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New comment by richiebful1 in "The Emacsification of Software"

richiebful1 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:47:43 +0000

There's limited research on readability of monospaced font. But this study suggests monospace is weakly more readable than variable-width font:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/2897736

New comment by richiebful1 in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

richiebful1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:16:14 +0000

People forget that LLM code cannot be covered by copyright. So LLM code cannot be placed under an open source license

New comment by richiebful1 in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

richiebful1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:59:01 +0000

AI or not, the government would benefit from investing more money in improving digital services. Merely slapping an AI onto the existing system will only make things worse. Try using one of the AI hotel receptionists right now to get an idea of what that future looks like.

New comment by richiebful1 in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

richiebful1 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:05:41 +0000

wanderlog is a separate web service

https://wanderlog.com/

New comment by richiebful1 in "Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry"

richiebful1 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:11:28 +0000

"Me" in this case being a stand-in for the principal owner, which could be a corporation, individual, or group of individuals

New comment by richiebful1 in "Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line"

richiebful1 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:07:42 +0000

Honestly, there should be laws against gen AI models creating fake media with real individuals. We're going to end up with a massive mess on our hands once the video starts looking more realistic

New comment by richiebful1 in "Radios, how do they work? (2024)"

richiebful1 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:05:16 +0000

I've had my ham license for ten years, but I've only ever used a basic car-based mobile setup and my handhelds. My morse code speed is abysmal. QRP and all that are really cool, but I just use ham radio to supplement my fire/ems handheld in a natural disaster.

New comment by richiebful1 in "CPR in space could be made easier by chest compression machines"

richiebful1 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:09:21 +0000

High quality CPR includes AED usage. 30 compressions to two ventilations. After 2 minutes of CPR, perform a rhythm check with AED and shock if advised. There are existing robots that do chest compressions for you (Zoll AutoPulse, LUCAS). They would work in space I bet.

Source: I'm an EMT

New comment by richiebful1 in "Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US"

richiebful1 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:54:27 +0000

Masimo sells a health monitoring watch. [1] There is direct competition here.

[1]. https://www.masimo.com/products/monitors/masimo-w1-medical-w...

New comment by richiebful1 in "GPT-5"

richiebful1 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:22:03 +0000

Google Assistant is/was pretty good...for Google apps. It's useless for anything else. The new Gemini powered version is actually a regression imo

New comment by richiebful1 in "Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express"

richiebful1 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:20:18 +0000

Certainly there's an element of personal choice. I currently live in a town of 3,000 in a rural state that was previously served by trains. Once cars became accessible to the masses, that train service was no longer sustainable.

But in actual US metro areas where much of the country lives, land use choices were made to enhance moving cars at the expense of other modes of transport. Urban areas were bulldozed to funnel cars into downtowns from far-flung suburbs. Amsterdam, on the other hand, was once a car-loving city, but has chosen to redevelop streets for transit and active transportation. Personal choice matters, but how much is driven by incentives?

New comment by richiebful1 in "France Endorses UN Open Source Principles"

richiebful1 — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:08:56 +0000

They have an entire webpage/associated github repository. It doesn't seem like they've published anything terribly well-known, but good on them for releasing some tooling

https://opensource.mercedes-benz.com/projects/

New comment by richiebful1 in "Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers"

richiebful1 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:29:10 +0000

Because there's a better way for bots to get the data via the wikipedia database dump. Sending some large zip archives is a lot cheaper than individually serving every page on Wikipedia.

New comment by richiebful1 in "Bosch's brake-by-wire system may be the next big leap in automotive tech"

richiebful1 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:06:35 +0000

To clear things up: the throttle used to be a physical cable, like on an affordable bicycle with rim brakes. It is still a cable on most motorcycles.

New comment by richiebful1 in "All Kindles can now be jailbroken"

richiebful1 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:19:35 +0000

"tyre" is just UK English

New comment by richiebful1 in "Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?"

richiebful1 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:21:08 +0000

To be fair, the Protestants had the printing press and significant political support on their side

New comment by richiebful1 in "How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?"

richiebful1 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:08:12 +0000

Did the US have any subways shut down? I know there are some metros like Cincinnati that abandoned an unfinished subway

New comment by richiebful1 in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

richiebful1 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:38:27 +0000

That seems unlikely. The play store lists it at 10m+ downloads and it's still a very Chinese app. I checked it out myself. This is people trying to troll the US government

New comment by richiebful1 in "Why Canada Should Join the EU"

richiebful1 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:15:25 +0000

I'd love to see free movement of people and goods between US and Canada, EU-style. That's unlikely to happen anytime soon though

New comment by richiebful1 in "Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compared to general house fires"

richiebful1 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:10:56 +0000

That's where grid-scale energy storage comes in then. Or at least a less volatile battery chemistry. Not every solution has to be individual unit sized