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williadc··on What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?
The Culinary Institute of America doesn't have a football team that I can find, but I would still like to analyze it.
williadc··on AI tool may help doctors, but sample size too small
Original title: This AI tool promises a 'second pair of eyes' to clinicians. Did patients benefit?

This title seemed like clickbait, so I submitted an alternate.

williadc··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
I do it the opposite way, disable my kids' devices at night, but I suspect your desired method would also be supported using native features. I have found LLMs to be very helpful in providing the right settings.

There is a plugin marketplace that provides more features, like ad-blocking. I haven't played with those yet, so I cannot vouch for them.

williadc··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
I switched from a Google Wifi to this and found it to be just as stable, but with better range/signal strength, and easier to apply the parental controls I want.
williadc··on Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs
Maybe not: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/qualcomms-t...
williadc··on OpenPrinter
I had an Epson Ecotank for a couple of years. The printer heads got clogged all the time. We bought a series of cleaning products to address it, they often solved the problem for only a few prints. We finally gave up and bought a Brother laser printer.

This project seems like it's trying to address a similar market to the Ecotank. What assurances can the project team provide that OpenPrinter will have better reliability?

williadc··on Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops
Does WinCo Foods count? https://www.wincofoods.com/employee-owned
williadc··on FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
It's what CDs use, so it would make sense for mp3 encoders to follow suit.
williadc··on Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction
The "99 Bottles of OOP" book mentioned at the bottom was an excellent introduction to refactoring. I highly recommend it if you struggle with finding the right data models for the problems you work on.
williadc··on Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates
ArchLinux
williadc··on Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates
I also experience this on Firefox 151.0.3 on Linux
williadc··on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
His manager deserves the thank you. If someone started exhibiting the issues described in this post at any of my employers past and present, I suspect they would figure out how to get rid of them.
williadc··on Finding success in industry as a chip designer
The biggest blocker to this vision is the lack of libre EDA tools for "modern" process nodes. As things scale down, new types of analysis are required. The OpenRoad project has some great stuff, but there's a long way to go if we want to build a compelling open IP ecosystem.
williadc··on Finding success in industry as a chip designer
I suspect this revelation is why his start-up didn't succeed. The economics in silicon are brutal.
williadc··on Chuwi Minibook X
I bought a Chuwi Lapbook[0] for my wife a few years ago. It was great at first, but got unusably slow running Windows within ~1.5 years. I got her a new laptop and put Linux on the Chuwi. It worked fine for checking email and light browsing. The touchpad had strange sensitivity and seemed to be hard-coded so that scroll worked the opposite of my preference. It was tolerable until the keys stopped responding to my typing. I found that if I pushed really hard in the center of the key, it would sometimes register, but required firmer pressing. Ctrl and Shift stopped working altogether after awhile. The problem crept up from the bottom-right side of the keyboard, and I eventually gave up on it at the end of last year.

[0]: https://techtablets.com/chuwi-lapbook-14-1/review/

williadc··on Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal
From the article you linked:

> With the new Panther Lake mobile processors, Intel has managed to successfully combine the two previous generations, Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake, as the performance is even better than with Arrow Lake, while efficiency has been improved at the same time. Even with low power limits, the performance is very competitive, and Intel (in conjunction with the new GPUs) is therefore the better choice for slim laptops.

williadc··on Apple reports second quarter results
For the same reason that Yahoo should have bought Google after the dot-com bust. AI is useful and will eventually change the world. Many companies won't be able to provide sufficient returns, but will still have useful assets that Apple could buy at a discount.
williadc··on If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over
Apple does make the product described in this article, aside from the fantasy price. It's called the iPad.
williadc··on Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
This is a really well-thought out comment, and I agree with just about everything in it. One comment I'd like to call out for additional consideration is the comment on retirees being priced out due to rising property taxes.

In my experience, most retirees have more rooms/land than they can make productive use of. I feel that there should be some pressure for them to sell that property to families who can use it more productively. That's the stick, but I feel there needs to be a carrot, where builders are constructing homes that these retirees will be drawn to. There are retirement communities in the southern US like "The Villages" https://www.thevillages.com/, but as the population here ages, we need to build these everywhere so retirees can move into the communities that meet their needs without being forced to leave their cities.

williadc··on How far back in time can you understand English?
I've been thinking about this problem for quite awhile, and recently coded up something that allows for easy conversion between today's written English, and a phonetic spelling convention.

https://git.sr.ht/~dcw/iNgliS

I've created a Firefox Add-on for it as well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/inglis/

williadc··on Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)
The idea is that you don't want to check-in any builds.
williadc··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Is it your fault when someone puts a bad file on the Internet that the LLM reads and acts on?
williadc··on Two Weeks Until Tapeout
I'm shocked that SRAMs would be considered a luxury item for open silicon. They're essential for building anything that would be commercially viable, since area is far from free.
williadc··on Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow
`time` is a shell command that you can use to invoke other commands and track their runtime.
williadc··on Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
Alexandr Wang is 28 years old, the same age as Mark Zuckerberg was when Facebook IPO'ed,
williadc··on Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster
They probably used some of the money for this: https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/10/02/meta-buys-rivos-to-a...
williadc··on Linux 6.18 Will Fix Lockups When Systemd Units Read Lots of Files
I use atime to identify archives that can be retired. It's common for circuit designer to release a lot of large files for their peers to analyze or incorporate into a parent/grandparent simulation. They will use that data for as long as it is still relevant, which means different things for different types of data, and the only consistent thing we've found is that if the data hasn't been accessed in awhile, then we can retire it.
williadc··on The future of large files in Git is Git
I believe that was the author's intent.
williadc··on Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool
Sandvik 14c28n is common for budget knives. It would be nice to see it on this list.
williadc··on Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool
It's very likely 8cr13mov, which is listed
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