Hacker News: ticklemyelmo

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

ticklemyelmo — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:28:50 +0000

It really sounds like you just did.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "2026 Eclipse Webcams"

ticklemyelmo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:05:33 +0000

The interesting map will be the subsequent Google searches for "Me duelen los ojos".

https://coywolf.com/news/seo/people-searching-eyes-hurt-afte...

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras"

ticklemyelmo — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:02:54 +0000

Much of the criticism of the Iphone photos is the fisheye effect. This is exaggerated, because you took the photos from different distances. If the Iphone photos were taken at the same distance, a cropped version of the Iphone photo would have identical perspective.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine"

ticklemyelmo — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 13:09:20 +0000

We are? There are games like this in any modern "arcade" like Dave & Buster's.

If you mean why aren't we building highly specialized hardware like this any more, I'd say it's because most of that complexity has moved into software running on general-purpose hardware, which is infinitely more flexible and maintainable.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error"

ticklemyelmo — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 11:32:00 +0000

Those stores also predominantly sell imported products. They are going to be affected disproportionately by the tariffs.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)"

ticklemyelmo — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:16:39 +0000

Better on every axis: security, performance, resource consumption, reliability, verification, documentation...

Code is a pure liability that you accept to get a useful service.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "Voxon: Real time interactive volumetric holograms"

ticklemyelmo — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 01:52:55 +0000

Image quality is extremely important for medical image analysis. A flickering low resolution display is the last thing you'd want a doctor looking at.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "Tesla is looking to hire a team to remotely control its 'self-driving' robotaxis"

ticklemyelmo — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:58:44 +0000

I rode in a Waymo for the first time last week. The highest praise I can give it is that it's boring. It drives like a careful human with zero surprises.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs"

ticklemyelmo — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:04:34 +0000

"The breakdown is dramatic, as models also express strong overconfidence in their wrong solutions, while providing often non-sensical "reasoning"-like explanations akin to confabulations to justify and backup the validity of their clearly failed responses, making them sound plausible."

It's fascinating how much they anthropomorphize the systems and credit them with emotional, possibly deceitful behaviour, in a paper trying to explain how unintelligent they are.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "Atari's Mike Jang"

ticklemyelmo — Sun, 05 May 2024 13:30:15 +0000

> It fired my imagination. I was always bad at that game but while playingit I was a Starship Pilot!

"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."

Yeah, he designed THAT cabinet too.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "JEP draft: String Templates (Final)"

ticklemyelmo — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 14:39:49 +0000

It's not better though. The STR template processor behaves the exact same way as all the other examples, and it's the one that all the inexperienced devs prone to this kind of injection attack will use.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "Apple introduces spatial video capture on iPhone 15 Pro"

ticklemyelmo — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 04:21:22 +0000

With less than an inch of separation, is the sense of depth even perceptible?

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds"

ticklemyelmo — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:18:41 +0000

But 100mph (or kph) is also a way to describe charging speed.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "Data-Oriented Design Principles"

ticklemyelmo — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:16:28 +0000

Even with SQL we recognize that while aggregate roots and ORMS are great for storing and editing single items, they're terrible for use cases where the data is _used_, and you're better off using different query mechanisms to slice it in a better way. Indexing services and caches and transformation pipelines continue that.

I think CQRS is really just a glimmer of DoD in the enterprise world, the recognition that the system of record is generally a terrible resource for actually using the data, and that you need to rethink everything again if you want a performant system.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "How To Get Started In Soldering"

ticklemyelmo — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:27:03 +0000

They did a poor job of qualifying "cheap". They link to a $50 Harbor Freight unit, which is a proper temperature controlled soldering station. It should certainly be made clear that a $20 wand with no temp control is right out.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help"

ticklemyelmo — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 20:45:38 +0000

The free subscription on my 2021 Toyota expired 16 months ago. Remote start still works. (Well, the fob button sequence is as finicky and inconsistent as it always was, but it does work.) I think Toyota changed their minds on that feature after the bad press about it hit.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved"

ticklemyelmo — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:49:46 +0000

Why is there a "Jupyter+Git" problem specifically? Why aren't we worrying about the "C+Git" problem and the "XML+Git" problem and the "Python+Git" problem? Because merge markers break, well, every file format.

Is it because Jupyter users in particular don't typically understand that there is a formatted text file behind the notebook, or how merge conflicts work?

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn"

ticklemyelmo — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 03:22:26 +0000

You have something against the ladies of Eroticon 6?

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard"

ticklemyelmo — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:06:01 +0000

A roller-style rotary encoder would work better. And perhaps be a better ergnonomic fit for what I assume is its primary use case, scrolling.

New comment by ticklemyelmo in "Starlink maritime coverage map [pdf]"

ticklemyelmo — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:33:00 +0000

An alternative approach would be to relay the signal on the surface, perhaps using a fleet of aquatic animals with the same communication system mounted on them.

You know, sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.