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zogomoox··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
go past the cubes at near lightspeed, you'll see them rotated; you can see their back planes even before you passed them.
zogomoox··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
surely some human regularly typed "think deeper, make no mistakes".
zogomoox··on All elementary functions from a single binary operator
Could this be used to prove e+pi is transcendental?
zogomoox··on Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)
if only matrices would've been invented before i..
zogomoox··on The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job
From your description I think you accidentally applied for a position in an administrative sub-branch of Hell. This was the giveaway: "I had a little discussion with the interviewer, who said 0 was not a multiple of 3 and 5".
zogomoox··on Lua is so underrated
if you fix the one based indexing you should call yours KT@ or Kt`
zogomoox··on The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
zogomoox··on UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look
The cursive font should at least lean to the right.
zogomoox··on AI consciousness is inevitable: A theoretical computer science perspective
Reading the paper made unconsciousness inevitable, in my case.
zogomoox··on Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
I can recommend Wixsharp (https://github.com/oleg-shilo/wixsharp), you no longer have to learn the insane wix xml syntax to create an installer.
zogomoox··on Bug hunting in Btrfs
That not-invented-here locking mechanism was a big shock to me. I'd be very interested to know the rationale behind that, are locking primitives somehow not available in file system code?
zogomoox··on ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker
a bunch of useless processes, if only.. they started using Scaled Agile (or SAFe) a few years ago, which slows down software development by a factor of five or more and adds non-productive fulltime roles such as 'Release Train Engineer', 'Scrum Master' and 'product owner'.
zogomoox··on I Stopped Using Passwords. It's Great–and a Total Mess
Passkeys seem to make it harder for you to backup your own private keys to other devices or to paper. Is there an open source Passkey manager yet that allows importing and exporting?
zogomoox··on 20.5 Years of XP and Agile (2020)
And after 20 years Agile has been subverted by faux-agile methods such as Scaled Agile Framework that unfortunately have a lot of traction in the industry.
zogomoox··on How the append-only btree works (2010)
as long as you don't modify the original nodes that would still work, no locks needed.
zogomoox··on How the append-only btree works (2010)
Instead of cloning the branches all the way up to root, wouldn't it be more efficient to just write delta-records, so a structure per inner node that says "it's like this original node, but with the following modifications x,y,z"
zogomoox··on In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing
Wouldn't a file system in a slightly higher level language solve some of this pain? (edit: in terms of being able to understand the system)
zogomoox··on Kalman filter from the ground up
This reminds me of the great "the missile knows" clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
zogomoox··on The washing machine in my ear, and an empty boat
For that I used Reason (digital audio workstation), create a single sine wave synth and played on the keyboard until I found the right frequency. I already knew my tinnitus was a low one for me (sounded like a mains hum) so was looking in the 20 - 200 Hz range.

You don't need the exact frequency really, just create a white noise sample in Audacity. The filtering just helps to allow playing the noise at the lowest overall level possible while still being effective in suppressing the tinnitus.

I think I could have achieved the same filtering using one of those hi-fi equalizer modules that were all the rage in the 80s and 90s.

zogomoox··on The washing machine in my ear, and an empty boat
For me what helped was creating a long white noise sample, then filtering it to have a peak around the frequency of my particular tinnitus and playing it in a loop at barely audible levels from a good stereo in my bedroom. I'm not exactly sure why that works but to me it seems like having an actual irregular audio signal entering your ears prevents your brain/ear from maintaining a self-oscillating tinnitus.
zogomoox··on The papers were not ready for publication
just from the top of my head:

- transport electricity from anywhere without losses - handheld tomography devices - super powerful small/light electric motors - light electric motors means: electric planes - cheap maglev trains - rail guns - possibly faster computer chips using josephson junctions

zogomoox··on ASML EUV lithography machine could keep Moore’s Law on track
If China can't get their hands on EUV, E-Beam seems a logical step for them to develop anyway.
zogomoox··on About math limitations
If you consider that mathematical ideas are discovered rather than invented, then the whole point becomes moot. Sure, we may not be smart enough to discover all of it, but we can be pretty certain there is still mathematics beyond our ability to understand it. As an analogy, we'll never be able to look at or visit beyond our cosmic horizon, but it's certain there are stars and galaxies out there.
zogomoox··on Rejected GitHub profile achievements
at first I thought of "the stranger" but maybe a bit on the nose.
zogomoox··on Rejected GitHub profile achievements
achievement name: "I'm more of an idea person" or perhaps "chop-chop"
zogomoox··on Rejected GitHub profile achievements
I propose the "Copium" achievement when you star your own repository.
zogomoox··on fe: A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C
When I see amazingly compact language implementations like this, the effect on me is not 'I want to use this language' but rather 'I should also write my own LISP'.
zogomoox··on The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (2006)
I wonder what the bad guy in Se7en would do to someone like Kevin Spacey
zogomoox··on Ask HN: What do you talk about in 1-on-1s with your managers?
You make it sound like bad managers are rare. Changing teams or companies does not guarantee finding a good manager.
zogomoox··on Recursive Game of Life
Life is life - nana na nana
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