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xuhu··on Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]
99 covers for oil on the wall, 99 covers for oil, Take one down and pass it around, ...

It's probably stopping to finish each verse.

xuhu··on Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor
Watching the screencast I realize how often text and an editor are a replacement for lists, treeviews, tabs, scrollbars etc.

Maybe AI is the answer for enforcing the format and for discoverability since it provides GUI-like hand holding without the hassle of actually writing GUI code.

xuhu··on The phone ban has had a big impact on school work
Seems to vary across models. Googling for Honda Civic: "And the Low-Speed Follow function can bring the vehicle to a complete stop when a vehicle detected ahead slows to a stop, and it lets you resume operation by pressing a button or the accelerator."
xuhu··on The phone ban has had a big impact on school work
In the daily downtown crawl at 5PM I count about one in four drivers on their phone. Is there a way to tell apart the adaptive cruise control cars from the ones without ? ACC is the only way I can explain why there isn't a crash every 5 minutes.
xuhu··on Kernighan's Lever (2012)
> 'I feel that there's a bug in this specific bit of code.'

The precise feeling I try to avoid leading PR reviewers into.

xuhu··on Intents: The Endgame for Computing Interfaces?
Another way of saying we're experimenting.
xuhu··on Bpftop: Dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs
Are there any (semi) official binaries for systems still on glibc 2.27 ? Latest release wants GLIBC_2.29.
xuhu··on ht: Headless Terminal
"getView command allows obtaining a textual view of a terminal window."
xuhu··on Instagram confirms test of 'unskippable' ads
Much easier to block or mute and look away than the other format ("and before we contine, I want to tell you about Squarespace, which is a great way to ...").
xuhu··on Shared Memory Versioning to improve slow interactions
They possibly store just the version number for each cookie in shared memory, whereas storing complete cookie data in shared memory would need more synchronization.
xuhu··on Road planners embrace the diverging diamond interchange
Is it the one at the crossing of Cheyenne Ave and Las Vegas Freeway ? The instant I dropped the little Maps guy in the middle of it and saw the street view, the "I'm in danger" meme started playing in my head.
xuhu··on The road to hell is paved with good intentions and C++ modules (2023)
Which category do WASM and JPEG fit into ?
xuhu··on Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension
How is the DCT of the two images done here exactly ? Clearly 8x8 tiles like in JPEG are not used, otherwise the similar blurry background tiles would still look similar in the DCT composite. Are the 2D DCT basis functions not a thing in this case ?
xuhu··on Watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm
Btw, how much AI goes into designing the exterior of a car (panels, lights, windows, grill) ? Can they just drag a slider for "How much muscle do you want" from "Yes" to "Beige" ?
xuhu··on A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022)
So many comments posted using dictation in this thread!
xuhu··on Bay Area workers charged for building secret apartments inside train stations
A cabin in the woods doesn't have the same charm it used to have, it seems.
xuhu··on XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."
It just seems implausible that the malicious x86 code would not have shown up in strace, perf record, or some backtrace. Once this ended up in all the major distros, some syscall or glibc call would have eventually looked like a red flag to someone before long.
xuhu··on Pack: A new container format for compressed files
Better, faster, stronger but I can't tell from the homepage what's different about it, except that it is based on SQLite and Zstd.
xuhu··on Intel 8080 emulator. 19th IOCCC. Best of Show
Is there a competition where you win by showing something both compact and extraordinary but not obfuscated ? Like zlib compression in 100 lines or some song recognition using FFT in X lines, or a working ssh client in Y lines ?
xuhu··on Google asks me daily for my location to improve connectivity even if I say no
That's what we get for using an ad blocker and not paying for Youtube. I guess it's only fair.
xuhu··on Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU
The SDK is paid for when purchasing the phone. Same as with Mac OS, OS X, DOS, Windows, Android, Blackberry, ChromeOS and every other OS out there. It's not shortsighted, it's worked well for the past 50 years or so.
xuhu··on gh-116167: Allow disabling the GIL
PEP-703 predicted in June 2023 an overhead of 15% when running with NoGIL: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-703-making-the-global-inter...
xuhu··on Please make your table headings sticky
Which one works best here ? Headers to stderr, or headers only if stdout is a tty ?
xuhu··on Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI
The chicken-and-egg is a valid argument. But it applies to Linux as well (no users -> no apps being ported -> no users).
xuhu··on Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI
Desktop linux market share is below 2% yet people aren't talking about it being on its last legs like with Firefox. How does Firefox's 3.5% market share prevent people from using it ? Is the 180,000,000 number of monthly active users simply too low ?
xuhu··on Toolong: Terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files
https://github.com/harjoc/LogDiff - unmaintained, parses only ProcMon, but does the steps you describe, and uses Kdiff3 for diffs. With threaded apps it can be hard to identify automatically which thread is which.
xuhu··on Google has another secret browser
They have these exact phrases in their best practices list, but with no instead of any, and always instead of never.
xuhu··on --libcurl
I wish this also worked for Gnome settings, network settings, firewall config GUIs, and anything that can do things using CLI commands.
xuhu··on In loving memory of square checkbox
At some point material design will advance far enough that we can create material design apps in the terminal. I'm looking forward to it.
xuhu··on Don't Talk to People Like They're Chatbots
Much of humanity's problems are solved because of sensitivity rather than aggression. Holding on to a little amount of sensitivity about things in general goes a long way.
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