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New comment by f_devd in "SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock"

f_devd — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:49:55 +0000

Except there is little cooling or power in space, depending on your position in orbit you could only have one of those at a time.

New comment by f_devd in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

f_devd — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:07:39 +0000

I think they mean that a non-observant visitor cannot tell the difference between both situations

BIO – The Bao I/O Co-Processor

f_devd — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:56:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/bio-the-bao-i-o-co-processor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457344

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by f_devd in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

f_devd — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:34:57 +0000

Wouldn't be surprised if they have their own internal PBX system with a SIP trunk

New comment by f_devd in "Baochip-1x: A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications"

f_devd — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:22:42 +0000

That sucks, but also probably the best vindication for their strategy; any other mcu and you just wouldn't know.

New comment by f_devd in "Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy"

f_devd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:07:36 +0000

Always a bit jarring to see a devboard stacked on an otherwise neat board. Looks promising though.

New comment by f_devd in "Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy"

f_devd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:25:57 +0000

A UPS-style grid connected inverter (with phase balancing) would be significantly more complicated by also significantly more useful. More in the critical/specialized part category, rather than near-commodity (like MPPT/BMS)

New comment by f_devd in "CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC"

f_devd — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:29:31 +0000

There is no "who", once stabilizing institutions 'fall' the only remaining option is social pressure (which can come in various forms) but that does require a critical mass as it's very much reliant on network effects.

New comment by f_devd in "SMLL: Using 200MB of Neural Network to Save 400 Bytes"

f_devd — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:44:58 +0000

Having worked on compression algos, any NN is just way to slow for (de-)compression. A potential usage of them is for coarse prior estimation in something like rANS, but even then the overhead cost would need to carefully weighted against something like Markov chains since the relative cost is just so large.

New comment by f_devd in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

f_devd — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:18:50 +0000

> Isn't it the employees' responsibility pay for their union membership?

No, contributions are handled by the employer/company

New comment by f_devd in "ICE is using facial-recognition technology to quickly arrest people"

f_devd — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:39:56 +0000

One likely source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/sam-altmans-worldcoin-beco...

New comment by f_devd in "US threatens EU digital services market access"

f_devd — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:32:15 +0000

Remind me to never look at twitter replies again, by far most counterproductive threads I've seen

New comment by f_devd in "Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils"

f_devd — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:00:35 +0000

No, it's gc-like. Up to 4x slowdown iirc

New comment by f_devd in "Stop Hacklore – An Open Letter"

f_devd — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:46:03 +0000

Where do you detect malice? The claims are quite accurate.

New comment by f_devd in "Be Like Clippy"

f_devd — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:08:35 +0000

> I have no idea why I should be against using LLM

It highly depends on your own perspective and goals, but one of the arguments I agree with is that habitually using it will effectively prevent you building any skill or insight into the code you've produced. That in turn leads to unintended consequences as implementation details become opaque and layers of abstraction build up. It's like hyper-accelerating tech-debt for an immediate result, if it's a simple project with no security requirements there would be little reason to not use the tool.

New comment by f_devd in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

f_devd — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:43:55 +0000

I never started for similar reasons

New comment by f_devd in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

f_devd — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:48:23 +0000

I have the same with journals, but the video archiving has actually come up a few times, still fairly rare though. I think the difference is that you control the journal (and so rarely feel like you need it's content) while the videos you're archiving are by default outside of your control and can be more easily lost.

New comment by f_devd in "LLMs can get "brain rot""

f_devd — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:00:19 +0000

I would a agree a careful and very small amount of above brainrot in post-training could improve certain metrics, if the main dataset didn't contain any. But given how much data current LLMs consume and how much is being produced and put back into the cycle I doubt it will miss be missed

New comment by f_devd in "I made a small LED panel"

f_devd — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:30:18 +0000

A more modern approach of doing the same to use polymerized quantum dots (I believe it emits wide spectrum white when a voltage is applied), and passing that through a quantum dot film to get any specific wavelength.

New comment by f_devd in "LLMs can get "brain rot""

f_devd — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:51:36 +0000

I do not think this is the case, there has been some research into brainrot videos for children[0], and it doesn't seem to trend positively. I would argue anything 'constructed' enough will not classify as far on the brainrot spectrum.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2024/05/17/why-kids...