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emmelaich

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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

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emmelaich··on What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
Interesting! Is it possible that you're just eating less of whatever triggers the autoimmune symptoms?
emmelaich··on The last Romans are still around
Although .. ancient Rome did have manhole covers -- of stone. I wonder if any are left; working or not.
emmelaich··on The war on terror primed America for autocracy
The problem started way before Bin Laden; in a large part due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb and his brother Mohammed who taught Osama Bin Laden.

Many Muslims weren't political before the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood got enough influence.

emmelaich··on Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time
Getting "too many requests" at the moment.
emmelaich··on Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf
Same for Mean Streets
emmelaich··on Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber
emmelaich··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
Because houses and tools are made for humans.
emmelaich··on Midjourney Medical
*glom
emmelaich··on Who's the smartest corvid?
I thought what was a myth. My wife is terrified of crows, always thinking they're abut to peck her eyes out.
emmelaich··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
I wonder how much of the problem is the books they're given to read.

Modern kids / YA fiction seems so blah.

emmelaich··on macOS Container Machines
I'd like to see a comparison to https://tart.run/ as well.

AFAICT it's pretty similar.

emmelaich··on Andrew Tate's Empire of Abuse
Yes, I profoundly dislike the lede "the defining figure of the manosphere"

Like, in who's opinion?

emmelaich··on Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
True, you can even get a government security clearance. They hold financial debts, gambling history, and dubious associations against you much more.

*Providing the drug use was short lived.

emmelaich··on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model
Huh, your mention of camellias immediately (to me) suggested Eryldene.

And sure enough: https://www.eryldene.org.au/

Interesting guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Gowrie_Waterhouse

emmelaich··on Moving beyond fork() + exec()
The nice thing about fork+exec is that's its simple and flexible.

To avoid the problems, see roc's comment under the article. Esp use of a zygote process.

emmelaich··on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model
I think it is under heritage order now. I looked for it last time I was there; maybe it's covered up ready for restoration?

It's actually a topographical map of the whole Sydney basin.

This article has a pic: https://www.neighbourhoodmedia.com.au/post/st-ives-showgroun...

[edit: Seems to be where the RC cars race!]

emmelaich··on Three of our worst VC stories
You might want to listen to the Ron Conway episodes of the https://www.thesocialradars.com/ podcast.
emmelaich··on Three of our worst VC stories
He's referring to Michelle Zatlyn afaict.

"Young Global Leader '14. Co-founder, President + COO Cloudflare"

emmelaich··on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model
The Aus Navy had a computer simulation of Sydney Harbour, dating from the 70s or maybe 80s. One particular feature of the system was a disk drive about 1m in diameter with about 12 heads. Cost a bomb, but I guess it was worth it.

When I saw a demo, they had an easter egg of a Loch-Ness type monster in it.

There's also a topographical map of the harbour at St Ives showground but it's purely non-hydrographical. But it's almost disappeared now through neglect.

emmelaich··on Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
You may like https://www.llmfit.org/

(not recommendation, I've not used it .. yet)

emmelaich··on Love systemd timers
> You can set the PATH right in the crontab.

Yes, but people don't. I've had to debug other's crontabs many times over the last umpteen years.

emmelaich··on The dead economy theory
You might regard the Renaissance as the prelude to the industrial revolution.
emmelaich··on How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works
There's an implementation packaged up for most Linux distros: http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss
emmelaich··on Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links
Same in Australia, I've had genuine calls from a bank asking for my security code for identification purposes.
emmelaich··on Byrne's Euclid
I'd rather see a normal s than the long s in the text. Seems unnecessary.
emmelaich··on Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored
Do you have a link?
emmelaich··on Googlebook
RIP modus ponens!
emmelaich··on Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux
Pretty typical for a US non-(for-)profit.
emmelaich··on Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests
Apparently some HW3 cars can get it. It's listed available for my 2022 Model 3 (Australia/Sydney). However the cost is twice what they charge for HW4, I believe.

It seems other HW3 might get a FSD-lite version. There's no official way to upgrade HW3-HW4.

emmelaich··on You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
Linus himself wrote a static analyzer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse

There are other free ones, I don't know if they're run as a matter of course.

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