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maushu··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
> What's the point of having a status page if it lies ?

Status pages are basically marketing crap right now. The same thing happened with Azure where it took at least 45 minutes to show any change. They can't be trusted.

maushu··on Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy
It's actually the opposite. Calculating an asteroid impact is much easier because it primarily involves basic Newtonian physics. In contrast, the climate is a chaotic system, making long-term predictions far more complex.
maushu··on BrainFlood: Runtime code generation via reflection in .NET
Desktop mode in mobile seems to work fine.
maushu··on Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)
I believe the description as a "wall" is not completely correct. Yes, it's a wall as a unpassable obstacle, but the description they gave when walking into it seems more like a field "can't turn around just walk backwards". The field was just dense enough to stop people from continuing moving forward similar to molasses.
maushu··on Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated
Sometimes red tape is good in situations that might affect a large part of the population. Remember the whole Thalidomide situation.
maushu··on Sisk – Lightweight .NET Web Framework
This project might have helped me when I needed to implement a console app that might or not start a web server.

Asp.net is very overbearing (even using minimal APIs) when you want to use other Microsoft utilities like DI, logging or config since it wants to be the main entry of the application.

Never found an easy way to use the host feature with a optional web application where they both shared the DI. Note that this is more a problem with the generic host than asp.net itself.

maushu··on All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)
He already did it with a 1km diameter ball (https://what-if.xkcd.com/12/) and the destruction was terrifying. Please keep him away from these other bigger water balls.
maushu··on Up to 90% of my code is now generated by AI
> Some coworkers seem to be having better success but I definitely get the sense they are reading and editing the results carefully.

Yes, you need to consider the AI as if it were a junior programmer that sometimes makes mistakes. I use it for boring work that can be quickly checked. For example, the other day I asked for a 'give me next workday' algorithm based on the code structure I had, and it worked fine.

It's just one more tool in the toolbox.

maushu··on Up to 90% of my code is now generated by AI
That's what I've been saying: AI is just a tool that can't yet replace programmers—maybe one day.

I use it for the boring work like generating comments, basic algorithms, API endpoints, and naming stuff. Even with the need to double-check the output, it still takes a load off my brain.

maushu··on Anti-crime humps in medieval Venice
I always thought this was only to avoid public urination. I wonder if they added the anti-crime as PR excuse.
maushu··on Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its "ghosts in the walls"
Funny that it's so noticeable because of the hostile architecture.
maushu··on Sell your micro startup for less than 25k dollars
On the other hand without a commission this means there isn't a perverse incentive to fake data and sell stuff like it happens with other services.
maushu··on Hyundai Ioniq EV battery replacement costs $60k, more than new car
So what you mean is that we need an standard compatible with multiple brands and later versions. Like AA batteries.
maushu··on Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
Interesting. I don't have tinnitus but when I jut my jaw forward I hear really low white noise.
maushu··on Awareness at Death
It's much easier that way to make people self sacrifice for the religion, gives a meaning to their life and pacifies their fear of death.
maushu··on Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art
With those prices I'm not surprised.
maushu··on OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps
The problem is that Unity is a game engine, not a game framework. That means that any code you do will be following their architecture and using their features. The game logic gets really tight to the engine.

...unless you are Brian Bucklew https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1703163364229161236.html

Note: That is not the "normal" way to use a game engine.

maushu··on Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crash
Because the missing device might cause something similar to this crash but instead with a internal mechanism. You really don't want loose stuff around moving mechanisms.
maushu··on The Free Movie
Well, the problem is some of those aren't even drawings. Some minimum effort should be made even if you don't want to trace the frame.
maushu··on Birds make nests out of anti-bird pins
He could've easily built some heated bird houses with all the effort he wasted.
maushu··on Heroku has been running a second copy of my scheduler instance
This is why I use the git commit short hash as part of the identification of the service (eg: container name). Allows for quick check of which is the running code version and identify problems like these.
maushu··on ManyCam dishonored my lifetime license
The difference with your Ford car is that no one is changing how the roads work every year. Compared with other areas IT is really unstable.
maushu··on Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days
When people say that humans are "autocomplete engines" they are being a little facetious on the fact that we are pattern recognizing machines that require sensory input to function. Basically "autocompleting" the input we receive.
maushu··on The electric vehicles we need now are e-bikes (2022)
I have a electric scooter that I use for shopping. It's pretty nice if you just want to buy enough to fill a big bag.

It is definitely more expensive (if you want something decent) than a e-bike but it occupies less space in the house.

maushu··on Ask HN: Is Google Slowly Dying?
No, they aren't doing that. It's just a result from the revenue source that they have which is ads.

Little by little, like by natural selection or AI training, the search got worse because revenue increased.

maushu··on Gordon Moore has died
I don't understand what you linked. Don't they believe in technological singularity?

I would think a intelligence capable of self modification could use the scientific method to increase it's performance (even if it means scaling in size like a matrioshka brain).

maushu··on Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print
When you can't find the source of revenue then that generally means you are the source of revenue.
maushu··on This site was styled by YouTube comments
Surprisingly seems to work pretty well on mobile.
maushu··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
You should try a reverse colorblindness test like this: https://www.colorlitelens.com/color-blindness-test/secret-of...
maushu··on What are some interesting uses of WebUSB you have come across?
Should work with any device. The web page needs to implement the driver/protocol to communicate with the hardware.
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