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New comment by drfloyd51 in "Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors"

drfloyd51 — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:43:21 +0000

That’s what that was? I had no idea. I just knew I could hear muted TVs whine. I asked my parents about it. They couldn’t hear it. So I wasn’t sure if it was real.

I feel so relieved.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Ted Turner has died"

drfloyd51 — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:33:02 +0000

He died at 8:05 EST.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

drfloyd51 — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:16:04 +0000

It is pure arrogance to expect that machines will never be able to code as good as a skilled human.

And AI generated code should be different than human code. AI has infinite memory for details. AI doesn’t need organizational patterns like classes. Potentially AI can write code that is more performant than any human.

Will it look like garbage? Sure. Will the code be more suited to the task? Yes.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "The bottleneck was never the code"

drfloyd51 — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:41:58 +0000

They are still anti-social. But they see the “social” as a way to feed the AI better, to make better code.

The focus is still the code.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

drfloyd51 — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:24:46 +0000

If I charged people for the privilege of listening to me recite relevant parts of the book to them for profit? Yes. Depending on the copyright.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal"

drfloyd51 — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:39:25 +0000

Somewhat related, but useful?: I setup AutoHotKey to, after I use alt+tab to switch to a new window, AHK will move the mouse the center of newly activated window.

Turns out it’s handy. After switching apps the cursor is in a defined location and closer to anything I want to click.

It’s weird but it works for me.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Transformers Are Inherently Succinct (2025)"

drfloyd51 — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:11:49 +0000

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

drfloyd51 — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:57:01 +0000

And to add to the confusion, the display reads 100% of the current capacity. 100% of 80%.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

drfloyd51 — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:50:06 +0000

4.05V is 94% of 4.2V. Does that translate to having 94% capacity longer. For a total capacity over time greater than maxing to 100% with an 20% falloff?

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Do_not_track"

drfloyd51 — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:40:53 +0000

I think getting ads that are relevant to me is better than compete nonsense. BUT, I also don’t want to give advertisers any information to do it. (Maybe A.S.L. is ok to share?)

Yes. I know my two thoughts are in conflict, for the advertisers. Too bad for them. Figure it out.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)"

drfloyd51 — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:22:26 +0000

Asking the real questions!

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)"

drfloyd51 — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:20:49 +0000

Which is irrelevant to TMP or TEMP.

It could simply be: When envars were added to MSDOS…

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Ti-84 Evo"

drfloyd51 — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:51:33 +0000

I played the heck out of some space trading game based on drug wars I think. You “flew” around between planets buying and selling cargo.

I would love to play something like that again on my phone.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "The smelly baby problem"

drfloyd51 — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:42:05 +0000

They hold their poses better when they are frozen too.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months"

drfloyd51 — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:46:00 +0000

Your estimates do not account for speed of delivery. If an AI can deliver 10x faster, the target is less than 10x a dev salary.

But 10x faster also gets you to market sooner. Which has value.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers"

drfloyd51 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:55:23 +0000

> why not?

I wonder.

> Since v2 QD comes with a permission system that makes things safer.

That’s why not.

You got your JavaScript in my HTML.

Seriously though… it might be a useful feature. Or it could kill your product’s focus. Sincerely, good luck.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Is my blue your blue?"

drfloyd51 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:07:09 +0000

Some languages don’t make a distinction. And if a language doesn’t have a word for green or blue it won’t have a word for brown or orange either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

New comment by drfloyd51 in "The woes of sanitizing SVGs"

drfloyd51 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:34:27 +0000

Some of the suggestions are kind-of exactly that. But they specify not a change to the default behavior, but a new behavior based on the presence of a new attribute.

You could change the default behavior to the “safer” behavior. And then add some sort of “danger mode” attribute. But… devs are usually hesitant to do something that would break legitimate code, such as changing the default behavior would do.

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Quirks of Human Anatomy"

drfloyd51 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:02:44 +0000

Akshully…

These flaws were left in so there would be no proof of a creator. Because with proof, there is no faith. And faith is a requirement of winning.

Imagine how hard it must have been to design “flaws” like these but still allow humans to survive. I can’t. Therefore, you can’t. Only an omnipotent god could do it.

Checkmate atheists!

New comment by drfloyd51 in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

drfloyd51 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:27:41 +0000

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