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jml7c5··on A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability
It looks like a mix of LLM and human-written content. The (human) author would have been the one who chose to put that quote there.
jml7c5··on When we get Komooted
Podcast with them from October of last year: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/twisting-the-rule...

(Transcript available, search for and hit the "transcript" button.)

I wonder how they'll do long-term.

jml7c5··on Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered
>I have a hard time understanding robot detection as an issue of "user freedom" or "browser competition".

The big one is that running a browser other than Chrome (or Safari) could come to mean endless captchas, degrading the experience. "Chrome doesn't have as many captchas" is a pretty good hook.

jml7c5··on Grok 4
The author wanted to record a video of the phenomenon using a "blank-slate" setup, so he deleted the chat. Apparently that nukes shared conversations. See his comment here:

https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1943446820610543740

jml7c5··on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
Commercial use of WiFi sensing predates WiFi 7 (a notable example is Philips smart bulbs with presence detection). AFAIK WiFi 7 just includes an amendment by the 802.11bf working group to improve performance.
jml7c5··on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
The term for this sort of thing is "WiFi sensing". Relevant HN thread from 2021 ("The next big Wi-Fi standard is for sensing, not communication (2021)"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29901587

As far as I can tell, devices were already on the market when that thread was made. 802.11bf was standardization to help along interoperability and future products.

jml7c5··on Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser
I wonder if the commercial version of this (from Sunspire Studios) is floating around anywhere. I recall it being even more satisfying to play.

Looks like the author has gone on to have a successful career in game rendering, working on (among other things) Infamous and Ghost of Tsushima.

jml7c5··on Windows 10 EOL
Ah, I misread. How strange!
jml7c5··on Windows 10 EOL
I have a workstation board from around the same time. The issue is probably that Haswell/Broadwell-era processors are no longer supported. (For Intel CPUs, Windows 11 requires 8th generation (Coffee Lake) and higher.)
jml7c5··on Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU
People who handwrote. (And especially people who handwrote with quills and fountain pens — usable ballpoint pens are only 70 years old.)
jml7c5··on US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal
Yeah, looks like it archived a stub from before Bloomberg added anything substantive.

Here's a fresh capture: https://archive.ph/DMT9d

jml7c5··on US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal
Here's the ruling (PDF): https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/25-66.pdf
jml7c5··on Apple will announce iOS 26 at WWDC, not iOS 19
Following Samsung's footsteps here. They switched to "Galaxy S<year>" with the S20.
jml7c5··on Starship Flight 9 booster explodes on impact [video]
From what I've read, the booster was intentionally being tested to its limits — an explosion isn't necessarily unexpected. They weren't aiming to catch it, it was being ditched in the ocean. Whether this counts as a "true" booster failure depends on exactly what failed.
jml7c5··on Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
The peripherals need not be anything more than a clamshell screen + keyboard, same as a laptop.
jml7c5··on Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection
Have you tried "computer glasses"? (I.e., a glasses prescription that sets the focal length at around 60 cm (or whatever your normal distance to a monitor is).) It should help with eye strain as the ciliary muscle remains relaxed.
jml7c5··on Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf]
It's an excessively brief way of saying that the nutrients we consume ultimately come from the sun. It caught me off guard for a moment, too.
jml7c5··on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak
>a copy of the existing 4chan content

4chan's content is ephemeral. Most of it is gone every few days.

jml7c5··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
I believe that's only on MacOS.
jml7c5··on Using Gorilla glass for home building
This is a strange article. It portrays triple and quadruple pane windows as a new development, but they've been around for years.

As far as I can tell, the only development here is the use of ultra-thin glass in the interior layers. This reduces cost, size, and weight relative to normal triple/quadruple-glazed windows.

jml7c5··on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat
People often flag politics-related posts because the comments are invariably of low quality. The interesting discussion is generally about technical issues, but that is usually overwhelmed by political opinions. This happens on both sides of the spectrum.

There are lots of other places to discuss politics.

jml7c5··on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat
This doesn't make any sense. They were the ones who added the journalist to the chat. The chat wasn't covertly relayed to a journalist by one of the members.
jml7c5··on HyperShell X Outdoor PowerSuit Exoskeleton
Though the battery is only 400g, so you could easily carry 3kg of spare batteries and extend that range significantly (at the expense of payload). You'd still come out way ahead.
jml7c5··on Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools
That needn't be malicious. As the comments here show, that's what a significant number of people genuinely believe.
jml7c5··on PG&E reports profit of more than $2B for 2024
This is on a revenue of $24.5 billion, so about 10% profit margin.
jml7c5··on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
>The electrician should be installing 20 amp sockets if the cabling can support it, but many don't.

Electricians will almost always install 20 amp sockets where they can, but they avoid running 12 gauge wire because it costs about 50% more.

jml7c5··on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
Yes, but most people don't want to pay the thousands of dollars to get an electrician to do a rewire.
jml7c5··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
Anna's Archive has 40 million books and 100 million papers. It's unlikely they could achieve similar coverage.
jml7c5··on The FAA's Real Air Traffic Control Crisis Runs Much Deeper
No, that was only ten days beforehand and focused on people at a high level. There's no good reason to believe it had an effect on this crash.
jml7c5··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
Satya Nadella posted about it on Twitter.

https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1883753899255046301

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