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New comment by Panoramix in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"

Panoramix — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:17:11 +0000

Sushi chefs spend years learning the correct feel of the fish - when it's warm enough, when it's slimy. Japanese are taken aback when they are forced to wear gloves for "safety", which at least in that case is entirely counter productive.

New comment by Panoramix in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

Panoramix — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:09:10 +0000

All the things you wrote, but also quality. Quality is a giant issue. Garbage usability. Excel is the only Microsoft product I thoroughly respect. The amount of things you can't do in PowerPoint for example is mind blowing.

New comment by Panoramix in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

Panoramix — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:16:36 +0000

It's about the thermal conductivity.

Helium has 150mW/mK vs Argon ~18mW/mK so you can't replace it.

The only alternatives to Helium are Neon, which is 3x worse and much more expensive, and hydrogen. However, hydrogen is flammable so it's a very bad idea to use it in a fab which has extremely poisonous gases and needs a cleanroom environment. A fire would ruin your whole factory and kill your engineers.

New comment by Panoramix in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

Panoramix — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:30:29 +0000

I just tried 5.1 and got the exact same output as for 5.2 (actually I got slightly less info with 5.1)

New comment by Panoramix in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

Panoramix — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:22:14 +0000

Think of things like your preferred units (meters, kg, cups, tablespoons, milliliters). Or, do not suggest recipes with x ingredient. Language preferences. Etc etc etc.

New comment by Panoramix in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

Panoramix — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:00:07 +0000

There's several options, and in the future there will be even more. Labs like Mistral, Sakana AI already have good products; they will only get better.

New comment by Panoramix in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

Panoramix — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:41:19 +0000

More reasons to go with the competition

New comment by Panoramix in "Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)"

Panoramix — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:58:29 +0000

Nice overview. Some of the descriptions are quite thin on details, like "new model by x", or "latest model by y". Well of course it was new at the time but that doesn't really add information.

New comment by Panoramix in "Richard Feynman Side Hustles"

Panoramix — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:36:06 +0000

Yes but how do you do that? that magical third electrode sounds harder to make than the original problem.

Edit: I think I get it now, it's a chemical reaction. By applying a voltage with some polarity to the 3rd electrode you can run the reaction in reverse. Still very hard to achieve because you have to make sure the reactions happen at the same rate with the same efficiency, which is far from trivial. This must be a very high end sensor for all this effort to make sense.

New comment by Panoramix in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

Panoramix — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:22:21 +0000

I'd rather if the article would stick to the facts

New comment by Panoramix in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

Panoramix — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:41:13 +0000

I've been to the Mediterranean several times. They eat a ton of (delicious) super oily food, sausages, meats, eggs, fish (often fried or deep fried), salty cheeses, greasy stuff, tons of white bread, lots of wine. Fat chance to find someone eating avocados, kale, or quinoa, and proteins are not at all minimized.

The Mediterranean diet is like a Californian wellness type of person's idea of what the actual Mediterranean diet is.

New comment by Panoramix in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

Panoramix — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:48:51 +0000

I have never in my several decades of life seen and ad for anything and thought "I need to get that".

New comment by Panoramix in "I rebooted my social life"

Panoramix — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:34:23 +0000

Keep up at it. Without pressuring, or without making it the elephant in the room uncomfortable topic that makes them avoid you. One day you will catch them in a good day.

New comment by Panoramix in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

Panoramix — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:35:08 +0000

I find that just about everybody is leaking my data. Either on purpose or accidentally. But at the end of the day I do want to order those online exotic vegetables and have very little choice of sites to do it in my country. At this point I don't care anymore. Maybe I should but in a sense it's too late. It's been decades of leaked information, I'm certain the advertising companies know me better than my friends. And still royally fail at selling me stuff. They likely use this info for more nefarious things.

I hate that 90% of the effort on the internet is about stealing information from users and serving invasive ads.

New comment by Panoramix in "Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub"

Panoramix — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:51:05 +0000

TSMC is in a seismically active region

New comment by Panoramix in "LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger"

Panoramix — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:11:27 +0000

I don't quite disagree but this comparison is typically unfair, because when you really know about a subject you tend to ask way more difficult questions than about other subjects, so of course the LLMs are gonna struggle more. If you ask really basic questions they will regurgitate well known bachelor-level knowledge and look good. What do I know about biology anyway? about silos for grain storage? any passable answer is enough to wow me on those topics. But on the topics I really know about, I never ask the basics.

New comment by Panoramix in "Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source"

Panoramix — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:31:23 +0000

What does it do better? I'm happy with Jupyter for most of my cases but never hurts to look around.

New comment by Panoramix in "Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source"

Panoramix — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:28:33 +0000

For when the LLM completely screws up the code as it does

New comment by Panoramix in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

Panoramix — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:53:16 +0000

It's not blame, it's useful feedback. For a large application you have to understand what different parts are doing and how everything is put together, otherwise no amount of tools will save you.

New comment by Panoramix in "Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML"

Panoramix — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:30:10 +0000

It's very difficult. It took ASML 20 years, and Apple has none of the core competences to make this happen, like optical lithography, EUV optics, plasma physics, vacuum, laser, sources...and then they would have to catch-up to the other tech. For example, today's top end ASML stages accelerate with >10g while still having nm position accuracy.