<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: blensor</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blensor</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:51:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=blensor" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blensor in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if this is the expectation of the majority or just the expectation of us tech people.<p>Because I assume most people want to take a screenshot because they want to capture something they are seeing in the app, most people probably are even annoyed to have the system indicators visible there.</p>
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<p>About 2 years ago I my cardiologist wanted to put me on medication because my blood test was already so bad ( prediabetic, liver was impacted, overweight, etc. )<p>However I wanted to try to get it under control myself ( cutting out almost all carbs, liver friendly diet, lot's of exercise ), she didn't think it would make a difference but she humored me and gave me a 3 month period to try and get it back to normal.<p>This year ( about 2 years since I started and about 1 3/4 years since my values were good ) she told me that she now has to completely remove prediabetis from my diagnosis because she can no longer justify it based on all the tests we did since then.</p>
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<p>I mean you could opt for the exabox from tinygrad <a href="https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox" rel="nofollow">https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox</a><p>It comes in a full sized shipping container and costs around $10M but money has stopped being connected to reality now anyway with all the AI company valuations being floated around, so who cares about a few million here or there.</p>
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<p>Thank you!<p>Finally I have a word I can use for this</p>
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<p>In no order of importance:<p><pre><code>  - Refactoring a 13 year old in-house vacation rental booking system ( python/turbogears )
  - Backend development for our VR fitness game ( flask/python )
  - Unity development on our VR fitness game ( C#/Unity )
  - VR game development experiments ( Godot/GDScript )
  - Standalone SLAM localization service ( C++ )
  - Audio analysis ( python/pytorch )
  - Virtual display with Viture display glasses ( C )
  - Reverse engineering a library I am using for another project ( ghidra -> C - no MCP yet, that's something I am looking forward to )
  - Public facing website rebuilding for the booking system above ( PHP/JS )
  - Generative 3D environments for our VR fitness game ( python )
  - Wireless camera/IMU based tracker for the SLAM system ( C )
</code></pre>
Once I've dug in with a specific model into a problem I tend to stick to that because I have a feeling what it will do and how well it works, but when I start a new thing I usually use whatever the model was last set to.</p>
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<p>I'm a model nomad, using whatever solved my last problem the best and where it makes the most sense to start my next work in.<p>However with the latest models Fable, Kimi K3, 5.6, it's getting to a point where I sometimes forget what model I am on without noticing a difference. And once I realize it because something may not be exactly like I expected it I won't switch for that work either because I don't want to invalidate the cache.<p>For the next work I will do there is maybe a 50/50 chance to remember to switch the model before I start.<p>That's not what I would call stickiness towards a certain provider.</p>
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<p>It uses polyfill.io which is no longer active and has been taken over by malicious actors.<p>That's where the sign in request is coming from</p>
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<p>Agreed, it was a bit of a pain to get running on my Ubuntu machine because I had old amdgpu-dkms-firmware packages installed without realizing it. 
But now that it's running it's amazing how well it works</p>
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<p>The reason why I was curious is that I am running my stuff on a Strix Halo and I get the feeling that this class of devices ( gmktek, minisforum, lenovo, etc. ) seem to becoming a pretty good alternative</p>
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<p>I am curious if you implicitly assumed they are Macs or if that's what you are looking for specifically?</p>
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<p>What worries me is that FSD in Tesla does seems to sometimes introduce problems in the driving behavior with new updates. I have not experienced this first hand ( don't own one ) but I am following the r/TeslaFSD and it looks like new versions are sometimes regressing on situations that were handled correctly on older versions.<p>This leads me to believe that FSD is not yet solved to the level we thought and training to handle a certain new thing correcty can degrade handling of other situations</p>
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<p>What exactly do you find particularly ugly on this car?<p>The only thing that is a bit weird to me are the headlights, otherwise I quite like the look.</p>
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<p>And isn't it also mostly a transitioning issue. Those open codebases will be constantly scanned for potential security issues and getting more and more hardened.
There are probably a lot of easy wins that are going to be discovered over the next few years but it should taper out after a while.</p>
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<p>Tangentially related question. Has anyone analyzed if the content that is being converted could break the model.<p>So let's say you have a super dull pdf ( or even a scan ) that has the same line over and over again, could this get the model into one of those loops that just keep spewing nonsense.<p>And thinking that further, could someone prompt inject a model with a handwritten note that only gets "activated" once it's in the context?</p>
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<p>This is ( or will be in the future ) a surprisingly relevant issue</p>
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<p>Kind of yes. The person who does not spam the messages.<p>What I noticed for myself is that saying no to something is becoming harder by the day because, why wouldn't you try something if it's so cheap to do.<p>That makes having the strength to say no almost a quality in and of itself.<p>That is true both for external pressure and internal pressure.</p>
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<p>How do you measure the body regularly without potentially introducing problems just by measuring it?</p>
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<p>Maybe the solution is to look out for the most silent engineers.
Those that output less despite having the ability to create near infinite output.</p>
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<p>After digging around a bit I found an unverified claim from 2024 that GPUs in datacenters have a lifespan of 1-3 years<p><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/datacenter-gpu-service-life-can-be-surprisingly-short-only-one-to-three-years-is-expected-according-to-unnamed-google-architect" rel="nofollow">https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/datacenter-g...</a><p>Others say that moderate load means a lifespan of ~5 years<p>Not sure what that means but I would assume that a datacenter will start replacing a node once the error rate hits a certain threshold without really investigating why it failed, so the practical lifespan may be shorter than 5 years even if it would technically still be usable enough</p>
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<p>I also feel that the GPU/NPU value does not lose money as fast anymore.<p>What I am wondering though is how long can you run such a system at basically full load without interruption before it starts to just physically degrade.<p>If I have a H100 and I let it run for 4 years at full throttle does it still have the same theoretical value as it had at the start or are the chips just burning out.<p>I think I remember that back when the cards used for crypto mining were sold en masse on ebay the advice was to stay away from them because they are more likely to fail?</p>
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