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The last 15 seconds sounds like it hit the runout groove on the IKEA phone system vinyl!

It feels like that might be a fair point in other context but as one of your sibling posts says: this is just double entry book keeping. Print out the transactions with their times…

Nice little idea! As a slight aside I’m not sure where the timezone / city list has come from but it labels Hanoi as in Thailand (rather than Vietnam).

I guess the question would be, if indeed these suggestions would solve those problems, how much does this cost (I genuinely have no idea!) and how much do I want to spend on this v…

IIUC cm precision should be fine if the algorithms looking for stable placement accounts for that cm (and reality id imagine it’d account for less precision than that). If a placem…

A store’s opening hours will probably remain 9am-5pm regardless of any time zone changes around it. If you run a bunch of stores across time zones you need to know where each store…

Makes we wonder how much of the investor’s money was put in to OpenAI as a company or in Sam and the leadership. I think the answer is probably the latter, and the fact that Sam’s …

I feel like trying to infer valid JSON from invalid JSON is a recipe for garbage. You’d probably be better off doing a second pass with the “JSON” through the LLM but, as the sibli…

My phone gets pretty warm when I zoom out but the UI remains nice and responsive …

I want to hear that at normal typing speed. I feel like, unless there are a good amount of slightly varied samples, it's going to have that TR-808 repetitive vibe going on ...

Here’s a good example of the test cases used for backspaces in Android[1]. It’s definitely more involved than just deleting a grapheme cluster. [1] https://android.googlesource.com…

Nice to see Clifford Stoll currently topping the page. I bought The Cuckoo's Egg after reading enough people recommending it on HN and so to see the author referencing the main eve…

This works fine as long as you’re happy to do the same task multiple times. I.e. the task is idempotent and cheap.

I read it every time!

While that is true for Platform 2 drones, from reading this article [1] it seems the ruling currently only applies to Platform 1 drones (ie. the specs I was referencing). Although …

For others interested in how these Sparrow (“Platform 1”) drones operate: - Cruises at 80-120m and 60mph - Max payload of 1.8kg - 50 mile max delivery distance (although it can fly…

Nice article! As with all CSS posts there’s always something in there I’ve never used. Today it was `display: flow-root;` [1]. I’ll probably never use it given Grid and Flex but st…

Simpsons aside: I wish this was titled "Is there a chance the track could bend?".

Taking a picture is deterministic. You aim at something, configure the settings and the cells / CMOS will capture that light in the right manner. You can argue that autofocus and p…

Given this is for a non-tech audience I think this is reasonable. It basically talks about it being a lossy encoding of things that represent the original. Also, if the words / cha…

This is true for unwinding but from the Notes section on the linked page, panics can’t be caught using that function if the panic aborts the process.

I read “the last straw” as being the final bad decision among many (which I think is what the idiom means). A tipping point. Usually you can’t remove “the last straw” to fix the ca…

What actually happens is people often just come back to TrueBlue - like when Paul Graham left Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1604556563338887168 .

One thing I’ve never found a name for (and, as a result, a good way to reference to people) is Typescript’s interesting behaviour around the Erased Structural Types mentioned here:…

Interesting. That probably does makes it a bit harder to verify but there are still plenty of “words” that are to be expected. My point being that if a German receiver can’t parse …