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New comment by slow_typist in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

slow_typist — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:05:17 +0000

My house has a newer adjacent part with its own roof, pretty isolated from the old house. But I had mice on both attics. Finding their way from one attic to the other was the easiest part. But I needed infrared camera surveillance to figure where they entered the building. From the footage it was pretty clear that they never stayed long in the new attic. They entered through the new building, climbed up to the attic, than traversed to the old attic where they probably did all kinds of mouse things including raising their offspring.

New comment by slow_typist in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

slow_typist — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:31:20 +0000

Ah I did not know the pheromone part. So it could be a completely unrelated clan that moves in next time.

In older houses it is nearly impossible to find all entries… they can climb, and will even enter through the roof.

New comment by slow_typist in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

slow_typist — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:13:35 +0000

Also, for a single Country getting the capabilities might be a plus but if some 100+ countries have nuclear weapons, all countries are in a worse position than today. This is a sub zero sum game.

New comment by slow_typist in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

slow_typist — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:08:22 +0000

Just curious, you poisoned them once and no mice returned ever since? In my house I had mice during the cold/wet season. Attempts to get rid of the population by killing them were futile. (House is now free of mice though. I secured every single possibility to get in during the summer. I read some mice can get through gaps that are 1 cm or .4 inches wide.)

New comment by slow_typist in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

slow_typist — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:06:32 +0000

The moment they‘d stop development would put marketing and sales in a very dire position, regardless of how good gpt 5.5 is.

New comment by slow_typist in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

slow_typist — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:01:42 +0000

Sure, but being able to pay for inference and nothing but inference out of revenue leads to what end?

New comment by slow_typist in "Global population movements from 1990 to 2023"

slow_typist — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:19:51 +0000

Probably a mix of all parts, also in Africa there are hospitals you would certainly try to avoid if you can.

New comment by slow_typist in "Global population movements from 1990 to 2023"

slow_typist — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:46:44 +0000

Is it legal to let people suffer or even die at the ER on Kenya if they don’t happen to carry a few k$?

New comment by slow_typist in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

slow_typist — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:42:01 +0000

I did not know COBOL compiles to WASM until I read your comment and looked it up, thanks!

New comment by slow_typist in "Backpressure is all you need"

slow_typist — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:05:39 +0000

Who is going to write tests? But I like the fact that this approach implicitly approves of the stochastic parrot model. I mean, given enough computing power and sufficiently well made tests, I could just generate random strings of increasing length until one compiles into a program that passes all tests, mission accomplished. Like one million apes typing on one million typewriters.

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slow_typist — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:35:54 +0000

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New comment by slow_typist in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

slow_typist — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:19:31 +0000

I have worked a fair share of that kind of jobs in the past. The colleagues on my level who cared about more than being paid and not getting fired where the absolute majority. People want to belong. They want to work. The ones who are the exception of the rule can be seeded out pretty quickly. You do not work for an organisation for 10+ years, wake up one day and switch to pure opportunism.

As for incompetent management, that problem can not be solved by churning workers. It can only be solved by better career paths and selection processes for management roles. The most intelligent people in an organisation are often more interested in getting things done than getting more power.

New comment by slow_typist in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

slow_typist — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:21:07 +0000

Fair enough. A paper map and the ability to navigate offline would be a nice backup, too. Not that I wouldn’t use GPS in distress.

New comment by slow_typist in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

slow_typist — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:18:01 +0000

What I don’t need doesn’t need to live unencrypted in my RAM. Of course I do. It is standard behaviour of iOS, and of a lot of password managers. If someone grabs my laptop and runs, at least they can’t capture my hn account.

New comment by slow_typist in "Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running in RAM"

slow_typist — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:30:21 +0000

Instead of having an open port in my router and sending data in plain text, I would use an ssh tunnel or a vpn. Or probably put the entire web site on the VPS.

New comment by slow_typist in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

slow_typist — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:18:13 +0000

If a significant share of your employees optimise in the sense of doing the least of work possible, without getting fired, you have a huge problem anyways. Usually, given the right conditions, people have intrinsic interest in doing a good job. Even if their motivation is more of the extrinsic type, there is more to it than getting paid.

New comment by slow_typist in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

slow_typist — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:52:55 +0000

That is redundancy in my book. I don’t expect holes in my GNSS devices. And if you want to be sure, bring three, because two GNSS units with different readings are not very helpful.

New comment by slow_typist in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

slow_typist — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:59:15 +0000

All true, but it is still bad style. There is no need to keep decrypted passwords in memory the user hasn’t even used in the session (or after they logged in to a certain website).

New comment by slow_typist in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

slow_typist — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:55:14 +0000

The Swiss cheese model is what people use to sell you more 'security' related software systems that inherently involve more problems. (Also cheese is not very durable, even the kind without holes.)

New comment by slow_typist in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

slow_typist — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:51:18 +0000

For lora applications or in general?