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itslennysfault commented on Try and ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/t... · Posted by u/treetalker

itslennysfault · 16 days ago

This is also the construction used for FAFO

FA = "try" (as a vulgar slang)

When you de-vulgar/de-slang it it becomes: try and find out

itslennysfault commented on Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/... · Posted by u/walterbell

timeinput · a month ago

There is a giant confusing tech stack here, but opening up this simple plain text page resulted in like 100% CPU usage from from gnome-shell when visiting from firefox on a pretty non-customized Ubuntu 24 install.

In the firefox task manager nothing really looked odd, but opening that tab and displaying it is insanely CPU intensive.

Pausing the autoplaying video makes it seem like a sane web page in terms of CPU usage. I'm surprised how much CPU playing that video consumed.

itslennysfault · a month ago

Very odd. This must be some kind of Ubuntu issue. Out of curiosity I tried it in Chrome, Firefox and Safari on MacOS 15.5 and saw very little CPU usage and no difference with/without the video playing. I don't have a Ubuntu Desktop handy to confirm. Looking at the video it's nothing special. Just a fairly small mp4 using a native html5 video element to play it. Really no reason this should be causing issues.

itslennysfault commented on New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes dynomight.net/colors/... · Posted by u/zdw

perching_aix · a month ago

> If you refused to look at the animation, it’s just a bluish-green background with a red circle on top that slowly shrinks down to nothing. That’s all. But as it shrinks, you should hallucinate a very intense blue-green color around the rim.

I do not believe I have any kind or amount of colorblindness, so imagine my surprise when extremely confused I pulled the image into MS Paint, used the Color Picker tool, and found that indeed, the background has quite a bit of blue in it.

Anyhow, I cannot reproduce the illusion cited. For me the circle just blurs out and I start seeing orange.

itslennysfault · a month ago

Just in case... Maybe you didn't wait long enough? I saw nothing so I came to the comments expecting a lot of others to day the animation is broken. However, it turns out it's a lot slower/longer than I thought. I saw the little bar on the left shrink to nothing and thought that was it and exited, but that's just the start. The full animation is the red circle shrinking all the way until it disappears. There is no illusion until the circle shrinks quite a bit.

itslennysfault commented on Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine bbc.com/news/articles/cx2... · Posted by u/brudgers

russfink · a month ago

I entered an MRI room once when my wife was getting ready to be scanned. I had a metal Cross pen in my shirt pocket. Although I was 10 feet back, the pen flew out of my pocket, across the room, and stuck to the magnet. It was scary.

itslennysfault · a month ago

That's crazy... Did they bill you for the cost of shutting down the MRI and refilling the helium?

itslennysfault commented on How to handle people dismissing io_uring as insecure? (2024) github.com/axboe/liburing... · Posted by u/nromiun

xlii · a month ago

Maybe it is (mine is for sure) but that's a "bitten by the dog once" case.

You got bitten and everyone around you assures you won't get bitten again, but the pain was real and you still have a scar from the event. Why bother or invest risking another bite if there are other places to be which had never bitten before.

Over my career I hated technology 3 times. First was PHP, second was Python during Python 2/3 fiasco and third was CoffeeScript.

Edit: till this day one of my favorite meme is titled "PHP: Training wheels without a bike"

itslennysfault · a month ago

I went through your exact same hate timeline. The CoffeeScript one was so bad that I was REALLY hesitant about TypeScript, but the whole "it's a superset of JS" thing won me over in the end.

I still hate PHP the most, and I very much mean PHP 5 when I say that, and have no idea what happened beyond that, and honestly the scars are so deep I don't care to find out.

itslennysfault commented on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly refine.sh... · Posted by u/runjuu

londons_explore · a month ago

> Powered by local AI models

I worry that this will make my writing more likely to fail an AI coursework detector, which could really impact my life. The risk just isn't worth it till someone has tested the output through all the big players (turnitin etc.)

itslennysfault · a month ago

I don't think the risks are high with this. It's not writing for you. It's just correcting your grammar. If you're 99% writing it yourself and just having it highlight grammar mistakes I wouldn't expect it to trigger an alarm....... but I haven't been in school since waaay before LLMs were viable/common. So, maybe it's worse than I think.

itslennysfault commented on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly refine.sh... · Posted by u/runjuu

koiueo · a month ago

Gosh people love complicating things.

You don't need docker (a Linux-only piece of tech) to run a java application. Even though I'm on Linux, and docker experience is waaaaay better here than on any other platform, I wouldn't in my life consider using it to run LanguageTool.

  java -cp languagetool-server.jar org.languagetool.server.HTTPServer

itslennysfault · a month ago

Gosh people love complicating things.

You don't need to fight with installing (the correct version of) java. I wouldn't in my life consider installing java on my OS directly.

For anyone with docker already installed (most people these days)...

  git clone git@github.com:gardner/LocalLanguageTool.git

  cd LocalLanguageTool

  docker compose up

itslennysfault commented on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly refine.sh... · Posted by u/runjuu

darinpantley · a month ago

Case in point: "Is there a educational discount?" I believe this should say "an educational discount". I wonder if the tool would have caught it.

itslennysfault · a month ago

Did the website originally say this? I just checked and it says "an" now... Perhaps they didn't use their own tool when writing the web copy.

itslennysfault commented on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/LorenDB

WarOnPrivacy · a month ago

"Everything that we're doing is all underground."

This indicates that their local and state governments aren't (at this time) captured by the incumbent cable provider.

A captured state gov will pass laws to thwart new infra deployment, commonly written by ISP interests. A captured local gov will never approve deployment or slow-walk permitting in an attempt to bankrupt the upstart.

more explainers: New suburban fiber infrastructure means either trenching or pole hanging. The local gov issues permits for both but poles also require the cooperation of the pole owners. This last adds the PSC to the mix.

Recalcitrant pole owners are known to stall and kill infrastructure deployment - especially where going underground isn't an option. Some PSCs mandate that pole owners cooperate. Some PSCs abdicate that responsibility and are examples of regulatory capture.

itslennysfault · a month ago

This was even a major hurdle for Google Fiber. The incumbent ISPs did everything they could to obstruct them from installing fiber, and it was fairly effective even against someone with deep pockets like Google.

itslennysfault commented on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized nodaysoff.run... · Posted by u/friggeri

DwnVoteHoneyPot · a month ago

Just to clarify, you only run 1 mile per day? You're seeing fitness gains from 1 mile? I'm not judging, that's 1 mile more than I do now. I'm just wondering if that's a useful technique vs. running longer a few times a week. I'm guessing it useful to get you in the habit. Also, lower risk of injury. I guess i can just try it myself, it's only 1 mile.

itslennysfault · a month ago

I'm not a doctor or any kind of expert, but I think consistency is pretty much always the best. A lot of people get stuck in a weird mindset of "it's only a mile why bother" ... but even just going for a walk every day is infinitely better than doing nothing.

From my own experience, after 2020 threw me into a bit of a depression I gained a bunch of weight for the first time in my life. I decided I was going to "workout every day" but gave myself a ton of grace about what the definition of "workout" meant. If it was bed time and I hadn't done anything yet I'd just do a couple sets of pushups to "check the box" and go to sleep. I tried to do as much as I could every day, but still gave myself a pat on the back as long as I did ANYTHING that I could call a "workout" ... I lost the weight shockingly quickly and felt a lot better even though most days I was only working out for 10-20 minutes.

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