Hacker News: stilley2

New comment by stilley2 in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

stilley2 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:31:39 +0000

I wonder if it's intentional and making everyone get copilot is the goal

New comment by stilley2 in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

stilley2 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:54:31 +0000

Speaking of new outlook, has anyone else had search just...not work? I'll search for emails sent from myself, to myself (of which I know there are hundreds) and get 7 results. Same in the web app, but outlook classic works fine. Mind boggling

New comment by stilley2 in "An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data"

stilley2 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:37:47 +0000

I recommend this technology connections video which dives into this in wonderful detail https://youtu.be/DTsQjiPlksA?si=gx18FGOcjsv5PpNg

New comment by stilley2 in "Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage"

stilley2 — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 12:01:18 +0000

I gave up on the onedrive client and switched to rclone to access SharePoint at work. It's more manual but it always works! The onedrive client was great when it worked, but when it started misbehaving there was no real way to fix it besides reinstall and start over

New comment by stilley2 in "DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019)"

stilley2 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:37:05 +0000

For what it's worth Canadian Amazon also has them DRM free

New comment by stilley2 in "Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands"

stilley2 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:45:39 +0000

But as a consumer I don't want to have to check the price/mass in every product everything I shop, especially if I'm buying the same brand every week.

New comment by stilley2 in "Client harassed by The Type founders for using Proxima Nova font on website"

stilley2 — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:53:34 +0000

I received a similar email from Type Founders despite the fact that my website does not provide or even specify a specific font to use (besides things like size and sand serif). I got the impression it was either a shakedown or a very broadly aimed and poorly executed attempt to recovering licensing fees.

New comment by stilley2 in "Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board"

stilley2 — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:00:32 +0000

Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khet_(game)

New comment by stilley2 in "Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings"

stilley2 — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 21:03:41 +0000

I once entered 'sudo echo hi" or something similar on a large HPCC and received an email back from a sysadmin that just said "hello".

New comment by stilley2 in "Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof"

stilley2 — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:54:04 +0000

Yeah the author glossed over this a bit in my opinion. In infinite precision math you're correct, but at some point the signal in those higher frequencies is going to be reduced below the precision of the storage data type, never mind the dynamic range of the monitor and camera he's using.

Reedy Creek Improvement District

stilley2 — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 12:12:57 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_District

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31120638

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by stilley2 in "Please put units in names"

stilley2 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:10:46 +0000

Not GP, but 0.5% == 0.005, not 0.5.

New comment by stilley2 in "Fastmail, Runbox, and Posteo under DDoS extortion attack"

stilley2 — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 13:57:29 +0000

Just to add a data point, I had trouble accessing fastmail early this morning (around 7 EDT). I haven't had any issues since then.

New comment by stilley2 in "Fastmail, Runbox, and Posteo under DDoS extortion attack"

stilley2 — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 13:55:21 +0000

If they're using a botnet of compromised servers then I suspect the marginal cost is negligible.

New comment by stilley2 in "Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity"

stilley2 — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 23:21:24 +0000

https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools works pretty well once setup. Allegedly...

New comment by stilley2 in "How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you?"

stilley2 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 12:31:01 +0000

I have a meteorite wedding band and we were passing it around outside the bore to feel how strong the pull was. A grad student lost their grip and the ring shot into the bore like a bullet. No damage luckily but it really drove home how dangerous these can be.

New comment by stilley2 in "Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever"

stilley2 — Tue, 04 May 2021 12:01:25 +0000

My (now) wife picked out her engagement ring on Etsy. It's an antique ring with a sapphire gem. Of course that took away some of the surprise from the proposal, but we were of the opinion that the fact one wants to get married shouldn't be a surprise. And the time/place of the proposal can still be somewhat of a surprise, or at least special.

New comment by stilley2 in "Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp"

stilley2 — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:03:48 +0000

"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." -Ezra Cornell.

I'm not sure if they're offered anymore, but they used to have Basic Rifle Marksmanship and Epee de Guerre. My friend once told me he thought my major was "weapons".

New comment by stilley2 in "Gradient Free Optimizers: A collection of modern optimization methods in Python"

stilley2 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:21:03 +0000

Ah nevermind I see this was addressed in another comment.

New comment by stilley2 in "Gradient Free Optimizers: A collection of modern optimization methods in Python"

stilley2 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:18:14 +0000

Cool! I'd considering adding CMA-ES [1], which as far as I know is the gold standard for derivative free optimization.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA-ES