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New comment by alexchamberlain in "I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27"

alexchamberlain — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:13:13 +0000

> gives dumb people access to each other

Was this a serious comment? It made me realise that prior to the Internet, information flow was controlled by journalists or through peer reviewed papers and academic forums. People without advanced education would, generally, be limited to people in their local area.

New comment by alexchamberlain in "UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does"

alexchamberlain — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:36:29 +0000

The author is in DevSecOps (i understand the Sec part...) - nitpicking is in the job description.

New comment by alexchamberlain in "I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one"

alexchamberlain — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:46:03 +0000

Wasn't part of the point of the post was that this is a passion project? It's not a viable business.

New comment by alexchamberlain in "Apple HomeView"

alexchamberlain — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:54:35 +0000

Isn't this "just" the latest iteration of a coprocessor?

New comment by alexchamberlain in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

alexchamberlain — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:27:28 +0000

Isn't it less than a year since Claude models went from 100k token limit to 1M limit? Don't get me wrong - my main agent normally gets to 25% or so before I clear it these days, but as a subagent, doing research or summarisation, I don't think 100k is "absurdly low".

New comment by alexchamberlain in "I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task"

alexchamberlain — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:05:52 +0000

Am I missing something or does sorting by Duration not work? Chrome on Android mobile

New comment by alexchamberlain in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

alexchamberlain — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:19:57 +0000

No? This company is based in Sweden, right?

That being said, the only reference to the EU is the domain itself - everything else says European, and the UK didn't move during Brexit.

New comment by alexchamberlain in "Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance"

alexchamberlain — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:00:09 +0000

Given the negative social perception of screen time, wouldn't the parents be motivated to report lower than actual numbers? Furthermore, this is one population (Singapore) and doesn't detail (at least not in the summary) how screen time varied from day to day (eg my children have substantially less screen time on school days, than weekends. Screen time in both cases tends to be biased towards breakfast time, when the house is a bit manic, or after significant periods of outdoor/energetic activity when everyone needs a rest.)

New comment by alexchamberlain in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

alexchamberlain — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:17:17 +0000

I don't think so. My understanding was "confirmed" by ChatGPT, though I haven't looked at the sources.

> Rugby in Ireland is governed by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), which was established in 1879, decades before Ireland was partitioned in 1921. It has always organised rugby on an all-Ireland basis.

New comment by alexchamberlain in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

alexchamberlain — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:59:18 +0000

And, of course, the Ireland rugby team picks players from both the Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland.

New comment by alexchamberlain in "An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk"

alexchamberlain — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:31:03 +0000

OTA = over the air. ie online updates you’d expect of a more polished product

New comment by alexchamberlain in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

alexchamberlain — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:01:05 +0000

I think you should highlight your exemplary pre-AI writing too.

New comment by alexchamberlain in "Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?"

alexchamberlain — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:28:37 +0000

https://www.kcom.com/about-us/history/ they were operated by a separate company, so the crown wasn't appropriate.

New comment by alexchamberlain in "Async Rust never left the MVP state"

alexchamberlain — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:49:11 +0000

It seems like inlining futures that aren't holding variables over the await point might solve a large part of these issues?

New comment by alexchamberlain in "Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers"

alexchamberlain — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:32:42 +0000

> Government support won't work for OSS at scale — it's too globally decentralized... We recently received US 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity status.

If this is successful in the first iteration, I'd love to see a UK and EU based charities too. That would allow european donors to support on a gross pay basis, and may simplify grants to european nationals too. (I'm sure similar things apply in other jurisdictions too.)

New comment by alexchamberlain in "We installed a single turnstile to feel secure"

alexchamberlain — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:27:42 +0000

I'm not going to comment on the security implications of either situation, but is there a companion piece by the facilities team complaining about the amount of paperwork required to install turnstiles only for a software engineer to come along and lock them out of Jira on a whim?

New comment by alexchamberlain in "Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization"

alexchamberlain — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:44:57 +0000

There are 3 mines on Manhattan; is that correct?

New comment by alexchamberlain in "MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings"

alexchamberlain — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:13:00 +0000

Apologies if this is obvious and I missed it. Does this define a way to store the strings in various languages?

New comment by alexchamberlain in "Kitchen optimizations"

alexchamberlain — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:39:53 +0000

You can have 240V outlets too... at least, a lot of woodworkers seem to install them in their garages. Are they legal in the kitchen?

New comment by alexchamberlain in "CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally"

alexchamberlain — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:26:23 +0000

Would this be effective at smaller volumes? Could it get down to say the size of a washing machine for use at home?