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spixy··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
5-10mins seems like a perfect algorithm to me.

If you have more time, then you can watch normal youtube videos or TV shows...

spixy··on Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)
Why are they common in java? In .net or node.js I dont think I have ever had one.
spixy··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
I see nothing wrong there.
spixy··on Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal
maybe Reddit has more value than XYZ?
spixy··on HTML Tags Memory Test
ooh, from the title I tought it was RAM test (aka MemTest86) written in HTML and was confused
spixy··on AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
GDPR has fines for data breaches
spixy··on H.264 Is Magic (2016)
Why does GPU need to trade off quality for speed? GPU is faster than CPU, that is the whole point of GPU encoding, isnt it?

Does it mean just that nVidia and AMD engineers done a poor job when implementing those encoders?

spixy··on A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k
uuid is a 128 bit integer but at the same time a string

Many ORMs represent UUID as a string.

spixy··on New theory suggests time is an illusion created by quantum entanglement
How does that single photon theory work with black holes?
spixy··on New theory suggests time is an illusion created by quantum entanglement
How goes "it already happened" with infinite time? Does it mean there is no infinite time?

Also no free will sounds so horrible yet so liberating.

spixy··on AMD Unveils Ryzen 9000 CPUs for Desktop, Zen 5
Better efficiency with three external 4K 120Hz monitors?
spixy··on X is justifiably slow (2022)
There was a side by side comparision video (on twitter, cannot find) with Win11 with modern HW and Win98 with then-modern HW, cmd, explorer, notepad, paints, calculator all started instantly on older Windows, while on 11 every app has startup delay, and then also "paint UI so its all shown and responsive" delay.

Also hardware input lag definitely isnt better, and many times worse than in past: https://danluu.com/input-lag

spixy··on 84–24
Yes. Stupidest rule on HN.
spixy··on Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news
> For example Reddit will (unprompted) put links to videos of police brutality on the home page when I’m not part of that subreddit.

What? Yes if you go to r/popular/ or r/all/ but on home page it wont (I just tested to be sure and it shows only my subscribed subreddits).

spixy··on 60 kHz (2022)
AC motor, steam, diesel, jet engines are european "gifts to the world",

yet it would be cringe to write sentence like "I’m not particularly patriotic, but this kind of thing feels particularly European"

spixy··on 3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe
except you dont convince a scientists to sign off

you can force a scientists to sign off...

spixy··on Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections
> is much less risky

well Baltimore thinks otherwise

spixy··on Apple introduces M4 chip
Then give me more memory. 512gb storage with 16gb ram
spixy··on Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
except JavaScript is not an advantage at all
spixy··on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
even in roaming?
spixy··on Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team
He has done similar thing in SpaceX and it worked: https://twitter.com/FoMaHun/status/1785333618157527081
spixy··on Tips on how to structure your home directory (2023)
.NET has it as well:

Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData)

spixy··on Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case
iPhone's market share is 30% (globally)
spixy··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
That actually can make sense. Public version of ChatGPT shares your company private data with third party (OpenAI), your own version does not.
spixy··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
well Google is lucky it has a monopoly in ads, so there will be no "go broke" part
spixy··on WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering
Wait there is still any WebKit on non-Apple platform?
spixy··on Remote work won, don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise
I value more ability to socialize and have fun with coworkers physically, than maybe more money in high value enterprise where I would work from my room and be alone most of the day.
spixy··on Remote work won, don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise
But why? Just have one job and enjoy your free time.

However if workers have so little productivity on-site, there is something wrong with the company (or workers).

spixy··on GitUI
- (un)staging only parts of files instead of whole files

- seeing full content of a branch without checkouting

- seeing diffs between local/remote/stash branches instantly just by Ctrl + mouse click

- automatic stash+reapply local changes when pulling or checkouting branch

- easy using multiple ssh keys (due to multiple remotes)

- easy show/hide parts of tree in (a nice rendered) tree

- just one mouse click to show commit in github (and probably other sites)

etc.

most of them could be done with CLI but it would just be suffering for me

spixy··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
Do Porsche cars need to be break in? I know some cars limit engine power for first thousands of km (m).

https://extramile.thehartford.com/auto/maintenance/how-to-br...

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