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hncbw02z5a··on Waymo in Toronto
Winter is the real test here. Worked on lidar perception for a bit and falling snow throws returns everywhere, plus once the lane lines are under slush everyone just drives in the ruts the car ahead made. Curious how they handle those unofficial lanes.
hncbw02z5a··on Shit Flow Diagram
Did SFDs for a couple of secondary cities and the number that always wrecked the diagram was emptying frequency. Everyone claims their pit gets desludged, then you find out it's once a decade.
hncbw02z5a··on Python 3.15
Shipping one abi3 wheel instead of per version builds cut our CI matrix from like 20 jobs to 4, that alone was worth it.
hncbw02z5a··on Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector
Did a procfs scraper once, handling pids vanishing mid-read took me ages.
hncbw02z5a··on Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study
Did stream restoration for a few years and the thing that stuck with me is you can put the habitat back and the species still don't return. Some of them just have nowhere left to come from.
hncbw02z5a··on Bill Draper has died
Third generation of Drapers doing this, which is its own kind of rare.
hncbw02z5a··on FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
Did a 6(b) response once and the slow part wasn't the documents, it was agreeing internally on what counted as a "safety incident.
hncbw02z5a··on SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering
MSDF corners gave me trouble til I bumped the distance range at small sizes.
hncbw02z5a··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
Glide works, yeah, but check your 86Box dynarec setting first. I had Unreal crawling on an M2 until I realized I was still on the interpreter core.
hncbw02z5a··on Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening
built a meeting bot once, forgot the consent chime, legal killed it same week
hncbw02z5a··on Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
Solid, no complaints
hncbw02z5a··on Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week
This is oddly reassuring