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post-it··on We were wrong about GPUs
It's great that you were able to debug that. It may have come at an opportunity cost of being able to solve some more specialized problem within your domain.

In my job I develop a React Native app. I also need to have a decent understanding of iOS and Android native code. If I run into a bug related to how iOS runs 32 bit vs 64 bit software? Not my problem, we'll open a ticket with Apple and block the ticket in our system.

post-it··on We were wrong about GPUs
Yeah, I think this really exemplifies the "everyone more specialized than me doesn't get the bigger picture, and everyone less specialized than me is wasting their time" trope. Developers who don't want to deal with the nitty gritty in one area are dealing with it in another area. Everyone has 24 hours in a day.
post-it··on Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024)
This is a year old, does anyone have an article with updates?
post-it··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
Also, in Canada, it's basically impossible to protect your IP as an individual due to the astronomical cost and lack of options to recover that cost. So copyright will never incentivize my creations, or those of any small creator.
post-it··on GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
Also, you know, muscle memory. The idea that you could slap a headset on a rando and just walk them through doing a trade is ludicrous. It's a great teaching tool, but you can't use it to replace a trade worker real-time.
post-it··on GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
Yeah, but it doesn't look like there's been much progress on the robotics front.
post-it··on Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS
You could set up a DMZ if you're concerned. But even if someone gets on my LAN, it's not the end of the world. They could send goatse to my Chromecast, I guess.
post-it··on Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS
Do you need that? If a storm knocks my power out for a couple hours and my side project has an outage, that's fine.
post-it··on Hacker News for Gamedev
For me, it's the fact that the tags overflow to the next line on mobile. Some posts only have tags on the right, some only have tags on the next line, some have both.

The inconsistency makes it impossible for my eyes to settle into a reading pattern.

post-it··on Goodbye, Slopify
Grindr is a hookup app for gay men. "Hog" is slang for penis, so one might ask someone to "post hog" if they would like him to send a picture of his penis.
post-it··on My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%
I wouldn't pick 5¢ up off the ground but I would certainly pick up $2500.
post-it··on A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial
But hypothetically, the owner of the ad might pop in and make sure

1. the ad looks correct, and

2. the URL is the one they expect

So there may be a use case for a QR code that looks almost identical but goes somewhere else, allowing them to swap it out while someone is looking at it without them realizing.

A niche use case, to be sure, but being able to exploit a niche vulnerability is a skill.

post-it··on A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial
Some sort of MITM attack by someone who owns the display but not the server, maybe. Like a malicious ad company.
post-it··on Why is zero plural? (2024)
You can have negative dollars.
post-it··on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Have they hammered people's websites? I find that the Google bot makes as few requests as it can, and it respects robots.txt.
post-it··on World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
Biofuels are carbon neutral. They require land, but a single engineered biofuel crop could grow on land that other crops couldn't. It's a promising use for the Canadian tundra that's melting.

Sails are very promising - a cargo ship would need enough fuel to maneuver in port and to generate electricity en route, but for most of the trip it could rely on (computer-controlled) sails.

Neither of these options are mature today, but they're a lot closer than nuclear-powered cargo ships.

post-it··on 43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on
I parse it as implying that B39 had the highest percentage improvement.
post-it··on World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
There are plenty of options that are more realistic than ship-based nuclear, such as sails and biofuels.
post-it··on World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
Nuclear would not make sense at all for long distance sea travel. Naval reactors require highly enriched fuel in order to be compact enough, so they could never be widespread on civilian ships for fear of proliferation. They're also extraordinarily expensive and require a specialized crew, and their power output is overkill for a cargo ship (but they can't really be scaled down much further).
post-it··on Who killed the rave?
> Tier 1 city RE prices have made live entertainment venues harder to run profitably.

Which, in turn, makes events that do happen more expensive, decreasing turnout. If there's a Friday night event for CA$15 with CA$5 drinks, I'm much more likely to go than if it costs CA$50 with CA$15 drinks.

post-it··on Who killed the rave? Late-night dancing falls into global decline
> I think one solution to lower rent is a rule that for every month a rental property is vacant its book value declines by 10 times the rent.

Wouldn't that just lower its property tax, thereby making it more profitable for owners to leave venues unrented (compared to the status quo)?

post-it··on Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
> In that case, if the current way is undocumented and/or inconsistent, you make it better before or while adding in your new approach.

Sometimes, but oftentimes that would involve touching code that you don't need to touch in order to get the current ticket done, which in turn involves more QA effort.

post-it··on Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
Apple designs its own chips, so the RAM and CPU are on the same die and can talk at very high speeds. This is not the case for PCs, where RAM is connected externally.
post-it··on macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time
Hey man, it sounds like you had a shitty experience on some payment platform, so you made this account to complain and rile people up?

Sucks that you had a bad experience, it may be worthwhile posting a more direct tale of it - people here love commiserating about things and may even be able to help out.

Not sure what's up with your other racist comments though, that's pretty weird my dude.

post-it··on German watchdog orders Sam Altman's biometric ID project World to delete data
A bug is just a mistake, and the legal system already deals with mistakes in a variety of ways.
post-it··on German watchdog orders Sam Altman's biometric ID project World to delete data
It's imprudent to use technology that makes it impossible to comply with the law.
post-it··on German watchdog orders Sam Altman's biometric ID project World to delete data
It's not a technical problem to solve, it's a legal one. If there is a crushing penalty if data that was supposed to be deleted shows up one day, companies will find a way to delete it.
post-it··on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
As long as your chosen profession isn't completing AI benchmarks for money, you should be okay.
post-it··on A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
What's the battery life on that though? The appeal of AirTags is that they last a year and work anywhere that has an iPhone nearby.
post-it··on A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
Nature cameras are relatively hard to conceal (from humans), whereas AirTags are very easy to conceal.
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