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speerer··on Mathematical Origami
The cut-and-stick nets aren't but the rest most certainly are! Look up "The Complete Book of Origami Polyhedra". I've made some of them myself: they use only square paper without tearing, cutting or sticking.
speerer··on Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
To be fair, the grandparent comment being replied to has a username beginning with Mr.
speerer··on Spymarks, not Watermarks
> ... particularly concerned about is social media. Most images and videos uploaded to most social media is re-compressed by the target platform. This is a door to tracking that is far too easy for social media platforms to open.

This has been going on for a while with Facebook. They seem to embed custom metadata tags so that images shared outside the platform can be traced back:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31120222/iptc-metadata-a...

speerer··on Qwen Image 2.1
I'm not sure why one would even strike metal against a crucible! It's a container for liquid metal. One of the outputs shows it being smashed by the manoeuvre, which is probably the most realistic outcome of all of them.

Sorry, I'm not trying to nitpick. I'm just joining in because I'm interested in how the models dealt with the request.

speerer··on iPhone Duo
> Why do they insist on every new phone being bigger than the phones before them?

Because every time, they want it to be the next big thing.

speerer··on Extinct Tasmanian tiger's 'snap' unlike any living mammal's bite
The original source is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-76614-0

> Thylacine crania are far larger than expected for their body mass, as determined by their centroid size (Fig. 3a), and exceed the absolute cranial sizes of far larger marsupials such as red kangaroos (Supplementary Fig. 5). While the thylacine weighs ~17 kgs34, its cranial size (within ±10%) is similar to that of much larger species, between 24.5 and 66.7 kg (Fig. 3a). In contrast, most placental carnivorans that are close to the thylacine in overall cranial shape (Figs. 1b and 2a) are jackals and foxes weighing 6–14 kgs (Fig. 3b). The cranial size of the thylacine is on par with much heavier predators such as the grey wolf, African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), puma (Puma concolor), and leopard (Panthera pardus).

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> The large size of the thylacine cranium has not been integrated into interpretations of its function, possibly because morphometric analyses generally remove absolute size43,44 and biomechanical comparisons usually focus on comparative, rather than absolute, generation of bite force44. However, a large cranium counteracts the weaker structure of a long and narrow rostrum by increasing the absolute magnitude of rostral resilience to stress and bite force. This is because larger crania are more resilient to intrinsic and extrinsic loads3,44 and carry more muscle3 compared to smaller crania that share the same shape. It is also possible that the wide zygomatic arch compared to other canids, particularly in larger thylacines (Fig. 4e), plays a role in buttressing the jaw joint against the leverage of the long jaw3,45, but this remains to be tested. Overall, the large size of the thylacine cranium thus indicates a specific mechanism of prey capture and/or immobilisation optimised for fast, high-impact bites whose force was dissipated across a large volume of cranial bone.

speerer··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Far worse from my perspective is that it's not a fixed citation that it's not falsifiable. It's just a mutable, generalized source, which is stochastic in nature.

It may as well say "(Socrates, probably)"

speerer··on The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
Just an aside on the design rather than the content:

I was wondering for a while about the greenish and yellow bars on the margins of the page, but I'm pretty sure that those are padding to make the document work well on both US letter paper and A4 at the same time! The text area is A4 proportions, so if it were printed, zoomed to size on that paper, the sidebars would simply disappear.

No doubt this is a common technique that I'm just noticing for the first time.

speerer··on Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim
...but yes, some comments are performative.
speerer··on A spectre is haunting Unicode
It does in the sense that ineffable things are unable to be described in language (conceptually: unknown to language).
speerer··on Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim
I think normally it's just that someone has the thought and shares it for discussion. Not every comment is performative.
speerer··on Don't classify, hallucinate
This is so similar to human decision-making though. First I my innate experience to approximate to what I expect is right, then I map that to the truth.

It's the same for so many things:

- reading documentation (what do I expect this function to be called?)

- finding clothes in a shop (something long-sleeved and light)

- picking the fridge for dinner

- finding a book in the library...

so many analogues where I'm not coming cold to a choice.

speerer··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Genuine question - are you copying the Claude phraseology for effect (in which case you captured it brilliantly), or is there a more mundane explanation?
speerer··on Perspec 1.0
Exciting! I needed this last week, and now here it is. Thanks.

I share the annoyance about phone detection previees over-promising. But I'm pleased this comes with perspective correction and lighting correction together.

speerer··on Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang
> FAQ

> Will you store my images?

> We are running this service on a small server. We literally cannot afford to store any images. If that is what you need, there are more suitable services out there.

This does not answer the question - it doesn't say "No." or that images are permanently deleted from server on burn expiry, only that there are (currently) limits. So slightly worrying that there might be selective retention.

speerer··on The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)
Is this correct? I was fairly certain that the correlation between random data points approached 0.

Is it also plausible that the relationship between true and percieved is wholly independent (as this presumes)?

speerer··on DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
There's some interesting commentry at https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322754/20260803/norway-id... , which suggests that the widespread outage is due to a single point of failure:

> ID-Porten: When One Gateway Controls Everything

> At the center of the disruption is ID-porten — the national login gateway operated by Norway's Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir), the government agency responsible for public-sector digitalization. ID-porten functions as the single sign-on portal through which Norwegian citizens authenticate themselves to access public digital services.

It seems to be a corporate service provider that's a dependency for many other services.

speerer··on Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform
Hi, I've been working on handwritten blogging too! It would be great to compare notes. I might also drop you a line on another platform.
speerer··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
I think normally when people say Chinese made in this way, what they're really communicating is that there's no (meaningful) brand. All they know about it is that it is from China.
speerer··on Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
Having subscribeed for years, I find it very good on that front. I haven't detected any political bias, and I suspect they would say that fairness and honesty is what the "journalism" half of "slow journalism" means.
speerer··on Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
Luckily the magazine came long before Claude, but I suppose your comparison describes their mission pretty well. It's a haven of non-AI writing.
speerer··on Using an open model feels surprisingly good
Huh? He says he works at Modal, not Moonshot. Are they connected?
speerer··on Did They Ghost You?
He's responding _positively_ to the design and querying if this is accessible to everyone.
speerer··on Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site
Love it. This reminds me of wttr.in, but with the benefit of interactivity and that it works much better on mobile. I also happen to often use terminals in a narrower aspect, so wttr.in doesn't work perfectly for me. It'd be very cool if a curl call to your site rendered a terminal text view!
speerer··on Making Software: How to make a font
I suspect the URL and the article title are correct, if you buy the whole chapter - and it's just that we are seeing a preview which gets the grounding down first.
speerer··on Gleam Is Now on Tangled
For some context (which people seem to be wanting): Gleam is an interestinf language that is very tight and small. I met the folks from Gleam at the recent Ubuntu Summit and was struck by the talk they gave which made the point (about the design philosophy of staying small and careful creation) excellently. It's very watchable, and Giacomo later explained (when I asked) that he'd hand-animated every transition. Which re-struck me as a doubly good way to reinforce the point of the talk, which was itself small and carefully created.

https://youtu.be/E6_JqYMeNqs

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gleam-and-the-value-of-small/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleam_(programming_language)

speerer··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Thank you, I think you're right! I've added a correction in the post and cited your comment.
speerer··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
That's a new one and oddly apt :)
speerer··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
(Author here) for unrelated reasons my typing is very slow at the moment, so I was keen to automate. I see that people are getting different results from Claude than I did though.
speerer··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Maybe useful for those XS sizes.
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