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absoflutely··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
A source that doesn't have an incentive to lie about the topic...
absoflutely··on What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on
I believe they meant that the receivers/transmitters on Earth are likely newer than 50 years old. And you're also probably right that the hardware installed on the voyager could be several years older than the launch date of the craft
absoflutely··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
Yeah, what happened with ladybird? Did they pull a bun?
absoflutely··on LLMs reward expertise
Not sure what your point is here since wrong code doesn't mean non-deterministic. How many of these yield different results with the same input and architecture?
absoflutely··on 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)
What kind of data analysis do you run with Go and do you use an open source library for it? My experience with stats libraries in Go has been lukewarm so far.
absoflutely··on Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk
Yeah, her estimates seem a bit too high based on my experience
absoflutely··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
Reolink also seems to work pretty well with local storage, notifications and no subscription or cloud uploads.
absoflutely··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
Reolink has some good options in this area. Both wired and wireless security and doorbell cameras with microSD storage by default, but FTP and SFTP can also be used. I've been happy with my (wired) doorbell camera with just a microSD card.
absoflutely··on No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves
You hit the nail on the head. They aren't both true which is why the second sentence is sarcasm.
absoflutely··on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
I think this trend is partially driven by the silent auto play that happens on YouTube. Baked in subtitles help draw people into the video.
absoflutely··on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
...as part of the Iran nuclear deal that Trump reversed for no reason.
absoflutely··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
I'll add that it randomly brakes hard on the interstate because it thinks the speed limit drops to 45. There aren't speed limit signs anywhere nearby on different roads that it could be mistakenly reading either.
absoflutely··on Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence
Whooshed right over your head.
absoflutely··on Differential Transformer
why say lot word when few word do
absoflutely··on Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
Go has maps, json parsing and http built in. I'm not exactly sure what this person is referring to. Perhaps they are mostly interviewing beginners?
absoflutely··on Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers
I report these people in the hope that other players don't have to experience their hateful comments.
absoflutely··on Underwater ears everywhere
Sadly the unpaywalled version is also paywalled
absoflutely··on Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
Slashdot
absoflutely··on Ford EV Customers to Gain Access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers
It's not overreach lmao
absoflutely··on JSON vs. XML with Douglas Crockford
Yes, anything that prevents multiple rapid changes would work
absoflutely··on GitHub issue - resolved
I think you meant "I dunno what's down..."
absoflutely··on Signal Introduces Stories
Okay, well a lot of people actually live in the US.
absoflutely··on Minimalist Guide to Lossless Compression (2019)
>Entropy, an Information Theory term coined by Claude Shannon in 1948, describes the minimum number of bits, on average, needed to encode a dataset.

Shannon didn't coin the term entropy. He borrowed it from the analogous definition in thermodynamics.

absoflutely··on AskHN: How much is Chrome and how much is Chromium?
Since we can't escape these companies collecting our data maybe it makes sense to silo which data they're able to collect. Basically don't put all your data in the same basket.
absoflutely··on Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing
No one is suggesting advertisers tracking you is bad because people "can't control themselves." People don't like being tracked because, over time, private information can be inferred from your viewing history. Things like your age, gender, relationship status, income, ethnicity, education, hobbies, health concerns, diet, voting preferences, family names, etc. can all be known about you with high certainty simply by having trackers on the sites you visit. Ironically, this is exactly the kind of data you understand being concerned about before making several bad faith assumptions about why people don't want to be tracked.
absoflutely··on Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
First request gave me a 500. Second one was fine. Smells like some minor configuration error somewhere.