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zack6849 commented on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? · Posted by u/rickybule

ianburrell · 5 days ago

There isn't enough bandwidth in HF to transmit data. Digital HF audio is 20 kHz wide so maybe 50kbps. The entire HF band is only 3-30 MHz.

zack6849 · 4 days ago

sure there is, you can send files over HF, it may not be FAST, but once you get it into the country, you can just copy the file with a faster method (eg: usb drive), WINLINK supports attachments, so you could absolutely send these files over HF

zack6849 commented on AI Improves at Improving Itself Using an Evolutionary Trick spectrum.ieee.org/evoluti... · Posted by u/pseudolus

achrono · 2 months ago

I wish an org like IEEE would be way more rigorous than what's revealed with the first paragraph:

>In April, Microsoft’s CEO said that artificial intelligence now wrote close to a third of the company’s code. Last October, Google’s CEO put their number at around a quarter. Other tech companies can’t be far off.

Take a moment to reflect -- a third of the company's code? Generative AI capable enough to write reasonable code has arguably not been around longer than 5 years. In the 50 years of Microsoft, have the last 5 years contributed to a third of the total code base? This itself would require that not a single engineer write a single line of code in these 5 years.

Okay, maybe Microsoft meant to say new/incremental code?

No, because Satya is reported to have said, "I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today [...] written by software".

zack6849 · 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure they meant 1/3rd of newly written code, obviously they don't mean a third of all their code that exists was written by AI

zack6849 commented on AIOC: Ham Radio All-in-One-Cable github.com/skuep/AIOC... · Posted by u/zdw

birdyrooster · 3 years ago

The coolest thing I have seen is that people meet up on a pre shared frequency at a given time and take roll call. If that doesn’t sound exhilarating, it might not be a hobby for you.

zack6849 · 3 years ago

maybe that's the most interesting on repeaters, but if you get a general license and hop on HF it gets much more interesting IMO, cross county radio is fun, contesting, even on VHF/UHF it's really cool to play with DMR and linked repeaters systems, for example in Florida we have SARNET, a statewide repeater system which is super useful for talking around the state but also for emergencies / during hurricanes.

zack6849 commented on Terraform Provider for Spotify github.com/conradludgate/... · Posted by u/marinesebastian

tommywg7 · 3 years ago

I’m actually building an app to allow more precise control over the algorithm. https://tommygeiger.com/tuner Would love some feedback!

zack6849 · 3 years ago

I just checked this out and it's fantastic, I wish this was exposed by default somewhere in Spotify, amazing app, thanks a ton for making this and sharing!!

zack6849 commented on Servo Engine contributions this year github.com/servo/servo/gr... · Posted by u/maverick74

dathinab · 4 years ago

Its still alive?

I'm surprised as as far as I can tell it's "to big" in relation to it's benefits to (likely) be fully hobby maintained and currently not supported directly or indirectly by any company.

zack6849 · 4 years ago

isn't Mozilla involved in this still? I know they WERE

zack6849 commented on Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond (1983) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFD... · Posted by u/zack6849

jki275 · 5 years ago

Posted pretty regularly here, it's a great talk. She was a true treasure to the CS world and to the Navy.

zack6849 · 5 years ago

Yeah, I wasn't sure how often this pops up, it came up in conversation and I'm not familiar enough with HN to see when the last time it was posted, so I figured i'd just post it and let it go unnoticed if it's been posted too often recently.