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oops commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

dayvid · 2 months ago

Seems odd that two different flavors of the same product would have different phthalate content? Would that mean that shelf life could have an impact?

Vanilla (high): https://laboratory.love/plasticlist/59 Strawberry (medium): https://laboratory.love/plasticlist/60

oops · 2 months ago

Nice observation ;-) If I'm reading the underlying data[0] correctly, it looks like the threshold for DEHT is significantly lower in the Vanilla tests (<4,500ng) vs the Strawberry tests (<22,500ng)

0: https://i.imgur.com/L1LVar1.png

Edit: I guess that should impact the Substitutes category, though, and not the Phthalates category.

oops commented on What Sam Altman told OpenAI about the device he's making with Jony Ive wsj.com/tech/ai/what-sam-... · Posted by u/MrJagil

HarHarVeryFunny · 3 months ago

People already carry around a smartphone plenty capable of accessing AI, whether in the cloud or increasingly local. Smartphones, with screens, are not going away because people have plenty of uses for screens from photos to videos to texting, etc.

The WSJ article says this proposed device can either sit on your desk or go in your pocket, so it's basically either an Alexa in-home device or a bigger pocket-bound Humana pin, or some worse-than-either fits-in-your-pocket compromise.

Not sure what Altman was thinking in paying $6B for an idea that seems bound to fail, unless it is indeed part of a plan to help him cash in on OpenAI, even if that means throwing $6B of stock away.

oops · 3 months ago

> Smartphones, with screens, are not going away because people have plenty of uses for screens from photos to videos to texting, etc.

I agree but for the sake of discussion: could smart glasses fill this role?

oops commented on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? · Posted by u/throwaway_43793

qup · 8 months ago

Okay, but as soon as you need to do the same thing in [programming language you don't know], then it's not easier for you to write the code anymore, even though you understand the problem domain just as well.

Now, understand that most people don't have the same grasp of [your programming language] that you have, so it's probably not easier for them to write it.

oops · 8 months ago

I don’t disagree with anything you said and I don’t think anything you said disagrees with my original comment :)

I actually said in my comment that exploring a new language is one area I find LLMs to be interesting.

oops commented on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? · Posted by u/throwaway_43793

rybosworld · 8 months ago

> LLM’s never provide code that pass my sniff test

If that statement isn't coming from ego, then where is it coming from? It's provably true that LLM's can generate working code. They've been trained on billions of examples.

Developers seem to focus on the set of cases that LLM's produce code that doesn't work, and use that as evidence that these tools are "useless".

oops · 8 months ago

My experience so far has been: if I know what I want well enough to explain it to an LLM then it’s been easier for me to just write the code. Iterating on prompts, reading and understanding the LLM’s code, validating that it works and fixing bugs is still time consuming.

It has been interesting as a rubber duck, exploring a new topic or language, some code golf, but so far not for production code for me.

oops commented on Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS · Posted by u/huntaub

oops · 9 months ago

Congrats on the launch!

Could a Regatta filesystem offer any advantage over ClickHouse's built-in S3 and local disk caching features in terms of cost or performance?

oops commented on 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016) npr.org/sections/thetwo-w... · Posted by u/Tomte

zeristor · 10 months ago

Sugar industry, tobacco industry, oil industry.

Which other industries have distorted reality, and which future ones will be revealed in the coming decades?

oops · 10 months ago

Auto industry with the creation of suburbs and jaywalking laws.

oops commented on Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor cprimozic.net/blog/fixing... · Posted by u/Ameo

quirino · a year ago

There's this one Chrome (?) bug I've been experiencing for a long time on Linux.

Every once in a while, the browser detects I'm typing "±±±±±±+..." and writes that to any selected text input. It stops when I type anything, but sometimes comes back rather quickly.

I thought it was a keyboard issue, but it doesn't affect Firefox or other applications, only Chrome based ones like Spotify and VSCode.

I've found no other mention of this on the internet and I'd love to to hunt this down and fix it but have no clue where to start. I guess the first step would be to consistently reproduce the bug...

If you're interested, I screen recorded it happening once. Mind there's music playing: https://youtu.be/S7OGTULLsqg.

oops · a year ago

> I've found no other mention of this on the internet

Here's one! (different character, but same issue it seems?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1cbarz5/ele...

> and I'd love to to hunt this down and fix it but have no clue where to start. I guess the first step would be to consistently reproduce the bug...

I am not familiar with Chromium at all, and I also don't run Linux on the desktop as I'm guessing from your video you do (?) so take this with a grain of salt...

I would start looking at the focus and key event handlers. e.g. maybe log the contents of pressed_keys and/or step thru the code from the beginning of the focus handler. It looks like this might be the place:

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/01ab59ae08a38a361d...

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/de351fd416ec36beeb...

Even if you can't repro it, you may be able to figure out the issue by just reading thru that code with some theories in mind. e.g. Since pressing another key seems to fix it, maybe look at what the code is doing there... my guess is the release event fixes whatever corrupted state it is in upon focus.

oops commented on Don’t try to sanitize input, escape output (2020) benhoyt.com/writings/dont... · Posted by u/benhoyt

TheChaplain · a year ago

Disagree.

Escaping/sanitizing on output takes extras cycles/energy that can be spared if the same process is done once upon submission.

Think more sustainable.

oops · a year ago

Yes I love seeing < in my database. Every time I see it I think oh boy how many cycles will I save when I display this in HTML!

oops commented on Show HN: I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display flipdisc.io/... · Posted by u/simpsoka

nayuki · a year ago

Well, it's mechanical but still digital. Each pixel is either on or off. Locations are discrete and finite.

oops · a year ago

> Each pixel is either on or off.

Or traveling. I imagine if you wanted to you could position the disc at any point between “on” and “off” by constantly flipping it back and forth.