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jahewson

7,511 karma · joined November 10, 2011

Software engineer. 20 years of coding. Startups. SF Bay Area.
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jahewson··on FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools
This would be a $1000 custom part in a Miele appliance though.
jahewson··on AI World Clocks
Engineers use their ingenuity. That’s it.

If physical engineers understood everything then standards would not have changed in many decades. Safety factors would be mostly unnecessary. Clearly not the case.

jahewson··on AI World Clocks
Maybe we could keep the conversation out of the gutter.
jahewson··on Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source
It reads like a sales call where they’re getting customer pushback and responding with something quantitative - not a good opener at all, especially for this audience. The GPT tone pushes it over the edge.

What they built looks great and I don’t disagree with their take in substance, but you get one chance to make your open source announcement good - don’t blow it like this.

jahewson··on How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
I very much dislike the way this article blurs religious and doomsday thinking with conspiracy theory thinking. There’s nobody conspiring on the other side of AGI. Other than that it makes many good observations.
jahewson··on Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
Isn’t this a counter factual that can’t be proved? How do you know it won’t deter other companies?
jahewson··on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
What would you recommend instead?
jahewson··on Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965
Yes I think that’s what it is - only the writing on the map uses a horizontal baseline whereas the real script uses a sloping baseline so it looks weird here.
jahewson··on Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
Being able to give a good speech is merit when the goal is to select a leader.
jahewson··on When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire
Where do you guys get this nonsense from? Is there some sort of conspiracy theory factory? Do you have any idea how the rest of the world behaved during this time period? You are aware that the Muslims literally had multiple empires?
jahewson··on Everything I know about good API design
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jahewson··on A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf]
Non-secretary women were not in short supply at NASA at this time though. The work of Virginia E. Morrell and Bonnie J. McBride a few years earlier, at this same research center springs to mind.
jahewson··on 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind
Maybe they did…
jahewson··on Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network
Car companies, including Hyundai, pay fines of that magnitude every few years for various issues. Yet the issues keep coming.
jahewson··on Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%
Bad news for Schrödinger?
jahewson··on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK
Indeed, CloudFlare Workers does this. Would love to see more.
jahewson··on Study mode
Same way you know for humans?
jahewson··on Historical Tech Tree
Cool concept. I’d love a vertical version for mobile.
jahewson··on Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game
This is such a fun concept!
jahewson··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
I see no Sudan flags on campus. No Sudan marches in the streets. No Sudan emojis in people’s Twitter handles. No solidarity with Sudan at music festivals.
jahewson··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
There’s still zero evidence to support their claims. Publishing an editorial saying “trust me bro” doesn’t enhance their veracity. It is physically impossible for a rifle round moving at high velocity to cause the minimal injuries shown in those x-rays. Such injuries are consistent only with indirect fire, such as a round fired into the air falling back down and striking some distant innocent on the head at low velocity.

What’s shocking is that the NYT won’t admit they fell for a hoax but instead are claiming they have ironclad evidence of genocide yet they are just… sitting on it because it’s gruesome for their readers to see? If that’s true then it is a staggering moral failure akin to being an accessory to the crime. Fortunately thats’s not the case because it’s a hoax.

jahewson··on Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans
This is what I mean. Maybe the tree was just dead? How do you know the ivy caused that?
jahewson··on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
Had we never received foreign investments to begin with we would certainly be worse off, as indeed we were in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

> There's been consensus among pretty much every party in my lifetime around supporting "growth", "investment", number go up.

Yes most U.K. governments have talked about fine talk but other than Thatcher, failed to actually deliver on securing enough investment. It’s not that the investments are bad, it’s that they have been decreasing for 25 years:

https://www.economicsobservatory.com/boosting-productivity-w...

It’s funny that you mention ARM because it was created under Thatcher back when the U.K. was willing to start businesses. Yes it should never have been sold.

jahewson··on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
In the U.K. it means taking all your thinking cues from the intellectual elite that orbit Oxford and Cambridge. The sort of people that typically end up as BBC presenters and professors. Viewing yourself as a member of a distinct group of intellectuals that “get it”.
jahewson··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
I would argue that we have democratized voices, the problem is that many of those voices want to lie, for the same reason that oligarchs want to lie.
jahewson··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
Nonsense. UN peacekeepers are observers deployed with the consent of both parties. They are not sent into active combat zones.

There is literally a genocide in Sudan right now with 25 million in extreme hunger. At least half a million children are dead. Yet we hear hardly any mention of it.

jahewson··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
I look up the first of those “human rights groups” and see that it’s explicitly a Palestine advocacy group with 38 employees. How’s this anywhere near objective?
jahewson··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
The problem is not the narrative. The problem is Hamas.
jahewson··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
The U.K. didn’t even have the same government 14 months ago. Completely different party in power. The degree of coordination you’re talking about is not just unlikely but fantastical.
jahewson··on Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?
At this point I’d prefer to see a Looney Tunes style race with no rules at all.
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