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cdjk commented on If you are harassed by lasers laserpointersafety.com/ha... · Posted by u/1970-01-01

There was a time in the electronics world when bright, house illuminating leds first came about and manufacturers used them in place of the dull red/green indicators. Black tape everywhere. Macbooks were one of the worst offenders. They had an extremely bright and worst of all pulsating led that was on when the device was in standby. Used to shine right through laptop bags and keep everyone nearby awake.

Fortunately that fad is somewhat over and manufacturers mostly learnt not to put in the brightest led they could source.

cdjk · 3 months ago

The pulsing macbook leds were horrible. I was in college then, living in dorms or other shared housing where my laptop was always in my bedroom overnight. I got in the habit of putting a dark shirt over it.

cdjk commented on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations anthropic.com/research/en... · Posted by u/virgildotcodes

cdjk · 4 months ago

Here's an interesting thought experiment. Assume the same feature was implemented, but instead of the message saying "Claude has ended the chat," it says, "You can no longer reply to this chat due to our content policy," or something like that. And remove the references to model welfare and all that.

Is there a difference? The effect is exactly the same. It seems like this is just an "in character" way to prevent the chat from continuing due to issues with the content.

cdjk commented on Get the location of the ISS using DNS shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/... · Posted by u/8organicbits

6thbit · 6 months ago

You’d be surprised but I’m pretty sure many people would dig this.

cdjk · 6 months ago

I might drill into this further.

cdjk commented on Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed eggnog.ai/entertimeportal... · Posted by u/samplank2

cdjk · 9 months ago

This is awesome. I had the same feeling I had when I first played GeoGuessr. It's one of the first times I've seen what is obviously AI-generated video used in a super compelling way. I want to keep playing.

A few super nitpicky comments:

- I dropped my pin for "Seward's Folly" on Alaska. The videos were clear enough that I knew that's what it was, which made me excited. But then it said it happened in Washington, DC.

- It might be sample bias, but I've only gotten events after year 0 (and technically, it went from 1 BCE/BC to 1 CE/AD.

I'd love to play with this my seven year old, but some of the images are too violent. A "PG mode" would be awesome.

cdjk commented on GPG and Me (2015) moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-... · Posted by u/udev4096

cdjk · a year ago

I gave up on gpg when I couldn't get my key signed at defcon multiple years in a row. If there's not interest in it at defcon, I don't know where else to go.

cdjk commented on PyPy has moved to Git, GitHub pypy.org/posts/2023/12/py... · Posted by u/lumpa

dpflan · 2 years ago

PiPi would complete the set but that would be (doubly) irrational…

cdjk · 2 years ago

I think you mean transcendental.

Posted by u/cdjk 3 years ago

A Boy, His Brain, and a Decades-Long Medical Controversy wired.com/story/a-boy-his...

cdjk commented on A Lost Hiker’s SOS Signal Sparked a Wildfire. Now He Must Pay $300k backpacker.com/news-and-e... · Posted by u/xrayarx

cykros · 3 years ago

Indeed -- much like with roads that have the same name with a different ending; ie, Maple St. and Maple Ave., found in the same town.

Though I do feel bad for the people who live on such streets, with how often their food delivery gets sent to the wrong place. Turns out delivery drivers aren't always the ones with the greatest attention to detail.

cdjk · 3 years ago

The one that gets me every time is Parkmoore and Moorepark on opposite sides of 280 in San Jose. I be someone thought they were being clever when they named them.

cdjk commented on Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny nytimes.com/2023/01/28/wo... · Posted by u/latchkey

sn9 · 3 years ago

This is an interesting algorithm problem.

Given the parameters to maximize detection and minimize time/resources, how would you direct a drone or something to find the capsule?

How would that change with 2 drones? 4? 8? As many drones as there are flyable Geiger counters in the country?

cdjk · 3 years ago

It’s called Bayesian Search Theory, and is even more interesting when you consider that not finding it at a given location gives you information about where it might or might not be.

cdjk commented on Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says businessinsider.com/sam-b... · Posted by u/pseudolus

detrites · 3 years ago

This is FTX, remember.

cdjk · 3 years ago

Nah, seems like they'd be more likely to use floats for accounting.

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