OJFord
Joined 11 years ago
Karma
24,286
Submissions
11,448
Member since
Feb 25
Recent submissions
Comment · 11 hours ago
Close on the keyboard to and small Levenshtein distance from Anthropic
Comment · 13 hours ago
> they can dynamically allocate subchannels in each mode based on the immediate needs of their users.
Right, so if I'm still rocking 4G only while 'everyone' else in the area is using 6G with some other stragglers on 5G, ...
Comment · 15 hours ago
What would solar's cost per kWh be? GP means the cost of the asset per peak generation power. 0.1/W seems about right, to an order of magnitude at least.
Comment · 2 days ago
> You don’t want your actual currency to gain value just by waiting.
Relative to what? Talk of BTC gaining value is primarily wrt USD; I'd be perfectly happy with my actual currency (GBP) gaining value wrt USD.
I suppose BTC can only 'deflate' in the long-run (and with an assumed supply of goods and services available in exchange for it) since the mintable volume is fixed. But perhaps it exposes that talking of currencies inflating is a bit sloppy, as it doesn't really make sense for BTC, and it's the economy or banking system that inflates really..
Comment · 2 days ago
Maybe it's an American thing.
Comment · 2 days ago
It is but what they mean is that many implementations (e.g. PCRE) are not actually regular languages, they're more powerful: https://www.npopov.com/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-...
Comment · 2 days ago
Using 'they' for an unknown gender has nothing to do with people 'identifying' as they, or anything modern.
It's never been 'he', except in sexism such as 'when the doctor comes he will examine you' (with the doctor's identity and hence gender unknown, but assumed male by profession).
Comment · 2 days ago
We have a special filling cabinet for PRs from bots, Dawn!
Comment · 5 days ago
Reading this submission's comments, I'd be interested to see a meta-analysis of HN S-1 submissions' analyses pre- and post- generalised (HN crowd's) Claude usage.
Comment · 6 days ago
I know. This is about GitHub's behaviour with tags and branches present in different user/org's forks.
Comment · 6 days ago
I know. We're talking about GitHub here, which does.
Comment · 8 days ago
I would absolutely say Go took off thanks to kubernetes ecosystem & CNCF projects in general, but I've never particularly associated it with Docker myself.
Comment · 8 days ago
On the contrary I think quite a lot of luck is usually behind the second part of that.
Comment · 9 days ago
Is that statistic active watching, or skewed by those that leave it on 24h news or shopping or whatever 24/7?
Currently a software engineer at GoCardless. Formerly:
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ojford; my proof: https://keybase.io/ojford/sigs/n2lqA-lzhIHABwLfMAZVHJBC94-3l42EgvM7tfmv4F0 ]Email: hn@${username}.com
CV: https://cv.ojford.com