Hacker News: notarealllama

New comment by notarealllama in "Revisiting Image Maps"

notarealllama — Tue, 13 May 2025 07:26:14 +0000

TFA takes us on this journey and then at the end, "Image maps ended up not working for us" without telling us what they did. My money is on JavaScript for that "expressive" aspect of the hover.

New comment by notarealllama in "WebGL Water (2010)"

notarealllama — Sat, 10 May 2025 02:54:01 +0000

Still. My god.

New comment by notarealllama in "WebGL Water (2010)"

notarealllama — Sat, 10 May 2025 02:52:51 +0000

5 year old low end Motorola Android with Firefox and ublock. Smooth as a baby's bottom. Genuinely surprised!

New comment by notarealllama in "The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)"

notarealllama — Mon, 05 May 2025 16:29:21 +0000

Jokes on you, I do have a fortinet which does this.... Oh wait, only up to TLS 1.1 or something and it's slow.

I forgot the name of the software but there used to be a few tools to terminate and reencrypt. But yeah dnssec is it's own challenge

New comment by notarealllama in "Internet in a Box"

notarealllama — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:16:46 +0000

OpenwebUI and you can run quantized or low end models (Llama 3 4b or gemma 4b) on a 4-6gb graphic card.

It's a game changer to run local (no usage caps for a weekend blitz project)

New comment by notarealllama in "OpenAI releases image generation in the API"

notarealllama — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:25:38 +0000

My understanding is the opposite, see papers for "synthetic" data training. They use a small bit if real data to generate lots of synthetic data and get usable results.

The bias leans towards overfitting the data, which in some use cases - such as missile or drone design which doesn't need broad comparisons like 747s or artillery to complete it's training.

Kind of like neural net back propogation but in terms of model /weights

New comment by notarealllama in "You wouldn't steal a font"

notarealllama — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 01:46:25 +0000

I can't figure out how to download your comment. (Written in a serif font textarea which will show up as a generic arial)

New comment by notarealllama in "Show HN: Omiword – A daily, sector-based word puzzle"

notarealllama — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 03:25:47 +0000

Too hard (and i help my wife with crosswords).

Hint mode (put one letter in place) would be the best UI

New comment by notarealllama in "Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)"

notarealllama — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:54:04 +0000

Nirsoft saved my ass so many times on different things. I remember when I lived somewhere without (reliable or consistent) internet access, I scraped all the tools to take with me. They still are in my tools folder to this day!

New comment by notarealllama in "Plasmonic Modulators Can Break the Wireless Terahertz Barrier"

notarealllama — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 01:17:21 +0000

Li-fi. This combined with ultrasonic and we'll be surrounded by non radio signals!

New comment by notarealllama in "Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter"

notarealllama — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:24:26 +0000

A well-rounded take in an age and medium of reactionary hot takes!

While theres some synchronistic effects... I think the physical manufacturing and logistics base is harder to develop than deploying a new model, and will be the hard leading edge. (That's why the US seems to be hellbent on destroying international trade to try and build a domestic market.)

New comment by notarealllama in "Deploy from local to production (self-hosted)"

notarealllama — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 22:51:39 +0000

Thanks for this, I still provision with a bash script.

New comment by notarealllama in "The internet is killing old PC hardware [video]"

notarealllama — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:27:09 +0000

Agreed. Been around long enough to see u/sers from another site change the culture here subtly.

There was an interesting FB engineering post here about cost benefits to using a QLC storage layer... No comments. I feel like a lot of technical people nowadays don't even appreciate that we get FAANG engineering blogs and talking about hardware. Maybe I'm just jaded from having worked in a data center.

New comment by notarealllama in "The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video]"

notarealllama — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:20:44 +0000

So say we all.

My non-tech friends call me paranoid at the basic level of protection I do - separate browsers for everything, and a couple of VMs for e.g. finances.

Vlan has always been an important part of LAN security but we're just out here with always on, full Internet access? My home firewall logs show an insane amount of bot / scraping etc.

New comment by notarealllama in "When your last name is Null, nothing works"

notarealllama — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:58:48 +0000

Typed data?! What's next, unit tests? Memory safety? Where will it stop?

New comment by notarealllama in "How browsers really load web pages [video]"

notarealllama — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:50:57 +0000

Exactly, someone who can answer where media queries fall in terms of loading priorities for FE (when hiring for that.)

Electrical engineering is a whole nother thing!

New comment by notarealllama in "How browsers really load web pages [video]"

notarealllama — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:48:47 +0000

Oohh I haven't seen this, will check it out as a possible metric / sample answer for this question!

New comment by notarealllama in "How browsers really load web pages [video]"

notarealllama — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:47:43 +0000

That's exactly the point - sometimes too much detail or focused on wrong thing can ve distracting.

But having a frontend engineer aware of Safari on iOS or macOS vs assuming chrome compatibility, or a SRE aware of abusive UDP http2 / h3 stuff...

Again the beauty is in the flexibility and scope of something normies take for granted, and this video delves into some of the esoterics of this topic!

New comment by notarealllama in "How browsers really load web pages [video]"

notarealllama — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:40:14 +0000

Consider, do you type or paste the url? With or wothout http/s? Or www? Does it matter? What if you typo wwww.domain.com?

And what do you mean physical keyboard, the virtual one on my phone works fine ;) (also preconceived notions)

New comment by notarealllama in "How browsers really load web pages [video]"

notarealllama — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:38:15 +0000

That's the beauty... Sometimes too much detail can be distracting, so knowing what to mention/omit is part of it too.

As CTO for multiple companies and hiring across multiple competencies for 10 years... This is the question that keeps on giving!