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New comment by Tornhoof in "Can gzip be a language model?"

Tornhoof — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:04:11 +0000

Previous discussions of that specific page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557691

New comment by Tornhoof in "2026 Eclipse Webcams"

Tornhoof — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:38:01 +0000

While the Webcam has a good View, according to current images, it only updates every 5 minutes, e.g. 20:30h 57s and the totality at that location starts 30s later.

New comment by Tornhoof in "2026 Eclipse Webcams"

Tornhoof — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:32:22 +0000

Sierra de Guadarrama - Puerto de Cotos https://www.infonieve.es/espacio-nordico/puerto-de-cotos/web... looks decent, different views, good weather.

New comment by Tornhoof in "London–Calcutta bus service"

Tornhoof — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:15:20 +0000

About twice as much. https://www.indianairmails.com/ai-bombay-to-london.html 1948 price was £141 one-way. This likely did not change much in the early years.

New comment by Tornhoof in "Munich from a Hamburger's perspective"

Tornhoof — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:55:37 +0000

As someone who still lives in the suburbs of munich, I want to emphasize on the horrible public transportation situation in munich. It's always under construction, nothing really works and, as soon as there is some Public Event, everything breaks down.

New comment by Tornhoof in "Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)"

Tornhoof — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 18:12:15 +0000

A thread about Blind Guardian and there is no obligatory link to a crowd singing The Bard's Song?

Let me remedy this https://youtu.be/i-IcX_bccFc

New comment by Tornhoof in "Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step"

Tornhoof — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:15:32 +0000

I still remember the uncountable hours I played Underworld I & II. Thank you for these games.

New comment by Tornhoof in "Blu-ray player keeps cycling on/off whenever plugged in"

Tornhoof — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 05:35:16 +0000

The Players without Internet access are not affected. The system goes into a bootloop after that, even after disconnecting from the net. So something is apparently changed on the device. Maybe a temp/log file is filled with exceptions and the disk is now full.

New comment by Tornhoof in "How many ways are there to sort GUIDs?"

Tornhoof — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:22:55 +0000

Here is a more recent post with benchmarks of different GUID algorithms in SQL Server, the author has a different outcome. In his benchmarks about index fragmentation, COMBGuid is not really much better than normal GUIDs. http://microsoftprogrammers.jebarson.com/benchmarking-index-...

New comment by Tornhoof in "Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish"

Tornhoof — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:16:44 +0000

If you're interested in japanese cuisine and techniques, there is an excellent series of books from the japanese culinary academy. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/JCA/the-japanese-c...

The third book is about cutting fish and includes ike jima steps for different kinds of fish

New comment by Tornhoof in "Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish"

Tornhoof — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:07:46 +0000

Yeah, that's my impression too, you need to pat them very very dry, which might take time if you sear them directly from e.g. a sous vide bag. I still use it to sear single steaks, because the fire alarm is a bit overzealous and the searzall creates less smoke than a Cast Iron skillet.