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New comment by bananaflag in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

bananaflag — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:47:53 +0000

I would have loved to realize this back in high school, I would have gone into a lower paying field.

New comment by bananaflag in "Win16 Memory Management"

bananaflag — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:43:37 +0000

I first found out about segmenting in 16 bit systems in 2016 by reading a lively explanation from an older edition of Duntemann's Assembly Language Step by Step (the newer editions focus largely on Linux and 32/64-bit systems).

New comment by bananaflag in "The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)"

bananaflag — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:05:38 +0000

"Someone" should correct the typo in the submission.

New comment by bananaflag in "The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)"

bananaflag — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:38:17 +0000

Answer posts:

1) https://www.computerenhance.com/p/microsoft-intern-interview...

2) https://www.computerenhance.com/p/microsoft-intern-interview...

3) https://www.computerenhance.com/p/microsoft-intern-interview...

4) https://www.computerenhance.com/p/efficient-dda-circle-outli...

New comment by bananaflag in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

bananaflag — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:01:40 +0000

What do you mean? It's exactly what every child has read in the past 80 years: you can talk to the computer and it does intellectual work like math or coding or writing stories.

New comment by bananaflag in "The dead economy theory"

bananaflag — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:47:06 +0000

> Such societies were terrifyingly stable, lasting hundred of years before slowly collapsing. We're not immune to going back to this.

They were very vulnerable to succession crises. This is the main problem that representative democracy fixed.

New comment by bananaflag in "Windows 95 contained a workaround for a SimCity 2000 memory bug"

bananaflag — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:29:59 +0000

> Produced with AI assistance. Reviewed by the Make Tech Easier editorial team before publication.

I realized this during reading and it's nice of them to confirm it. It's weird to read all those LLM tells while also feeling the text is coherent and makes sense.

New comment by bananaflag in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

bananaflag — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:35:12 +0000

I have no idea why this "AGI is not even well defined" meme gained so much traction recently.

AGI is something that can do everything better than humans. Write a novel, seduce someone, prove a theorem, fix a pipe, whatever. And it's clear right now we don't have it.

New comment by bananaflag in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

bananaflag — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:10:29 +0000

Because the trend started with the iMac.

New comment by bananaflag in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

bananaflag — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:05:44 +0000

What I'm curious now is how one could use software (even PowerPoint) to make graphs that replicate that handmade aesthetic.

New comment by bananaflag in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

bananaflag — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:51:14 +0000

Joke's on them, I keep the Kindle permanently on airplane mode anyway.

New comment by bananaflag in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

bananaflag — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:58:14 +0000

I am not a software developer btw :)

Also I don't believe in copyright that much

New comment by bananaflag in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

bananaflag — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:35:57 +0000

> What OP is mentioning is just their personal preference and doesn’t reflect the actual opinion of the mathematical world.

Indeed, I never claim that my idiosyncrasies represent math at large.

New comment by bananaflag in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

bananaflag — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:34:06 +0000

> But let's not forget that if author cannot live of what they create, they, for the most part, won't be able to continue creating.

They can live off other things. Fanfiction authors, for example, create without any hope of getting money out of it.

Hydrogen Jukeboxes

bananaflag — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:18:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tumblr.com/nostalgebraist/778041178124926976/hydrogen-jukeboxes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226896

Points: 1

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New comment by bananaflag in "What Is Happening to Publishing?"

bananaflag — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:17:52 +0000

https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/778041178124926976/hy...

New comment by bananaflag in "What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?"

bananaflag — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:45:47 +0000

The undecidability of the halting problem yields an easy proof of Gödel's "zeroth" incompleteness theorem:

Statement: Every sound (i.e. not just consistent, but sound) recursive theory of arithmetic is incomplete.

Proof: Assume it is complete. List all its theorems by a program. Then one can decide the halting problem as follows: for any instance, look whether "the program halts" or "the program does not halt" shows up in the list of theorems (since the theory is complete, one of them must show up; and since the theory is sound, the theorem is true).

New comment by bananaflag in "What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?"

bananaflag — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:42:45 +0000

> Gödel completeness theorem is the really big deal. Except it isn't. That computer program turns out to be one of those wretched tree search ones that soon bogs down. The real problem turns out to be the combinatorial explosion inherent in unstructured search through the Herbrand universe.

Yup. Incompleteness is sort of a red herring. P≠NP (even though unproven) yields the real, practical, painful incompleteness.

New comment by bananaflag in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

bananaflag — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:17:50 +0000

Same as when humans do it.

Human mathematicians frequently introduce new pointless abstractions just to churn out papers. And they are not accepted in serious journals, but they sometimes find a place in some mediocre or bad journal.

Of course, AI will increase this phenomenon manifold.

New comment by bananaflag in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

bananaflag — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:59:14 +0000

What is that algebraic calculus you are hinting at?