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bArray commented on Twelve Days of Shell 12days.cmdchallenge.com... · Posted by u/zoidb

bArray · 7 days ago

Great idea, but a few feedback points:

1. It's difficult to know that it is following from the previous problem, and then on some problems it changes the workspace.

2. It's not always easy to know what it wants.

3. The question about finding a line starting with "The" I successfully cheated:

     cat night-before-christmas.txt | grep "The "

4. Likewise the ending "!":

    cat night-before-christmas.txt | grep "!"

5. On the eighth day I get a "runner error" with the command:

     mv *lve* Workshop

I'm globbing for the filename match, I'm not sure if it's "elve" or "Elve" and then trying to move to the target directory.

Otherwise it's quite fun - the instant feedback is great.

bArray commented on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? reason.com/2025/12/04/why... · Posted by u/delichon

bArray · 10 days ago

In Universities in the UK, and likely elsewhere, you get extra time during an exam if you have a qualifying disability.

As said by Charlie Munger: "show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome". In the UK, 23% (and climbing) working age adults are now registered as disabled [1]. For a qualifying disability you can claim personal independence payment (PIP) that gets you between £73.90-£110.40 for living plus £29.20-£77.05 for mobility, which is not means tested [2]. That's up to $249.98 USD a week untaxed on top of your regular income - you can imagine why people may be incentivised. Worse still, Citizens Advice which is 60% taxpayer funded [3], actively tell people how to fill out the forms to guarantee a positive outcome.

I have no idea why people would want to register as disabled though... /s

[1] https://www.scope.org.uk/media/disability-facts-figures

[2] https://www.gov.uk/pip/how-much-youll-get

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Advice

bArray commented on Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years topspeed.com/reliable-jap... · Posted by u/teleforce

bArray · 10 days ago

The Volvo modular engine is worth a short too, it ran for 26 years [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Modular_Engine

bArray commented on Interop and MathML Core conflor.es/blog/2025-11-2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bArray · 10 days ago

I get the feeling that MathML will win out, simply because Firefox supported from early on [1], there is first move advantage. I use an old JS library for backwards compatibility [2] that adds just enough support for any math I'm math'in [3]. I would still prefer SVG, but it ended up being a pain to implement reliably.

One thing I noticed about this site though is that it is laggy - and I have a pretty good system.

[1] https://caniuse.com/mathml

[2] https://coffeespace.org.uk/projects/mathml-render.html

[3] https://github.com/pshihn/math-ml

bArray commented on Show HN: Mu – The Micro Network github.com/asim/mu... · Posted by u/asim

bArray · 15 days ago

> Big tech failed us.

Uses Go, a language written by and maintained by Google [1]. Uses co-pilot written by GitHub for development [4].

Mu is £11 a month and you cannot see any screenshot of what you are getting [2], the same price you could buy a cheap VPS for [3]. The two authors of the project are asim and co-pilot. The commits have meaningless messages [4].

I would run a million miles away from this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)

[2] https://github.com/asim/mu

[3] https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/

[4] https://github.com/asim/mu/commits/main/

bArray commented on Show HN: An LLM-Powered Tool to Catch PCB Schematic Mistakes netlist.io/... · Posted by u/wafflesfreak

bArray · 16 days ago

I've tried it with one of my quick circuits - it does work to some extent. It found a requirement for an IC that I missed in the datasheet. Querying it further did confuse it a bit, instead of talking about the IC it started referring to the MCU and it's limits whilst referring back to the original document.

The real question is whether this has enough value to justify the pricing model [1] - I think so for a company, but would be difficult to justify for a hobby. One thing that should be defined is what "usage limit" actually is.

[1] https://netlist.io/pricing

bArray commented on Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? · Posted by u/dennis-tra

bArray · 16 days ago

I think it's possible we see some people now use other OSes, there should at least be an "Other" option. The *BSD's, Nix and some more bespoke options.

bArray commented on Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism lux-magazine.com/article/... · Posted by u/eustoria

bArray · 16 days ago

> [..] seem to have internalized the internet’s tendency to reach for the least charitable interpretation of every glancing thought and, as a result, to have pathologized what I would characterize as the normal, internal vagaries of desire.

I think the internet has some ownership of this, AI didn't help, and our transition from a high-trust society to low-trust society. It's more obvious if you switch the subject to any other - try telling a joke about racism in the wrong setting [1]. Private things should remain private, and consumed within a private context.

In the UK for example, a person can be found guilty under the Malicious Communications Act and/or Online Safety Act. If your badly received joke involves a protected characteristic, that's now and aggravating factor and you just committed a crime against a protected minority.

> I should state at this point that this is not an essay about “cancel culture going too far,” a topic which can now be historicized as little more than a rhetorical cudgel wielded successfully by the right to wrest cultural power back from an ascendant progressive liberalism.

The author was IRL cancelled by their friend: "In fact, it ended the friendship.". And the main complaint is that this has become part of the culture, specifically for sexuality. The author may not want to associate with the anti-movement for cancel culture, it is exactly what they are aligned with.

> #MeToo was smeared by liberals and conservatives alike (united, as they always are, in misogyny) as being inherently punitive in nature, meant to punish men who’d fallen into a rough patch of bad behavior, or who, perhaps, might not have done anything at all (the falsely accused or the misinterpreted man became the real victim, in this view).

You want the power without the responsibility of corruption. It's not like this stuff doesn't have real world consequences [2]. If, instead of adding names to a document, each of these women just stabbed to death the men they are accusing, let's say for really terrible accusations that we can agree that such a penalty should apply for. Sure, many people who are stabbed to death will have earned it, but we cannot be sure unless there is some right to address the accusation.

The point is that without the ability to represent your counter-argument, there can be no real claim of justice. What is claimed as "social justice" is just the vigilante mob doing whatever it likes without accountability, and a lack of accountability is exactly what they are angry about in the first place. Two wrongs do not make a right.

> But that link between sex and fear is operating in more “benign” or common modes of internet practice. There is an online culture that thinks nothing of submitting screenshots, notes, videos, and photos with calls for collective judgement.

Wait wait wait. Hold on a damn second. We just literally spoke about a series of women submitting online notes for collective judgement. Now it's wrong?

This reveals the fundamental problem, which is that the author is suppressed by the very behaviours that they have supported.

[1] https://youtube.com/shorts/-3_-qYw33pU?si=bmPCOa8Ay8YQm4FK

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/23/us/metoo-repl...

bArray commented on ESP32 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP... · Posted by u/doener

bArray · 18 days ago

The ESP32-P4 [1] could be interesting for running native Linux [2], but as the article suggests it was supposed to be released in January 2023. We're now approaching January 2026 without a final design [3].

I believe there is a strong market out there for a low-level Linux capable controller with WiFi, Ethernet, USB host, etc, capabilities. The USB itself would be especially killer - imagine being able to just load the appropriate kernel driver for a USB device and being able to communicate with it directly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP32#ESP32-P4_-_January_2023

[2] https://esp32.com/viewtopic.php?t=45499

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1ilyjpe/when_will_th...

bArray commented on Why DETRs are replacing YOLOs for real-time object detection blog.datameister.ai/detec... · Posted by u/axelvlaminck

bArray · 23 days ago

> The YOLO series is developed and maintained by Ultralytics. All YOLO code and weights are released under the AGPL-3.0 license.The YOLO series is developed and maintained by Ultralytics. All YOLO code and weights are released under the AGPL-3.0 license.

The original author of YOLO and the Darknet framework [1] issued the code under pretty much every license you wish to use [2]. My preferred fork by AlexeyAB is under an equally permissive license [3].

Ultralytics then created their own model under the AGPL-3.0 license [4], which probably would never stand up in a court as they have the model from the likes of YOLOv3 in their source [5].

This entire article is flawed anyway, because they don't state which YOLOv11 model they are using or compare the accuracy. They appear to have just taken the pre-trained models and assumed it's apples-to-apples. They could have at least compared YOLO11n/s/m/l/x,

[1] https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/

[2] https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet

[3] https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet

[4] https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics

[5] https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/tree/main/ultraly...