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wodenokoto··on .name Grandfathered
Author has had his .name domain for 25 years, so not exactly new.
wodenokoto··on Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America
Kei-cars are the smallest class of cars allowed on highways in Japan. Japan highway speeds are quite low at 100km/h, which is still more than twice what this car is limited to.

On intercity highways in Japan you are driving next to as large trucks as anywhere I've driven.

wodenokoto··on Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases
The screenshots looks nice, but the text on the landing page does make me wonder if the whole thing is just a pile of slop.
wodenokoto··on Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases
It is and it isn't.

It looks like a polished thing that from a UX perspective sits between a spreadsheet and PowerBI

It let's any user with DB access build reports pretty close to how you'd edit a spreadsheet and without having to build pipelines in PowerBI and setup ingestion etc, etc.

The closest thing I've seen here is the old Tableu Desktop, but this one is more focused on tables than figures.

wodenokoto··on Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider
You can can't build an SVM-classifier for a ticketing system without domain data. You can ask an LLM to do it, and it will do it very well.

With the LLM you don't even need a data scientist to train the model, you just need someone who can connect to APIs. And the LLM is fine with adding and removing categories. No retraining.

It makes the initial faces incredibly fast. Then it is slow and expensive to run, so once the system settles, it becomes the target for model optimization, e.g, a dedicated, or semi-dedicated model.

wodenokoto··on Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe
I disagree with _that_ being the turn of events. In my experience, the conversation has died because everything turns into either: "That article was written by LLM" or "how this relates to LLM"
wodenokoto··on The typo generation is damaging literature
I felt the writing here was more than a bit pompous, but even though I had to reach out for my dictionary for this one, I have to admit it was really clever:

> but The Trees’ faults are untold, and they are untold in the second sense of the word.

Untold:

1. too much or too many to be counted

2. (of a story or an event) not narrated

wodenokoto··on Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier
Maybe a decade or so ago I had a discussion with a colleague about chat apps and he said, why would you want to have a conversation on snapchat if it is not saved, and I was like, why are you having this conversation now, you can't save it either.

I guess that those days are soon over.

wodenokoto··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
I live in Dubai. There is no lack of super cars on the streets. The other day a cybertruck was parked outside my window and this group of teenagers spend a long time posing in front of it taking group pictures and individual pictures.

You don’t see that with a Ferrari or Rolls Royce.

It is definitely going to be a collectors items, if it isn’t already.

That’s not gonna pay the bills for Tesla, but I guess it’s something.

wodenokoto··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
> Should Claude have access to anything outside of the sandboxed project files without explicit permission? I’d again say no.

This is definitely a question that sounds straightforward but isn't. Like, when I ask antigravity to commit to git, it gets an error because ~/.gitconfig is outside the sandbox.

wodenokoto··on Flashcards are "dead fish": rethinking spaced repetition around highlights
I think the concept is solid, and I have seen an attempt at this once, and thought about how to apply something along the lines to Anki.

There was, a long time ago, a post here with a learn Japanese, where you where shown a sentence if I remember correctly, you clicked the words you understood. Sentences where synthesized long before LLMs existed, so sentences weren't great.

And you want something that keeps track of words and grammar you know and present words you are about to forget in a context of words and sentence structures you are familiar with. This could even be two or three new, or forgotten words at once, and the system keeps track of multiple words per flashcard (or quiz, as the cards are fully dynamic)

wodenokoto··on Download your favourite YouTube videos
Interesting. Is there a similar reason why old videos show up as unwatched?

I often get a wave of videos I've watched years ago pop up as recommended and not marked as watched.

wodenokoto··on Awesome repositories are no longer awesome
I mean, even at the time of creation, when it was still timely, a link to a top 50 downloaded packages list is a pretty shitty link to include.

Even before slop, I found a lot of those awesome lists and CS degrees repos useless.

wodenokoto··on A thousand fewer paths to root
Yes and no. I think parent is moving towards an interesting point.

Why haven’t these been operationalized? NK resorted to social engineering in their latest bitcoin heist despite there been a thousand holes in the system.

To me, this points towards these holes are near impossible for humans and traditional tooling to find and Pandora’s box has been opened, or that these holes are not open to abuse in practice.

wodenokoto··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
I use Gemini Pro and anti gravity completely out of the box. And am not super pleased, but it is also quite cheap for what you get.

My biggest gripe: If I tell it to make a change in layout to a page and there is a "collateral" change, I cannot tell it to "change that back", because it will spend an hour digging through git history diffing stuff that is not related in any way. Once a conversation has started git diffing it never ends, all down stream tasks become a treasure hunt in git history.

I also think that Argon-tokens are super stingy.

wodenokoto··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
In order to lighten the administrative burden that occurs when society/state has a legitimate case to prevent offensive naming, society is likely to create an approve list.

Denmark did use to have "These and only these names" and they were written into the law (yes, there are pages and pages of Danish legislation that are just names), but now any non-offensive name is okay, and for administrative purposes, an "approved"-list is kept for easy reference to things that have already been, well, approved.

wodenokoto··on Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay
Absolutely not. Any company that moves from API to self hosting (Hello Revolut on the frontage) will publicize the savings, e.g, the actual cost vs API pricing. You might even do that if you start out self hosting.
wodenokoto··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Yes of course you can't name your child Shit Head. Is that a thing your government will print on a birth certificate?
wodenokoto··on European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative
Did you notice the words "funding phase"?
wodenokoto··on Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)
This has given me a lot of trouble with emails.

I have a domain that contains Nordic characters and it is a crapshoot if the email client will accept and send.

Meanwhile I have not encountered problems with http access.

wodenokoto··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
Just clicked a random model on the site and it is licensed as beerware. If you like it and meet the author, you should buy them a beer.

Sounds like Roblox should open a open3dlab bar!

wodenokoto··on New iPad mini
Unlike the rest of the comments I actually do think this is the biggest upgrade to the iPad mini lineup.

Everything looks really good and way better than I’d expected.

Yes, the price increase sucks. I feel it is kinda warranted given the feature increase and current market. But only kinda.

Yes, 120hz would have been nice, but we all now Apple is gating that for their pro lineup. So no surprise.

Yes, the camera bump is stupid. An iPad that doesn’t lay flat is silly. But all the other I-devices has a big bump so again, no surprise.

I’ve been in the market for a mini and I am glad I hesitated.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, I love that they are advertising minimum NITS and not just max!

wodenokoto··on Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits
I hadn’t heard that they are officially selling in the UAE.

But I did hear that parallel imported cyber trucks to UAE was a substantial part of US sales.

wodenokoto··on Root shell on Samsung TV
Yeah, the context is really vague. For the past few days log4j has been decompiling a Samsung TV and reporting on twitter the various spyware that is running
wodenokoto··on Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?
Non-native speaker here, but generally considered fluent:

I would write your example sentence. If pushed (like now) I would change it to “the form is submitted”

wodenokoto··on How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
Explain how the user makes the decision. It's not like they click "watch expensive add and gain 2 coins, or watch normal add for 1 coin" The user doesn't know what ad they are about to be shown and has no choice in getting and ad that can revive their play.
wodenokoto··on How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
While lots of parts of the article isn’t written well, the subject and what is uncovered is very interesting.

That is why it is posted.

wodenokoto··on How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
I guess there’s just a lot I don’t know about this ad market. Is the high value ad only available to show for a limited time?
wodenokoto··on How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
I’m a bit unsure why they want to change gameplay based on the value of the ad.

It’s not like I get sucked into the game and decides to watch more expensive ads (which is the mechanic of golden berries or whatever)

As far as I understand the rule, high value players are more likely to die - but why?

wodenokoto··on What Is Gridifcation
> the kick and bass do not line up exactly. You never hear that in a contemporary pop mix anymore. That is not because musicians lost the ability to play together.

Why would losing the ability to play together cause the kick and bass to line up? This is the most forced claudism I've seen in a long time.

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