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personalitysonon Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML

HN is not one of them https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombina...

personalitysonon Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

The last Fields Medal has been awarded.

personalitysonon Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

Me asking ChatGPT what values of x satisfy 0/x = 0. ChatGPT insists it has no solutions.

personalitysonon Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

This was my conversation with ChatGPT 4 years ago: https://i.imgur.com/WPaWgzZ.png

Where will we be in another 4 years? What a time to be alive!

personalitysonon Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)

Insulin -- the fat storing hormone. The opposite hormones -- cortisol and adrenaline mobilize fat tissue for burning. Chronic cortisol leads to fat gain because cortisol receptors become desensitized. Spiking cortisol in short bursts is better than long bouts of elevated cortisol.

personalitysonon Dostoyevsky isn't difficult

I was in my 20's when I realized Bill and William are the same name

personalitysonon Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it

Never been to London, 3 out of 9 correct.

personalitysonon Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV

I can't phantom they haven't made an app for Android TV yet

personalitysonon Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end

Win 11 has not changed much since June -- https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

What's wrong with Win 11 exactly?

personalitysonon Bit is all we need: binary normalized neural networks

Unless each iteration is 90% faster

personalitysonon A love letter to the CSV format (2024)

It should have been semicolon from the start

personalitysonon How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

Does this include US population?

personalitysonon How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

If not white, what are they?

personalitysonon GPT-5

So, where is it?

personalitysonon Windows XP Professional

I was able to create a vbs script (MsgBox "Test"), but it keeps opening in Notepad...

personalitysonon Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out

I agree. Let's have some kind of distinction between work and labor

personalitysonon Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out

The goal of every civilization is to abolish work. I don't see the problem.

personalitysonon Windows 10 EOL

53% of all Windows PCs https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

personalitysonon Grand Theft Auto VI Is Now Coming May 26, 2026

NPC's better be using AI (ran locally)

personalitysonon Numbering should start at zero (1982)

"I must confess that I was very slow on appreciating LISP’s merits. My first introduction was via a paper that defined the semantics of LISP in terms of LISP, I did not see how that could make sense, I rejected the paper and LISP with it."

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EWD128...

personalitysonon Numbering should start at zero (1982)

He also hated Lisp

personalitysonon Numbering should start at zero (1982)

Matlab, Fortran, Julia, R, SAS, SPSS, Mathematica, and the whole field of mathematics. F*ck off all mathematicians, what do they know about counting?

personalitysonon Numbering should start at zero (1982)

Another idiot confusing continuous measure (time) with counting discrete units

If it helps: you have one whole array element only if one year has passed

What are you trying to do: do you want to know where each element starts, or do you want to measure the total sum/accumulated amount?

personalitysonon Numbering should start at zero (1982)

Array elements are not a continuous measure. Level of water, for example, is.

The mark on your measure tape corresponds to the total sum/amount.

If you count from zero, number of elements no longer corresponds to the size/length. So already here you deviate away from your tape principle.

You have one whole element when your tape measure shows 1, not zero.

personalitysonon Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

All of Tarkovsky is on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hBLv-HLEc

personalitysonon Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)

I have a recurring dream where I'm trying to type something on my phone, and it never comes out right, I delete and try again and again, can't hit the right buttons

personalitysonon Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)

Have you ever noticed than even after using screens/computers/phones for 12 hours a day, they almost never appear in your dreams when you sleep?

personalitysonon AI Guesses Your Accent

It guessed right, but it does not go by the accent, but by pronunciation of certain consonants. You can fake/simulate the former, but not the latter.

personalitysonon Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

Someone made a comment that millennials are the first and last generation who grew up with desktop PCs, discussion forums on the raw internet. Kids these days are mostly using smartphones, tablets and apps.

We are used to think that younger people know more about computers, but in the case of desktop computers this might not be the case.

personalitysonon Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M

It has glimpses of an awesome sci-fi atmosphere, which no other game has. I like to do a lot of this: https://youtu.be/0Cii3MWNN8M?si=n2WMfQfgxciRZj0A&t=75