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jamiehall commented on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone   ssoready.com/blog/enginee... · Posted by u/noleary
jamiehall · 10 months ago
> Btw it’s called UTC (Universal Time Coordinated? huh?) because the same folks who publish UTC also publish UT1, which is UTC sans the leap seconds.

I’m not sure that’s right! According to legend among metrologists I’ve talked to, “UTC” was chosen as a compromise candidate: it makes sense as an acronym in neither English nor French.

jamiehall commented on Can a transformer represent a Kalman filter?   arxiv.org/abs/2312.06937... · Posted by u/bluish29
gautamcgoel · 2 years ago
Author here, happy to answer any questions.
jamiehall · 2 years ago
Nice paper! Just curious, do you reckon you could generalise the finding to a broader class of state-space models, e.g. particle filters?
jamiehall commented on Recursive Recipes   recursiverecipes.schollz.... · Posted by u/xk3
jamiehall · 2 years ago
This is neat! On this topic, an interesting and pretty comprehensive guide to money / time / effort / quality tradeoffs in food is "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" by Jennifer Reese.
jamiehall commented on Semantic Satiation   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sem... · Posted by u/annowiki
motohagiography · 4 years ago
Literally every conversation I have about blockchain.

Only half joking. Having worked in security and crypto, the solutions are often based on an opaque idea of fantastic complexity, which becomes a kind of mantra. It's like being in a movie called blockchain john malkovitch.

jamiehall · 4 years ago
Ha, that's interesting. But have you come across the AI-linked crypto, ML Blockchain? It's completely distributed and secure blockchain through crypto. The ML is blockchain which blockchain crypto blockchain, blockchain sec blockchain distributed blockchain blockchain AI blockchain blockchain. Blockchain blockchain blockchain, blockchain bLoCkChAiN BlOcKcHaIn bLoCkChAiN BlOcKcHaIn bLoCkChAiN BlOcKcHaIn bCkOlcAnIh
jamiehall commented on About the security content of iOS 12.4.9   support.apple.com/en-us/H... · Posted by u/axyjo
jamiehall · 5 years ago
Linking to the 14.2 list (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211929) might be better? After clicking the headline link, it took me a few seconds to understand why we were caring about updates for the iPhone 5 and 6...
jamiehall commented on Airbus pilot tries Microsoft Flight Simulator [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=jchxs... · Posted by u/doener
niklasrde · 5 years ago
It’s hard! They’re not slow by choice, they’re slow because of the years it takes for safety approvals, testing, and certification to complete. I’ve met a creative director who’s responsible for Norwegian’s IFE last year, and she was telling me about some of the crazy challenges it is to try and work with the hardware and software constraints they get. The software teams certainly have the resources and knowledge to build a great, modern platform.
jamiehall · 5 years ago
> Nearly every element [of an airplane seat] undergoes a safety-enhancing process called “delethalization”: seats have to withstand an impact equal to sixteen times the force of gravity [and many other constraints] .... Largely as a result, in-flight entertainment systems are almost unbelievably expensive. The rule of thumb, I was told, is “a thousand dollars an inch”—meaning that the small screen in the back of each economy seat can cost an airline ten thousand dollars, plus a few thousand for its handheld controller.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/21/game-of-throne...

jamiehall commented on Ask HN: How would you improve this bash oneliner for deleting tweets?    · Posted by u/jamiehall
Pirate-of-SV · 5 years ago

    jq -c -r '.[] | .id_str'
    # Can be rewritten to
    jq -r '.[].id_str'

    jq -c -r '.[] | .id_str' | head -10 | tail -1
    # Can be rewritten to
    jq -r '.[9].id_str'

jamiehall · 5 years ago
Ah, nice. Thanks! :D
jamiehall commented on Ask HN: How would you improve this bash oneliner for deleting tweets?    · Posted by u/jamiehall
jamiehall · 5 years ago
Thank you to everybody who commented! The suggestions to use something more sensible than a oneliner (and to post on Stack instead) are well taken. A big motivation of this project was "just because", for shits and giggles, so I hope it's amused you for a minute or two. Cheers!

u/jamiehall

KarmaCake day89February 8, 2016View Original