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cbhl

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About cbhl

Software Developer.

Bachelor of Software Engineering (Class of 2014), University of Waterloo

michael-chang.ca

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/cbhl; my proof: https://keybase.io/cbhl/sigs/_XHym0M6L8ZTm0JX3TBmjbIVaXLmvk5ylffNAnmU20g ]

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    This is cool. Don't want to minimize that. That said, in case it helps anyone else, my usual flow is to middle-click (by clicking my mouse wheel) both the link and the comments lin…

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    Comment #49000119

    I really like the idea behind OpenRouter's new auto-beta -- classify by task type, and then just follow what the market is using based on the last 7d. https://openrouter.ai/docs/gu…

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    Comment #48600028

    It still sucks to be on the receiving end of genuine surprise. I found the most helpful reframing is to replace the words and emotions with ones that encourage learning and questio…

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    Comment #48531671

    I remember watching Gary Bernhardt give this talk live at the Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC) back in 2014. PNaCl had just come out the year prior, a…

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    Comment #48243569

    > still had to use their human words to prompt the AI In that case, I would like to know what prompt they used so that I can learn to use the AI tools better. Like, we've had "let …

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    Comment #47801563

    Looks like the docs start here: https://developer.android.com/tools/agents/android-skills#us... There's a link to a repo or you can use the CLI tool to init the skills

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    Comment #47683083

    To be fair they "only" have a 20 Mbps laser uplink from the capsule to Earth, and that's shared between all the systems and uploading images/video.

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    Comment #47468609

    it doesn't give a sense of how much the Neo moves the needle or grows the pie though. Mac and iPad are each 8% of Apple's business. iPhone is 50%. for Apple to focus on fixing thin…

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    Comment #45861840

    Shouldn't it be the other way around if the population is increasing? Every minute one is born = 1440 born/day, every minute and a sixteenth ~= 1335 dead/day for a net population i…

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    Comment #45658282

    https://archive.is/qb2h8

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    Comment #45401213

    The last time I played with NFTs it was about $50 USD just in processing fees to mint the token; not sure if that has changed since then. So it's not necessarily the case that the …

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    Comment #45244571

    Assuming that the boxes are 13.25oz/18.25oz, looks like an updated recipe could be: - 2 boxes cake mix - 3 eggs (rounding up from ~2.9 eggs) - 1/2 cup neutral oil (rounding up from…

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    Comment #45047324

    Huh. https://kaisercougarconnection.com/2784/news/musical-trains-... My impression is that all of the Yamanote line stations are above ground -- I'd have expected it to be possible…

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    Comment #45043581

    For what it is worth, M.2 NAS devices with 4-6 slots can be had for ~$210 USD / ~$290 CAD or less: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme...

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    Comment #44876455

    There _was_ an outlet for this during the era of Windows hegemony: the object and embed tags. You had your choice of ActiveX, Java, or Shockwave/Flash in the 90s to write applicati…

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    Comment #44804140

    FWIW, I was able to get the page to load. Here is the announcement in the Federal Register that the article links to: https://federalregister.gov/d/2025-14826

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    Comment #44706519

    For context, early 2023 would put the earthquake in question just after the first big layoffs at Google (see their 2023Q2 Earnings Release). And this would have probably been consi…

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    Comment #44368995

    Pastmaps might be what you're thinking of? They have an archive of the maps that the United States Geological Survey used to serve as their Historical Topographic Map Collection.

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    Comment #44196122

    Looks like it is pointing there now; old link was https://clickhouse.com/use-cases/observability for posterity

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    Comment #43909726

    To move clippy you want to drag the piece of paper on which clippy sits -- clicking clippy himself will hide and show the chat window.

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    Comment #43635879

    That doesn't stop people from trying -- according to Yahoo Finance, FXI (iShares China Large-Cap ETF) was one of the most-traded (by volume) ETFs yesterday.