Hacker News: perth

New comment by perth in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

perth — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:29:00 +0000

Nitpick: currently in the US, most public libraries do not regulate anyone, of any age, from reading “adult” books.

New comment by perth in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

perth — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 03:10:39 +0000

I mean you can be a local bar that hosts KKK rallies and sure that’s a legal thing to do (in USA), but you will still end up being known for that, probably by many names that don’t just include “phobia”. And of course, the impact of bringing together a KKK rally inherently impacts your local community since you may begin to see things like lynchings in the news or in person.

New comment by perth in "DB48X: High Performance Scientific Calculator, Reinvented"

perth — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:19:34 +0000

TBH TI-89 titanium is a better engineering calculator since the UI is way better. I have both a HP50G and a TI-89 titanium and I've done way more useful engineering work on the TI-89 titanium just because it's so much easier and accessible. Also of course, BASIC is a lot easier than reverse polish lisp for making some quick scripts.

Also I will add, there are known symbolic math issues on the HP50G due to the CAS system it uses. I will see if I can find a link.

New comment by perth in "Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined"

perth — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 02:47:50 +0000

So scratching definitely still happens, both on sapphire camera lenses and new scratch-resistant screen technology. I’ve mainly had it happen with concrete. I think concrete sometimes just has some rocks in it that have a very high hardness because I’ve gotten pretty thick scratches in new iPhones when they’ve taken a slide over a rough concrete sidewalk due to a drop while walking.

New comment by perth in "Reverse engineering a restaurant pager system"

perth — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 21:01:49 +0000

Noticed this person didn’t want people to access the code for fear of misuse. Thankfully, someone else has already made this for flipper zero before them and released the code!

https://github.com/leedave/flipper-zero-meal-pager

New comment by perth in "Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator"

perth — Wed, 22 May 2024 06:27:11 +0000

This project looks very cool. Worth noting however that it doesn’t have tabs.

New comment by perth in "Looo.lol – a binary math site"

perth — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 04:07:19 +0000

Bad on mobile unfortunately. The CSS doesn’t wrap for portrait screens

New comment by perth in "Psychedelic Mushrooms Hit the Market in Oregon"

perth — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 07:51:12 +0000

To add to this, I think the toxic part about this is that SSRIs are the first line treatment, and are handed out like candy when they are not magic cure-alls for whichever ailment. In fact there’s a risk of SSRIs activating self-destructive mania, even in people who do not typically fall under the “bipolar” umbrella. (which, the interactions of SSRIs with undiagnosed disorders is also unsafe given their track record of being handed out like candy).

New comment by perth in "Show HN: CFR[]: Very minimal drawing language with 5 commands: C, F, R, [, ]"

perth — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 19:43:46 +0000

The GitHub link is helpful, it might be useful to include what each command does at the bottom of the page so users don’t have to go to the GitHub page to figure it out

New comment by perth in "Facebook’s new AI stickers can generate Mickey Mouse holding a machine gun"

perth — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:41:44 +0000

Ah je suis charlie

New comment by perth in "VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux"

perth — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 04:59:56 +0000

I’ve always heard speculation that I believe of some sort of NSA involvement. When it was taken down back in the day (yes it was pretty much a takedown, the entire website got thrashed..) there was a lot of people on Reddit that were speculating that.

New comment by perth in "C++23: The Next C++ Standard"

perth — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:26:06 +0000

The thing that really ticks me off about RUST is it has compiler optimizations that can’t be turned off. In C++, you can typically turn off all optimizations, including optimizing away unused variables, in most compilers. In RUST it’s part of the language specification that you cannot have an unused variable, which, for me kills the language for me since I like having unused variables for debug while I’m stepping through the code.

New comment by perth in "As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling"

perth — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:05:35 +0000

Don’t forget the not often talked about Colombian Conflict!

New comment by perth in "Deck.of.cards"

perth — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 05:11:45 +0000

Old one has better mobile support too

New comment by perth in "Life expectancy in the U.S. varies greatly by region"

perth — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 03:20:08 +0000

The biggest problem with the American south: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...

New comment by perth in "Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes"

perth — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:35:01 +0000

Like in this image super resolution AI:

https://twitter.com/maxhkw/status/1373063086282739715?s=52&t...

New comment by perth in "Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend"

perth — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 07:16:50 +0000

401k match at Intel is just normal $ through Fidelity now

New comment by perth in "Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens"

perth — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 19:00:51 +0000

Well, after 2 failed attempts at fixing under mandatory Lemon Law replacement of course :)

New comment by perth in "Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA"

perth — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:15:48 +0000

I’ve read there’s decent correlation on a few scientific journals on Google scholar. Namely, that while head size doesn’t guarantee intelligence, if you are predisposed to intelligence you can’t be as smart as someone else who is predisposed to intelligence but has a larger head.

See: the spatial packing problem in human brains

New comment by perth in "T-code – A protocol for implementing UART serial communications to an adult toy"

perth — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:41:05 +0000

On Twitch it's for þeir controller, right?