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n00bskoolbus··on My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw."
The identical pair from Mistral took me off guard. Many of the other models were so varied between the runs which is more what I would expect.
n00bskoolbus··on FIFA World Cup Triggers a Global Anti-Piracy Crackdown
Absolutely. In Canada one of the big media companies had exclusive rights to broadcast the games. They do offer OTA broadcast if you have a digital antenna, although I don't know if everything game was available there. Otherwise it was a $30/month subscription to TSN+ or I believe they had a discount to get access for the e entirety of the world cup for $50-$70 (can't quite remember).
n00bskoolbus··on Show HN: Hallucinopedia
One suggestion for improvement is avoiding creation of self referential links. For example https://halupedia.com/chaldic-arithmetic has many references links to itself.
n00bskoolbus··on Tiled Words 6 Month Update
Yeah, the way I've been doing it is when I complete an old puzzle I hit back to get to my next "old" puzzle. Still have to keep a tab open so I don't have to click through the pages of puzzles I've completed though.
n00bskoolbus··on Designing the Transport Typeface
James May did a car "review" with Margaret Calvert years back in an episode of Top Gear. Was a bit of a departure from regular Top Gear but certainly interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTDB3dpe3eg
n00bskoolbus··on US Job Market Visualizer
I'd chalk that up to a change in terminology over time, I could be wrong there though
n00bskoolbus··on Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
I'm unfamiliar with this. How would they steal it if they bought the open source project?
n00bskoolbus··on Speedrun
Although they don't explicitly mention it much I it doesn't seem like they missed out on socializing.

> barring one final class I took online the following summer while I was couch-surfing in San Francisco with random internet friends.

> I soon moved to Cambridge in a group house I started with some friends from the Bay

Some people do seem to have the capacity to take on class loads like this person described while still managing a social life. The university I went to essentially requires engineering students to take more than 5 classes a semester and some of them were incredibly social.

While I agree this person frames it like they've hacked the system by doing something they're not the first to do it's definitely uncommon to have a masters degree by 21.

n00bskoolbus··on The Last of Us Part II – Seattle Locations Tour
Related but filming locations for season one of the last of us: https://www.travelalberta.com/articles/explore-alberta-locat...
n00bskoolbus··on Tuta Launches Post Quantum Cryptography for Email (2024)
Do SimpleLogin's aliases use your custom domain and/or does it use sub-addressing (plus addressing)? I wonder how much longer they'll offer that price given Proton's plan for those features is $10/mo, limited to 15 email addresses and the unlimited aliases are randomly generated.
n00bskoolbus··on Yaak 2.0 – Git, WebSockets, OAuth, and More
No questions but this all looks amazing! Looking forward to trying to out. Thank you for all the hard work.
n00bskoolbus··on AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
> This may surprise you as a HN user, since overly hateful content is indeed often flagged and not immediately visible in HN top-level comment sections. While this is true, there is a major flaw in the HN moderation mechanism that enables abuse to continue unabated. This is the fact that, when a comment is flagged and killed, its child subthread is not. Once the high-level comment is no longer visible in the top-level comment section by default, this significantly reduces moderation activity in the subthread, as users are less likely to click to expand it. The deeper you go, the less likely it is for content to be moderated.

Seems like a reasonable explanation why you might feel that way. I similarly haven't noticed that kind of rhetoric but I also haven't delved down into subthreads much

n00bskoolbus··on AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
It is but because you're coming from HN it seems the redirect to a different page
n00bskoolbus··on Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference
Something cool that I can't remember if it was posted on HN at one point or I stumbled across when looking for alternatives to yup but this repo has been compiling a bunch of different benchmarks for runtime validation of ts validation libraries. Obviously to some degree the performance is arbitrary when you're reaching millions of operations per second but on the flipside their benchmarks are against rather data. Would be interested to see comparison of either more nested data or otherwise complex. Maybe something to look at in my spare time.

https://moltar.github.io/typescript-runtime-type-benchmarks/

n00bskoolbus··on Canada: NDP ends confidence deal with the federal liberals
Pretty much symbolic at this point. Doesn't mean NDP will vote against Liberals in a confidence vote in the future. Feels like it would even be self sabotaging to do it now since some of the legislation around dental, pharma and others that they pushed for are still being rolled out. Plus with the way polls are looking I doubt they would force an election to likely bring in a more conservative government.
n00bskoolbus··on Polylith
Not sure that multiple repos is a good comparison for local development at least. If you go the polyrepo route with NPM/Yarn (for example) you'll probably still be using linking or a filepath in the package.json dependencies. I don't think monorepo vs polyrepo eliminates the problems that come with this like making sure changes from a library are hot reloaded into another which is something that still seems to require lots of configuration.
n00bskoolbus··on Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version
Ah okay that makes sense! Thanks for the reply, will definitely try hatchet out!
n00bskoolbus··on Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version
This looks really awesome! We were just discussing at work how we're having a hard time finding a framework for a task queue that supports dependant tasks and has support for Python & TS. I suppose writing that out it does feel like a pretty specific requirement. I'm glad to see this pop up though, feels very relevant to me right now.

A question around workflows having just skimmed your docs. Is it possible to define a workflow that has steps in Python and a TS app?

n00bskoolbus··on Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.
Wait so are you really happy they got acquired? Or does chuffed mean something else in the states?
n00bskoolbus··on Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years
Nice! I remember when this tool launched and I checked it out. It's really nice to use with easy to setup integrations. The instant replay feature especially is super cool! My biggest request would be to please add a Firefox extension!

The Jam team seems like a talented and good group of people. I applied a while back and while I was turned down I got an actual human response from the team. They also did a push to ask for input on improvements for Jam maybe a year ago and offered to donate $25 (iirc) to St Judes for every person who responded.

n00bskoolbus··on HashiCorp: OpenTofu was not respecting the terms of its BSL license
If this is happening I hope it's actually legitimate and not the big corp throwing its weight around. Certainly feels like money matters more than being right in cases like that.
n00bskoolbus··on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
Been using Bruno for a while now and it's done what I need, I'm not doing any thing crazy just testing endpoints with maybe a small bit of scripting afterwards. Very pleasant to use.
n00bskoolbus··on Oslo acquires ChatGPT for 110k students and teachers
Related but mostly in criticism of a dissimilar approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Heritage_Savings_Trust...
n00bskoolbus··on En Route: A Magazine About Trains in Japan [pdf]
Was just there this past year and even as a visitor you can get a 1 month pass for 50% off all fares. I think it was 150 CHF for the pass. Paid for itself in one day with a trip from Zurich to Lauterbrunnen & back.
n00bskoolbus··on Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running
They also got $90 million from the Canadian government https://betakit.com/canada-growth-fund-injection-tops-eavors...
n00bskoolbus··on Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs?
Damn, I had a hunch that the fact I when learned it in my comp sci degree it wouldn't be useful in the future. I think it was 2012 when I took the class >.>
n00bskoolbus··on Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email
Is the benefit of this over something like Protonmail or Tutanota the enterprise focus products? As an individual user seems like I may as well pocket the difference, right?
n00bskoolbus··on Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
Seems like it's the same app but Calgary has this too. The maps around the time of our big flood in 2013 are pretty interesting.
n00bskoolbus··on Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
This all looks very cool! The generic API element is could be really useful as well and it seems like the LLM is pretty good at knowing some pretty common APIs. Would be really cool to run locally but could definitely see it as a business case as well. Way to go!

Will definitely play around with it more

n00bskoolbus··on U.S. bank lending slumps by most on record in final weeks of March
Lets just hope it's done by the government and not by private corps gouging people who just need care.
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