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New comment by bargle0 in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

bargle0 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:50:59 +0000

If you’re the same Sean Luke I’m thinking of:

I was an undergraduate at the University of Maryland when you were a graduate student there in the mid nineties. A lot of what you had to say shaped the way I think about computer science. Thank you.

New comment by bargle0 in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

bargle0 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:44:36 +0000

What kind of hobby do you have where you’re spending $10k/month?

New comment by bargle0 in "Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)"

bargle0 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 19:10:07 +0000

How impure was the gold dust from the chemical supply company?

New comment by bargle0 in "A Formal Mathematical Investigation on the Validity of Kellogg's Glaze Claims"

bargle0 — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:25:13 +0000

Spheres optimize for minimum sogginess. Kellogg could change the marketing angle without changing anything else to be correct.

Maybe. I haven’t done the math.

New comment by bargle0 in "Lego says it wants to start to bring video game development in-house"

bargle0 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:44:33 +0000

I want a sequel to Lego City Undercover with the building and driving mechanics of Lego 2k Drive.

New comment by bargle0 in "Oldest US firearm unearthed in Arizona, a bronze cannon linked to Coronado"

bargle0 — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 01:49:55 +0000

This was made before 1899 (or whatever the cutoff date is), and it’s black powder. The ATF does not consider this a firearm.

New comment by bargle0 in "Oldest US firearm unearthed in Arizona, a bronze cannon linked to Coronado"

bargle0 — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 20:16:07 +0000

Is a cannon really a firearm? Was this for an individual, or is it a crew served weapon?

New comment by bargle0 in "A washing machine for human beings, from 1970"

bargle0 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 06:38:44 +0000

I think the application for this is to return some dignity and independence to people who have physical trouble washing themselves. Of course the form factor of the 1970 prototype wouldn’t do that, but that can be fixed.

New comment by bargle0 in "Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference"

bargle0 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 03:49:16 +0000

Their hardware is cool and bizarre. It has to be seen in person to be believed. It reminds me of the old days when supercomputers were weird.

New comment by bargle0 in "Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools"

bargle0 — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 03:42:08 +0000

No one should be watching fifth graders go to the bathroom. “Legal stuff” is not adequate.

New comment by bargle0 in "Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools"

bargle0 — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:13:16 +0000

Who gets to decide when the camera gets turned off in the restroom?

New comment by bargle0 in "Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools"

bargle0 — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:11:17 +0000

In my experience, when schools are graded on bullying incidents, administrators avoid reporting at all costs. This program isn’t enough if there are disincentives to reporting at higher levels.

New comment by bargle0 in "The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes"

bargle0 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:41:28 +0000

I wonder if similar results could be had by cooking the potato in clay or a salt crust.

New comment by bargle0 in "Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval"

bargle0 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:09:22 +0000

“He is an English Englishteacher” gives me a chuckle.

New comment by bargle0 in "European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware"

bargle0 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:46:40 +0000

Or just passively key capture everything.

New comment by bargle0 in "Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane"

bargle0 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:24:29 +0000

I bet the engineers responsible for this would be so stoked that someone figured out how they solved all these problems.

New comment by bargle0 in "I've built a city, now it needs residents"

bargle0 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:07:19 +0000

Client side webrings.

What is the plan for fighting bitrot and bad-faith actors?

New comment by bargle0 in "End of an era: Landsat 7 mission takes final images"

bargle0 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:16:31 +0000

Yeah, the scan line corrector broke. Landsat 7 images had these “whiskers” of missing data running perpendicular to the path. For a while there it was just old Landsat 5 and broken Landsat 7.

New comment by bargle0 in "Poetry was an official Olympic event"

bargle0 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:01:33 +0000

Flag Football and 6-player Lacrosse are next up in 2028.

New comment by bargle0 in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

bargle0 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:51:34 +0000

CrowdStrike, ZScaler, and the rest of these people surely have lobbyists that ensure their software is compelled by regulators.