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raoulj commented on MakeShift: Security analysis of Shimano Di2 wireless gear shifting (2024) usenix.org/conference/woo... · Posted by u/motorest

fuzzylightbulb · a month ago

Not needing to route cables (or wires) along and/or through the bike frame is a huge improvement. Anecdotally, everyone I know that has adopted Di2 seems to love it. The cost of these systems is negligible for the type of buyer who is shopping for high-end groupsets.

raoulj · a month ago

Counterpoint - the benefits of wireless are there but the worry of your unit dying in the middle of a ride now replaces the concern of whether your derailleur is tuned and ready to go. It's easy for a shop to assemble, but now I'm worried about shorting the control unit of my di2 which would be a pricey fix. I have two bikes: one with and one without di2. Both work just as well and one costs much more.

I do love disc brakes though.

raoulj commented on The DuckDB Local UI duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duc... · Posted by u/xnx

sunshine-o · 6 months ago

I do not know much about DuckDB but it sure looks awesome.

Something I haven't found yet is a small swiss army knife for time series type of data: system and network monitoring, sensors and market data.

I usually put everything in Prometheus but it is awkward.

I would really love to find something I can query intuitively with SQL, have very basic plotting capability, read/parse some log files, can be queried without having to deal with REST/JSON, and support adding data with pushes.

I am wondering if this is not within DuckDB broad capabilities...

raoulj · 6 months ago

Duckdb cannot plot on its own. You would need to bring in matplotlib or some alternative.

raoulj commented on Can the US switch off Europe's weapons? ft.com/content/1503a69e-1... · Posted by u/doener

raoulj · 6 months ago

https://archive.is/0OXeJ

raoulj commented on How the U.K. broke its own economy theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/speckx

twoodfin · 6 months ago

Federal receipts as a % of GDP has gone up and down by a few % but is basically unchanged from the 1950’s:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ockN

Meanwhile the income tax burden, specifically, has gotten considerably more progressive:

https://www.ntu.org/foundation/tax-page/who-pays-income-taxe...

raoulj · 6 months ago

Is figure 4's legend correct from the NTU link? It would seem that the grey is the top 1%, not bottom 50%.

raoulj commented on Understanding the Odin Programming Language odinbook.com/... · Posted by u/dsego

raoulj · 9 months ago

Flipped through the language overview on the website and noticed that matrices are limited in how large they can be because they're stack allocated [1]. Ergonomics of the language otherwise look solid but for my use case that would be fairly constraining

[1] https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#technical-information-o...

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vouaobrasil · 9 months ago

Seems suspicious. If you look at Archive.org, the site was only crawled on December 9, 2024, and not before.

raoulj · 9 months ago

Seeing that too. Will change the title to: "United Healthcare Shooter Unconfirmed Manifesto"

raoulj commented on · Posted by u/christhecaribou

raoulj · 9 months ago

Can change the link to the shooter's personal site: https://pepmangione.com/manifesto/

raoulj commented on Constraints Are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/11/... · Posted by u/ingve

the_mitsuhiko · 9 months ago

That would you require to make re-installations if your local app you develop against after every code change. Very few people will want to do that and it’s potentially very slow.

It’s also a step not needed by most other ecosystems.

raoulj · 9 months ago

Yeah. It's too slow. Editable installs make application development much faster.

raoulj commented on Liquid Foundation Models: Our First Series of Generative AI Models liquid.ai/liquid-foundati... · Posted by u/jasondavies

joaquincabezas · a year ago

Love the humour here:

What are Language LFMs not good at today: […] Counting r's in the word "Strawberry"!

raoulj · a year ago

Can't give them too much credit ;) the task of counting r's in Strawberry was mentioned elsewhere as a "surprising" failure of LLMs

See previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058318

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