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New comment by relaxing in "Wax motor"

relaxing — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:42:11 +0000

I think the “punk” in cyberpunk was about the AI having a gritty, streetwise protagonist to enable it/fight against it. Extremely immediate.

New comment by relaxing in "UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)"

relaxing — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:16:23 +0000

Depends, if every time a project redeploys it redownloads all external resources from their respective CDNs, do you consider that to be inefficient? What if it’s part of a service that runs on thousands of instances to keep up with the volume of user generate content?

New comment by relaxing in "Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)"

relaxing — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:30:36 +0000

Windows MovieMaker remained a nightmare and did indeed die.

The book is simply: acquire monopoly, wield power ruthlessly to keep it. Everything else is orthogonal.

New comment by relaxing in "GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB"

relaxing — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:00:58 +0000

> toxic caloric exposure

Is that a thing?

New comment by relaxing in "Audacity 4.0"

relaxing — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:23:44 +0000

Not sure what you consider convenient, but I’ve never had a problem reading electric guitar notation. It’s handled the same way we notate extended technique for other instruments - a combination of text above the staff, and squiggly lines on it :)

New comment by relaxing in "Tim Curry has died"

relaxing — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:52:27 +0000

I’m merely a humble butler. I buttle, sir.

New comment by relaxing in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

relaxing — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:22:33 +0000

> The gigantic salaries paid to the most prolific employees is not due to their ability to write code. It is due to their ability to interrogate the shit out of the customer until they finally reveal the true requirements.

That doesn’t describe any devs I know, especially not in the old days. Interrogating customers and bringing back requirements was the job of management (who got big salaries, too.)

New comment by relaxing in "Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects"

relaxing — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:48:38 +0000

Qualcomm still sucks, but there’s not much Qualcomm in this.

New comment by relaxing in "Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects"

relaxing — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:46:31 +0000

Robotic pick and place board assembly means through-hole components are going the way of the dodo. Sorry.

Adafruit sells breakout boards for various SMT packages so that with a little solder reflow work you can adapt that shiny new chip to your breadboard. https://www.adafruit.com/category/475

New comment by relaxing in "Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects"

relaxing — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:42:18 +0000

No, it’s not just QWIC connectors.

It is just the time-honored maker tradition of finding a cool IC and building a dev board around it for the hobbyist. There’s a i2c multiplexer chip, an i2c buffer, and a nicer motor driver.

Article title is nonsensical.

New comment by relaxing in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

relaxing — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:36:21 +0000

for lack of frequency tuning

New comment by relaxing in "It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)"

relaxing — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:02:51 +0000

“Moving the goalposts” is a useless criticism. Do I need to pick now a single, definitive goalpost where the massive redirection of resources will have become worth it? Or can I just have a laugh at the dumb state of the present?

New comment by relaxing in "It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)"

relaxing — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:59:06 +0000

BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER!

New comment by relaxing in "Internal Combustion Engine (2021)"

relaxing — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:03:57 +0000

Very interesting technology. Would be exciting to see a hardware startup build a product around this.

New comment by relaxing in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

relaxing — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:44:32 +0000

Where do you even start finding sources for all this?

New comment by relaxing in "Printing Gaussian Splats"

relaxing — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:11:38 +0000

Very cool product! And to think, in one of the many prior gaussian splatting threads someone declared there was no way anyone could build a business around the technique.

New comment by relaxing in "The Coming Loop"

relaxing — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:58:37 +0000

> Present-day models tend to produce code that is too defensive, too complex, too local in its reasoning. They avoid strong invariants. They add fallbacks instead of making bad states impossible. They duplicate code, invent bad abstractions, and paper over unclear design with more machinery. Worse though: I so far see very little progress of this improving.

It’s almost as though these models were trained on a vast corpus of largely mediocre code. They will never outperform the median Github user - it is all they know, it is all they can do.

New comment by relaxing in "Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow"

relaxing — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:16:01 +0000

1. You might want to call up the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and let them know they aren’t designed to operate there. As well as the rest of the Navy that operates in similar waters in SE Asia and the Caribbean.

New comment by relaxing in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"

relaxing — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:47:31 +0000

But seriously, why is it such an impossibility to get an iced coffee over there. You have affogato! You can take a caffe americano and pour it over ice!

New comment by relaxing in "Tsplat – Run Gaussian splatting in your terminal"

relaxing — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:24:46 +0000

Who’s pumping all this gaussian splatting content onto hn, and why?