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vizzier··on Tesla retreats from one-piece "gigacasting" manufacturing process
The craziest part to me of this idea of their valuation is being a tech company not a car is that the stock jumped 20% on ... news that they're going to release an affordable car?

None of it makes any sense.

vizzier··on GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview
proper insertion points in completions akin to older Visual Studio templates would probably be ideal, but you can use ctrl + right arrow in vscode to accept completions one word at a time, rather than a whole block with tab.
vizzier··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
De-facto international antitrust, I like it.
vizzier··on The Papa Johns closest to The Pentagon is far busier than usual
Yeah, Israel can't even control a 25km strip of land on its southern coast. War is never easy.
vizzier··on Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2
Useful suggestions, thanks. I'll dig in further next time I'm building something.

They do seem to suffer from the other part that prevented me from ordering from places like this before though; its hard for a hobby project to break the high free shipping minimum order size. This may again be a problem with being in Canada not the US though :)

vizzier··on Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2
I feel this. As an amateur 3d printed project enjoyer in Canada, getting ahold of M* screws is a real pain, even though I prefer their specifications greatly over the weird imperial sizes.
vizzier··on Ask HN: Should employers pay for employees' phones if 2FA apps are required?
In the past I believe this was so that if the phone was lost it could be remote wiped for security.

I agree that's a hard no for personal devices though.

vizzier··on Shenzhen Issues Plan to Promote Development of HarmonyOS Operating System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_disc...

Its certainly not like we don't try.

vizzier··on Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 6 for Business and Surface Pro 10
That is because apple doesn't ask you, it just turns it on. If you don't accept changes to their terms of service (As I haven't) you'd get these notifications fairly regularly.
vizzier··on Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 6 for Business and Surface Pro 10
> ...can't stop trying to upsell people into using onedrive, forcefully signs you into onedrive, syncs your local files into their cloud without consent, tries really hard to not let you sign in with a local account and most likely does other shady things.

This portion of the complaint was a playbook that was defined by Apple and icloud. Feels like an out of the frying pan into the fire situation.

vizzier··on Why are most sofas so bad?
You're quite correct about the Lack. They're cheap as hell (15 bucks at time of writing?), but as a result quite manipulatable, such as creating 3d printer enclosures [0]. You can see some of their insides as they go through the process.

[0] https://blog.prusa3d.com/mmu2s-printer-enclosure_30215/

vizzier··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
> Is international influence something that should be stopped?

This should be a simple yes. External authoritarian governments (Russia's IRA, CCP via bytedance) should not have their thumb on the scale (trollfarms & the algorithm) for what is viewed in western democracies. I'm actually amazed that this view is controversial.

I agree with the rest of your premises, but the above should be a separate issue from them.

vizzier··on Expedia to Eliminate 1,500 Jobs as Travel Growth Moderates
We need to unionize and get residuals. 0.0001 cent each time a line of our code execute might be a good start.
vizzier··on [dead]
Is this bragging? Its written in neutral language. And the numbers are within 0.7% for all. This it outrage bait and nothing else.
vizzier··on Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2024
What you're describing is fairly close to Intel's Beast Canion NUC [0] from a couple of years back. The Mobo and GFX essentially sit back to back. Though intel seemed to envisage upgrading the whole "CPU side" as a single piece (including ram) which probably, along with its high price, put off buyers.

Following on from that though, there are a number of miniitx cases that followed on from that type of layout such as the fractal terra [1] which utilize a pcie riser to pass it rearward to the graphics card behind the motherboard. ATX/ITX wasn't entirely designed for it, but the layout does seem to be quite elegant.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nuc-11-extreme-kit-beas...

[1] https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/terra/terra/te...

vizzier··on German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
Adding a source to this claim as it is very valid [0]. I cannot find a good overview of the overall demographics of the ukranian refugees other than it is mostly women and children due to the borders being closed to outgoing men. Employment rates will rise as people integrate.

[0] https://www.oecd.org/health/Expenditure-by-disease-age-and-g...

vizzier··on Setting up a secondary Pi-Hole on my home network
I run a pair as my DNS. For me they're mostly there to block tracking over ads. Approx 10% of my DNS lookups get eaten by it using the standard ad list. Ublock / privacy badger grabs a bunch, the piholes still kill a bunch more.
vizzier··on The three million toothbrush botnet story isn't true
You get into "does this still really count as java" but I believe this runs in most sim cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
vizzier··on "Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks
Why would they need to reprint money, old monarch's faces are still perfectly valid currency.
vizzier··on Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower
European Court of Human Rights.
vizzier··on Students break acceleration world record for electric vehicles
Like the borehole cap on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob Pascal-B
vizzier··on Dropping playground latency by porting SpiceDB to WASM
Yep, and as noted in the article here "slightly modified afterwards" probably covers that base. It'll also be hard to identify AI generated vs human created vs human adjusted as time goes on without flags to designate each as such.
vizzier··on Dropping playground latency by porting SpiceDB to WASM
AI generated imagery cannot be copyrighted: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-copyright-offic...

Certainly puts us in an interesting situation. It should essentially make all Dall.E generated imagery essentially public domain. Implications are interesting as more images begin to be used in published works rather than just as memes on twitter.

vizzier··on Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ
I feel this so much, been working with F# in some sub projects. C# is hard to go back to. Though Microsoft's route of stealing wholesale from the former is making it gradually more palatable.
vizzier··on Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking
Your comment reminds me of this[1] video from sorted food where they make a recipe from an old professional cookbook. Instructions are very high level and without the context of 100 years ago it is difficult to know if they were successful in their creation. More detail recipes or at least pictures alongside might have given some of that context.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nWoI923LnY

vizzier··on A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
Though a bit tongue in cheek this classic video covers the basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBK5aKOr2Fw
vizzier··on The Last i486 Online
Seems like knowing when to apply force is half the battle of building a PC. For reference, modern CPU installation should require NO force if done properly. Gravity alone should let settle into the socket. Gently attempting to twist it should yield no movement if it is seated correctly.
vizzier··on Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant
This was my thought as well, chip production has to be so necessarily automated to maintain a clean state that it feels like the cost of engineers to maintain systems is always going to be high, but also a small cost of the overall system. I'd love some real numbers.
vizzier··on Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/gigabyte/aorus-fo48u-... - Looking out for tv panels attached to "gaming" monitors might be a route.
vizzier··on People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own
I can't help but feel that this type of workflow just took a huge step forward in https://copilot.github.com/ too. A solid recognition that thats how most people code distilled into a product that automates that lookup by cross referencing information on the worlds largest code platform.
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