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DerSaidin··on Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
Ok. But why?
DerSaidin··on Searchable and sortable H1B salary database
For the app, no.

Server side, at a big enough scale, it might make sense for optimization, tuning, measuring, resolving weird bugs, etc.

DerSaidin··on Rogule: A dungeon a day keeps the Balrog away
`Rogule 2023-3-5`

Please zero pad month and day!

DerSaidin··on Transformer models: an introduction and catalog
It is a shame the figures 5,6,7,8 break up the content of 2.5 Catalog, just to fit the figures onto pages.

Are pages even needed anymore?

DerSaidin··on Japan has changed in important and visible ways
theshovel.com.au is satire
DerSaidin··on Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077
> I have so many ideas

> I want to jump in, badly. How would one go about picking up the skills needed to create stuff like this?

Have you tried to make any of your ideas? If not, pick one and try to make it.

DerSaidin··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
> Instead of: African-American

> Consider using: Black

Was this previously the other way around?

DerSaidin··on A Linux Evening
Take away 0:

Good error messages are important pointers. Make sure you include good, unique, descriptive errors in software you write.

When you figure out a solution, post it online with the error message so others can search it to make the connection and get to the solution more easily.

DerSaidin··on Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes
> AI tool to detect unsolicited lewd images

Does this mean it can also detect "send nudes" to avoid false positives on solicited lewd images? Or does the UI have a on/off toggle for currently-accepting-lewd-images?

DerSaidin··on Carmack Unscripted
Compare to this Carmack conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4
DerSaidin··on Carmack Unscripted
I don't think those avatars have enough human likeness to really trigger the uncanny valley effect.

I think it is weird for a different reason: it looks like 1990s tech - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds

DerSaidin··on I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it [video]
https://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/i-have-come-to-bury-the...
DerSaidin··on Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
What about creating/finding tricks? I wonder if there a larger theoretical sense of things involved there? What about in a weaker sense, like: "I think I'll start my trial-and-error with this"?

(a mostly-hypothetical question)

DerSaidin··on “Tactical” Infiltrated Everyday Life
Prana pants are great. The water resistant coating is the only thing that fades kinda quickly (maybe <1 year).
DerSaidin··on We need a flowchart editor that doesn't give you carpal tunnel
I'd like to (optionally) see an arrow direction on edges. Most of the graphs I work with are directional. If I drag to try and create a back edge, it doesn't seem to care about direction and just assumes everything is left->right.
DerSaidin··on How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
Hello

https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html#what-are-pipes-made-o...

I think the diagram near the start of this section has "head" and "tail" swapped.

Edit: Nevermind, I didn't read far enough.

DerSaidin··on UIs are streaming DAGs [video]
Should they have defined UI? Should they have defined DB? It is subjective where to draw the line for commonplace, and it depends on the audience.

Is DAG a commonplace acronym for people attending HYTRADBOI? Maybe (I see 2 other talks mentioning graphs/trees in their title).

DerSaidin··on Unreal vs. Unity Opinion
so TL;DR of this gist...

> > what is the point of Unity, now?

> Unity was good for prototyping. Access to Unreal engine source is great.

Doesn't sound they are making much of an argument to redeem Unity.

DerSaidin··on The Personal Security Checklist
This list should define the priority levels they're using.

I think it goes: Basic, Recommended, Optional, Advanced (in increasing effort|security|paranoia).

DerSaidin··on Zee: A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
https://kakoune.org/ is modal, and imo it would be reasonable to call it modern.

Perhaps "modern" in the terminal editor space is just a codebase that does not have 30 years of cruft (where cruft may include various legacy support and fixes for subtle/obscure/legacy bugs).

DerSaidin··on Ask HN: For static HTML, what is your go to template?
https://www.getzola.org/ https://github.com/getzola/zola
DerSaidin··on I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears
> The prices are driven by student loan availability and the need for investment in amenities for colleges to attract students.

Does the US have colleges that choose to attract students with lower prices instead?

DerSaidin··on Vim Reference Guide
:cq is very handy for aborting merges
DerSaidin··on Vim Reference Guide
If you're thinking about learning Vim, take a look at https://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html

I used vim for many years, and I prefer kakoune because: 1) Object-verb is better than verb-object (gives visual feedback, and makes it easier to compose commands) 2) Great support for multiple selections

DerSaidin··on What's in a good error message?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpVzSse7oJ4 was a good recent talk on error messages
DerSaidin··on Tell HN: Google doesn't work anymore for exact matches
It corrected the typo, but it shows you the option to put it back.

Click the: Search instead for realsense "failed to recconect"

Then you get some very plausible looking results (idk how well they'll solve your problem).

DerSaidin··on The James Webb Space Telescope – making 300 points of failure reliable
When you put it like this, 9 billion sounds like a good deal :)

Also, consider how many (presumably) well paid expert engineers are scientists have been working on this since 1996.

DerSaidin··on The Sucker Complex
Also happening on an international level with countries ignoring climate change?
DerSaidin··on Show HN: IR stove thermometer, firmware in Rust
More Rust relevant link: https://www.anyleaf.org/blog/writing-embedded-firmware-using...
DerSaidin··on Show HN: IR stove thermometer, firmware in Rust
Next level: Close the loop, integrate into the electric stove control, add up/down buttons on the display.
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