<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: jedimastert</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jedimastert</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:12:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jedimastert" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedimastert in "EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe they based the design off of the reference schematic from a datasheet of one of the popular 555 timers, but I don't remember which one.</p>
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<p>I didn't say <i>should</i>, I said <i>are</i>.<p>The rationale (which, again, I'm not arguing for or against) is that mocap performances are not strictly speaking totally the actors, because mocap has to be cleaned and can be (and very often is) edited and tweaked after the fact by animators. Not to mention there are often <i>required</i> liberties taken because a model cannot line up one to one with an actor anatomically.<p>In a sense, mocap performances are done by a team of animators where one animator puppeted a model in real time.</p>
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<p>I would be surprised if it weren't already de facto banned, like how motion capture performances are essentially banned from Best Actor/Actress awards</p>
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<p>Once stars started becoming a marketable metric, it's pretty much inevitable that they would be purchasable. Same as any other bot review market I suppose</p>
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<p>Would it surprise you to find out that there are many people who are opposed to golf courses for the same reasons?</p>
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<p>I mean, I know a lot of people who are also against golf courses for very similar reasons</p>
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<p>I'm personally a fan of the ti-30xs. Still cheap and a good number of features for looking at data</p>
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<p>Would it even be possible for a model to know its own version number? I guess maybe if they decide to put it in the system prompt or something</p>
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<p>> And this is not really a technical issue. It's a worldview issue no matter how much you or others try to pretend it's a technical problem or that I am violating etiquette or something.<p>I'm actually so curious what you think is going on here</p>
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<p>> There are a lot of people reading his position. One or two additional clarifying sentences to spell it out for people skimming is not such an unreasonable ask.<p>I do think it is a bit unwarranted, actually. This isn't a press release, it's a technical discussion somewhat deep into a technical process that's open for archival purposes. His audience is not people skimming through, it's the Chromium team and other members of the standards body.<p>You're sort of overhearing a conversation and injecting yourself into it.</p>
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<p>I think it's just that the internet is particularly well suited for explanations on the intersection between mathematics and graphics</p>
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<p>Related, I think Freya Holmér's "The Beauty of Bézier Curves" is in the running for one of the best educational videos on YouTube.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw?si=K7QYf4luKhgv2mgd" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw?si=K7QYf4luKhgv2mgd</a></p>
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<p>> Meaning you do not want text generation in the web API at all, or you think the prompt API needs to be different?<p>Not OP but I think you are misunderstanding the interaction as a whole here. The Chromium team made a proposal, then the Chromium team asked the Firefox team for a position on the proposal. Whether or not the Firefox team or anyone on the Firefox team has any goals around AI or whatever, this response was simply "We do not like this proposal for these reasons..."<p>How to fix those issues really isn't the Firefox team's job and also wasn't part of the question asked by the Chromium team.</p>
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<p>> How do we solve this? How do we make the browser ours, by the people, and for the people?<p>Unfortunately, the answer is pretty much always "real public funding"</p>
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<p>Why would they? This is an issue put up on the "standards-position" repo. They requested a position on a proposed standard, and Mozilla gave it.</p>
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<p>> expanded quite rapidly into including racism and then labor practices<p>The jump you referring to is a quote with a reference attached. But in short terms so that might be useful to Google, but in short the concept of intersectionality means that things like feminism and anti-racism and other forms of prejudice can potentially be inter-related in terms of using different forms of marginalization as tools to enforce a hierarchy.<p>> which I’m very much struggling with the jump; the link appears to be that both involve power relationships? And I’m not really clear why this doesn’t extend further into basically all of human suffering in any society. Or perhaps extended upwards and encapsulate systems-thinking and any graph-relationship whatsoever<p>Not to really go off the rails too much but you sort of just given a not too bad description of anarchism, so like yeah it wouldn't necessarily be a leap to extrapolate that and plenty of people do</p>
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<p>Honestly, the language isn't super off or abnormal in other circles, maybe it's a lot more telling that when posted on a tech-oriented site it's seen as ridiculous</p>
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<p>It's not, the entire site appears to be a serious examination of technology and hacking ethics through a feminist lens</p>
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<p>Gonna +1 what the other person said, but also this research group appears to be like intentionally focused on hacking and technology ethics from a feminist perspective sooooo like maybe it's just not your cup of tea to begin with?<p>Either way, it's probably that no one cares about your opinions on credibility</p>
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<p>I think the entire point of the project and potentially the research group is looking at manufacturing while explicitly/intentionally steering away from high volume and industrial processes.</p>
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