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watt

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Greetings from Berlin!
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watt··on I am often wrong
Claude Code is also offered as an SDK, you can build custom (customized) harness on top of what essentially is Claude Code. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview
watt··on Ask HN: What is the average number of hops in your social network to 9-11 death?
Of all the people on the Earth who were alive on 2001/09/11 a very large percentage have by now died.
watt··on iPhone Duo
You had a closet? Luxury! Our demo ran out of a disused lavatory, and there was a leopard around.
watt··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
In Berlin you can have same quality haircut for 15 euros, for 25 euros or 50 euros, your choice.
watt··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
I am not sure what you are driving at. My understanding of double entry bookkeeping is it's simpler and easier than the so called "single entry" bookkeeping which adds a lot of complexity because of all the special cases.
watt··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
When a law like this comes into effect it should have 3-5 year transition period. It does not matter how long they deliberated, there is time when law goes into effect, and then the countdown to enforcement should start, but it must not be less than 3 years, preferably 5.
watt··on Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
It's not the postmortem du jour that we want, the whole pattern is a mystery. Do they push releases every day and bring down the site every day by botched rollouts? What really is it why they can't GH keep the core service running (e.g. pushing commits and pulling changes)?
watt··on Canceling "Hey"
I think the author is taking umbrage with DHH using the word "gypsies" where it might have been "junkies" or just "homeless".

I see it in Berlin, rise of agressive, smelly begging in U-Bahn (I witnessed a beggar actually attacking passengers, hitting a woman). People walking around having fully shit their pants. This, I presume, is tolerated in the name of individualism, that the individual is free to choose how they present themselves in the public, and walking around with pants fully shat must be some inalienable right.

Area around Kottbusser Tor reeks of urine, and there's junkies fully out of it constantly screaming and fighting. Is somehow pointing this out is shameful and racist?

watt··on Alan Kay on the meaning of "object-oriented programming" (2003)
don't say "apparat" when you can say "device".

side note, when first transistor-based portable radios showed up (as opposed to large lamp-based stationary devices), they were called "transistor". you would take not your portable radio with you, it was your transistor.

watt··on Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing
I have no doubt those studies are run by some smart fellers.
watt··on We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library
What I am saying, is make another version of the function, which is explicitly not allowed to fail, if you want to use it in the loop.
watt··on We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library
If they're not going to handle the return values, they should change the function signature to reflect this aspirational contract, that that function "never fails".

I see in the article they did change the poll_flush to run just-in-time at poll_shutdown. So they definitely can make a "best effort" poll_flush version that just does not return any errors for use in that loop.

But all in all? Amateur hour.

watt··on Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
You lost me at "I have a function that has a value `x`". How does function "have" a value?
watt··on Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
I find it strange that software people will accept this level of flakiness from the hardware. Normally you would just send the card back, and request a replacement.

> One of the cards would only show up if I crossed my fingers when turning it on. Even reboots wouldn't cure it - I had to A/C power off and remove the power cable each time for 30 seconds.

This is ridiculous. Of course we are living through supply crunch, but that card is clearly defective hardware.

watt··on Ask HN: Does it make sense to buy Mac Studio and run local models?
Yes. I kick myself that I did not get the 500gb model when getting was good. It was a massive price tag, but the hardware is NICE. And that MLX architecture really works. I run the gpt-oss 100gb model and it's right quick.
watt··on Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole
Instead of "Reference counting primer" I would like to see a primer on how exactly such a huge change can go into Python without formal PIP process.
watt··on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
the billing alerts DO NOT help. you may rack many thousands of $$$ before you know it.
watt··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
If you think you know what every acronym stands for, I recommend CBT.
watt··on Accelerando (2005)
gets more conventional, you mean. the book is outstanding.
watt··on Accelerando (2005)
Reynolds' Aurora trilogy (of Revelation Space - Aurora Rising, Elysium Fire, Machine Vendetta) hits very close.
watt··on Accelerando (2005)
try M. John Harrison - he has similar command of the word. His Kefahuchi Tract trilogy (Light, Nova Swing, Empty Space).
watt··on Zed 1.0
And the icons are too small. It's vaguely a mystery meat navigation.
watt··on Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good
HomeKit cooking your phone battery, period.
watt··on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
It is full of these short sentences that AI writing loves, sort of to feel "punchy". Normally you would copy-edit that stuff, join them up, have the writing have some rhythm. I agree with GP, the article is hard to read because it seems to have a lot of https://tropes.fyi/
watt··on The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
> if they wanted to switch to pumping out destroyers, missiles and drones

This is such a naive take. Nobody is coming to US to try to outgun you. The moment petrodollar wobbles, the moment US Dollar stops being the world reserve currency, the game will be over for you. You will discover what it really means to be competitive, once the world stops giving you goods essentially in exchange for glass beads.

watt··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
That issue now is closed, probably as "not planned".
watt··on US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
> The Feds added methanol to bootlegged hooch

how did that work? did the Feds pose as some false flag bootleggers? do you have some sources I could read up on?

thing is, russia has a large tradition of home distillation (samogonka), and they too have tropes of people going blind. there have been a lot of cases of people dying because of bad alcohol, here's somewhat recent case: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/contaminated-cider-deaths-russi...

watt··on We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
Oh, it's Mandala effect now? I could swear it was Mandela before.
watt··on Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning
Says who? Trillionaire capitalist overlords?
watt··on Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
Read Tonsky for that. https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ a disgrace. https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/writing_direction@2x.webp...
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