emmelaich

8,284 karma · joined September 10, 2009

I'm a beardless unix greybeard who loves dabbling in new computer languages.

I'm also fascinated in the psychology of belief.

Philosophically a skeptic, but I don't attend their services :-)

email is my hn username at <popularprivatemailservice>.me

meet.hn/city/au-Sydney

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emmelaich··on Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican

They are correct!

emmelaich··on Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican

Are the wheels rotating in the wrong direction? I stared at it they seemed to reverse. Perhaps a bit of a optical illusion.

Looking at the SVG, the direction is missing but the default is clockwise. So I'd say it's good!

emmelaich··on Hacking IKEA Furniture

Exactly. I've referred to Ikea as the MacDonald's of furniture. Which is a little harsh and I do own a few pieces.

emmelaich··on Visual Analysis of Binary Files

I've heard of people 'walking' old hard drive cabinets by fine manipulation of the read/write heads.

emmelaich··on Latah

(submitter here) I wonder whether this is related to Amok (also Malay origin). Also related (probably) is The Jumping Frenchmen and Tourette's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_Frenchmen_of_Maine

emmelaich··on One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed

There were plenty of conspiracy sites pre-2000. I think a lot of them shared mindspace with USA late night talk radio. Also, usenet.

emmelaich··on Version Control for Everything

You could run rsync with -b --backup-dir=something-$(date +%Y%m%d.%H%M%S) every few seconds. Or fired off with inotify.

emmelaich··on Version Control for Everything

It does (let you change history), but in a tamper evident way.

emmelaich··on Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

So put out feelers. Ask everyone if they know anyone....

At least triage it with your best effort.

emmelaich··on Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

"Don't come to me with problems, come to me with fixes." has always been a thing. You shouldn't take it too literally or personally. For "fixes" read alternatives or suggestions. e.g. hook in a senior engineer that you know is intimate with the system.

emmelaich··on Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

lutusp here on HN

emmelaich··on Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

Sadly many universities offer degrees with chiropractic being a major part.

emmelaich··on Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

I don't think it's too complex, considering various furry animals names have been used. Rabbit (coney/cunny), cat (pussy).

emmelaich··on The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

Vangelis is a bit funny and odd! Have a listen of Jon Anderson's (formerly of Yes) account of meeting and collaborating with Vangelis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItV5h3Arl5M

emmelaich··on Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)

My theory is that it devalues the domain name thus increasing the value of search sites.

BTW, it'd be nice if browsers automatically show the CNs of the "Issued-To:" and the "Issued-By" in the security certificate.

emmelaich··on Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

Goes way back to 2006 with GWT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit

emmelaich··on Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others

I'd be wary of that! Tretinoin has been linked to birth defects in women and they are warned against it. I wouldn't trust it for the father either.

emmelaich··on Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)

The Abstruse Goose comic mentioned: https://archive.is/HEHmt

emmelaich··on Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

I also like it a lot, but Hannah is a bit too giggly at times. Michael has some nerdish intonations. But still love it.

emmelaich··on The Beam Engine

Indeed, and of course "governor" in Greek is κυβερνήτης (kubernetes).

emmelaich··on Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism (2012)

Yep, Scott (squid314) used livejournal before SlateStarCodex, before AstralCodexTen.

emmelaich··on Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works

Phytoplankton produce about half the oxygen produced on the planet.

So, unlikely.

emmelaich··on Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2022/august/sinkin...

"phytoplankton are estimated to capture 10-20 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year."

also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pump

emmelaich··on Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser)

Getting

> A Permissions-Policy header is blocking the microphone Your server is sending a header that switches this feature off for the whole page. Look for Permissions-Policy: microphone=() in your host config and allow microphone=(self) instead.

Despite allowing microphone.

emmelaich··on FreeCAD in the Browser

Amazing. How much did it cost?

emmelaich··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

or xcancel.com

emmelaich··on Maybe you should learn something

The truth shall set you free.

emmelaich··on Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0

There's a project to have LMDB as a backend for sqlite. It originates in the LMDB author's (Howard Chu) own work.

https://lumosql.org/src/lumosql/doc/trunk/README.md

Also https://www.actordb.com/ uses LMDB with a sql queries. (Not sure if sqlite or not)

emmelaich··on CarPlay Is Additive

I love Android Auto but I don't miss it when driving my Tesla because the Tesla has all things I want anyway.

emmelaich··on The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer)

Shades of Tom Kyte from Oracle -- https://asktom.oracle.com/

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