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codemusings commented on I just trained a physics-based earthquake forecasting model on a $1000 GPU    · Posted by u/ArchitectAI
codemusings · 4 months ago
Right. Because compute power and/or a physics based model is the limiting factor for accurately predicting when a seismic event happens. Training on historic data is hardly the problem that need's solving.

It's the leading indicators that are actually measurable that are missing. You know the ones that allow for evacuations and other protective measures.

codemusings commented on Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs    · Posted by u/trumbitta2
codemusings · 4 months ago
I saw beta screenshots of what used to be the toolbar (e.g. in Finder) and immediately disabled auto-update on my Mac. Seeing how many bugs have also been introduced (not just visual glitches) pretty much reaffirmed me in my decision.

However the downside is I can't try some new app releases like Daft Music[1] because it has become to burdensome to maintain two different designs. Especially in SwiftUI.

[1] https://daftmusic.app

codemusings commented on Tell HN: Google Maps reviews in Germany are basically dead    · Posted by u/tahaygun
codemusings · 8 months ago
Trust me 1-Star-Drive-By Reviews by "customers" without any merit are just as bad for businesses.

So, congrats. You've basically discovered that online review systems suck. Look at app stores. Look at Amazon product reviews. It's all being gamed and manipulated and abused. Google obviously won't moderate any of this because there's no substantial business value.

codemusings commented on Ask HN: Qt style "Signals and Slots" based JavaScript UI library?    · Posted by u/tmbsundar
codemusings · a year ago
I'm of the opinion that this is bad design because it makes it very hard to reason about the consequences when refactoring a large codebase. It's kind of like reactive global variables. There are legitimate reasons when to use them. But not as a general design principle.

That being said: If you're dead set on this paradigm you can implement this easily yourself. Create a bootstrapping function that modifies a prototype or class in order to provide functions to register signals and slots and use them wherever you need them.

If you use TypeScript you could even use Decorators (e.g. "@Signal" or "@Slot") which are just higher order functions to have some syntactic sugar like the QT macros.

codemusings commented on Multi-threading is always the wrong design (2023)   unetworkingab.medium.com/... · Posted by u/gw2
codemusings · a year ago
> The irony is that, since you are splitting the problem in a way that requires synchronization between cores, you are actually introducing more work to be executed in the same CPU-time budget. So you are spending more time on overhead due to synchronization, which does the opposite of what you probably hoped for — it makes your code even slower, not faster.

That is certainly not universally true for every scenario and if you need to sync state between cpu cores very often then your tasks simply don't lend themselves to parallelization. That doesn't mean that multi-threading is inheritely the wrong design choice. Of course it will always be a trade-off between performance gains and the code complexity of your job control.

codemusings commented on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)   ericdraken.com/pfsense-de... · Posted by u/udev4096
perching_aix · a year ago
> I discovered that putting a man-in-the-middle proxy between my Apple TV and the world lets me decrypt HTTPS traffic

This surprised me quite a bit because normally that shouldn't work, but then that surprise was exchanged for a different one, when I learned later down that you can add CAs to the certificate store of an Apple TV.

Nice and thorough writeup, thanks for sharing. A good carousel through the entire stack involved.

codemusings · a year ago
> [...] when I learned later down that you can add CAs to the certificate store of an Apple TV.

Same. I would not have guessed that that's possible but I guess I never tried to access a resource without a valid certificate chain on Apple TV.

codemusings commented on BBS from Scratch   bbsfromscratch.com/... · Posted by u/cenazoic
codemusings · a year ago
The AI slop images on this website are honestly such a turn off. Especially considering that BBSs are all about text.
codemusings commented on Hyperspace   hypercritical.co/2025/02/... · Posted by u/tobr
karparov · a year ago
I'm a little surprised that folks here are investing so much time into this app. It's closed source, only available for a non-obious amount, time-limited or subscription-based and lots of details of how it works are missing.

With a FOSS project this would have been expected, but with a ShareWare-style model? Idk..

codemusings · a year ago
John has reiterated multiple times on his podcast that he doesn't want to deal with thousands of support requests when making his apps open source and free. All his apps are personal itches he scratched and he sells them not to make a profit but to make the barrier of entry high enough to make user feedback manageable.
codemusings commented on The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution   usni.org/magazines/procee... · Posted by u/iancmceachern
codemusings · a year ago
> [...] if the nation is destined for maritime irrelevance and the laying of its prosperity at the whims of autocrats a world away.

Considering what happened in the last two weeks alone this lack of self-awareness is simply brilliant.

codemusings commented on LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting   blog.documentfoundation.o... · Posted by u/mariuz
boramalper · a year ago
> First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice.

Out of curiosity, what's the "fierce hostility" they're talking about?

codemusings · a year ago
I think this is in reference to OpenOffice but the wording is rather confusing.

u/codemusings

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