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New comment by Matumio in "The Amazon tax"

Matumio — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:48:28 +0000

Yes. I paused reading at some point just to marvel at the clarity of writing. It seems absurd to complain about length, it isn't long. Maybe we have different ideas what good writing is, but I'd say this is in the top percent.

AI can mirror this style of writing, but it can't mirror the clarity of thought behind it.

New comment by Matumio in "Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome"

Matumio — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:34:52 +0000

Also the pixels were probably downscaled in sRGB gamma by JPEG instead of linear light, so the overall brightness will be wrong anyway, if there was lots of high-frequency content in the original.

New comment by Matumio in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

Matumio — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:20:23 +0000

Some people earn a million per day just from passive income. They could make you turn leaves all day long just for a quick laugh, and you would be unable to decide if this was useful. (They probably won't do that, I agree, but they won't think about wasting your time by accident, given how cheap it is.)

New comment by Matumio in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

Matumio — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:32:31 +0000

No, work is supposed to be at least useful for somebody. Ideally for the society you live in, at least indirectly. If you are wasting your work time, you are also wasting you life time in the same breath. Would you turn every leaf in the forest around twice, if it was the highest paying job? No, because that's a bullshit job.

New comment by Matumio in "Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter"

Matumio — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:55:43 +0000

I agree with Gemin— wait. Did you just post a link to google.com to support an argument for self-hosting, decentralization and breaking monopolies...?

New comment by Matumio in "Keeping FairScan simple isn't simple"

Matumio — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:55:42 +0000

I'm not the author, but I agree! It's refreshing to use a software that was built just to help you get a thing done, and nothing else.

The author is: https://sigmoid.social/@pynicolas@mastodon.social

Keeping FairScan simple isn't simple

Matumio — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:40:27 +0000

Article URL: https://fairscan.org/blog/keeping-fairscan-simple/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134351

Points: 2

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New comment by Matumio in "How to Exist"

Matumio — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:20:14 +0000

My experience is that if you try to sit still for 5 minutes, the opposite happens. The thoughts and feelings that you weren't aware of start mobbing you, and you have to at least acknowledge them to get your peace. It's also one of the hardest ways to waste time, getting busy with any distraction is much easier.

New comment by Matumio in "How to Exist"

Matumio — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:54:05 +0000

Yes? Like trying hard to get into that state of meditation. Then you notice that you're getting tense and stressed about it not working, realize that this is not helpful, get angry at yourself for doing it wrong, try harder to do it right this time, etc.

It's my favourite puzzle about meditation. You have to approach it sideways, but if you really try that it won't work. So you try hard not to that instead, which won't work either. It's kind of funny how focusing on your breath tends to work, but... don't hold that thought.

It's a contradiction, and that's okay. Get comfortable with it ;-)

New comment by Matumio in "The End of an Era"

Matumio — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:27:44 +0000

> Writing is art and art requires a human soul for lack of a better word.

I think it's the other way around. The human soul requires the art. Or rather it craves the process of creating art, more than art-the-trade-item. When image generation was new, someone raged: "They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again."

> As for proving that you wrote it...yeah that could be tricky.

On social media, when people share their drawings they often share a photo with their tools visible (pencil, eraser) instead of a clean scan. It sends a message like "Look! I made this!". Or they post a time-lapse. Or details about their process, like here: https://www.viruscomix.com/makingofpartfive.html

The point of this is not mainly to "proof" anything, I think, but more a community signal that they care about their craft and are curious how others work. You can probably generate a convincing fake process with AI now, but... I wonder if anyone is willing to go that far.

New comment by Matumio in "I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals"

Matumio — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:39:41 +0000

The point is that not everything of value can be easily measured.

Instead of wasting some resources on corruption and bad judgement, we now waste them by forcing people to chase the wrong goal. In other words: "If you rely on incentives, you undermine values." (Barry Schwartz)

So I don't disagree with you, but I think we went too far into that direction. We have allow people to use their better judgement sometimes.

New comment by Matumio in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

Matumio — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:11:58 +0000

I'm glad, and less surprised now, that most important libraries and infrastructure projects were done by volunteers.

Imagine a world where those only get done for a business incentive by people with this hard-reality business mindset. Or not done at all, reinvented at every place, no transferable knowledge for developers.

New comment by Matumio in "Claude Opus 5"

Matumio — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:57:01 +0000

It's pretty intelligent not to consider this option unless told directly and go "write your own" by default, but only if you assume that its goal is to make you spend tokens. It shouldn't have let it escalate and get stopped, though.

New comment by Matumio in "Everyone should know SIMD"

Matumio — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:17:12 +0000

The main reason for virtual addresses/TLB is to prevent processes from accessing each other's memory (isolation). For optimization I'd say the page size (64 kB) is a secondary concern. It's handled in hardware (TLB) with the OS only occasionally filling up the mapping. You want to avoid that happening, but you probably should worry more using whole cache lines (64 bytes) instead, and beyond that just keep memory access local (multiple cache hierarchies) and predictable (pre-fetcher).

New comment by Matumio in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

Matumio — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:08:25 +0000

The internet exists because people wanted to connect their machines, before ads. It would still exist without the ads. Smaller maybe, with less content, and less business opportunity for investors. But the internet would survive without ads, because of how useful it is to connect globally.

New comment by Matumio in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

Matumio — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:31:07 +0000

Yes, but I think for Blender specifically this is the hard way.

After a video tutorial I always concluded that I had a few really clumsily ways to work around my lack of knowledge. Some workflows really need an expert demonstration, or you won't even know what is possible. (I do pause the videos to look up the docu.)

New comment by Matumio in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

Matumio — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:26:34 +0000

Speaking of tower analogies, I fear it may play out like in this comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-village-and-the-tower

New comment by Matumio in "Programmers need to start meditating"

Matumio — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:11:14 +0000

No, the same session. Start it over again, like in Westworld. Repeat until you become one with Claude.

New comment by Matumio in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

Matumio — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:41:11 +0000

Then what is this: https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/video

Not the most common way to make money from videos, for sure, but it's not "nobody", and they need hosting.

New comment by Matumio in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

Matumio — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:07:40 +0000

Hm, if I query the LLM it tells me about cognitive hierarchy theory, and the Keynesian beauty contest. But my point is, humans are not perfectly rational beings, and sometimes for a reason. (Like assuming that there is more uncertainty than the stated rules imply. Or altruistic behaviour that benefits the group as a whole. And we also have a default to imitate each other, see Joseph Henrich's 2016 Book.) Some of those defaults are culturally learned and leak into pure mathematical games (see e.g. the ultimatum game).