icpmoles (u/icpmoles)

icpmoles commented on Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar... · Posted by u/benbreen

EdNutting · 20 days ago

Imagine having a president with the intellectual ability to create a novel mathematical proof, and the humility to publish it without claiming to be the greatest mathematician of all time…

icpmoles · 20 days ago

Peru's experience with a President with a math degree didn't go that well

icpmoles commented on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/... · Posted by u/bertman

fsflover · a month ago

Which is why Windows 11 requires TPM.

icpmoles · a month ago

DRM protection schemes usually don't rely on TPM, the real magic happens inside your GPU and the monitor.

icpmoles commented on Offline Math: Converting LaTeX to SVG with MathJax sigwait.org/~alex/blog/20... · Posted by u/henry_flower

yorwba · 2 months ago

That test page doesn't seem to use any features current Chrome doesn't support. Or do you just mean that the appearance isn't identical to the TeX rendering even if you use a font like Latin Modern?

icpmoles · 2 months ago

It improved a little bit from what I remembered (on Chrome it had problems displaying multi-line brackets), it still has some inaccuracies tho

https://imgur.com/a/83lSuYn

icpmoles commented on Offline Math: Converting LaTeX to SVG with MathJax sigwait.org/~alex/blog/20... · Posted by u/henry_flower

sathomasga · 2 months ago

Same use case (math-heavy, no-javascript blog), but I ended up with a _slightly_ different approach: instead of converting to SVG, convert to MathML. Browser support is pretty robust, and the output is much nicer (e.g. preserves fonts).

https://sathomas.me/blog/site/

icpmoles · 2 months ago

In my experience the MathML support is still mediocre, especially on Chrome.

https://fred-wang.github.io/MathFonts/mozilla_mathml_test/

icpmoles commented on Why Nigeria accepted GMOs asimov.press/p/nigeria-cr... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

small_scombrus · 2 months ago

The difference I think, is that the libraries are open source, and you don't have to pay Facebook yearly to use React.

Countries can and do ban closed source paid products when they don't trust the provider (e.g. Huawei)

icpmoles · 2 months ago

When you buy hardware that goes rogue you're forced to throw it away and install something new, which costs money for hardware and labor.

When a GMO goes rogue you can just buy a different seed the next planting season, which you were going to do anyway.

icpmoles commented on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/phantomathkg

toomuchtodo · 7 months ago

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

icpmoles · 7 months ago

The "Save to Pocket" button at the bottom is a nice touch.

icpmoles commented on Security and privacy risks of public JavaScript CDNs httptoolkit.com/blog/publ... · Posted by u/fanf2

antifa · a year ago

Regarding the alleged performance benefits of using a public CDN: if there ever was a cache hit because a user visited one site then yours that coincidentally used the same CDN and query version (pro tip: never happened), and in a short enough time to not suffer a cache eviction, the user did not notice.

When the CDN was slow, every user noticed and thought your website was slow.

You gave away free analytics and made your website worse, there wasn't even a trade off.

icpmoles · a year ago

Because of Cache Partitioning it's technically impossible to have a cache hit in your example.

icpmoles commented on Two ways to use an LED as a light sensor with Arduino blog.jgc.org/2024/06/two-... · Posted by u/jgrahamc

icpmoles · a year ago

I remember the OG pebble using the backlight LEDs as ambient light sensors but I can't find where I read it.

icpmoles commented on Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release? · Posted by u/sylwester

icpmoles · 3 years ago

Is it basically btdig.com ?

icpmoles commented on Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM semianalysis.substack.com... · Posted by u/craigjb

moistly · 4 years ago

I own Samsung kitchen appliances. I will never make that mistake again.

Fridge: the coils in the fridge compartment freeze up, which is expected because, hey, thermodynamic laws. Hence the heater coil to melt the ice. Which would be fine, except that the little metal tab that is supposed to conduct heat into the drainpipe is too short, so the ice doesn’t melt, thus leaving the drain all plugged up, causing the ice water to overflow, eventually spilling out the fridge door and destroying your cork floor.

Dishwasher: fffuuuuuu… P.o.S. Piss-poor job of cleaning. Does a shit job of filtering food particles out, so they end up in the rinse water, and so end up crudding-up any contact points between dishes. I end up washing “clean” dishes by hand Every. GD. Time.

Oven: self-clean feature cooks the convection fan to death. Should be called self-destructive, not self-cleaning. Thankfully, the induction stovetop continues to work… for the time being.

I will never, ever purchase a Samsung product again.

icpmoles · 4 years ago

I had the same problem with my Samsung fridge and while trying to fix it I stumbled upon the world of third party "samsung defroster clip" that you can find on online stores. Which suggests that the problem is so widespread to spin up a whole new industry for a 5 bucks piece of metal.