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oivaksef··on ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux
Don't forget about cats and bats, they like music too
oivaksef··on Saving Jet Fuel
I can't see the fuel being able to be reused for aviation once it's been outside the stewardship of the fuel company, but how about draining it out and selling it or even giving it away - if for nothing else for CO2 reasons
oivaksef··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
Exactly the same here. When I learned that other people actually could visualise things, it made me realise why I've spent my life being a commercial photographer and camera developer. Capture the images - I guess most people get this for free to some extent
oivaksef··on Show HN: Flostep – Diagrams people can actually walk through
Really nice, i'd like to use this, and if the license was right probably would if it was OSS.

I think closed source service stuff like this was long over before LLMs came along. Now it's like, I can take a few screenshots and make this myself. At least with open source YOU the developer get to carry on being in the conversation and co-develop, rather than giving ideas to others and being left out

oivaksef··on Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
I want to see this movie

Edit: now I can't stop thinking about correlation vs causation - you being under the boulder bleeding out at the same time XMPP encryption suddenly stops working.

Physical hardware certificate thinggy which got crushed?

oivaksef··on U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues
They need to cut your taxes and raise everyone elses.

The US needs the binface party as a credible 3rd choice.

oivaksef··on Being ambitious and being a dad
In case the author of this reads this - on your death bed you will look back at this time and regret not spending _more_ time with your kids.

Being ambitious on both fronts means you are running at 200%.

Life will normalise that for you whether you like it or not.

They will be gone soon. Stop optimizing for both. It's dada time.

oivaksef··on Microgpt in pure C hits 10M tps on Apple m5
How much of this translates to Asahi?

Always been disappointed by the answer to that question in the past - fingers crossed this time

oivaksef··on OpenAI's Unraveling Has Begun
I'm very anti anti-democracy, so anti China by default, but I'm shocked how much I'm rooting for them right now. They played this so well, capitalism fucked it up soooooo badly
oivaksef··on Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
where do you get satellite orbits from?
oivaksef··on FAA investigating controversial crash video
I have plenty of hours flying planes (unlicensed - while doing aerial work and playing around to kill time thanks to my instructor pilot), and have a limited amount of experience skydiving.

One thing in these comments I haven't seen said: F*K that plane. Off runway landing has significant risk. Parachute is so close to 0.0 risk that you do it just for fun on a day off. I wouldn't do an off runway landing just for fun on my day off.

The thing is staged, no question. The guy knows he messed up and will pay for it. But if I had to decide between my life and protecting a bunch of metal tubes and (fabric | aluminium, not sure), I know what I would do.

oivaksef··on Egypt seizes the Ever Given, demanding $1B for Suez Canal jam
Now every ship has a 1B potential liability when transiting.

What a great way for Egypt to turn what was a near-disaster into a full disaster. They didn't lose out that much, everyone is playing happy families. Then they do this. Fail on so many levels. Well done Egypt in screwing over your golden goose.

oivaksef··on Estate agent's hi-tech house tour exposes personal data
I got a visit when I was young (planned, agreed to in advance) from an officer from my countries national intelligence service. I was a reference for someone going to work for the equivalent of the NSA.

He spent a lot of time looking at my mum's (questionable) books and making notes.

I've thought about that a lot over the last 20 years. How much insight you can gain from someones bookshelf.

I'm now addicted to it, where ever I go. Feels rude and invasive though, so I try not to be too obvious

oivaksef··on AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx
A new FPGA company for anyone interested (well... 2012, but in chip world that's kind of new) https://theamphour.com/535-efinix-fpgas-with-sammy-cheung/
oivaksef··on Proposal: Downward Assignments
Those would. The Elixir style feels nice. I wonder if something like that could make it into Ruby 4
oivaksef··on Proposal: Downward Assignments
IRB the interactive ruby shell has _ which references the return value of the last command. So

10 + 10 puts _ # prints 20

but that isn't available in ruby itself

oivaksef··on Proposal: Downward Assignments
This is hilarious, and clearly a joke, but it does make one think. I've always thought that it would be nice to have variables which you don't name, which only live over a couple of lines, where it's clear the variable is just for some plumbing and doesn't need a name. I wonder if there is actually something in these two concepts combined
oivaksef··on What If You Could Do It All Over?
I would love to hear more
oivaksef··on Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot
four buh two
oivaksef··on Cache Is King: The Inevitability of L4
Why don't we have two sets of memory - the main, slow, cached memory, and a smaller set of super fast low latency memory, like cache, but that the programmer and compiler can use explicitly?

Sort of like special purpose performance instructions like SIMD but on the memory side