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New comment by Hinrik in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

Hinrik — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:44:05 +0000

If the car you're driving has achieved super-intelligence and is capable of evolving and self-replicating, then life, uh, finds a way.

New comment by Hinrik in "Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)"

Hinrik — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:07:16 +0000

The poster you're replying to was asking about wheat vs rice protein, not whey.

New comment by Hinrik in "Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden"

Hinrik — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:40:37 +0000

Even worse for Icelandic ones. Keychron used to show the Icelandic flag on their Nordic keyboard page, despite that layout not including Icelandic-specific characters (Ð / Þ missing, Ö in the wrong place). I asked them to start including those characters, but now they just removed the flag.

For Framework I went with a blank ISO layout.

New comment by Hinrik in "The phrase "no evidence" is a red flag for bad science communication (2021)"

Hinrik — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:23:24 +0000

In the U.K. they even use the term "give evidence" for the act of testifying in court.

New comment by Hinrik in "Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop"

Hinrik — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:52:05 +0000

My native keyboard layout is Icelandic so I'm not holding my breath. I ordered one with a blank ISO layout.

New comment by Hinrik in "Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006)"

Hinrik — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 12:48:40 +0000

>Why hasn't anyone made a hybrid car that uses a gasoline-powered turbine generator to charge its batteries instead of a piston engine?

The current engine formula (2014-) in Formula 1 racing might be of interest to you.

> During acceleration of a Formula 1-car, the turbo charger is performing at its peak and is spinning at about 100,000 rpm. The MGU-H (Heat) functions at that moment as a generator. This is connected to the turbo charger and converts the energy, generated by the turbo, into electricity; that, in turn, is stored in a battery or sent directly to the MGU-K.

> This MGU-K (Kinetic), connected straight to the crankshaft of the turbo engine, acts as an electric motor that supplies extra power to said engine. This MGU changes into a dynamo, which stores the energy that is released during braking in the battery. This stored energy, can later be used to support the turbo engine during acceleration or overtaking.

New comment by Hinrik in "US broadband grant rules shut out small ISPs and municipalities, advocates say"

Hinrik — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:01:28 +0000

>Luckily Init7 took them to court and they are now back peddling.

You mean back-pedaling. Peddling is something different.

New comment by Hinrik in "The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021)"

Hinrik — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:40:10 +0000

This crash was also covered on an episode[1] of the Black Box Down podcast.

[1]: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-2020-7-30

New comment by Hinrik in "“Winners Take None:” Coworking, Self Storage, Scooters Have Burned Billions Of"

Hinrik — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:18:55 +0000

Drivel. Dribble is what you do with a basketball.

New comment by Hinrik in "If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key (1778)"

Hinrik — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:25:15 +0000

>I'm not sure what you mean by "sound the same", but just by comparing a simple change from major to minor is quite a dramatic change

That's because OP is not talking about the differences between scales (major vs minor) but keys (C major vs A major). With equal temperament all keys of the same scale have the exact same intervals between the notes. They are simply shifted up or down by a constant amount. Before equal temperament that was not the case.

New comment by Hinrik in "OptiFi Program Incident Report"

Hinrik — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:49:36 +0000

In finance, MM is a shorthand for millions: https://www.orsurety.com/blog/is-it-m-for-thousand-and-mm-fo...

New comment by Hinrik in "A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later"

Hinrik — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:32:22 +0000

Like the commenter alluded to, it allows accurately constrainted type-ahead. If a query starts with "SELECT FROM my_table " and expects one or more column names at that point, your IDE can already suggest the column names from my_table (and not from any other table).

New comment by Hinrik in "Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects"

Hinrik — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 21:46:04 +0000

You might enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_Police

New comment by Hinrik in "Abstraction: Not what you think it is"

Hinrik — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:04:41 +0000

"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975)

New comment by Hinrik in "Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019)"

Hinrik — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:09:37 +0000

In an asynchronous medium like Slack or IRC, the effort _isn't_ wasted, because the question will stay there, allowing people to see it later who weren't even around when the question was first asked.

Just like you don't email someone saying "Hey" waiting for a reply before you ask your question.

New comment by Hinrik in "Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad"

Hinrik — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:35:59 +0000

>True, but if you're having two windows side by side, the wider 16:9 will give you more horizontal space to do so.

I don't know about you, but I don't read two pages of text at the same time.

New comment by Hinrik in "Norway's sovereign wealth fund to vote against Apple management's pay plan"

Hinrik — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:28:25 +0000

Nobody keeps anything close to that kind of amount in a savings account. They put it into various asset classes that appreciate by a lot more than 0.06%/year.

New comment by Hinrik in "$!134 can be a nice bash foot shooter if you accidentally mistype the number"

Hinrik — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:46:44 +0000

You might want to add a slash at the end of "trash", or add a mkdir before that command. Otherwise, doing this on a system where ~/.trash doesn't exist can still make you lose files after multiple deletions.

New comment by Hinrik in "One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again"

Hinrik — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 12:06:45 +0000

>I was in uni around 2007-08 and realised it was using a serious amount of my time and energy.

The first public version of Minecraft came out in May 2009.

New comment by Hinrik in "Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine"

Hinrik — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 14:06:21 +0000

It's more about the small effect sizes of 8 people vs 1. Still a lot of room for noise in the result.