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New comment by ObscureScience in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

ObscureScience — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:28:50 +0000

I'm not sure where I place AI (of the current family), but more than directly worry about the actions they may perform I'm actually more worried what affects their usage can have on us as individuals and society.

New comment by ObscureScience in "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"

ObscureScience — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:40:41 +0000

My employer uses CDN77. Only for serving static resources.

New comment by ObscureScience in "DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones"

ObscureScience — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:07:04 +0000

It would be interesting to research more into parameter analysis to learn more about what parameters a trained network has "extracted" that has the strongest predictive power; assuming the model itself has such preductive power. I guess I'm imagining some kind of alternative to embeddings where you get answers like: Predicted percipitation P(accumulated humidity over n days, net wind vector over n days, humity today, temperature today, ...)

New comment by ObscureScience in "Em dashes are amazing"

ObscureScience — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:37:58 +0000

That seems to be the case with linguistic- and group practices in general. It's not universal law, and while the overlap of correctness and even best practice is pretty big, there are still differences. Subject matter, language, abstract institution (universities), concrete ditto (Oxford, Chalmers, Max Planck IoT, Royal Academy of {country}), register/style (daily newspaper, tabloid), etc.

New comment by ObscureScience in "98.css"

ObscureScience — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:15:22 +0000

Are you thinking of Win 2.0? https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/upl...

New comment by ObscureScience in "HMD Touch 4G"

ObscureScience — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:22:33 +0000

This one was recently up in HN: https://dumbermini.com/

New comment by ObscureScience in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

ObscureScience — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:33:47 +0000

Yeah, why should it not be desireble to give them access to the good properties of such devices and the internet?

New comment by ObscureScience in "Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive"

ObscureScience — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:48:36 +0000

I guess it could disable the killswitch

New comment by ObscureScience in "The peril of laziness lost"

ObscureScience — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:03:37 +0000

"Value generation" is a term I would be somewhat wary of.

To me, in this context, it's similar to drive economic growth on fossil fuel.

Whether in the end it can result in a net benefit (the value is larger than the cost of interacting with it and the cost to sort out the mess later) is likely impossible to say, but I don't think it can simply be judged by short sighted value.

New comment by ObscureScience in "this css proves me human"

ObscureScience — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:41:32 +0000

I read it as the latter. With all the bots out there running their own blogs and making commits to projects that was the context I assumed. It reminded me of this one https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

New comment by ObscureScience in "Transpiler, a Meaningless Word (2023)"

ObscureScience — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:10:34 +0000

You mean point of local maximum in the mass field?

New comment by ObscureScience in "Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features"

ObscureScience — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:55:50 +0000

I don't get it. Why should not tickets be submitted for when a new feature worsen the usability of the product?

New comment by ObscureScience in "Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features"

ObscureScience — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:37:57 +0000

I didn't read malice into the post, just using a tongue-in-cheek tone.

My reading was "letting them know doing bad choices will not quitely be accepted".

But I may ofcourse read something into it that wasn't meant.

New comment by ObscureScience in "Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust"

ObscureScience — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:48:34 +0000

The analogy would be mandatory inspections of certain components or manufacturing processes to see that rules and specs are followed while assembling.

New comment by ObscureScience in "Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally"

ObscureScience — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:13:20 +0000

This reminds me of Perkeep, but I understand this is more focused on the presentation of the data, while Perkeep was on the data storage. But maybe they could be integrated, or at least support each other's formats.

New comment by ObscureScience in "TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End"

ObscureScience — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:44:31 +0000

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New comment by ObscureScience in "I tried Servo"

ObscureScience — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:56:58 +0000

How do you think Firefox is making money, since it has no payed features? Hint: it has Google search as the default search engine.

New comment by ObscureScience in "I tried Servo"

ObscureScience — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:49:07 +0000

While it's hard to know what comes of it, there is also https://ladybird.org/ to challenge to monopoly of Blink.

New comment by ObscureScience in "More women than expected are genetically men (2016)"

ObscureScience — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:58:15 +0000

I don't believe that is true (but I am certainly outside of my expertise). As far as I understand it, sex chromosomes (specifically the Y chromosome) are responsible for genitalia differentiation, but the relevant genes of the chromosome needs to be expressed for it to happen. Whether it's the Y chromosome itself that is inactive, or genes on the other chromosomes that supress it I have no clue about.

New comment by ObscureScience in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

ObscureScience — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 06:59:43 +0000

>In your Windows vs. Linux example, Linux just doesn't do a lot of things very well on the UI/UX side of things (e.g., window management, driver support, an out of the box experience).

That judgement confuses me a lot. Window management, drivers and out of the box experience has been much better in Linux for the last 10 years in my experience. Sure, there are some companies that don't ship drivers for Linux or the configuration software is not fully fledged. Window management has almost always been better in Linux, but of course depends on the WM. Windows innovated one nice feature in Vista (aero snap) which most desktop environments has implemented since.

If you install Fedora, Ubuntu or Linux Mint, what are you lacking from that out of the box experience? Generally no driver installation needed, and no cleaning up of bloatware.