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Blog thing: https://thomasburgess.github.io Github: https://github.com/thomasburgess
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nxpnsv··on Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi
This is convicing me to try Kagi for a while... search without pintrest would feel good.
nxpnsv··on First Known Photographs of Living Specimens
That's so cool, I live close to a bug only observed once!
nxpnsv··on Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns
I guess you could make a 3x16 pattern but interpret it as a 4x12, so each beat is three steps...
nxpnsv··on LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies
I found it understandable and clear. Pocket flow looks cool, although that magic with - >> operators seems a bit obtuse... Also, I think "simply" is a trap - an agent might be modeled by a graph, but that graph can be arbitrarily complex.
nxpnsv··on (Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss
the 8 minute window is probably even better...
nxpnsv··on TeX Live 2025 Released
That's good.
nxpnsv··on TeX Live 2025 Released
The page wanted me to sign up for a free account for some service, so I perhaps unfairly assumed it’s non free.
nxpnsv··on TeX Live 2025 Released
What about my of decades worth of snippets, custom commands, templates for all the journals, my bib files, and of course my published works that I borrow pieces from? I should replace that with something nonfree that I have to learn from scratch? Howabout you do you?
nxpnsv··on Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
Touch screens & feature subscriptions are things that just don't belong in cars.
nxpnsv··on The German language broke my website
Bodenschwelle is used, at least it’s common in Austria.
nxpnsv··on Solving First Order Differential Equations with Julia
I didn't try it yet, but the docs looks great.
nxpnsv··on Solving First Order Differential Equations with Julia
Cool, the link is helpful, and the package is pretty cool. I'd just add that the examples are simple and be done with it, you can revisit with more later. Keep writing :)
nxpnsv··on Solving First Order Differential Equations with Julia
I didn't find a link to the package in the article. It seems to be a quite capable package, and the given two examples that are trivial to solve analytically don't really do it justice.
nxpnsv··on What is vibe coding? How creators are building software with no coding knowledge
I've been dealing with a particularly vibed plumbling, luckily it's going away with the remodeling...
nxpnsv··on Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
Tbh it sounds like that cure is worse than the problem…
nxpnsv··on The Generative AI Con
That's 100x more bugs to fix. Moreover, increasingly complex models produce bugs that are increasingly hard to spot and fix.
nxpnsv··on You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
Good advice, now I’m going to have to figure out the office printer, and find my linkedin account…
nxpnsv··on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
Who owns bsky? What prevents a random billionaire to buy it and use it their election platform? Mastodon just feels as a safer bet...
nxpnsv··on DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
Infinite autoplay of stupid recommendations is so annoying too.
nxpnsv··on The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time
Arguably a majority of improvements in 2025 haven’t happened yet, seems premature to conclude anything in February.
nxpnsv··on Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected
Nothing else that we know of would create a muon of that energy deep inside bedrock.
nxpnsv··on Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()
He also is one of the main authors of the whole site... legend.
nxpnsv··on AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint
The author seems to assume that each daily user is running a new prompt every hour. I suspect the actual median number of images per DAU is lower than that. A user doing 20Wh roughly corresponds to heating a single meal in the microwave, it probably is not a leading cause of their carbon footprint.
nxpnsv··on It's not a crime if we do it with an app
I particularly enjoyed the "Optimized for Netscape Navigator." banner
nxpnsv··on Pixelfed Hit 500K Users
I use this instance, and never had any problems https://metapixl.com/
nxpnsv··on Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?
Do it for you, not for anyone else.
nxpnsv··on What other communities do you use apart from HN?
mastodon
nxpnsv··on The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
Even when you are in charge and you find your work meaningful you can burn out. That is certainly how I went down that road...
nxpnsv··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
I just want to do more math.
nxpnsv··on Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app
You are not wrong.
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