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imrehg commented on I drank every cocktail   aaronson.org/blog/i-drank... · Posted by u/colinprince
vincefutr23 · a month ago
Does this maintain state if navigate away ?
imrehg · a month ago
Yes, the site seems to save the checked cocktails into Local Storage (you can click some, and in your browser's inspection tools you can check. Eg. in Firefox > Inspect > Storage > Local Storage, there's a key with "cocktail-tracker").

I've checked and closing/reopening works (of course locally only, no incognito tabs, etc...)

imrehg commented on Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows   techcrunch.com/2025/07/07... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
sandspar · 2 months ago
115 million active users yet I can't recall ever seeing a Threads screenshot. Even on Elon-hostile places like Imgur and Reddit, the overwhelming majority of screenshotted memes are from X.
imrehg · 2 months ago
News TV channels in Taiwan that I usually watch, very often use videos from Threads for local news reporting (stuff sent in by the public). X-originated ones pretty much disappeared for the same use. This doesn't account for millions of users (by a long shot), but definitely a noticeable shift.
imrehg commented on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad   pilledtexts.com/why-i-use... · Posted by u/Fred34
imrehg · 5 months ago
I still have my Thinkpad X201 from 2011 running, and I use it as my personal machine (have an M1 MacBook from/for work).

Of course, had to replace the hard drive once or twice, replaced the whole motherboard once[0], and even though it's 64-bit, the CPU arch (Westmere) lacks some instructions that make some things non-functional (MongoDB, some Steam games don't start), and I had to limit the CPU frequency so it doesn't go into thermal shutdown. Nonetheless it's a joy to use still, and I boot it up with pleasure every time...

Thinking when will I pull the trigger on a Framework, though at least I don't feel the pressure too much just yet. :)

[0]: https://gergely.imreh.net/blog/2022/07/an-open-heart-motherb...

imrehg commented on When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines   jazco.dev/2025/02/19/impe... · Posted by u/cyndunlop
jadbox · 6 months ago
So, let's say I follow 4k people in the example and have a 50% drop rate. It seems a bit weird that if all (4k - 1) accounts I follow end up posting nothing in a day, that I STILL have a 50% chance that I won't see the 1 account that posts in a day. It seems to me that the algorithm should consider my feed's age (or the post freshness of my followers). Am I overthinking?
imrehg · 6 months ago
This feels like an edge case.

The "reasonable limit" is likely set based on experimentation, and thus on how much people post on average and the load it generates (so the real number is unlikely to be exactly "2000", IMHO).

If you follow a lot of people, how likely it is that their posting pattern is so different from the average? The more people you follow, the less likely that is.

So while you can end up in such situation in theory, it would need to be a very unusual (and rare) case.

imrehg commented on Should more of us be moving to live near friends?   architecturaldigest.com/s... · Posted by u/Geekette
wenc · 8 months ago
I would love to, but I come from a place where intellectual pursuits are not valued, so I would lose out on that front if I moved back. I’m the type who needs to always be learning. So I would always need to be in a big city.

Alain Bertaud, the urbanist, recently said, “the big contribution of cities is randomness.” And he continues: “You don't know what to expect. You don't know who you will meet. And, it's precisely because you meet people who are different from you, who have different ideas. Sometime even it could be obnoxious people. I think obnoxious people — I mean, what I consider obnoxious — are necessary in order to stimulate.”

In North America, there is a very strong cultural preference to isolate oneself (probably a residual effect of the frontier spirit). Hence a strong preference for suburban single family homes with backyards (“for the kids and the dog”) and which results in spread out developments where people rarely have to interact. That’s fine — but realize that’s a cultural preference.

I grew up in a house with no backyard and had an idyllic childhood. I knew my neighbors and biked to the playground. I was as happy as a clam. To this day, I don’t feel any need to own a house with a backyard. That is also a cultural preference.

imrehg · 8 months ago
Where's that Alain Bertaud quote from? I'd be interested in listening/reading more about his stuff.
imrehg commented on Examples of Great URL Design (2023)   blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023... · Posted by u/r4um
imrehg · a year ago
I found Notion's URL schema interesting as well. They have to contend with renames of pages, reorganisation of the hierarchy and all that. So they have something like:

    notion.so/:account/Current-Name-of-Page-:pageid 
where the name changes if the page is renamed, but the redirect works, as the page ID is unchanged. In fact, one can just use

    notion.so/:account/:pageid 
and gets redirected to the right page, or even

    notion.so/:account/Anything-else-:pageid
works too...

This is very handy in my use cases, when various Notion data is extracted into another tool, reassembled, and then needed to have a link to the original page. I don't need to worry about the page's name, or how that name gets converted into the URL, or any race conditions....

The page hierarchy is then just within the navigaton, not in the URL, so moved pages continue to work too (even if this looks like a flatter hierarchy than it really is).

I'm sure there are plenty of drawbacks, but I've found it an interesting, pragmatic solution.

imrehg commented on Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers   securityweek.com/twilio-c... · Posted by u/mindracer
fauigerzigerk · a year ago
What is a good alternative?
imrehg · a year ago
Besides all the other advice of using the password manager as a 2FA store as well, on the stand-alone side there is Aegis. I have good experience with it, and allows better interoperability than Authy as well.
imrehg commented on Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares   lichess.org/@/jk_182/blog... · Posted by u/akkartik
imrehg · a year ago
Very interesting, especially when compared to shogi (Japanese chess), where captured pieces can be dropped in anywhere on the board. So for shogi players this "ideal square" calculation can be even more natural and more flexible as well: besides the "getting existing pieces from A to B", the "drop on B" is a lot simpler. No wonder that piece exchanges (so there is something in the hand to drop) are basic feature of the gameplay.

(Source: being a fan of shogi but very very very early in my learning journey, so experts would likely describe this differently.)

imrehg commented on Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the exascale barrier   intel.com/content/www/us/... · Posted by u/mepian
CaliforniaKarl · a year ago
More context: This is related to today's release of the Spring Top 500 list (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346788). Aurora rated 1,012.00 PetaFLOPS/second Rmax, and is in 2nd place, behind Frontier.

In the November 2023 list, Aurora was also in second place, with an Rmax of 585.34 PetaFLOPS/second.

See https://www.top500.org/system/180183/ for the specs on Aurora, and https://www.top500.org/system/180047/ for the specs on Frontier.

See https://www.top500.org/project/top500_description/ and https://www.top500.org/project/linpack/ for a description of Rmax and the LINPACK benchmark, by which supercomputers are generally ranked. The Top 500 list only includes supercomputers that are able to run the LINPACK benchmark, and where the owner is willing to publish the results.

The jump in Aurora's Rmax scope is explained by Aurora's difficult birth. https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/5-years-late-only-2 (published when the November 2023 list came out) has a good explanation of what's been going on.

imrehg · a year ago
Looking at the two specs, interesting to see how Frontier (the first, running AMD CPUs) has much better power efficiency than Aurora (the second, running Intel), 18.89 kW/PFLOPS vs 38.24 kW/PFLOPS respectively... Good advertisement for AMD? :)

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