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andyp-kw··on Permeable materials in homes act as sponges for harmful chemicals: study
I think that the crowd on HN tend to enjoy learning, and thus wouldn’t find it pointless to read.
andyp-kw··on Data centers contain 90% crap data
I wonder how it compares to electric car usage, or street lights in the USA.
andyp-kw··on Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981
How much value are the Voyager's providing us at the moment, in terms of scientific data?
andyp-kw··on Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one
As a man who lived outside western society for many years, I often received comments about my looks and mannerisms.

Did I cry like a baby, no. I made jokes about their looks and mannerisms. It's called banter.

There is a line that should not be crossed, but someone making one off comments on the out of the ordinary shouldn't be classed as harassment.

andyp-kw··on Trump wins presidency for second time
I'm not American and not taking sides.

Have you listened to the latest the latest Joe Rogan episode with Musk. The Harris camp seems to be guilty of many of the things they accused Trump of.

Echo chambers happen on both sides and are a real issue.

andyp-kw··on A modest critique of Htmx
While I don't think react is the best frontend framework, it has become the industry standard and therefore is the most peaceful approach to building apps in 2024.
andyp-kw··on Tiered support is an anti-pattern (2013)
We've come to expect zero customer support from the likes of Facebook and Google, but why does that need to be the norm ?
andyp-kw··on NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean
Either way, it would force us to re-think our practice of broadcasting into space.
andyp-kw··on Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
The risk of getting sued prevents companies from using pirated software.

The big players might just pay the fee because they might one day need to prove where they got the data from.

andyp-kw··on Ask HN: If LLMs are so useful, why haven't we seen any spike in productivity?
I think this is a good point to consider.

Let's imagine an inexperienced developer comes across a problem in an open source library, that has an existing issue raised in GitHub.

Are tools like Copilot and ChatGPT good enough to walk them through setting up the dev environment, fixing code and testing the fix. Maybe, but not without many prompts from the dev.

But how is that different from someone StackOverflowing their way through the problem.

andyp-kw··on A violent gang's ruthless crypto-stealing home invasion spree
It seems that not advertising your wealth is good financial literacy.

Similar to not having valuables on show in a parked car.

andyp-kw··on Show HN: Triplit – Open-source syncing database that runs on server and client
Why would your whole product need to be AGPL just because the database is ?

It's like saying that Oracle owns my product because I use MySQL.

andyp-kw··on Introducing Copilot+ PCs
I can't remember seeing Qualcomm CPU's before. The name makes me think of WiFi cards.

With Intel stock taking a dive recently, I can't help but feel that the processor landscape is changing.

andyp-kw··on Introducing Copilot+ PCs
Teams, Teams and Skype.
andyp-kw··on Show HN: Invoice Master – A Simple Tool for Managing Freelance Invoices
The website could use some screenshots of the actual tool.
andyp-kw··on [dead]
I don't like Oracle Cloud, but not for the reasons described in this article.

For me, it seemed like none of the documentation was written at a native English level, which made things confusing.

The Oracle Cloud platform is really lacking any passion, it's like the whole thing was designed by project managers who don't really understand the development ecosystem.

andyp-kw··on Hyundai Ioniq EV battery replacement costs $60k, more than new car
Is this because Hyundai simply don't want you to replace the battery, and would prefer you buy a new car?

Batteries are not like most other car parts which can be manufactured by a dozen different companies.

It sounds like a right to repair issue, where car companies should be able to supply replacement parts at reasonable prices for n number of years after the car was sold.

andyp-kw··on NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
Were unit tests a thing back when the probes were built?

I wonder how new engineers learn about the intricacies of such ancient tech, without breaking them.

andyp-kw··on Mammals’ time on Earth is half over, scientists predict
I'd like to think that we'll be interplanetary by then.

Heck, it would be nice to terraform Mars before then.

andyp-kw··on File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images
I've seen companies store pdf invoices in the database too, for the same reasons you spoke of.
andyp-kw··on ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution
I found a lot of luck by telling ChatGPT that I want direct answers only.

But you're right, it's annoying.

andyp-kw··on No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years
I'm still waiting for the Google Drive app for Linux.
andyp-kw··on Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real time
The range of IPV4 address's is small enough that a single server can scan it, in a single day.

So I guess the problem isn't going away.

andyp-kw··on Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction
I don't think it was a pile of rubble when they started defending it.

The city previously held strategic value.

andyp-kw··on Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world
My understanding that WASM has a heavier load time, however actual benchmarks after the initial load are more impressive.
andyp-kw··on Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
Google have a history of acting now and communicating to customers later.

Just look up the number of issues developers have with the Play Store.

andyp-kw··on Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?
I wonder if some kind of Blockchain proof of work could be used to verify chat results in the future.

Especially if the models grow quicker with realtime data.

andyp-kw··on A 'subterranean Galapagos' inside the Earth (2018)
It's difficult to imagine a lifeform bigger than a worm surviving more than a few meters beneath the surface.

Mammals just require too much energy to function.

andyp-kw··on Surprising Scalability of Multitenancy
I guess the latency between AWS and your data centre would have a negative impact on game performance.
andyp-kw··on Singapore software vendor says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud
The cloud isn't about saving money, it's about convenience and automation of using someone elses environmentand tools.
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