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zeckalpha··on Ultrasonic deep drawing cuts friction by 20%, extends tool lifespan
Sonic lubricant!
zeckalpha··on Solving SICP
There's probably more nuance with 2.29 than is led onto here. The problem appears straightforward and there seems to be simpler solutions out there than the one described in the article.

Did the author overthink it or are the simple solutions not correct?

zeckalpha··on Most IT companies fail to serve security.txt for RFC 9116 in 2025
They all are shipping hardware with vulnerabilities.
zeckalpha··on An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
It rents making your personal data available.

Under a loose interpretation, which is what they expressed concern about.

zeckalpha··on Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code
That's not the usual definition of clean room.

If you had it generate tests then handed the tests off to a second agent to implement against...

zeckalpha··on An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
Selling access to be the default search engine could count under this definition, which was Mozilla's primary revenue source for decades.
zeckalpha··on The Deep Research problem
Two factors to consider: human performance and cost.

Plenty of humans regularly make similar mistakes to the one in the Deep Research marketing, with more overhead than an LLM.

zeckalpha··on Small Tech (2020)
A few others that come to mind:

- Write.as

- NewsBlur

- Overcast

zeckalpha··on OpenVINO AI effects for Audacity
The Noise Removal plugin takes a bit getting used to, but I have had great results from it. I don't mean to point to operator error... it's got too many options for someone new to it to tune.
zeckalpha··on Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?
> The paper talks about using this to save power, but that’s probably not worth it for a few reasons

It's probably not worth it to do this in software. But in hardware, it might be!

A similar approach with a hardware prototype. https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2022-12_lns-madam-lo...

zeckalpha··on Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?
What's obvious to Kahan is being relearned by the rest of us.
zeckalpha··on VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
There are ways to do this sort of thing with inetd, pam.d, etc.
zeckalpha··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Who controls the .me tld?

Montenegro.

zeckalpha··on Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain
1492 is nearer than the 800s
zeckalpha··on We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
No mention of their benefit corporation status
zeckalpha··on Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza
But Reagan gets the credit for the hostage crisis...
zeckalpha··on I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled
They can have a conversation without being representation and should connect OP to someone who can represent them.
zeckalpha··on Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff
The investors are the capitalists. The C suite negotiator is petit bourgeoisie.
zeckalpha··on Why Canada Should Join the EU
This could be seen as a EU-nationalist framing. Just like the United States has shifted from being a federation of states toward being a singular entity.
zeckalpha··on Why Canada Should Join the EU
Modern boundaries don't reflect history well. There's an extension of linguistics concept to states rather than languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...

We also have lost much to history. Take a look at the shuffling that happened during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period

zeckalpha··on Conscious unbossing – 52% of GenZ professionals don't want to be middle managers
Phrasing of these headlines matter:

48% of GenZ professionals want to be middle managers.

zeckalpha··on Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
Language is a game with strict rules and strategies.
zeckalpha··on In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice
Unless you are doing nuclear physics, those elements will persist. Let's say you are growing grain for cattle. The manure gets spread on the fields. Closed loop.
zeckalpha··on The Ultimate Conditional Syntax
Other way around... Elixir has the pipe of ML.
zeckalpha··on Why Payments Engineers Should Avoid State Machines
Hmm. The line between the two is blurry in practice.

I like to use nouns and verbs to illustrate a difference here. I think people initially approach state machines with noun nodes and verb edges. In practice, verbs are where most of the time is ("waiting for", "attempting to"), so you can also have a state machine where the nodes and edges are inverted. Some systems work better one way or the other.

zeckalpha··on Nova by Panic: The native Mac code editor that's fast and amazing
ulimit?
zeckalpha··on Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video]
Yes, and I've seen closer even on YouTube recently. https://youtu.be/RuVS7MsQk4Y?si=diQB07jBvv5rK8lZ

The isometric view camera is neat though!

zeckalpha··on Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
Are converging prices a sign of collusion, competition, or is it an orthogonal measure? My impression is price convergence is orthogonal to the collusion-competition dimension.
zeckalpha··on Show HN: Ruroco – like port knocking, but better
WiFi access points can redirect 53 to the DNS resolver of their choice.
zeckalpha··on Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (and other cities)
And the whole WWII plane meme concern... this is where crimes were caught/reported, not where they occurred.
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