NathanielK

If you're local library has boardgames, you can check out a bunch of two player games to try out!

My go-to for simple cooperative activity is jigsaw puzzles. Just go at your own pace and enjoy.

Perhaps having a scratched up laptop matches the concrete stand.

CNC machines drove down operator wages. Its similar to the translator example where the machine code is written by someone else, but the person running the machine still needs to understand. Simple pushing the go button is dangerous, being able to adapt is critical.

Jobs where a machinist is in charge of large chunks of the process are rarer. Large shop will have one person setting up many machines to maximize throughput.

> But here’s the kicker > Let that sink in

The biggest tell for AI writing is just being AI adjacent. I've started avoiding reading AI articles here because (surprise) they all feel like a chatGPT transcript.

I agree entirely. Seeing all llm garbage being published made me realize how insecure people are about their writing.

Since realizing, I've been stubbornly improving my own writing and not touching LLMs. Takes a bit of work though.

> Reading it isn't the most fun, but let's face it - most professional reading isn't the most fun. You're probably skimming most of the content anyways.

I find it difficult to skim AI writing. It's persuasive even when there's minimal data. It'll infer or connect things that flow nice, but simply don't make sense.

Writing a first draft may come easy, but there's more to the process than that. An LLM can go from outline to "article" in one step. I can't.

I don't write often, so revising and rewriting is very slow for me. I'm not confident in my writing and it looks clunky to my eye.

I see the appeal, though I want to keep developing my own skills.

This blog post is pretty readable, but it's still obviously written with the help of an LLM. A common trend is that LLMs lack the nuance and write everything with the same enthusiasm. So in a blogpost it'll infer things are novel or good/bad that are actually neutral.

Not a bad blogpost because of this, but you need to be careful reading. I've noticed most of the article on the HN front page are written with AI assistance.

The old Dodge Grand Caravan with the fold flat sheets fits 4x8 sheets inside. The built in roofrack is also very ergonomic for ladders, canoes, etc.

We have pickups and the minivan and I often prefer to haul with the van. Better fuel efficiency and lower load floor are nice.

The real disappointment is none of the sources are linked in the text. Instead, it's just random underlined words, the classic chatgpt over formatting with lots of extra underlining and bolding. I appreciate that a 10-15 minute long article summarizes a 25 minute video, but it's hard to hide the real author.

Quite lazily done and just not pleasant to read.

That does not sound enjoyable and seems like HDR abuse.

The "normal" video should aim to be moderately bright on average, the extra peak brightness is good for contrast in dark scenes. Other comments comparing it to the loudness war ar apt. Some music streaming services are enfircing loudness normalization to solve this. Any brickwalled song gets played a bit quieter when the app is being a radio.

Instagram could enforce this too, but it seems unlikely unless it actually effects engagement.

It's good if you have black text on white background, since your app can have good contrast without searing your eyes. People started switching to dark themes to avoid having their eyeballs seared monitors with the brightness high.

For things filmed with HDR in mind it's a benefit. Bummer things always get taken to the extreme.

This is a much better introduction to the hardware.

Definitely reeks of someone who doesn't know what makes a readable blogpost and hoped the LLM did.

I was not familiar with the hardware, so I was disappointed there wasn't a picture of the device. Tried to skim the article and it's a mess. Inconsistent formatting and emoji without a single graph to visualize benchmarks.

Even the Pentium M systems from a decade prior have <10W idle. Honestly embarrassing to mention when AI chips are dumping kilowatts.

Outside of keeping a SPARC blade system running 24/7, most old systems use similar power to a light fixture.

This argument misses the forest for the trees for non-commercial users.

Phones default tonusing Through the Lens autofocus. This is closed-loop and pretty fastthese days. Only when it's too dark work effectively do they switch to lidar/tof open loop autofocus systems.

Why do you think you need to clarify that?

> but screens emit light, and maximum contrast puts additional strain on the eyes.

That's just a problem with manufacturers putting displays with high dynamic range into devices and not putting decent HDR software implementations in.

Some apple devices are smart about it though. When you open up an HDR video, it cranks the backlight to make those highlights pop, but dims the LCD by lowering the contrast in software. This means high contrast websites don't sear your retinas while your media can still take better advantage of your display.

https://prolost.com/blog/edr

Many of them do. My Android 9 phone has it. The feature only turns on when your calling an actual phone number though, voice calls like Discord don't trigger it.

It's not analog, but it's a feature built into the audio chip so there's no noticeable lag. AFAIK, it's not exposed to other software at all, because even the official Google Sound Amplifier app has noticeable lag since it does it in software.

Your ears are a complex system. Just like when your eyes think it's darker, your pupils dilate, your ears have a similar method of controlling how much sound gets to the sensitive bits.

It's possible that ANC convinces your ear to open up a bit more, leading to damage in the frequencies that it doesn't attenuate.

> Beyond that, because when I first got a 30" monitor it was so much real estate and it took so long to move my mouse between windows, I wrote a little program that let me set and restore mouse positions with global hotkeys. It will also bring whichever window is under the mouse position to the front.

On Windows, the focus-follows-mouse feature does both these things. Along with raising and focusing whatever you mouseover, it also moves the mouse to any window you alt-tab too. Sadly, it's been tuned weirdly in new versions of windows so it isn't very useful now.

That program is excellent! I purchased an AtmotubePro for PM2.5 measuring, and their testing and confirming it uses and SP30 makes me much more confident in it's readings.

The on package DRAM for the current macs isn't anything special. It's just normal LPDDR running at normal LPDDDR speeds, same thing you find in your phone. On package has many advantages, but it's not a hard requirement.

The bigger is how much LPDDR5 memory they can hook up to their 512bit memory controller.

I've noticed similar. I've woken up early, taken my pulse and notice it was a bit high and used that to decide to go back to sleep.

So food grade needle-nose pliers?

They changed all the user facing docs to "server" a while back. Internally the code might still say "guild", but officially they've embraced calling them servers.

They have USB-C ports. You can always just plug them in and use them as wired controllers.

Presumably that's when you hit the minimum voltage the CPU is allowed to run at. There's still a few other gotchas though.

As CPU frequency goes down, it waits less cycles for RAM. Practically it's a bit of a copout since keeping your RAM at high clocks/voltages doesn't effect more CPU TDP but does use more power. It might explain some of the irregularities in testing at least.

1W is one joule per second. With unlimited time, you also have unlimited joules trickling out.