Hacker News: Cacti

New comment by Cacti in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

Cacti — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:39:22 +0000

I mean, 1990 was 36 years ago and accompanied with a massive land invasion. At what point do these comparisons become meaningless?

New comment by Cacti in "Starbase injury rates outpace rivals as SpaceX chases its Mars moonshot"

Cacti — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:48:54 +0000

The amount of people here who didn’t read the article and don’t understand basic statistics is shocking.

New comment by Cacti in "Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?"

Cacti — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:29:16 +0000

Which ones do they have in common?

New comment by Cacti in "Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer"

Cacti — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 01:04:31 +0000

These have explosives and a ten mile fiber optic cable. Little different.

New comment by Cacti in "How great was the Great Oxidation Event?"

Cacti — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:20:17 +0000

This sounds right, but it is speculative at best. If anything it just goes to show how complex the modern cell is and how long it took to assemble all the right pieces.

New comment by Cacti in "Trackmania Nightmares"

Cacti — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:59:58 +0000

lots of cuda libs

New comment by Cacti in "Dear Julia, Dear Yuri: A mathematical correspondence (2022)"

Cacti — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 11:28:53 +0000

gregory chaitin has an accessible version of the math, if you’re interested. he builds a LISP with it.

New comment by Cacti in "Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs"

Cacti — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:58:14 +0000

Seaborn, plotly, datashader, etc. all exist to wrap matplotlib and they are wildly successful. Is there some reason an equally good interface couldn’t be written in elisp?

New comment by Cacti in "Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous"

Cacti — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:07:26 +0000

thanks but my reputation already has a colorway

New comment by Cacti in "Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous"

Cacti — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:05:00 +0000

they’re there to be googles bearded monopoly foil, nothing more

New comment by Cacti in "Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code"

Cacti — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:38:07 +0000

It’s a REPL, for starters.

New comment by Cacti in "Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'"

Cacti — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:06:42 +0000

Hitchens supported the war and voted for Bush. Of course he hates Chomsky.

New comment by Cacti in "Jury finds Boeing stole technology from electric airplane startup Zunum"

Cacti — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:22:23 +0000

Everyone going up and coming down is a success. Everything else is not a success.

If you want to care about the schedule or cost, you’re welcome to.

New comment by Cacti in "Jury finds Boeing stole technology from electric airplane startup Zunum"

Cacti — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:42:31 +0000

I mean, they just put astronauts into orbit a minute ago. What’d you do today?

New comment by Cacti in "Jury finds Boeing stole technology from electric airplane startup Zunum"

Cacti — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:40:43 +0000

At this rate HN will be blaming sunspots, cicadas, and the score of the next game on the BA-MDC merger.

New comment by Cacti in "Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text"

Cacti — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 08:37:03 +0000

The space is an uncountable set, at the limit. Mostly it’s noise. See: curse of dimensionality.

New comment by Cacti in "A fragment of human cerebral cortex reconstructed at nanoscale resolution"

Cacti — Fri, 10 May 2024 14:59:44 +0000

health scans from eg MRIs are often given in voxels

New comment by Cacti in "How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?"

Cacti — Thu, 09 May 2024 21:08:03 +0000

Is this something we have evidence for, or is this just in theory?

New comment by Cacti in "Value of one of S.F.'s biggest buildings plunges by 80% after Uber, Block leave"

Cacti — Sat, 04 May 2024 03:12:06 +0000

Because they’re burning money.

New comment by Cacti in "Nix: The Breaking Point"

Cacti — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:34:02 +0000

Anduril specializes in counter-drone warfare and collaborative intelligence. They are not bombing civilians on the other side of the world.