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radiator··on IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability'
Is there not a legal way to fight this back? With this patent application, someone is trying to establish an advantage *against everyone else*. So legally, anyone might have self-interest to sue the applicant, if the application is fraudulent (because for example it is a stolen 200-year-old mathematical method). I mean, such patent applications should not be a freeroll, they should also entail some risk for the applicant.
radiator··on Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers
I find the notion that propagandists only control the flow of information in countries like Russia, China, Iran - but they don't in the West - misguided at best.
radiator··on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities
What difference, at this point, does it make? The EU has already surrendered any notion of sovereignty to the US in the fields of military and energy.
radiator··on The 512KB Club
Perhaps, but running on an 2010 Atom, you don't even get to press the play button of a video within one minute. That was the point, I believe.
radiator··on ECL Runs Maxima in a Browser
Wikipedia writes: Maxima is based on a 1982 version of Macsyma

Perhaps because it has such a long history and because this was published in a Lisp website, Maxima was considered known.

radiator··on Affinity Studio now free
Though even if you build it, someone might eventually make you an offer you cannot refuse.
radiator··on Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time
That is a healthy attitude. I wonder if everyone "missing" AoC has already solved all the past problems.
radiator··on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
And if you really needed 99.99%, you would be wise to avoid the hyperscalers: see AWS' recent multi-hour long outage.
radiator··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
Hetzner is also a cloud. You avoid buying hardware, you rent it instead. You can rent either VMs or dedicated servers, but in both cases you own nothing.
radiator··on Why is everything so scalable?
This sounds just about right: I have read that Kubernetes is the greek term for "more containers than customers".
radiator··on Zoo of array languages
it is one of their cousins
radiator··on Why Self-Host?
> TXT "google-site-verification=TTrl7IWxuGQBEqbNAz17GKZzS-utrW7SCZbgdo5tkk0" just to clarify, this part is not evil, it is just a compromise one makes to prevent Gmail from classifying outgoing email as spam (I think).
radiator··on The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]
> Lua is the glue when sh/bash doesn't suffice.

I enjoy Lua and use it professionally, but when bash (and AWK) don't suffice, the glue is Perl. Because it has pipes which you can use to connect the output of one command to the input of another, or to a file.

radiator··on Increasing your practice surface area
I meant rather the genetics which have defined your intelligence
radiator··on Why I chose Lua for this blog
I just write HTML directly (and use GitHub pages)
radiator··on Increasing your practice surface area
> There is no "genetic" or inherited talent here

No, genetics is a crucial requirement. Not everyone can do those things.

radiator··on Ode to libraries (the book ones)
Sounds like they need rules that state you are only allowed in if you actually want to use the library for its intended purpose.
radiator··on Use One Big Server (2022)
> Doubling the storage on a base server, often increases the price of your server by 50 to 75%

For storage, Hetzner does offer Volumes, which you can attach to your VM and you can choose exactly how large you want them to be and are charged separately. But your argument about doubling resources and doubling prices still holds for RAM.

radiator··on Cognitive load is what matters
But this might require too much effort from the reviewer
radiator··on Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move
Rather because some people parked their Teslas on public roads and later found them vandalized.
radiator··on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
May I ask, if there is a movie where English people speak English, French people speak French, and German people speak German, is there a software that can generate subtitles in English, French and German without translating anything? I mean, just record what it hears.
radiator··on 'My teeth told me': What it was like aboard the Enola Gay
... the very definite taste of lead upon my tongue. This, I was told later by scientists, was the result of electrolysis — an interaction between the fillings in my teeth and the radioactive forces that were loosed by the bomb
radiator··on Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)
Janet (with one l) is modern because it is, well, new. It doesn't need to carry the historical baggage of Common Lisp. It has many data structures, a concurrency model, it is suitable for functional programming and for object-oriented programming. It has libraries for common tasks and is well documented.
radiator··on XML Summer School, Oxford. 14th to 19th Sept 2025
XML is quite popular today in HN
radiator··on It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine)
Not sure whether it's the systems built there, or the customer bases that they have.
radiator··on The Awful German Language (1880)
in a German newspaper they put their verb away over on the next page; and I have heard that sometimes after stringing along the exciting preliminaries and parentheses for a column or two, they get in a hurry and have to go to press without getting to the verb at all. Of course, then, the reader is left in a very exhausted and ignorant state.
radiator··on What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?
"the" node? Kafka is a cluster of multiple nodes.
radiator··on Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?
Would it also be possible to write in both C and another (small, implementation written in C) higher level language? For example Lua or similar?
radiator··on Unusual Shop Tips [video]
I thought he sounded like a human encyclopaedia.
radiator··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
You don't give a shit about your offspring? But even so, aren't you at least able to understand that other people do care about their progeny?
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