I've almost never needed any of these, but there's all sorts of weird redirections you can do in GNU Bash: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Redirecti...
Readit Newsucarion commented on What does " 2>&1 " mean? stackoverflow.com/questio... · Posted by u/alexmolas
It is news to me that manipulating ASCII art is something AI can do well! I remember this being something LLMs were all particularly horrible at. But I just checked and it seems to work at least with Opus 4.5.
claude(1) with Opus 4.5 seems to be able to take the examples in that article, and handle things like "collapse the sidebar" or "show me what it looks like with an open modal" or "swap the order of the second and third rows". I remember not long ago you'd get back UI mojibake if you asked for this.
Goes to show you really can't rest on your laurels for longer than 3 months with these tools.
Well, this is THE Bay Area, where we live in THE city, drive on THE 101, and eat in THE Chinatown.... wait...
Funny enough, though, it wasn't until I moved here 15+ years ago that it struck me how odd it is to call it "the Bay Area" and expect people to know what that means. Nonetheless, sportscasters do it. Musicians do it. All other bay areas are just areas around bays...
Eddie Izzard was joking in 1998 about the "The" and the prohibited names for The City (https://youtu.be/QRB_GhLXCds?si=R4kYkodzvYDxe33H&t=276), so it's probably been like this for many decades thence!
ucarion commented on Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/... · Posted by u/pj4533
This is great, I use the Second Chance Pool quite but I like this also. https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
For those unfamiliar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ... It's basically a bunch of posts that 'dang and 'tomhow (others too? idk) think are underrated, so it tends to be potent hacker-catnip stuff.
We already have CIE LAB as a standard that does the same thing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELAB_color_space
[EDIT] Ahh.. The W3C has already looked at this. https://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/Workshop/slides/talk/lille...
For others, I'm sure parent knows: OKLCH is largely a bugfix for CILEAB. Both try to make a color space where even steps feel evenly spaced to a human. But CIELAB had procedural flaws in its creation.
See slide 19: https://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/Workshop/slides/talk/lille... -- if you ask CIELAB to make "pure blue" (RGB 0 0 100%) become grayscale, the intermediate colors become purple to the human eye. The entire point of a perceptual color space is that that doesn't happen. OKLCH fixes that.
BTW, credit to Björn Ottosson, who basically side-projected a color space into the web standards and more: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/ ... folks like him are why we sometimes have nice things!
Google is being deceptive with their zoom demo.
They zoom from 100x to 0.5x and present 0.5x as "what it actually looks like."
They're making 100x zoom appear twice as impressive by using ultra-wide (0.5x) as fake 'normal' vision.
Kind of moot anyway; 100x zoom is equivalent to a 2400mm lens (with no stabilization assist). If you can hand-aim that on target, you're an elite marksman.
ucarion commented on Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astron... · Posted by u/speckx
Agree. Found his site, but that shot’s not listed: https://www.hildreth-photographer.com/portfolio.html?folio=F...
Seems their IG has some of these, including the shot from the article: https://www.instagram.com/tripodtales/p/C8hRS0ctzCp/
Factory Butte: https://www.instagram.com/tripodtales/p/C6gg-wpS-tr/
"Long Dong Silver": https://www.instagram.com/tripodtales/p/C-yLCskOGiC/
ucarion commented on Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astron... · Posted by u/speckx
> Into the Past by Jim Hildreth
The area in this photo -- the Caineville Mesa, Factory Butte, "Long Dong Silver" (I'm not aware of a more polite name) -- is some of the strangest land in America. It really is that lunar blue gray. The Temples of the Sun and Moon (enormous natural sandcastles) are also nearby, and are similarly eerie in the evening.
The closest I've ever felt to being in space. Recommend!
ucarion commented on We made Postgres writes faster, but it broke replication paradedb.com/blog/lsm_tre... · Posted by u/philippemnoel
They're different access patterns, though. Are there no concerns about performance and potentially blocking behavior? Decoupling OLTP and analytics is frequently done with good reason: 1/to allow the systems to scale independently, and 2/to help prevent issues with one component from impacting the other (i.e., contain blast radius). I wouldn't want a failure of my search engine to also take down my transaction system.
Since we both worked there: I can think of a few places at Segment where we'd have added more reporting/analytics/search if it weren't such a pain to set up a OLAP copy of our control plane databases. Remember how much engineering effort we spent on teams that did nothing but control plane database stuff?
Data plane is a different story, but not everything is 1m+ RPS.