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jan_Sate

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jan_Sate··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
Doesn't matter. IRC serves a niche that there's always a community for that no matter how small it'd become. I'd place a bet that it won't die as long as there's computer and internet. Long live IRC.
jan_Sate··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
Unlike ICQ, mIRC is just an IRC client and even if it dies, the IRC networks would remain accessible using other IRC clients. That said it'd be a pity if mIRC dies.
jan_Sate··on Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files"
I'd rather manually review all AI-generated command before running it.
jan_Sate··on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for "inappropriate" content
Yeah. The title is a click bait. It looks like that most people didn't read past the title.

Anyway Google could actually lock her out if it wants to. That's why using cloud storage is a bad idea. If you're using it, at least make sure that you've got a local copy so that things like this won't happen.

jan_Sate··on 100k Stars
Came here to say that. The stars on this site looks cool tho.
jan_Sate··on Why use ECC? (2015)
Huh? I thought that "bitrot" was like content saved into the disk and the disk left unpowered for an extended period of time causing data loss. And I thought that the content stored on the disk has ECC on its own?
jan_Sate··on Show HN: Consol3 – A 3D engine for the terminal that executes on the CPU
Impressive. Not sure on what it could be used for but it does look very cool. Good job!
jan_Sate··on Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers
Wouldn't that be an overkill to train a model specifically for that?

I wish someone could come up with an algorithm that would outperform a trained model. This way we would actually understand how it works.

jan_Sate··on MIT researchers demonstrate rapid liquid metal 3D printing technique
I'm thinking about the other way around. Assuming that their aluminum 3D printer works, print the aluminum mold using their 3D printer. Then make plastic parts with injection molding.
jan_Sate··on Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
I still think that it'd be easier to maintain the script that runs on a single computer than to maintain a hadoop cluster.
jan_Sate··on ArVid: Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s
Impressive. People in old days are rather creative in getting the most out of the existing technology.
jan_Sate··on Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says
Years ago I gave up on DuckDuckGo because Google returned better result. Lately I gave DuckDuckGo another shot. It isn't better than before but with the deteriorating quality of the result coming from Google, now that DuckDuckGo's quality apparently isn't any worse than Google.
jan_Sate··on Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says
Agreed. Clearly they're using some kind of fuzzy text matching, which isn't quite working correctly. They need to bring back keyword-based matching. At least provide an option to enable that.
jan_Sate··on Sometimes, it is a compiler bug (2022)
Even if you're able to do things like this, chances are that it isn't a compiler bug when you encounter issues like this one.
jan_Sate··on The Pixel 8 Pro's Tensor G3 off-loads all generative AI tasks to the cloud
If they're offloading to the cloud, what's the AI processor in Tensor G3 even used for?
jan_Sate··on Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine
Those questionable websites often do redirection to a legit site like Google unless certain condition is met. For example, it could detect and only lead the user to the fake site if the user is coming from the ad. It's a common technique for them to avoid getting caught.
jan_Sate··on Getting Started in KiCad 7.0
The main limitation I've encountered with KiCad is its component library ootb. Anyway those can often be downloaded from third party websites.
jan_Sate··on Lost your luggage? That's nothing – we just lost your whole flight
That's far worse than the gitlab incident.
jan_Sate··on Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station
That's exactly why it's a bad idea to use IoT on everything! Most companies working on this kind of product doesn't give a shit about security.
jan_Sate··on Tempest: Transmit Radio Waves via a PC Video Card with No Extra Hardware
Impressive. I've noticed that the photo shows an very old CRT monitor. I wonder if this program would still work with a modern HDMI monitor.

And why doesn't it work for FM? Is it a software limitation or a hardware one?

jan_Sate··on Toolship: A more secure workstation
The favicon of the site looks like familiar.
jan_Sate··on Pongs
Just went thru every single one of them. That's interesting. I wonder if anyone else did the same.
jan_Sate··on The New Godot Development Fund
Maybe those gambling sponsors didn't fund other open source projects?
jan_Sate··on Swedish criminal gangs using fake Spotify streams to launder money
The way that the criminals are abusing stuffs never ceases to amaze me. That's why we can't have nice thing.
jan_Sate··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
Nice graphs. But there's no answer provided in the page. So, now that I'm wondering, w exactly tf happened in 1971?
jan_Sate··on How to make a synthetic diamond (2009)
At first I thought that the first pic in the article was the diamond that the author synthesized.
jan_Sate··on Arduino raises $22M Series B round
The problem with Arduino is that, whatever microcontroller they're using can be easily sourced by anyone else. That's why it's so easy to clone them.

For Raspberry Pi, those mobile phone SoC are rather difficult to source. You need to have contact with the SoC vendor to get a hand on them.

jan_Sate··on Sony sends copyright notices to TV Museum about shows 40 to 60 years old
That's a bummer. Maybe they could upload the videos to the Internet Archive?
jan_Sate··on Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015)
I've used a system that each worker of the building would be given a card. In the hall, there's a card reader. There's multiple elevators in the same building. To use the elevator, one would need to tap the card against the card scanner. Then the screen on the scanner would tell you which elevator's gonna serve you.
jan_Sate··on Hackers can get your IP through Skype by just sending a link, no click required
How could IPv6 help on that? They could just use the prefix to figure out which network you're coming from.
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