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KnuthIsGod··on Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
"In her illustrations in Bilbo – en hobbits äventyr, Jansson concentrated on the landscapes, she was not as interested in the characters of the story.

She even made some of the characters especially tiny to elevate the landscapes.

The illustrations consisted more of her impression of the story than literal repetitions, which many Tolkien fans found unsatisfying.

According to them, Jansson overlooked many of the central characteristics of the characters.

...she edited the pictures many times to avoid them being too much like the Moomin illustrations.

However, the readers saw the illustrations as more Jansson like than truly Tolkien like."

KnuthIsGod··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
Good way to boost the midterm vote.

Next Greenland and then Canada.

KnuthIsGod··on The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge
More wolf-slop.
KnuthIsGod··on US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards
Claude is now the official LLM for Sauron and his killers.
KnuthIsGod··on Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
The main benefit seems to be avoiding dealing with the US. A
KnuthIsGod··on Writing code is cheap now
Time for schools to stop pushing coding skills onto the poor kids.
KnuthIsGod··on AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
Science fiction magazines like Clarkesworld are being innundated with really terrible AI generated stories.
KnuthIsGod··on Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
How long before they come for Hacker News ?

Folks, it is now time to delete anything you posted here that might be construed as remotely critical of ICE or Trump.

A court order will not help you if ICE have already shot you dead.

KnuthIsGod··on Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines
My sister and mother insisted on having Kanchipuram silk sarees.

Every upper middle class woman had to have them, back in the day.

KnuthIsGod··on D Programming Language
Sigh.

Ownership and borrowing are so much less baroque in D than in Rust. And compile times are superb.

In a better world, we would all be using D instead of C, C++ or Rust.

However in this age of Kali...

KnuthIsGod··on Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport
Launching the invasion of Canada and Greenland perhaps..
KnuthIsGod··on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
BYD's electric SUV is currently available here in Australia for the local equivalent of $40,000.

Selling well like all BYD models.

Cheaper models like the Atto are the equivalent of $20,000.

KnuthIsGod··on [dead]
Get Llmstudio.

Hugging Face has large number of coding models that you can download for free and self host.

You can run them first in Llmstudio.

The real problem is that your question is poorly articulated.

KnuthIsGod··on What Is Ruliology?
Classic psychoceramicology. http://bactra.org/notebooks/psychoceramics.html
KnuthIsGod··on Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]
An apposite anthem for these totalitarian times.
KnuthIsGod··on [dead]
Anti-role models do serve a useful if salutary role.
KnuthIsGod··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
Beautiful. Sending the link to my Latvian relatives.
KnuthIsGod··on The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today
Widgets seem designed by the great unwashed, for the great unwashed.

When I need to use Windows, I use Windows Server in Desktop mode, just to escape the ads and widgets and rubbish that the consumer version insists on displaying.

KnuthIsGod··on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
Sounds like a camouflaged IQ test for the founders...

Or perhaps Y Combinator is great at funding startups, but incredibly bad with financial decision making.

In which case it is an IQ test for Y Combinator, which they have failed.

KnuthIsGod··on Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance
How long before domestic terrorism charges are laid ?

Everthing seems to be domestic terrorism in the US these days.

KnuthIsGod··on People who know the formula for WD-40
" Our lab analyzed WD-40 with gas chromatography (GC) and mass spectroscopy (MS).:

Mineral oil

Decane

Nonane

Tridecane and Undecane

Tetradecane

Dimethyl Naphthalene

Cyclohexane

Carbon Dioxide"

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/st-whatsinside-6/

KnuthIsGod··on Apple, What Have You Done?
My Linux installation occupies 6 gigabytes.

Just saying...

KnuthIsGod··on When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
A plant science academic who can't be bothered to back up their work...

If that was the intellectual calibre of the person, I wonder how truly worthwhile the lost work was.

KnuthIsGod··on Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples
Pioglitazone does this now. It is sometimes used for diabetes.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11862886/

KnuthIsGod··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
Global sales of Porsche, Audi, Mercedes and BMW brand ( BMW Group sales increased marginally, but includes) have all declined.

The end is in sight for German cars as Chinese made electric cars take over.

I have had several German cars. Never again ! Sticking to Japanese and probably Chinese cars in the future.

German cars were decent once. Now they are notorious for poor long term reliability.

KnuthIsGod··on Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025)
The actual title is "Is the Constitution Broken?"

Someone has edited it to show the more soporific subtitle...

KnuthIsGod··on Anger in Iceland: incoming US ambassador's '52nd state' joke
51 Greenland

52 Iceland

53 Canada

54 Australia

55 Finland

The Fifty Five States of America !

KnuthIsGod··on Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
Minneapolis needs this now.
KnuthIsGod··on Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
Very wise article
KnuthIsGod··on 2026: This is AGI
This is Sequoia.

Best known for the Valeant fiasco.

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