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scherlock commented on Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production   arcadeblogger.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/videotopia
LocalH · 8 days ago
It looks more like video to me, honestly. It appears to be a smooth 30fps rather than the 18fps I'd expect from Super 8. There are also telltale stair-stepped sloped lines that demonstrate the effect of the deinterlacing. There did exist luggable 3/4" U-Matic recorders which I'd have to imagine CBS would have been using in 1980.
scherlock · 8 days ago
Yup, you're probably right. Author confirmed it was done by CBS news crew.
scherlock commented on Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production   arcadeblogger.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/videotopia
LocalH · 8 days ago
I don't think so. Perhaps AI-upscaled? The footage looks legit and would track with the tube cameras that would have likely been used at that time. Although it sucks that it's deinterlaced to 30fps. Video like this really needs to be preserved without immediately throwing out half of the motion
scherlock · 8 days ago
Yeah, this doesn't look like AI generated. It was probably filmed on super 8 film stock. The clothing, hair cuts, manufacturing process all scream early 80s.

I could see a cheap restoration introduction artifacts as a more likely reason for the look.

scherlock commented on How to effectively write quality code with AI   heidenstedt.org/posts/202... · Posted by u/i5heu
InsideOutSanta · 9 days ago
My approach:

1. Have the LLM write code based on a clear prompt with limited scope 2. Look at the diff and fix everything it got wrong

That's it. I don't gain a lot in velocity, maybe 10-20%, but I've seen the code, and I know it's good.

scherlock · 9 days ago
Same. Small units if work, iterate in it till it's right, commit it, push it, then do the next increment of work. It's how I've always worked like that, except now, I sometimes let someone else figure the exact API calls (I'm still learning react, but Claude helps get the basics in place for me). If the AI just keeps screwing up, I'll grab the wheel and do it myself. It sometimes helps me get things going, but it hasn't been a huge increase in productivity, but I'm not paying the bill so whatever.
scherlock commented on The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up   investinglive.com/news/th... · Posted by u/thebeardisred
y-curious · a month ago
I am not an electricity/wiring guy so maybe you can help me understand. I thought aluminum is dangerous to wire with because it is a fire hazard (I bought a home this year and this was a prominent warning in my reading). Is that because it needs to be done very carefully? I imagine most data centers would not mess with a fire risk on such a scale.
scherlock · a month ago
Aluminum oxide has high resistance and if you mix aluminum wiring with copper outlets, etc the impedance mismatched is what causes fires. You need to either have special copper pigtails installed or use fixtures that are rated for aluminum wiring.

For commercial installs, it shouldn't be a problem as long as it's planned for.

scherlock commented on OLED, Not for Me   nuxx.net/blog/2026/01/09/... · Posted by u/c0nsumer
nasmorn · a month ago
If you buy a really nice monitor, which for me starts at 6K 32” - the eBay computer will no longer drive it. What I find insane is how long companies issued 19” 1080 screens to their employees. I don’t think that was a well calculated choice given that a couple of hundred more over 5 years would have surely improved productivity by a little bit for their 50k year employees. It felt almost done out of spite to keep people in their place
scherlock · a month ago
Many employees are doing text work and, until recently, operating systems and apps did a really bad job of working with Hi DPI displays. Your best bet was to target around 115 DPI on a monitor for decent text rendering without having to deal with font scaling. 19" 1080p is perfect for that. You just gave them multiple monitors if you wanted more real estate.
scherlock commented on US High school students' scores fall in reading and math   apnews.com/article/naep-r... · Posted by u/bikenaga
Fraterkes · 5 months ago
Your first point is a favorite of a lot of people, but doesn’t make a lot of sense to me: how is your generation with the ostensibly correct culture producing a generation with the wrong culture?

Parents are apparently raising their children wrong en masse, so was the parents’ generation rotten too? Which raises questions about the character of the generation that raised the parents…

scherlock · 5 months ago
I think social norms in child rearing have changed drastically, though I think, at least in my neighborhood, they are swinging back.

Growing up in the 80s, I remember having a lot of free time and autonomy. I had soccer or baseballaybe twice a week and guitar lessons once a week, but the other days, I was doing what I wanted, I was expected to get my homework done, but once that was done,I was free to roam the neighborhood or my backyard.

This parenting mindset changed, by the late 80s early 90s and kids started getting more and more scheduled activities and less free time.

Even personally, 6 years ago my wife was very apprehensive about letting our oldest who was then 8, walk to his friend's house who was a 1/4 mile away in the neighborhood. Our youngest, who is 7, walks or bikes to his friend's house the same distance away. And we have other neighborhood kids that also go between people houses. That is the childhood I remember.

I don't think HW I got in elementary school necessarily helped me learn more, but the act of being given work with expectation that I would complete it on my own was a growth activity for me, and that is something that is starting to come back in elementary school, homework for the sake of learning how to do homework.

scherlock commented on Drivers who appeal school speed zone camera fines almost guaranteed to lose   abcactionnews.com/news/st... · Posted by u/josephcsible
t-writescode · 6 months ago
I've been reading the law, linked in the news site; and, the document says, among many other things, in 316.0776(3)(a),

(emphasis mine)

  "the county or municipality MUST NOTIFY the public that a speed detection system may be in use BY POSTING SIGNAGE
  indicating photographic or video enforcement of the school zone speed limits. Such signage SHALL CLEARLY DESIGNATE
  THE TIME PERIOD DURING WHICH THE SCHOOL ZONE SPEED LIMITS ARE ENFORCED using a speed detection system"
So it looks like the flashing light is a backup and enhancer and that the more important field is the current time of day.

Under the assumption that the time range text is easily visible, not covered in trees, not tiny, able to be seen by a person driving at the regularly posted speed from a distance that they can safely and reasonably slow down, etc, then it doesn't seem terrible.

THAT SAID, they should absolutely *FIX* the blinking lights.

In part of the article, it is declared that the traffic cameras caught 500,000 violations this school year ("since fall") across Florida, which is ... concerningly high. That's several thousand per day. Across all Florida, but still. Only about 3000 people protested across that; and, assuming all protests were genuine, that's less than a 1% broken light rate, which means broken lights are probably pretty quickly fixed.

I hope the signage either already has prominent time ranges and/or will have prominent time ranges in the near future. My thoughts on this are certainly complicated.

scherlock · 6 months ago
We have a 3 way intersection with lights outside my kid's elementary school. 30 min before and after the school day begins and ends, there is no right on red. There is a sign that says "no right on red during x times". There is a red arrow for the right hand turn. The crossing guard stops cars EVERY DAY that try to turn. The cops come out and ticket once a week during the school year and it persists. So yeah, I can see 500,000 violations a year. A majority of drivers really don't look, so yeah, f'em.
scherlock commented on Struggling to sell EVs, Tesla pivots to slinging burgers   theregister.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/beardyw
yabones · 7 months ago
It's amazing - they're re-inventing the gas station with a White Castle from first principles. Maybe they'll build a Tesla Buccees with a thousand superchargers and a gift shop next. Innovation is back, everybody!
scherlock · 7 months ago
They are going to innovate servers on electric roller skates to deliver the food right to your car.
scherlock commented on Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts   github.com/cloudflare/wor... · Posted by u/gregorywegory
scherlock · 8 months ago
Is it really good form in TypeScript to make all functions async, even when functions don't use await? like this, https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/blob/fe...
scherlock commented on Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff   salesforceben.com/salesfo... · Posted by u/lordswork
actuallyalys · a year ago
> The productivity gains of 30% are probably overstated

I am doubtful as well.

I could imagine 30 percent among certain engineers for certain tasks, especially if you use a popular language with popular libraries and frameworks that are well-represented in the training dataset. I don’t know how typical of a codebase Salesforce has. They could also finetune a model on their own codebase or devote a small team of engineers to figuring out which prompts, models, etc. work best for their codebase and process. In theory, those advantages could boost it beyond what testing would typically show.

But a consistent increase of “more than” 30 percent across the whole engineering workforce seems less plausible, especially lacking details on how they measured that and uptake numbers. Edited to add: Are they even confident that their engineers are using it consistently? At this scale, that’s not a given.

I’d be interested to know whether Salesforce customers have noticed a change in the number or scope of features being announced. A change of this size seems like it should be noticeable from the outside. I’d like to hear from the engineers in particular.

scherlock · a year ago
Salesforce core is Java. A smattering of other languages in the mix. I left Salesforce a year ago, their main developer productivity drains had nothing to do with the code base. It's their build process where it takes a minimum of a day to get code committed, even with their git on top of perforce hack which is seriously impressive, but still a process smell, that coupled with massive overhead from when dealing with inter team dependencies and various "edicts" getting passed down from on high that blow up any planning.

In short, you could have agents that code at 2x but it would have only a small impact on deliverabkes since non-coding processes have a higher impact on velocity.

u/scherlock

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