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vocram··on US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average
Actually fuel it’s a good proxy for that: its use is proportional to mileage and weight
vocram··on How LLMs work
Saying an article is of inferior quality just because editing was AI-assisted is like saying a book is lower quality just because it was printed rather than written by hand
vocram··on Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45
I hate to call out the obvious, but sacrificing is mandated by laws only in one case.
vocram··on US Treasury Sells Dollars to Keep Peso Within Argentina FX Band
Switzerland did that for a few years in 2011, not to help another country but to avoid CHF overvaluation.
vocram··on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
That’s how tanks in race cars are made. Another solution is fill the tank with some kind of sponge-like material.
vocram··on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
Will AI also be on call when things break in production?
vocram··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
g is the correct SI unit symbol, not only an abbreviation
vocram··on Tinystatus: A tiny status page generated by a Python script
Can this be run as a AWS Lamba instance?
vocram··on Upgrading a Toshiba NAS HDD Firmware on Linux
And in part because you remember all the times YOLO went wrong and you bricked stuff / lost data
vocram··on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
It is a sport where the race outcome is mostly determined by a rider’s max power output. And the max power output is in large part determined by genetics. Going beyond that max requires some “assistance“.
vocram··on Ask HN: Most successful example using LLMs in daily work/life?
As a non native English speaker, it’s very helpful to use a LLM to validate if a sentence I wrote is clear, correct, and if there is a more idiomatic way to express the same thing - btw, I did not do it with what I wrote here :-)
vocram··on Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality
Paradoxically, lowering your weight artificially may be causing more damage than good because of the muscle loss.

Being fit is not just about low fat. It requires a similar discipline required to control what you eat.

vocram··on You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it
How do you pick what to read? Is it based purely on interests or areas you feel behind?
vocram··on On the Costs of Syscalls (2021)
Because what getpid returns can change during the lifetime of a process, if it moves to a different PID namespace. I guess updating the vdso every time that happens is not worth the little gains.
vocram··on Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service
I think the killer application of Strava is segments. Even without caring about being the quickest of all users (aka getting KOMs), I find it valuable to be able to compare my progress on a specific piece of road over time. Paired with your heart rate and perceived effort it allows you to gauge how fit you currently are - or how far you are from your peak form.
vocram··on HN website is/was down. I'm curious why?
Somebody is going to do a rewrite in Rust and call it “simply”
vocram··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Did you try with your Internet off?
vocram··on Bird with GPS flies into typhoon
Curious how it managed to find its way back home.
vocram··on Ask HN: Dev productivity tools you would pay for
What’s making you pay for the subscription version of ChatGPT, compared to the free one?
vocram··on A Beginner's Guide to eBPF
Thanks for clarifying :)
vocram··on A Beginner's Guide to eBPF
I understand your point, but millions sounds an exaggeration- I have a hard time believing a single node can handle millions of concurrent users
vocram··on Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
> I refuse to do work that will kill people

Isn’t a crappy UI on a car something that could kill people?

vocram··on Curl 8.0.1
Making smaller and atomic commits makes them more easily reversible.
vocram··on The widespread layoffs are more because of copycat behavior than cost-cutting
Copying the how is ok, but copying the why it’s not.

The problem here is not how companies react to a downturn, but why they think there’s one. And they are copying the whys too.

vocram··on Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (2009)
Despite this making a lot of sense, I’m afraid you can only apply it to your own business. No one paying you a fixed wage will ever agree that working less hours for them is better than working more.
vocram··on 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]
I wish more YouTube videos were like this: no intro, outro, ads, annoying music, please like and sub, captivating voice.
vocram··on Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C
Yet another proof that C is simple but not easy.
vocram··on Self-Soldering Circuits [video]
Only if it was a feature.
vocram··on Twitter has fired more software engineers
What do you mean with social cost? Ranking lower in status?
vocram··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
Losing 75% of wealth is the consequence of holding meta stocks, but it does not make him immune to accountability.
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