Hacker News: 3uruiueijjj

New comment by 3uruiueijjj in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

3uruiueijjj — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:59:15 +0000

Those graphs look nothing alike, except for "going up and then vaguely going down."

New comment by 3uruiueijjj in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

3uruiueijjj — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:25:36 +0000

The continuum hypothesis was proven independent of ZFC over sixty years ago, I think even GPT2 could have told you that much.

New comment by 3uruiueijjj in "A Love Letter to 'Girl Games'"

3uruiueijjj — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:06:43 +0000

Calling visual novels a "traditionally feminine" genre is rather hilarious.

New comment by 3uruiueijjj in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

3uruiueijjj — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:30:11 +0000

USB license dongles are still very common in industrial automation, I work for a company that uses it. You don't want an internet outage (or an AWS outage) to take down a production line for a day. You also expect to set up a system once and then have it just work for a decade or so.

In our case, the copy protection would still be as easy to bypass as the one in the article.

New comment by 3uruiueijjj in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

3uruiueijjj — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:01:06 +0000

Lots of (most?) Steam games don't have real DRM and you can run them just fine without the Steam client. So if you want to, you can usually download the game and then back up the files yourself.

GOG giving you a standalone installer saves you some effort compared to that, but in neither case do you really "own" the game.

New comment by 3uruiueijjj in "Learning Fortran (2024)"

3uruiueijjj — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:00:13 +0000

I've never found anything to back this up, but my impression was that both the Python / Numpy and Fortran 90 slicing operations were directly inspired by MATLAB (although most of the ideas go back to at least Algol 68).

It also helps that Fortran compatibility is a must for pretty much anything that expects to use BLAS.