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jeffbee··on Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
Yes, that's my point. You might imagine an advantage for eink if you can make the display as big as you want without blowing out the power budget, but in practice it already doesn't matter.
jeffbee··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
"precisely the same time" meaning 80 minutes apart?
jeffbee··on Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
It also got nuked from orbit by European regulators. The ecosystem has a huge installed base but no future.
jeffbee··on Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
This is cool, but I bet it will be a grind trying to get to Garmin levels of battery life. They just have it nailed, and an Edge 550 that's ¼ this size can run for over a day, despite its emissive display, and they don't seem to suffer from display scaling since the larger Edge 1050 runs for even longer. That is to say that the larger battery in a larger device more than compensates for the higher display power requirement.

Anyway one thing I think would be nice is if the GPS radio can become a peripheral. Then with that architecture could the head unit just get GPS from your phone?

jeffbee··on Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
I dislike when unjustifiable precision in a headline is used to try to give some credibility to a defective analysis.
jeffbee··on Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
Anthropic has these exact same terms.
jeffbee··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
Imagine implying that Swiss Germans and German Germans look upon each other with familiarity instead of wariness or even suspicion.
jeffbee··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
In my experience the kids form a peloton walking to school but there are adults walking with the youngest such groups. E.g. this website (never been to this town, just seems representative).

https://pskerzers.ch/pedibus/

jeffbee··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
Pedibus. So civilized. People in California don't believe half the things I tell them about life in Switzerland, such as "if you try to drive your kid to school the cops will chastise you" and "if you drive 40 in a school zone you'll automatically get a year in jail" and, of course, "gas is nine bucks".
jeffbee··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
I'm all for solving problems, but I am not for committing a major disenfranchisement under cover of solving a non-problem. People who want to just ram through voter ID laws without solving the problem of undocumented citizens can't be treated as serious members of society.
jeffbee··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
There are about 600,000 American citizens alive today who lack traceable documentation of their birth due to Jim Crow policies.
jeffbee··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
10 years ago we had 50 years of progress but in 2026 we're back down to zero progress.
jeffbee··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
Your point is laying in a ditch bleeding to death. There are loads of people alive today who personally suffered from Jim Crow. These practices continued right through 1968, and were revived in Texas between 2013 and 2016.
jeffbee··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
No, it was typical of the Jim Crow South. Black mothers were not permitted in hospitals, and county clerks refused to register home births. It was all part of the system of oppression.
jeffbee··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
The United States doesn't have a central registry of citizens. New births are supposed to be recorded by local officials, in about 3000 different jurisdictions, and they're only recorded locally. Many of those local jurisdictions are operated poorly, and in some cases they have refused to issue certificates of birth based on race, or other personal grudges held by officials. So we simply aren't in the position to issue such identifiers, and in particular we can't assume that a person without traceable documentation isn't a citizen.
jeffbee··on Hang on to Your Firefox
> They are happy with monopolies and surveillance capitalism.

Actually I believe for most normal people it is a feature of other platforms that they don't have to appear to be associated with weirdos who use terms like "surveillance capitalism".

jeffbee··on The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
Absolutely everything in this industry is just a façade over the underlying ability to pass current between the source and the drain of transistors. "Just a better way to do ______" is the entire software sector.
jeffbee··on Io_uring Without Readahead
I'm just steelmanning here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
jeffbee··on Io_uring Without Readahead
Maybe they meant using IORING_OP_MADVISE with MADV_WILLNEED to bring ranges into memory?
jeffbee··on DNS abuse and criminal infrastructure
Slide 17 is the one people should read before they get on their blog complaining that their emails are rejected by Google and Microsoft. The entities associated with your domain and network, the DNS hosts, registrars, network blocks, and all that each have their own reputation. It is easy for the unwitting to fall in with criminals.
jeffbee··on Sort branches by last commit date
Feels like the type of problem you could simply choose to not have in the first place (by not using git).
jeffbee··on Google's Obedience to Trump's "Lake America" Order Follows a Depressing Pattern
Because their whole system relies on national registries of place names, and the US national registry of place names renamed this place.
jeffbee··on Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws
The market is 2-sided. They can "seek" whatever they want but they are going to get the clearing price.
jeffbee··on Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws
Fun fact: in RealPage's brief about the Berkeley law they cited my work that shows rents in Berkeley declining. They never had the power to artificially set rents.
jeffbee··on Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
There are fundamental issues here and I think the article only touched on a few. On the software side this completely blows up the whole virtual memory concept. We will need different operating systems.
jeffbee··on Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math
Isn't Intel effectively betting the farm on this right now? Other than stacking technology, what do they have that's even a little interesting?
jeffbee··on Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
I think the model can even evaluate itself. If it looks afterward at an output like "do you. Want to get lunch?" in the absence of affirmative evidence that the user wanted it that way, it should be able to see that it goofed.
jeffbee··on We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
I imagine the discussion will center around this application of AI, but to me this is just the Nth proof of the proven fact that you must build ffmpeg, if you insist on using it, with only an allow-list of file formats that you expect to encounter, and not with the kitchen sink of stuff you are never going to need.
jeffbee··on Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
I am not sure if "Word Error Rate" captures what has always been wrong with transcription. My biggest complaint is that it inserts sentence breaks in random places, then fails to evaluate the result, even though it is obviously wrong. Then I have to go fix it which can be harder than having just typed it myself, due to the difficulty of positioning the Android cursor, the fact that it automatically capitalizes if you delete a capital letter, etc. And much of the time I fail to notice the errors until later.
jeffbee··on CDs vs. NIMBY
Increasing supply always decreases price compared to a counterfactual without the supply but with all else equal.
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