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New comment by dadadad100 in "Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings"

dadadad100 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:50:47 +0000

Decimate is the one that gets me. That word does not mean what he thinks it means

New comment by dadadad100 in "Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras"

dadadad100 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:15:16 +0000

Based on two days with the motion sensor the responsiveness feels very good. The reduction in hops may be the key there. It’s too early to tell about the connection reliability but I’ve been using IKEA zigbee stuff for years with no issues. The build quality of the sensor and their new switches is very high.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras"

dadadad100 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:50:47 +0000

They missed that IKEA has just released a new smart home suite including a motion/light sensor for $9.99 [1]. Full thread/matter support and some also have zigbee to maintain backwards compatibility to legacy IKEA stuff.

I’m migrating from my zigbee stuff bridged through home assistant to HomeKit. Now I have thread to HomeKit directly

[1] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/myggspray-wireless-motion-senso...

New comment by dadadad100 in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

dadadad100 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:05:28 +0000

Camel camel camel wouldn’t send notifications to my hidden email. Works fine for my regular vanity domain.

New comment by dadadad100 in "A Typology of Canadianisms"

dadadad100 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:55:29 +0000

And Quebec has it’s own English. I spent a few years working in Montreal and soon learned about “passing the vacuum” and “closing the light”. There are so many bilingual folks that concepts and word orders flow back and forth. I had an interesting discussion with a bilingual anglophone about how in English elsewhere it’s called a “pacifier” and not a “souce”

New comment by dadadad100 in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"

dadadad100 — Sat, 17 May 2025 12:09:14 +0000

I believe it is the case that US (at least) iPhones work as IC cards in Japan

Source - I’m sitting in Kyoto right now having travelled all over Tokyo and then on to Kyoto using only my phone to interact with Japan Rail. Verified with two 16Es and a 12. In fact we were able to add the Suica cards to our phones and charge them fromApplePay while still stateside. That let us skip the Welcome Suica line at Haneda and go straight to the monorail. Highly recommended

New comment by dadadad100 in "Reverse geocoding is hard"

dadadad100 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:33:55 +0000

This problem seems to also exist for services like uber. Their solution seems easier, drop a pin on a map. Perhaps working so hard to find a textual description is missing the simpler solution.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Turing-Drawings"

dadadad100 — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 16:36:50 +0000

You are kidding, right? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

New comment by dadadad100 in "Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit"

dadadad100 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:47:39 +0000

Ah, but isn’t that the problem here - asking an LLM for facts without requesting a search is like asking a PhD to answer a question “off the top of your head”. For pop culture questions the PhD likely brings little value.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit"

dadadad100 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:02:50 +0000

If we were to survey 100 PhDs how many would know correctly that Paul Newman had an alcohol problem.

New comment by dadadad100 in "AI tools are spotting errors in research papers"

dadadad100 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 23:01:23 +0000

Much like scanning tools looking for CVEs. There are thousands of devs right this moment chasing alleged vulns. It is early days for all of these tools. Giving papers a look over is an unqualified good as it is for code. I like the approach of keeping it private until the researcher can respond.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Why it's so hard to build a jet engine"

dadadad100 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:18:54 +0000

Thunderbirds are go!

New comment by dadadad100 in "Common mistakes in architecture diagrams (2020)"

dadadad100 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:00:29 +0000

There is some interesting new working the C4 space at https://likec4.dev/

This is a less prescriptive model than structurizr but keeps the goals of C4

New comment by dadadad100 in "America desperately needs more air traffic controllers"

dadadad100 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:19:38 +0000

Take a fly on an airliner in MS flight simulator sometime or watch any of the YouTubers that show this stuff. CitationMax is a good one. The screens tell the flight plan, altitudes, traffic, weather, terrain and more. The audio part is, as mentioned above, extremely efficient and shared. The audio is used for clearances from one step to another ( very loosely speaking) This improves everyone’s situational awareness. This may have been an issue at DCA where the commercial flight was on VHF and the chopper was on UHF.

If a plane loses comms there are well defined procedures and everyone knows exactly what that plane will do as they proceed to their destination.

New comment by dadadad100 in "What's OAuth2, anyway?"

dadadad100 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:41:14 +0000

Very good presentation but I do miss any mention of the audience claim. This claim is underrated in my opinion at least. It allows the token to climb access to an api or server or whatever that can be used by gateways to do a high level authorization. Then the scopes can be used at the resource server to govern lower level authorization.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Starship Flight 7"

dadadad100 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:03:08 +0000

The ATC is up on YouTube - I heard it on the vatsim channel. ATC would not let pilots transit the designated danger airspace without declaring an emergency. So they did.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Everything Is Just Functions: Insights from SICP and David Beazley"

dadadad100 — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 23:07:18 +0000

Everything is a rule (Pega)

New comment by dadadad100 in "Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence"

dadadad100 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:31:59 +0000

Ahh the perils of the installed base. It brings to mind the use of tab in make files.

> And then a few weeks later I had a user population of about a dozen, most of them friends, and I didn't want to screw up my embedded base. The rest, sadly, is history.[1]

[1] http://catb.org/%7Eesr/writings/taoup/html/ch15s04.html

New comment by dadadad100 in "The inventor of the automatic rice cooker"

dadadad100 — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 19:15:38 +0000

I was surprised at the rice cooker section at Yodobashi Camera in Tokyo Akaba that they were serving samples of cooked rice from each of the many, many models they sell. My American senses failed to detect any difference. And yes, that was only one of the multitude of surprises in that wonderland of a store.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

dadadad100 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:57:16 +0000

My Samsung ultra wide has side by side mode with two input cables. Screen sharing (and Windows) thinks it’s two monitors but I can stretch windows all the way across both if I want to since it is an extended set