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Slix | 1 year ago | on: Amazon Makes You Pay More for Everything (2023)

I'm very thrown by the "hidden Buy box" argument. I thought Amazon did that on purpose to hide overpriced items from the wild west that is Amazon's marketplace/sellers. So a t-shirt for $100 gets no Buy box because it's overpriced.

The video argues that this creates a monopoly.

Slix | 1 year ago | on: Ditch banks – Go with money market funds and treasuries

What kind of features?

Slix | 1 year ago | on: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

Microsoft Edge has had this for some time. I was surprised, but Edge is pretty modern.

Slix | 1 year ago | on: Roku update turns on hated motion-smoothing feature, with no off switch

Isn't higher frames per second good? You wouldn't want a video game to intentionally limit itself to 24 fps. Isn't motion smoothing more realistic?

Slix | 1 year ago | on: Edit PDFs for Free with Firefox PDF Editor

Does anyone have a suggestion for PDF redacting? It's the only thing I need Acrobat for. And when I need it, it's very important.

Slix | 1 year ago | on: OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday

Too bad Discord can't be searched. There's lots of information trapped on Discord.

Slix | 1 year ago | on: Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe

I gave up on it during season one. Is it really worth continuing it? It started to not hold my interest.

Slix | 1 year ago | on: TypeScript: Branded Types

This is also useful for having a type that needs to be verified in some way before being used or trusted. UnverifiedLoginCookie vs. VerifiedLoginCookie

Slix | 1 year ago | on: The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword

This optimization option isn't on by default? That sounds like a lot of missed optimization. Most programs aren't going to be loading from shared libraries.

Maybe I can set this option at work. Though it's scary because I'd have to be certain.

Slix | 2 years ago | on: How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed

I don't think this article is very well-written. It gets confused about whether QUIC has a handshake or not (it does). And it conflates zero round-trip time with combining the TCP/TLS handshakes together.

Slix | 2 years ago | on: Decompilation of Paper Mario for N64

Paper Mario: The Thousand-year Door is being remade by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch.

Slix | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the tech recession affected you?

I've struggled to find a Software Engineer job for many months, even with FAANG on my resume. It's nowhere as easy as it was when I graduated college 7 years ago.

I send out my resume and barely get any answers. I don't even get a chance to interview.

That being said, I had a good luck streak in December! I'm waiting to hear back from several companies right now.

Slix | 2 years ago | on: Understanding Deep Learning

If I start now and start reading up on AI, will I become anything close to an expert?

I'm worried that I'm starting a journey that requires a Master's or PhD.

Slix | 2 years ago | on: Understanding Deep Learning

Are deep learning and neural networks just curve fitting? I thought those were significantly different.

Slix | 2 years ago | on: Understanding Deep Learning

I came here with the same question. After reading and learning these materials, will I have new job skills or AI knowledge that I can do something with?

Slix | 2 years ago | on: Dive into Deep Learning: Interactive deep learning book with codes and maths

OpenAI Gym looks incredibly interesting. Aren't those games supposed to be solved using neural nets?

Slix | 2 years ago | on: Dive into Deep Learning: Interactive deep learning book with codes and maths

I'm running through Andrew Ng's "Machine Learning Specialization" course on Coursera right now. I plan to do his "Deep Learning Specialization" immediately after.

There's not a lot of formulas and math so far, which concerns me because I eventually want to understand papers.

Slix | 2 years ago | on: 25 years of bcrypt password hashing: a retrospective on password security

David Mazières added adaptive hash difficulty? 25 years ago?!

He helped with Stellar's consensus protocol and is still involved now. https://stellar.org/

Slix | 2 years ago | on: Windows on Btrfs

> `docker build` is weirdly slow on btrfs, I always set up a separate ext4 `/var/lib/docker` volume.

I'm currently doing this for a different reason. My docker builds started failing after some Ubuntu upgrade. I gave up and used ext4 for that docker directory to fix everything. https://serverfault.com/q/1127148

It unsettled me because now I'm not sure whether btrfs (or docker with btrfs) is production-ready.

Slix | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Meteosource Weather API: current, forecast and historical data using ML

I was disappointed by Accuweather's "local" weather during this spate of Midwest storms. It didn't correctly tell me whether it was raining at my current position.

I miss Dark Sky.