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infinityio··on Coping with Copilot
To quote the article:

> Here’s an approach that’ll work for sure: use some, let’s call them alternative, programming languages that Copilot doesn’t really know. (...) Sadly, I have news: Copilot’s love for programming languages knows no bounds! Racket! Haskell! ML! (...) Copilot is a ravenous beast: if any code in any language found its way into a GitHub repo, it’s already swallowed it up and is hungry for more, nom nom nom.

Not sure how true this is in practice - I only used Copilot once, with Python - but if it is that might invalidate this concept

infinityio··on “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
I'm sure many people are trying. On a slightly related note - I wonder what the market effect would be on bitcoin (and possibly crypto as a whole) if anyone managed to transfer money out of the wallet, would it crash the currency?
infinityio··on More content by people, for people in Search
It is a paid service, so probably not for everyone, but have you tried Kagi? It lets you 'pin' specific sites to the top, rank sites higher, rank sites lower, or block them entirely
infinityio··on Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
on a similar note - QALC in vscode offers a similar experience for file types of your choosing
infinityio··on DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]
afaik - the API is exposed as a discord bot, that's how they are managing / restricting access
infinityio··on Amazon sales of Deep Learning with Python are counterfeit
Depending on your firmware version (a fairly recent build was found to be exploitable), it might be worth looking into jailbreaking your kindle and installing Koreader to it, instead of buying a new device?
infinityio··on SATAn: Air-Gap Exfiltration Attack via Radio Signals from SATA Cables
To my understanding (haven't yet read the paper, just the abstract) - most full-disk encryption schemes are implemented in OS as opposed to in-hardware, so if the attacker has deep access to the system they could probably find a way to write unencrypted data to disk? That may not work inside a VM though
infinityio··on The rise of air conditioning (2018)
From my understanding - the more significant factor in global warming is GHG emissions

Sure, moving the heat outside makes the environment slightly warmer, but that's nothing compared to the significant amounts of solar energy getting trapped because you made the energy to run your a/c by burning coal or any other fossil fuel

(Also - the volume of every place where you could reasonably want A/C is negligible compared to the volume of the earth's atmosphere, so that isn't as much of an issue)

infinityio··on Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls
To quote the python developers guide:

> Because of Python’s conservative nature when it comes to backwards-compatibility, when a module is added to the stdlib its API becomes frozen.

So it sounds like they do do something fairly similar, but just a different mindset on adding libraries

infinityio··on The world needs a non-profit search engine
> Just 1% of 1% of this

His maths is correct, just an easy-to-misread phrase

infinityio··on Lost around 150k of stock from my fidelity brokerage account (ACATS Transfer)
maybe it's possible that both crypto and Fidelity need more regulation?
infinityio··on WeatherKit
perhaps, but this api needs a $99/yr account, so isn't really free at all
infinityio··on Tailscale ate my network (and I love it)
How many devices do you need to keep connected? I'm surprised the free tier wouldn't work for you to be honest
infinityio··on Tailscale ate my network (and I love it)
I realise this possibly isn't going to make me look any better than everyone else here to you, but have you actually tried Tailscale?

It does seem to be a near perfect solution for a few very specific problems, with almost no downsides and a user interface easy enough that you could do it without any knowledge of the underlying technologies

infinityio··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
Is it a 10x difference? If you used the better filter, you would still have 99.95% of the particles you would have had if you used the worse filter
infinityio··on The dissolution of Apple’s legacy design team
The old-chassis pros (incl. the new m2 13") can only do one monitor, if I remember correctly?
infinityio··on Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US
> Why does amazon still use freight companies like USPS

From my understanding - USPS offers fixed rate deliveries to the entire US, so amazon can use them in all cases where it would cost them more than the fixed price to deliver something (incidentally, this probably drives this cost up)

> open up physical locations where people can pick up

imo, amazon lockers are probably going to start accepting returns at some point, if the logistics for it makes sense

infinityio··on 15.ai
Do you cache results from this (especially the random samples provided)? It seems to be regenerating those, which might be expensive if lots of people are using the same prompts

Edit: also wanted to thank you for the Chell voice, it sounds completely true to life to me! (minus some jumping noises)

infinityio··on Apple and Google’s mobile browser ‘stranglehold’ may face UK investigation
> A third aspect is actually very helpful to developers - you can count on 100% of the APIs you intent to use being available on the system's web browser, creating in-app experiences significantly easier (and cheaper) to develop.

This would still be true in the case where external web browsers were allowed - you can still rely on Webkit being available on all phones, but if you need access to APIs not provided by apple you can revert to bundling a different browser engine

infinityio··on Sunshine – an open-source gamestream server for Windows and Linux
That's true, but what makes you think the latency would be 100ms? With a good internet connection and a nearby server you could realistically expect latencies in the single millisecond range (although encoding/decoding might add a frame to that, it'd still be significantly lower than 100)
infinityio··on Sunshine – an open-source gamestream server for Windows and Linux
> the added 50 ms of ping was enough to throw my aim off

On the flip side - if you live in the same city as a stadia server and you have real fibre to your house, you could realistically expect single digit ms latency to the stadia (edit: or knock-off stadia, using a cloud server or similar) box - it would still be noticeable, but 5ms is the same difference in input lag as dropping from 90fps -> 60fps - obviously it's not nothing at all, but if you aren't investing in a dedicated gaming computer it's unlikely it'd annoy you that much

infinityio··on uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
Out of interest, what do you consider to be credible/high quality news orgs?
infinityio··on Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting
Perhaps as a middle ground - keep the autoscrolling rectangles, but let the user intervene and move them?
infinityio··on CodeMirror 6.0 Stable Release
> Obsidian uses CodeMirror 5 on desktop while using CodeMirror 6 on mobile

Obsidian Live Preview is CM6 on desktop afaik?

infinityio··on Ultrasonic Payments
To be fair, the initial phrase recognition probably wouldn't require 'listening' as such - the trigger phrase could be a very simple program that doesn't have the capability to do anything other than recognise a keyword, and then it bootstraps a program that actually listens to you when it detects it
infinityio··on Find a good available .com domain
You might struggle to use an in-browser service with a database that big? Not sure though
infinityio··on Apple Will Be Forced to Use USB-C Charger in iPhones
Lightning only supports USB 2 speeds - not the most future proof standard, even if it is more robust
infinityio··on Apple’s CarPlay is going beyond the infotainment screen
I wonder if this will be the default interface for the car (with iOS devices the only first-class citizens, and very limited Google offerings) or if its going to be a mode that gets activated when an iPhone is present...
infinityio··on Apple’s CarPlay is going beyond the infotainment screen
> Compare that to modern games, which often require a "day one patch" to fix them.

It could be argued that this is for slightly different reasons - because of the delay between a game being submitted to console manufacturers for testing and release, and the "crunch time"-style industry of game dev, I'd argue this is mostly to try and get the game launched sooner, because its cheaper/faster to ship a buggy game on disc and fix it on release day than to wait until the game is entirely fixed first, now that it is a viable option

(Not to disagree with your point - I completely agree)

infinityio··on Qualcomm wants to buy ARM and it may need Samsung's help
Definitely for the next few years, but who knows - RISC-V is catching up scarily fast from what I can tell
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