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hidroto··on Engineer restores pay phones for free public use
a simple solution is to have emergency contacts written in your wallet, with the added benefit of letting bystanders call for you when you are incapacitated.
hidroto··on Slow
that seems to be in the same vain as this presentation by guy steele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 .
hidroto··on New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
4 / 28 "You would have scored higher by guessing at random."

I think my strategy for JavaScript going forward is to 'drop & run'.

hidroto··on At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto
LLM attackers to find the LLM vibe coding bugs and flaws. sounds like they already have a man on the inside.
hidroto··on Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper
and that is how we end up with this 'accidentally quadratic' software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9217048
hidroto··on Engineer creates ad block for the real world with augmented reality glasses
reminds me of this tom scott video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq7oauciBdc
hidroto··on A new PNG spec
are there any cameras that take pictures that are not a multiple of 8 in width and height?
hidroto··on I use zip bombs to protect my server
https://research.swtch.com/zip

it is basically a quine.

hidroto··on “Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System
It does not have to be a chemical rocket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
hidroto··on “Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System
I think they are being a little glib by saying a human is need to make the industrial processes.
hidroto··on Should We Decouple Technology from Everyday Life?
there are workarounds for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat_elevator
hidroto··on Adding cooking oil to asphalt to create self-healing roads
our cancers may get 30% more healing too. so i would say not all that much. i would rather be 30% less accident prone, if that makes sense.
hidroto··on Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
I would think that the albedo of the tesla is much higher than the typical asteroid, making it much easier to track.
hidroto··on Uncut Currency
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/banknotes-german-hyperinfla...
hidroto··on Which power plant does my electricity come from?
geothermal power would make good base load.
hidroto··on How I Experience Web Today (2021)
This let's play experience sums up the web pretty well too. Keep watching till 9:15.

https://youtu.be/2Ch_PtGAaZg?t=222

hidroto··on My favorite prime number generator
its a list with each prime index contains a one/true value
hidroto··on Killing sparrows led to famines in China
a complication to eradicating a invasive species is when that species has replaced a native species ecological niche. getting rid of it at that point may cause more problems then it solves.
hidroto··on Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase
cassandra is a woman from a greek myth that was cursed to make prophecies that would always be true but no one would believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra

hidroto··on 'Bin chickens' learned to wash poisonous cane toads
i would put turkeys below chickens. the ones we had could not even find there way out of an open pen.
hidroto··on Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died
in late 2011 my teacher was giving a motivational speech about steve jobs and i was the only one to recognize jobs from an old photo the teacher showed us. so even the more public facing influences are not widely recognized for there past works.

I also feel ritchie's death was overshadowed by jobs death, despite his life having a more fundamental impact on this industry.

hidroto··on Mouse embryo with brain and beating heart created from stem cells
aside from bad actors, i think that safe guards could prove effective.

synthetic organisms would have no natural predators, but the would also have no natural defenses. we could make them without an immune system or make it depend on a molecule that does not exist in the wild. so they would quickly die out.

hidroto··on Faked Crystallography
"optimize a predicted structure of their molecule using density functional theory (DFT), then draw it like a crystal structure would be displayed (a 3D plot with error ellipsoids at each atom, with probable bonds shown)"

why not just publish this instead. surely an optimized model is still valuable.

hidroto··on Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
a 500 line perl script for image tagging and look up script that opens the results in feh. the program can look up images based on set operations. i would realy like to make the tagging system ai assisted but all of the ML systems i have found are beyond me.

a youtube downloading and playlist system that uses yt-dlp and newsboat rss feeds of my subscriptions.

hidroto··on Google says AI generated content is against guidelines
perhaps they don't want the datasets that they use to train the AI to be watered down by other AI generated content. after all alot of the text data was sourced from the internet.
hidroto··on The Hair Dryer Incident (2014)
i hate that parable. they realy spent 8million and 20 dollars on a solution. would that worker have used a fan if the alarms were not there?
hidroto··on The Hair Dryer Incident (2014)
it took me five minutes of reading these comments to realize we were talking about a hair dryer and not a colthes dryer.
hidroto··on Digital pregnancy tests have an internal paper test
still better then toads

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_test#History

hidroto··on Why is America running out of water?
or we could just wash dishes in the sink.
hidroto··on TREE vs. Graham’s Number [video]
https://oeis.org/A028444 would grow faster right?

does it make sense to compare the growth rates of non-computable functions?

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