use it for a while, you kind of expect it to be there and tune it out. Then you only really perceive it when you're interested.

tkzed49on How to save $13.27 on your SaaS bill

What does this mean? How do you "know" nextjs without knowing React? Do you mean they've heard of it and list it on their resume?

tkzed49on Got Ghosted names and shames companies that stop communicating

right, I don't see how this could be useful. Maybe if it could report how often people get ghosted? But that's going to have self selection bias

tkzed49on So you think you know box shadows?

now I'm imagining a screen reader reading off the coordinates of 1000 box shadows

tkzed49on Wikipedia is rolling out dark mode support

CSS zen garden worked because you had people writing different styles for a single HTML document. How would you write styles for every site? Sure CSS does colors, but it also does a lot of other stuff that isn't easily transferrable between websites.

tkzed49on Python with Braces

if they were truly represented by the same AST, I can't believe the differences between these "languages" would be anything more than swapping symbols out.

tkzed49on Researchers invent 100% biodegradable 'barley plastic'

You store raw meat at temperatures that would degrade plastic for several hours, then eat it? There's a reason they call certain temperatures "the danger zone".

I'd be more than willing to use a more degradable plastic for something that needs to get a chilled product from the meat department to my home.

tkzed49on Next-generation web framework Teo, supports Node.js, Python and Rust

I agree, my connotation of "web framework" is that it competes with Next.js or Remix or something. This seems like a schema-driven ORM a la Prisma, plus API layer. In other words, you could conceivably use it alongside a "web framework".

I would lean in on the unified schema aspect, I think that distinguishes it from a lot of web-focused ORMs. It actually feels like it could be compared against GraphQL given the schema and API features.

Of course, that leads me to wonder about the hairy stuff: permissions, rate limiting, schema evolution, etc.

tkzed49on 60 kHz (2022)

the bandwidth is just enough to broadcast a single digit of binary every second.

I'd be interested in some more context on this. I think it's pretty clear that you can encode more than 1bps in a 60kHz signal, but I'm curious how the encoding was chosen. There's some more detail on it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB#Modulation_format

The WWVB 60 kHz carrier, which has a normal ERP of 70 kW, is reduced in power at the start of each UTC second by 17 dB (to 1.4 kW ERP). It is restored to full power some time during the second. The duration of the reduced power encodes one of three symbols:

If power is reduced for one-fifth of a second (0.2 s), this is a data bit with value zero.

If power is reduced for one-half of a second (0.5 s), this is a data bit with value one.

If power is reduced for four-fifths of a second (0.8 s), this is a special non-data "mark", used for framing.

This is apparently the IRIG H encoding, which dates to the 50s and is probably designed to be easily decoded. By what, I wonder?

tkzed49on Llama3 implemented from scratch

maybe you should evaluate whether arbitrary societal norms of "professionalism" or something else are leading to you miss out on cool stuff

tkzed49on URLhaus: A database of malicious URLs used for malware distribution

Who are abuse.ch? Are they well-known? I assume the hosts file could be useful to add to pihole?

tkzed49on GPT-4o

I think they have to for the demo, because otherwise GPT will ramble for roughly 3-5 paragraphs. But that's a fair point that this could teach that behavior.

tkzed49on Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla

300-1800W power draw seems impressive! It looks like standard machines are using something on the order of 25kW while scanning, which certainly sounds prohibitive for less developed infrastructure.

tkzed49on Show HN: Maps and Splats – Mashup of 3D tile maps with Gaussian Splats

The video looks awesome! I'm on mobile and the first demo is loading 3D tiles but not the splats for me.

tkzed49on Ask HN: Anyone else depressed by the relentless monetization and spying?

Feels like there's more depressing stuff than that going on in the world. Sure, it's a constant struggle against government overreach and most of us live in a capitalist society, but it's not war or famine. On the other hand I'm optimistic about the fact that there are a lot of people out there--in software and otherwise--who do stuff just because they care about it.

tkzed49on GPU compute in the browser at the speed of native: WebGPU marching cubes

lame. gpus are sick, and the web is cool.

tkzed49on Show HN: I created automatic subtitling app to boost short videos

I really doubt most people are using either of those for TikToks. _Maybe_ YouTube shorts if they also produce long form content.

tkzed49on Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time

Alright, seems plausible in this case :)

tkzed49on Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time

You should try writing some code to pixel-shade a screen-sized canvas in JS (which you'd have to do to get the textured skybox). I don't think the performance would be usable, especially 15+ years ago.

tkzed49on Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time

Maybe you could have used Shockwave or something? But until WebGL implementations were shipped in 2011, there was no 3D API accessible from Javascript. At the time, Google Maps just did 2D tile scrolling. I remember being super impressed when it started letting you zoom out to the globe like you could do in Google Earth.

tkzed49on Let's make the indie web easier

How are these remotely similar? Or is this really good satire?

tkzed49on The Loneliness of the Mid-Level Vimmer

Why can't you use vim and VSCode? I use the neovim extension for VSCode[1] and it works great! That gets me real vim input and the VSCode extension ecosystem.

1: https://github.com/vscode-neovim/vscode-neovim

tkzed49on Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship

Personally I'm a fan of MAKRO, I think his commentary on the meta is very insightful.

https://youtu.be/xubbVvKbUfY

tkzed49on Shader Park Is Kinda Neat

Yeah, the community has made a lot of great progress for the web!

tkzed49on Racket branch of Chez Scheme merging with mainline Chez Scheme

No idea how to do this in a VSCode extension, but you could place a full-screen <canvas> over the whole editor with pointer-events: none. Then, you could use offsetLeft/Top or getBoundingClientRect() on relevant text elements to figure out where to draw lines on the canvas.

tkzed49on CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they're useless

this is hardly a "good" outcome--hypochondriacs _should_ be interacting with the medical system; the outcome should be mental health intervention.

tkzed49on Tech giants Meta, Amazon lay off more workers as cuts continue

very impressive, interviews usually take me longer than that.

tkzed49on Tech giants Meta, Amazon lay off more workers as cuts continue

For me, it's been pretty rough. I have about 3 YOE at a very grown-up startup, looking for mid level positions. My specialty is frontend (plus some more niche tech, and of course full stack competency). I've been very slowly finding my way into interview loops, mostly through LinkedIn and occasionally HN. I've been completing them at a very high rate, and getting passed up for people with more experience, or at least that's what I've heard when I've actually gotten feedback.

The other early-career people I know are having trouble as well.

tkzed49on Tech giants Meta, Amazon lay off more workers as cuts continue

are you trying to get hired right now? How long have you been in the industry? I have a feeling that this sentiment is not coming from people who have been laid off. I know people that have left voluntarily who are not having an easy time either.