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TLP Is Not a Suggestion akamai.com

25 sneela 4 days ago 10 comments

Hotcrp.com – AI agents and bot accounts hotcrp.com

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Comment · 3 months ago

Not to take away from the poster's work, but I believe this exists already (please correct me if I'm wrong): https://puzzlemadness.co.uk/minesweeper/hard

I've been doing these for a long time, which is why this game seemed familiar to me.

Comment · 3 months ago

The good ol' Ohnosecond:

> An "ohnosecond" is the second after one makes a terrible mistake, such as deleting the wrong file or sending a text message to the wrong person, where the person in question can do nothing but say "oh no". The term is believed to originate from Elizabeth Powell Crowe's 1993 novel, The Electronic Traveler.

Reminds me (and probably a lot of devs) of a time when I deployed something breaking to production many years ago :), of course I didn't know it would break production beforehand. Recently, I accidentally deleted my entire shell history which caused me quite a bit of slowdown for some time. I'm quite used to modifying complicated commands with Ctrl+R and fzf; the deletion of my shell was truly horrifying.

Tom Scott, as usual, has a great video about the onosecond (sic):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6NJkWbM1xk

Comment · 4 months ago

Also interesting is this interactive viewer of cloud seeding live in the US: https://chemtrail.app/, although this website seems to be vibe-coded and heavily against cloud seeding: "How can I help stop cloud seeding in my area?" from the FAQs.

A primer on cloud seeding (2024) theclimatebrink.com

1 sneela 4 months ago 1 comments

Comment · 4 months ago

This is actually very, very interesting... and some what genius. In the past, I've felt the urge to buy _something_ for that dopamine hit, even if I didn't really need anything.

I've impulsed bought books before (most I do not regret) and some vinyl records (none I regret). I don't impulse buy food though (as the article discusses) - I regret ordering food most of the time as I feel unhealthy afterwards.

This concept may very much be in line what I need for other impulse purchases. Imagine a dopamine-hit amazon-clone which lets you browse, compare, and order the current obsession-of-the-week - saving your bank account in the long run. I may just try making this.

Comment · 4 months ago

Also covered by Tech Radar (2025) -- You need to be careful when buying new vinyl – the digital music loudness war can mean they sound worse than second-hand records: https://www.techradar.com/audio/turntables/you-need-to-be-ca...

Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) magicvinyldigital.net

173 sneela 4 months ago 261 comments

Comment · 6 months ago

Here's how it works in our group. The professor gives papers to the PhD students or PostDocs, who read the paper completely. I regularly 'sub-review', as it is called, meticulously looking for issues. I have heard that there are professors who review entire papers in 2-3 hours, since they have a lot (10+) of papers per conference to review without any compensation while they have their own research, teaching, and funding to juggle.

It's not a pretty system sometimes.

Edited to add: Conference's also require declaring that there was someone who sub-reviewed the paper. The professor / PI mentions the PhD student's name in the review form of the paper. Of course, the professor also double-checks all the sub-reviews

Comment · 7 months ago

Which is why, I believe, their logo is a duck :D

Comment · 7 months ago