AlexAndScripts

I presume you won't say, but now I'm wondering about who has similar intelligence capabilities to governments...

Thanks!

Unfortunately I can't access descriptions without another API call.

Thanks for pointing out the floats issue. It'll probably be OK because I round to the nearest integer when displaying and only use the extra precision for sorting, but I might round to 2dp on the server side to avoid wasting bandwidth on all those zeroes - I presume floating point imprecision compresses poorly.

Thank you! I appreciate it.

I submitted it a few hours ago to two upvotes - I think it might be because I didn't include the link directly, and apparently that downranks it in the algorithm. I've emailed dang to see if it's OK to repost it.

I wish I could say it's some lovely architecture, but it's just some glued together python scripts that get the data from the ebay API, categorise the GPUs (I initially tried local LLMs, but hard coded rules work far better), then generate a static site using jinja2 templating. My frontend "framework" is simple vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS.

I suppose I'm living up to the username! I do know how to write decent programs and in other languages, but I'm just so much faster when bodging.

I'm thinking of making similar website for more things, in which case I'd clean up the architecture a bit, but my exams are in a few months and this hasn't been particularly successful so we'll see. I probably shouldn't be spending my weekends programming right now :)

Mine does that - https://gpu-prices.com . I managed to get beaten to the Show HN by a few hours :)

Thank you. Beyond the brilliant photos, the archive itself is fascinating.

Thank you! There are some really excellent images there.

That may be yours (and mine), but it wasn't his.

If you think that's bad, try being 18 :) this field may not exist (at least in its present form) by the time I'm out of uni (I'm planning to hedge my bets by studying physics), and it seems the world is getting less stable by the minute. There seems to be no sense of urgency or even medium-term thinking in stopping Putin, and Article 5 appears to be becoming less sacrosanct by the minute. Society is increasingly divided, with absolutely no attempt to find common ground (particularly evident in my demographic) and the majority of my generation having a miniscule (and shrinking) attention span through their direct stream of Chinese propaganda. And, of course, the climate-shaped elephant in the room.

I'm just trying to not let it get in the way of appreciating the world. I'm planning to travel to mainland Europe sometime next year (gap year). SpaceX has reignited spaceflight, and there's so much cool stuff going on in that space. Science marches on, with a steady stream of interesting discoveries.

And programming is great - for now. It feels slightly strange spending a week writing a project that may be finished with a single prompt in a few year's time, but it's enjoyable.

Maybe I'm overreacting? I've grown up in a pretty calm period, with the west in a clearly dominant position. Maybe this is, paradoxically, a return to normality?

It's infuriating finding an excellent wallpaper, only to find that it's 900 pixels wide or "4k" with so much compression it looks worse than uncompressed 720p. That and the grotesque photoshops that fill the results when looking for space wallpapers.

On the plus side, Tineye can be quite helpful for finding things in their original size.

And I only use 1080p!

I'm disappointed that nobody had made a mosquito CIWS yet. Has anyone tried making something based on a grid of speakers and constructive interference?

Would that be the original British Imperial SOP or the closely-related but not-quite-the-same American SOP?

I suppose you would also have to worry about surviving the trip - every atom in the interstellar medium would damage your ship, likely penetrating the entire way through, and electromagnetic repulsion would only work with charged particles.

I had no idea you could achieve relevant amounts of time dilation so "easily" with relatively small (1m/s) of constant thrust - such that interstellar travel becomes somewhat viable provided you can continuously accelerate for the entire trip. Googling it, it would take approximately three years of observed time for a traveller to get to alpha centauri at 1g.

Could any somewhat-plausible technologies (fusion etc) get us to that point? I don't know how to do relatavistic maths, but it seems that directly converting mass to energy and ignoring relatavistic effects requires 50 000kg to accelerate 100 000 kg (with a constant relationship, as the C^2 cancels out) to the speed of light.

Remove any grandeur? On the contrary, it would be the beginning of a new era of appreciating its grandeur.

Thanks for elaborating, that sounds pretty fun.

Haha :) I was referring to Starliner's window falling off during transport. I misremembered it as a door falling off. And yeah my name is pretty terrible, I've always been bad at picking pseudonyms.

With an inversed polarity!

They also build a lot of fossil fuel plants. They just have immense and growing energy needs.

npm is easy to use? In my experience npm and the ecosystem that surrounds it are the only package managers I have ever used that consistently don't work, and in terms of design/ease of use in the theoretical scenario of it working properly it's marginally better than pip and significantly worse than cargo and hex.

Thanks for the offer. I unfortunately don't have a mac but I appreciate it :)

I've never really pair programmed - I've worked on joint projects, of course, but collaboration occurs over discord/github. I'm intrigued - what does this actually consist of? Does one person write one function and another write the next while you chat about what needs to be done?

That is pretty cool, I didn't know about that. I could see it being useful in some niche circumstances.

Or keep its doors attached.

How many people find real time sharing helpful? I've never found it to be beneficial. I'm curious.

What about multiple smaller rotors? Or would that cause weird turbulence effects? Could we use some kind of jet engine?

What do you use to run it on your phone?

Perhaps you could have a little button to programmatically insert capital letters?

That's interesting. As someone who does a lot of programming in my free time and does (hopelessly simplistic) compsci at school, I'm avoiding CS degrees precisely because they assume you know nothing and move slowly. My info for this is the course structure and talking to current students. I'm in the UK.

When and where was this? Perhaps they have changed over time.