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New comment by pxx in "Can LLMs identify 16 cards in 45 bit-queries?"

pxx — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:14:31 +0000

something is wrong with your first simulator. it always responds YNYY if your queries are RRKK or KKRR on four different cards. "vibe" slop?

New comment by pxx in "Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again"

pxx — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:27:17 +0000

this AI voice is killing me. there might be something technically interesting in this blog post but it's so hard to read because the AI voice just completely distracts from the message

New comment by pxx in "Claude Opus 5"

pxx — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:36:43 +0000

it's a super exaggeration of a minor thing that happened

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/facebook-artifici...

New comment by pxx in "Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb"

pxx — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:54:50 +0000

the target rp2350 is a sub-$1 chip. a 16x2 LCD module is over $1. but more importantly, you might have this much ram sitting around unused on whatever you're building anyway.

New comment by pxx in "Fake food delivery site for the dopamine"

pxx — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:12:39 +0000

Doesn't quite meet the fantasy threshold. I can't seem to filter by allergens or dietary restrictions.

New comment by pxx in "IBM is on pace for its worst day ever"

pxx — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:23:04 +0000

Paying taxes isn't optional. Sure you can invest more in the stock with external funds but that's not a fair proposition. If you were to tell me there's a certain chance of a stock going up by 100% we could also just buy calls with those magic funds and make far more money.

New comment by pxx in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

pxx — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:54:32 +0000

Do you have evidence for your claims?

Show HN: Entropic — information-driven variable-rate media playback

pxx — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:04:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/patrickxia/entropic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346255

Points: 4

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New comment by pxx in "The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility"

pxx — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:39:26 +0000

I agree with some of the sentiment here, but why is it presented in an AI slop format? It's really a self-defeating message.

New comment by pxx in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

pxx — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:43:49 +0000

maybe. but somebody has to manually ban you if you do that. whereas banning everybody who charges back can easily be done in batch on the billing side

New comment by pxx in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

pxx — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:26:41 +0000

There are grounded duckheads for this purpose, e.g. https://amzn.to/4cnzuef (note out of stock. I guess your best bet is to use a UK duckhead, but half of those have a dummy ground...)

if you take the plug part from the brick you'll note that there's only two pins but the button-like thing is a ground

as noted in a sibling, the power adapter extension cable does plumb the ground through (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mw2n3ll/a/power-adapter-e...)

New comment by pxx in "Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game"

pxx — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:48:01 +0000

I've never gotten motion sickness playing a video game before Return of the Obra Dinn. it's sad because I hear it's a good game but it's absolutely unplayable for me

New comment by pxx in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

pxx — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:57:32 +0000

ugh the most annoying thing about the conversation clash latency is that the person causing the issue just thinks others are being weirdly rude.

wireless headphones externalize the cost of latency to other conference participants. if you think your airbuds are "perfectly fine" it's because you're not the one paying the cost.

New comment by pxx in "Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions"

pxx — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:46:09 +0000

what? this article is making a different point if you read past the title.

> Conventional leadership advice suggests looking at decisions as reversible or non-reversible. Many important, non-reversible, decisions are recoverable, though.

New comment by pxx in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

pxx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:18:01 +0000

reliable message delivery, lol. slack drops messages silently. it is not fit for purpose.

New comment by pxx in "Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them"

pxx — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:48:00 +0000

is this still really the case? I feel like Facebook Marketplace has been significantly more dead than even last year. and it definitely seems completely dead for things like rental listings.

New comment by pxx in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

pxx — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:54:37 +0000

latency is absolute killer. then there's also the fact that splitting the output is difficult, pairing (especially multi-pairing) is finicky

but the real response is "what's wrong with a usb-c to 3.5mm adapter"

New comment by pxx in "Exe.dev"

pxx — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:52:44 +0000

tbh maybe this service doesn't want you as a customer if you can't figure this out. it seems like you'd be an above-average support burden

New comment by pxx in "Exe.dev"

pxx — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:50:22 +0000

you don't need to register the key. just have some sort of key.

New comment by pxx in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

pxx — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:43:19 +0000

c++20 offers `consteval` to make this clear, but you can do some simple macro wizardry in c++11 to do this:

    #define foo(x) ( \
        (void)std::integral_constant::value, \
        foo_impl(x) \
    )

(the re-evaluation of x doesn't matter if it compiles). You can also use a user-defined literal which has a different ergonomic problem.