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pawelduda··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
Compare it to Sony who still put potentiometers in their controllers. Good luck desoldering and replacing that once analogs inevitably start to drift. It's super easy to damage something else in the process as I learned.
pawelduda··on Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study
Seems to also be relevant for yerba mate which also contains chemical compounds that bind to NR4A1
pawelduda··on SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin
Once these coins as much as budge, price will crater before the transaction has enough confirmations to settle the deposit on any exchange with enough liquidity. Any second on exchange and the hacker is exposed to having his account frozen.

Nobody would buy OTC as they're tainted and it would be basically throwing away their money for something that is traceable and everyone is watching and reacting to further moves

Then the blockchain could be effectively forked to before the attack, invalidating the heist

pawelduda··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
I find it increasingly ironic that the company that wants you to think software engineering as a profession is doomed, seems to be speedrunning tech fuckups bucket list, most likely using their own product, to achieve this very goal
pawelduda··on Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce
I'm curious what makes you say that
pawelduda··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Wow, that sounds usable. I know it's anecdotal but how did you find the quality of the output, and can you compare it to any closed source model?
pawelduda··on What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels?
Truly mind blowing. A few days ago I found this animation [1] that shows it in motion

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/17squg1/ho...

pawelduda··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
How many tokens/s do you get on RTX 5090?
pawelduda··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
50% satire
pawelduda··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
People who provided training material for AI images, received payment in likes and shares
pawelduda··on Sauna effect on heart rate
Hot shower heats up your body, which causes it to direct blood away from the core to cool it down so it doesn't overheat. Dropping core temp triggers the brain to ramp up melatonin production. Or so I heard.

Conversely, when the temperature drops, your body directs blood away from your hands and legs because core has higher priority for survival

pawelduda··on How Long Poop Stays in Your Body May Impact Your Health, Study Finds
Sooo.... Another reason to drink coffee/yerba mate? Although the latter also supposedly stimulates release of GLP1, which slows down "the release"
pawelduda··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
Not very encouraging for longer use, especially that the longer the conversation, the higher the chance the agent will go off the rails
pawelduda··on Claude Opus 4.7
Make no mistakes!
pawelduda··on Claude Opus 4.7
People are really trigger-happy when it comes to throwing magic tools on top of AI that claim to "fix" the weak parts (often placeboing themselves because anthropic just fixed some issue on their end).

Then the next month 90% of this can be replaced with new batch of supply chain attack-friendly gimmicks

Especially Reddit seems to be full of such coding voodoo

pawelduda··on Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
I feel that companies are shifting towards short take home assignments which I find good personally.

Grinding leetcode was never optimizing for solving problems algorithmically but for performing well in live coding interviews.

So knowing solution design, time/space complexity, what tools and patterns exist for certain sets of problems is valued more than being able to correctly type them out in an unfamiliar UI often with limited functionality, while someone watches your face and screen and ideally you have to articulate your thought process clearly within 20 minutes or so.

pawelduda··on 'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking
I just don't see a usual team behind a violent movie or game having a though process of "how can we make people want to go to war more". My theory is sort of the opposite - people enjoy such media because it's violence without hurting anyone in the real world, a fantasy.
pawelduda··on 'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking
It's often just a part of a broader puzzle - you need to aim with precision, react quickly, properly chain your movements, be aware of your surroundings, know when to be offensive/defensive, apply your tools/skills to specific situation, manage your resources, etc. Shooting is just a subset of all that.

With that logic you could also dumb down chess to killing, because that's the core mechanic.

pawelduda··on Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue
Good choice, keep in mind that you'll probably spend more on filament rolls if you get hooked
pawelduda··on Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
The laptop started with Windows 7 (the best one btw). Switch to Ubuntu was done years later when I handed it over to my parents.

You are right about the Ubuntu upgrades though. Over these years I'd just randomly press update to get out of EoL'd versions when I was around. I think I just went over 4 major versions in a few hours. It just downloaded, installed and restarted without any problems. One outlier was an issue with nvidia driver packages after update, for which I had to consult google.

pawelduda··on Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
Turkey reported high winrate until Thanksgiving
pawelduda··on Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
I repeat this story every now and then but I "maintain" a 18 years old laptop with Ubuntu (mainly for Internet) for non-tech savvy user. I put it in quotes because I just run apt update every now and then - that's it. Just works. The only bottleneck is how resource-hungry browsers got over time but it remains usable. Ubuntu was installed sometime back in 2017 and there was no need for fresh reinstall since then.
pawelduda··on Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
You can also use "muted words" feature built right into X
pawelduda··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
50 days ago I wrote this [1] as the world seemed high on AI and it gave me crypto bubble vibe.

Since then, I've been seeing increased critique of Anthropic in particular (several front page posts on HN, especially past few days), either due to it being nerfed or just straight up eating up usage quota (which matches my personal experience). It appears that we're once again getting hit by enshittiffication of sorts.

Nowadays I rely a lot on LLMs on a daily basis for architecture and writing code, but I'm so glad that majority of my experience came from pre-AI era.

If you use these tools, make sure you don't let it atrophy your software engineering "muscles". I'm positive that in long run LLMs are here to stay. The jump in what you can now self-host, or run on consumer hardware is huge, year after year. But if your abilities rely on one vendor, what happens if you come to work one day and find out you're locked out of your swiss army knife and you can no longer outsource thinking?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066701

pawelduda··on Solana Drift Protocol drained of $285M via fake token and governance hijack
Trusting any of these crypto protocols is hard with any serious money. If anyone wants to target you, they'll go great lengths to trick you into making a mistake. Even if you do everything right, the people behind the service can step into a mine for you. Even easier if you add AI to the pipeline where people will tend to offload the vulnerable parts of development/ops to a LLM
pawelduda··on Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit
I bet that's the case. Crypto bros need a villain to justify being trigger-happy top buyers flooded by greed every time. Jane Street is particularly useful to KoLs who have been shilling crypto all the way down from the top. There is already strong confirmation bias from everyone yapping "See? You lost moniez because of market manipulation! I'm a successful trader (here is my paid substack and exchange reflink)"
pawelduda··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
Not disagreeing that wasn't the case, but none of these were advertised as such, they were all listed by top exchanges as any other speculative crypto asset
pawelduda··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
Memecoins especially are so funny it's worth putting out some numbers:

- $TRUMP meme coin, down 87% from ATH

- $MELANIA meme coin, down 98% from ATH

- $WLFI, down 50% from ATH, with 4 Trump co-founders

The first two coins were actually hyped up so hard at launch that they drained liquidity from most of the crypto market because of people dumping everything to buy in

pawelduda··on Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment
Maybe they could sell the RAM reserves they've been hoarding
pawelduda··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
It's safe to assume they'll be releasing improved Gemini Flash soon? The current one is so good & fast I rarely switch to pro anymore
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