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gregoryl

923 karma · joined March 26, 2009

   Engineer, People Lead
   Melbourne, Australia
Currently contracting for FoodStorm@Instacart.

(used to) Run Ultra Marathons in my spare time.

Feel free to email me on any topic.

   me@gregorylyons.dev
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gregoryl··on The demise of software engineers due to AI is greatly exaggerated
Well, if they are somehow successful at raising funds, there will be some mean contracts available to un-fuck it :)
gregoryl··on 26% of students ages 13-17 are using ChatGPT to help with homework, study finds
100% of the students I have been teaching (roughly 5 to 15 years old) are using chatgpt for almost everything. It's sometimes a struggle to get them to think for themselves!
gregoryl··on Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
The 4090 indeed does have ecc support
gregoryl··on Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
Posted it below, but the link is https://www.facebook.com/help/1873665312923476
gregoryl··on Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
You can check with this support article; you need to be logged in to a Facebook account.

https://www.facebook.com/help/1873665312923476

gregoryl··on Show HN: DataFuel.dev – Turn websites into LLM-ready data
I don't see that as a good analogy. There's very limited space for this functionality to be used legitimately / legally - anyone permitted to scrape content is likely able to access the data without the protection measures in the way.

I'm fairly sure circumvention is a (prosecuted!) crime in several countries - curious if you're across that angle, and/or have legal advice/direction you can share?

gregoryl··on Show HN: DataFuel.dev – Turn websites into LLM-ready data
Are you concerned about making a product that does this? The legal aspect of accessing a computer system that is intending to block your use seems worrisome.
gregoryl··on Storing Times for Human Events
Off the top of my head; the user books a meeting at 2:30am, but local gov decides to implement a timezone change - time moves forward an hour at 2am. Does your meeting still exist?
gregoryl··on Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
FYI, you are hellbanned (your comments are auto [dead], very few people will see them). Email hn@ycombinator.com to fix it :)
gregoryl··on Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
I've recently been teaching kids to code (in Aus) - 7 year olds already know about VPNs, and use them to circumvent various roadblocks to playing roblox!
gregoryl··on Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012)
Thanks for those links; quite enjoyed the tribes networking model read especially, having played unreasonable amounts of Tribes 1 back in the day.
gregoryl··on Teach yourself to echolocate (2018)
At a guess, it attracts two audiences - people interested in the content, and people aghast at the content. Twice the pulling power?
gregoryl··on Passport Photos
Your first mistake was relying on Aus Post to do anything correctly. They cna barely deliver packages.
gregoryl··on Trump wins presidency for second time
This kinda of argument is the crux of your issue. "no it isn't" vs "this is why I disagree:"
gregoryl··on The Backrooms Wiki
hn@ycombinator.com gets you fairly quick replies :)
gregoryl··on SSH Remoting
I assume they did the same as with Rider, and made the UI objectively worse, rather than solve a million other things that actually need improvement (performance!)?
gregoryl··on Heart rate variability differs between smartwatch and clinical testing
Pros use whomever is currently sponsoring or donating
gregoryl··on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't own your games
Can you link to the page with the subscription costs?
gregoryl··on Modifying the ThinkPad 13 Gen 1 to unlock its full PCIe potential
Probably one of these? https://github.com/bassusteur/thinkpad13nvme/tree/main/image...
gregoryl··on Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
I think that's fair. I'd like to think I have some fairly strong ethical requirements for work, but I can see those evaporate in the face of 8 figures.
gregoryl··on Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?
That's cloudflares CTO.
gregoryl··on Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient
Something like 6% to 10% of the population is vegan, a bit more than niche!
gregoryl··on Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control
How are you going with the new Sonos app upgrade?
gregoryl··on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
Look at motorsports, especially semi-pro motorbike teams. The creativity is astounding.
gregoryl··on Modifying the OG Xbox to have 256M of RAM [video]
Sounds like a Bethesda feature to me. Morrowind was a fun game in its own right, but the outright janky stuff you could do was the main reason I loved it.
gregoryl··on 1Password and 2FA: Is it wrong to store passwords and one-time codes together? (2023)
Only if the vault is cracked. If it's intercepted somehow, or pulled from a database dump, the 2FA token will still be secure.
gregoryl··on PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key
I wrote that style of session mapping for a project long ago. It was fairly easy, but a massive pain in the ass to debug. Ended up needing to record the mappings in the backend for a period of time.
gregoryl··on Analyzing my electricity consumption
Also available in Australia, https://www.amber.com.au
gregoryl··on The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
Not really, you're going to meet a whole heap of people in your first few days. It's pretty overwhelming! They person who ran you through some software but otherwise isn't a day-to-day contact isn't going to stick in your head for long!
gregoryl··on Structured logs are the way to start
But how does that help with compliance? You can still very easily identify the data right?
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