Notices by mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social), page 2

@mntmn I am extremely interested in this as well. Usable daylight-readable screens? But: secret?

@aral One of the consistently good, consistently inspiring things about this field is how often a significant advance or insight, something solves a real problem, also turns out to be something that a competent undergrad could implement for an assignment.

Maybe industrialized computation is just a byproduct of ignorance.

I linked to this earlier, but this is genuinely great: a new ways counting enormous quantities of data that will give you something statistically likely to be very close to the correct answer for potentially a vanishing fraction of the computation cost of the deterministically correct answer: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

@yhancik @darius The old thinking was that you should be rotating your gender every 90 days for security reasons but that’s proven to be an ineffective approach. Modern best practices are to use a unique and complex gender for every interaction, to avoid repetition and store them in a secure gender manager. This makes it easier to change genders when one relationship is compromised, and protects you against gender-stuffing attacks.

@mntmn Thank you!

@mntmn I’ve drilled out the side plates on my Reform to make room for a much better antenna, and the extra space to do that in the panel rather than drilling out the entire case is much appreciated.

@mntmn The 18650-sized sodium-ion batteries are all in the 1300-1500 range, but some of the larger ones are both affordable-looking an claim 10aH+ Just gotta (checks notes) print a new mnt bottom case and rewire a few things.

@mntmn Particularly considering lifepo4 batteries are totally unobtainium here in Canada, and some of the MaH ratings on the sodium-ion batteries I am seeing are bonkers.

@mntmn I am very interested in this.

@mntmn If this is in preparation for a new run of case manufacturing, can I convince you drop the bottom lip of the LCD viewport by like 1.5mm while you're in there? The current bottom lip of the screen is juuuust a bit too high that it obscures the bottom two rows of pixels of the screen, which in turn hides your cursor, if it's an underscore, p.s. I am not a crackpot.

Every developer in the world thinks reading code is harder than writing code and every IDE in the world is trying to charge you money for a button you can click that lets you read code instead of writing it.

@arstechnica c'mon, though. "Readers should remember that whatever penalties result will only be felt when affected software is performing specific cryptographic operations. For browsers and many other types of apps, the performance cost may not be noticeable."

It's really frustrating watching people who complained about the environmental costs of blockchain tech clicking those image-autogen and code-filler buttons like they're free.

how are you expected to meditate in a chair that looks like it is absolutely dying to fight General Kenobi

https://pipersong.com/products/pipersong-pro

@arstechnica "It's mostly just a question of if the company wants to press charges", haha.

I wonder if you can find a jury in SF who'd convict anyone of stopping a robot car from driving through a street party.

So, funny story: remember how that Stanford professor described last years' layoffs as a "social contagion" exercise, where CEOs were just doing it because everyone else was doing it?

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

Well everyone get your surprised face ready but it was in fact a coordinated effort by execs, large shareholders and hedge funds to cover up mismanagement and suppress wages:

https://www.teamblind.com/post/How-we-got-here-Some-inside-scoops-from-Microsoft-on-handling-early-days-of-pandemic-to-cutting-over-20K-folks-in-2023-7ndQwLAU

Did I say funny, I meant awful, typo sorry those keys are right next to each other.

I'm going to be sitting with this for a long time.

I'd like some sort of tracking service that just follows the executives from Boeing wherever their careers take them and alerts me just before I'm about to buy or travel in anything they've ever touched.

As someone coming off a decade of working there, I can tell you with some confidence that “you should use Firefox despite Mozilla’s leadership” is far more true and has been true far longer than you realize.

But you should also understand that original market-share vs ceo salary meme is a creation of Brendan Eich, presumably born of a grudge, and notably elided his tenure as CTO, during which the worst of that decline happened.

You should still use Firefox though.

I laughed unreasonably hard at this for some reason. English is such a rollercoaster of a language.