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Charon77

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Charon77··on Take something you don’t like and try to like it
hōrensō no ohitashi, made from some exotic vegetable I’ve never seen before.

That's spinach

Charon77··on WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration
So it's just VM?
Charon77··on I have hacked to gather a software stack to take over the world
Discord as a Town Square? Nahh
Charon77··on Seedbox Lite: A lightweight torrent streaming app with instant playback
Maybe they're talking about prioritizing earlier "Piece"
Charon77··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
Remember how Android used to be an open source project and how we had Google backing AOSP? I think it's time we we maintain the latest fork and just use that instead.
Charon77··on China develops first pregnancy robot, sparking ethical debate
Medically, very much not yet.

But business people sees projections rather than facts, it's probably easy to show them robots with TV in the belly showing babies forming and reeling in investment that way.

Charon77··on Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks
But they're no longer active as mentioned on site

https://zenobiapay.com/blog/open-source-payments

Charon77··on Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices
"sailing" feature

Also known as a Schmitt Trigger

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt_trigger

Charon77··on Debugging a mysterious HTTP streaming issue
I don't quite get it.

cURL works because it doesn't compression.

Browsers do not work because they're accepting compression and cloudflare silently enables compression to browser who advertises that they can accept compression.

So cloudflare's compression is just flawed?

Charon77··on An LLM does not need to understand MCP
Oh like OpenAPI? Or god-forbid, HATEOAS?

MCP itself still runs on JSON RPC, which I think has been a thing since like a long time

Charon77··on EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute
"Her report argued that fair use does not cover the commercial use of large volumes of copyrighted works to generate expressive content that competes in existing markets."

I don't get it. If AI artworks cannot be copyrighted, then it does not compete in existing markets, and thus cannot be a copyright infringements.

Charon77··on Anthropic wins fair use victory for AI – but still in trouble for stealing books
Not a lawyer, but how would you think the law react when I sell computer for authors with pdf of pirated books come pre-installed as part of the 'reference' for aspiring authors to look at, without permission from publishers?

The issue is the recall LLMs have over copyrighted contents.

Charon77··on "We're done" – government organization slams Microsoft Teams, drops Windows
Government relying on private corporates for mission critical infrastructure is something that should've been avoided from the start
Charon77··on The herb linked to better memory, lower anxiety and Alzheimer's protection
> people who inhaled rosemary’s scent performed better on memory tasks compared to those in an unscented environment.

Not even comparing with idk, vanilla?

Charon77··on The herb linked to better memory, lower anxiety and Alzheimer's protection
Obviously made you click
Charon77··on Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch
In my experience, magnet is pretty straightforward. Dht is quite the rabbit hole, and it might be difficult finding clients that support dht (not everyone does)
Charon77··on Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?
Something like pcbway allows you to prototype a lot of stuffs, cnc and sheetmetal forming iirc
Charon77··on Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally
What's wrong with using adverbs that don't change the meaning of the word?

"She grins happily". Sure, "She grins" also conveys the same thing, but the two sentences differ in word count.

I personally feel that reading has a rhythm to it, and adding more filler words just to make it coherent with the surrounding sentences isn't bad... fictions, at least...

Charon77··on HTAP is Dead
GraphQL is just a language much like SQL.
Charon77··on Dependency injection frameworks add confusion
Just use a static variable to the DB instance / pool, maybe using singletons, so everyone needing it have access.
Charon77··on Show HN: Lazy Tetris
There's a bug where the ghost doesn't update its position after clearing.
Charon77··on It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians (2012)
When you have a lot of fancy metrics/models/bootsraps to throw at, people would just see what sticks.
Charon77··on Ask HN: Selling software to company I work for as an employee
You can sell program to your own company IF you develop it outside of working hours.
Charon77··on Are groundbreaking science discoveries becoming harder to find?
> They measure disruption by examining citation patterns.

What a horrible metric. I think the choice of reinventing h-index for disruption is straight out of desperation on putting numbers or something. A disruption should cause a shift in thinking or process between established methods and the novel ones.

For example, discovery of next gen sequencing of DNA leads to the downfall of the older sanger process which was more laborious and time consuming.

Without these corresponding reduction of established techniques, these new science does not 'disrupt' anything

Charon77··on Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI
I.. can't tell if you're joking or not. Pretty sure someone out there is unironically doing something as stupid as this in production
Charon77··on Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes
Tried the demo. Very good baby's first step to shaders
Charon77··on Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes
This is still being taught at schools in my country even now
Charon77··on Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me
One of the good thing in cargo packages are the feature flags. If a repo uses too much dependencies then it's time to open an issue or PR to hide them behind feature flags. I do that a lot with packages that requires std even though it could do with core and alloc.

cargo tree helps a lot on viewing dependency tree. I forgot if it does LoC count or not..

> to see what lines ACTUALLY get compiled into the final binary,

This doesn't really make much sense as a lot of the functions that make it to the binary get inlined so much that it often becomes part of 'main' function

Charon77··on Migrating away from Rust
A owns B, and B can find A

I think you should think less like Java/C# and more like database.

If you have a Comment object that has parent object, you need to store the parent as a 'reference', because you can't put the entire parent.

So I'll probably use Box here to refer to the parent

Charon77··on Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging
It does if you consider that everyone can act as a relay.

This is also how apple airtags can be find anywhere there's an iphone users nearby.

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