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drewolbrich commented on What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)   lists.ding.net/othersite/... · Posted by u/kreyenborgi
weinzierl · 5 months ago
Yes you are right. I researched a bit and there are other reserved blocks next the 168 that obviously don't have a nice pattern. So the 101010 is just a coincidence.
drewolbrich · 5 months ago
101010 in decimal is 42.
drewolbrich commented on Repasting a MacBook   christianselig.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/speckx
drewolbrich · 7 months ago
I have a 2021 M1 Pro MacBook Pro that I use every day, and I don't hear the fans...at least not yet.

I wonder how my situation differs from Christian's.

drewolbrich commented on The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish   scottandrew.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/SeenNotHeard
vunderba · 8 months ago
Nice job. I think it might be worth adding a few more verb synonyms to make the parser a little bit less strict - what's a few more years of development. :)

Like many other devs I also dipped my feet in the world of interactive fiction. As a kid I was just learning about concepts such as inheritance / OOP / etc. so I went a bit overboard on the ontology.

I remember pretty early on making a rather large mistake in that regard when a friend who was beta-testing the game for me at the time typed in commands like "get key", "get sword", "get ye flask", and then "get Aldwin" to which the game merrily replied "OK" and promptly stuffed an entire human being into the player's inventory.

drewolbrich · 8 months ago
I remember writing one of these and typing "put bag in bag" and then being confused why the bag disappeared from the world.
drewolbrich commented on Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?   devblogs.microsoft.com/ol... · Posted by u/zdw
whynotmaybe · 10 months ago
I had to take a picture with my finger on the camera to have a black image to use as background.
drewolbrich · 10 months ago
Another way is to do a Google image search for "black".
drewolbrich commented on Can Earth's rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/qnleigh
bmacho · a year ago
Imagine a massive planet spinning in empty vacuum. Can the inhabitants slow down their planet, and generate electricity?

I suspect that they can generate electricity with angular momentum with it, that can be only used to do work with the equivalent angular momentum.

drewolbrich · a year ago
The Moon's tidal forces are already slowing down the rotation period of the Earth, which was apparently only 5 hours long about 4.5 billion years ago.
drewolbrich commented on I tried making artificial sunlight at home   victorpoughon.fr/i-tried-... · Posted by u/fouronnes3
alejohausner · a year ago
For me, the problem with this setup (and with most high efficiency LED lights) is the lack of red wavelenghts. Real sunlight has a substantial amount of energy in the very red end of the visible spectrum (700 nm) and also of course quite a bit in the infrared. These lamps have two spectral peaks: a narrow peak in the blue range, around 450 nm, a broader peak in the green, centered around 580 nm. That greenish peak falls off sharply, and has almost no energy in the red end.

The color sensitive cones in our eye have three peaks of sensitivity, the S cones in the blue range, the M cones in the green, and the L cones in yellow. The L cones are what your brain uses to see red colors, but they are actually pretty insensitive to deep reds like 700 nm. That’s why you THINK that LED lamps produce red, because they stimulate your L cones, but they do so without actually emitting much red energy at all!

Our bodies are sensitive to deep red light. The cytochrome in our mitochondria respond to it. There’s an experiment where shining red lights on the skin improved sugar metabolism. That makes sense, because we naked apes evolved under red-rich sunlight.

So these lamps may look like sunlight, but they’re missing some crucial wavelengths.

drewolbrich · a year ago
My issue with this setup is that it doesn't emit as many neutrinos as the Sun.
drewolbrich commented on The German language broke my website   speedbumpapp.com/en/blog/... · Posted by u/nullderef
alpaca128 · a year ago
Purely linguistic tasks like this are the one area where LLMs tend to be great, not sure what you mean.
drewolbrich · a year ago
I asked Claude if it would be appropriate to use it for localization of text during app development and it strongly recommended avoiding using itself.

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drewolbrich commented on Show HN: AI that generates 3blue1brown-style explainer videos   tma.live... · Posted by u/zan2434
drewolbrich · a year ago
Thank you for sharing. This is a wonderful experiment and I think this concept has a lot of potential.

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