Google has been a hot mess for me lately. Ya, the AI is awful, numerous times I’m shown information that’s either inaccurate or straight false. It will summarize my emails wrong, it will mess up easy facts like what time my dinner reservation is. Worst is the overall search UX, especially auto complete. Suggestions are never right and then trying to tap and navigate thru always leads to an mis-click.
Readit Newsnyc_pizzadev commented on Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me bsky.app/profile/bennjord... · Posted by u/jsheard
nyc_pizzadev commented on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/dotcoma
I got this ad, and ya, I was truly bewildered to get such an ad and then shocked that it came from my Wallet. I then spent the next hour searching how to disable this new marketing stream and it looks like nothing can be done. Anyway, glad to see I’m not alone here.
nyc_pizzadev commented on Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403 aoli.al/blogs/chrome-bug/... · Posted by u/aoli-al
So if you get less HTTP bytes than expected, then it’s a HTTP response error and you throw the whole thing away. For example, this sort of situation happens when streaming HTTP. The server first has to send the response headers, which would be a simple 200/206, then the data, which could have a much more complicated code path. If there is an error in that data code path, all you can do is close the connection and trigger an HTTP error since less bytes were delivered than advertised. Client needs to detect this and retry. While this may seem uncommon, this is well understood behavior for HTTP systems.
nyc_pizzadev commented on Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript manuscriptroadtrip.wordpr... · Posted by u/Luc
Any idea why they removed the videos? Even the reddit thread you link to is deleted...
A lot of people were speculating he would make his findings official and didn’t want to over share.
I do see a comment about his theory being debunked. That would be expected, the language used was a mashup of several existing languages, so it’s possible a lot of what was written is copy-pasta gibberish. However, the video points out of a lot of cultural aspects of the book which support a Romani origin.
nyc_pizzadev commented on Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript manuscriptroadtrip.wordpr... · Posted by u/Luc
Someone was able to translate portions of the Voynich Manuscript but has unfortunately removed his videos. I found a bit more info here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/voynich/comments/ev9h5v/does_anyone...
This gist is that nomadic Romani people settled around Syria and wrote it. The language and writing is a blend of several languages and cultures. The evidence in the videos backs this up pretty well.
Edit, found the videos here: https://www.reddit.com/r/voynich/comments/ev9h5v/comment/joy...
nyc_pizzadev commented on The Math of Card Shuffling fredhohman.com/card-shuff... · Posted by u/Anon84
Check out Jason Ladanye. He’s a magician who uses shuffle math to place cards exactly where he wants them to be in the deck. Both impressive and scary.
nyc_pizzadev commented on Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC quic.video/blog/never-use... · Posted by u/wofo
For VOD can I just open connection and send single message and then stream will continue forever? And HTTP is message oriented protocol. I can't just send infinite length HTTP message. Which would be processed as it arrives or can I? Meaning can I upload something not that small like terabyte of video data over HTTP?
Yes for everything. In HTTP1 it’s a chunked response, in H2+ it’s just a bunch of data frames. This is how low latency HLS video works.
nyc_pizzadev commented on Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC quic.video/blog/never-use... · Posted by u/wofo
Now I wonder. Do we have any actual streaming use of TCP, with purely streaming protocol.
High quality VOD (ie streaming a 4K movie). HTTP block file systems, each block needs to be streamed reliably to fulfill the read() call plus read ahead.
nyc_pizzadev commented on Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC quic.video/blog/never-use... · Posted by u/wofo
One thing not mentioned often is that a lot of networks will drop UDP packets first when encountering congestion. The thinking is that those packets will not re-transmit, so it’s an effective means to shed excess traffic. Given we now have protocols that aggressively re-transmit on UDP, I wonder how that has changed things. I do seem to remember QUIC having re-transmit issues (vs HTTP1/2) years ago because of this.
nyc_pizzadev commented on CERN's Exabyte Data Center blog.westerndigital.com/i... · Posted by u/kungfudoi
Looks like a marketing piece publicizing that CERN is using WD HDD products at scale with no technical details. To make matters worse, the WD product links don’t even work!