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New comment by beeforpork in "Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font"

beeforpork — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:33:38 +0000

Is there a PDF specimen? I disable font substitution in my browser, but I do want to have a peek. But not a peek that requires reconfiguring my browser.

New comment by beeforpork in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

beeforpork — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:28:11 +0000

Nice! But is there an app with this algorithm/strategy/design for finding good matches for casually having fun together? All the apps I know suck.

New comment by beeforpork in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

beeforpork — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:23:24 +0000

> non alcoholic beers taste terrible

Fortunately, this is not universally true anymore.

There are now beers brewed with extremely low-alc yeasts (which have a trait that makes them unable to digest maltose) that make <0,5% alc beers with good flavours. This combined with sour malts and good hops can give you great flavours. These low-alc yeasts remove the need to maltreat the beer for removing the alc. And it is often OK to have 0,5% alc -- maybe not during pregnancy, but to avoid the annoying 5% alc. It's most probably not the industry cheap shit though.

There's also the possibility to just stop the fermentation with normal yeasts at any point, e.g., at 1% alc. I've had a couple of very good beers like this, too.

New comment by beeforpork in "A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum"

beeforpork — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:11:25 +0000

And take all the fun out of it??

New comment by beeforpork in "UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8"

beeforpork — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:10:25 +0000

Yes, sure. But what was the incentive? The goal? The reason to start the project (and not another one)? What was interesting enough to start this?

New comment by beeforpork in "UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8"

beeforpork — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:16:36 +0000

It would be nice if the first paragraph gave a motivation for this. Why did you start this?

I mean, I can derive from the text that this can encode arbitrarily large integers. So what? What's the point? I also understand that this is for fun.

New comment by beeforpork in "UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8"

beeforpork — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:11:37 +0000

As are FE, FD, FC, FB, FA, F9, F8, F7, F6 and F5.

New comment by beeforpork in "A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum"

beeforpork — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:47:57 +0000

Written in the best programming language ever!

New comment by beeforpork in "I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago"

beeforpork — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:07:17 +0000

Is this as good as Laya 3? Unfortunately, it's production was moved from Bremen, Germany, to China, and it is not good anymore, in my opinion.

New comment by beeforpork in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

beeforpork — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:27:55 +0000

Yoti? Is there anything useful to read about the security and privacy architecture?

New comment by beeforpork in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

beeforpork — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:37:35 +0000

Yeah, this is actually one of the best uses for AI, I think. Boring decisions that you have to take, but without all necessary knowledge, based on history that can be learned and summarised. And it's all a lot of luck, and nothing is 100% a good or a bad decision. Algorithms won't help. It makes total sense to me to make it openly heuristic and based on propabilities and therefore use AI.

Just like in Iain Banks's scifi (although those AIs are actually intelligent -- I don't think you need that for a CEO).

New comment by beeforpork in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

beeforpork — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:39:02 +0000

They are shutting it down. Same agenda as with the ban on side-loading.

New comment by beeforpork in "Turns are Better than Radians (2022)"

beeforpork — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:31:07 +0000

Well, \tau vs \pi is a question of taste, but 1 vs. \tau (or \pi) is not. Because you don't get rid of these weird constants, because \pi (or \tau) is, as a fact, in the circumference and area of circles and in surface and volume of spheres, and in other places. There jus is a weird constant.

And for APIs, you could reasonably well have turns or radians or degrees or even percentage of turns, whatever -- it depend on the context what is 'better'. What's really missing, I think, is the support of units in programming languages (in the type system) so that you cannot mess up when invoking sin()/cos(), because you would be forced to provide a unit.

New comment by beeforpork in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

beeforpork — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:25:09 +0000

And the same holds for documentation about anything. Documentation is gone. Dead. Reference documentation, output from Doxygen or similar, and many other things that could be searched for hints on how to implement or generally do stuff. It's gone. When writing a simple Python script today and wondering about how an API for some library works, I ask AI, because there is no (findable) documentation anymore. (And yes, I usually still like to write it myself, but it's basically no difference: the AI writing that Python script would be the same point: docs are dead and gone.)

This is really scary and it is progressing fast.

New comment by beeforpork in "More German than many Germans"

beeforpork — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:31:27 +0000

Absolutely!

New comment by beeforpork in "More German than many Germans"

beeforpork — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:36:42 +0000

The driver is not allowed to open the door anywhere but at a bus stop, the company running the bus forbids it. Quite strictly, actually. I think it is mainly because of insurance things. It is the same in a traffic jam when you are on the bus and the next bus stop is just a few meters away, and the bus is stuck and nothing moves -- impatient people will get angry because they want to leave the bus, but the driver is just not allowed to open the door except when the bus has properly reached the next bus stop.

Some bus drivers do open the door on some such occasion, but they can really get into trouble if they are caught doing that.

New comment by beeforpork in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

beeforpork — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:15:32 +0000

We were outvibecounterexamplemaxxing them when suddenly, they reoutvibecounterexamplemaxxed us.

New comment by beeforpork in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

beeforpork — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:08:20 +0000

I must object. Because this is derivation, not composition. German is noteworthy for its long compositional word formations (though many other language are, too, e.g., Finnish). German can do derivation, too, but not significantly more than English (and the verb prefix 'out-' is hard to map into German in this case). For admiring derivation, you'd have to point to, e.g., Greenlandic instead (e.g. _iliorfigeqatigiissariaqaraluarput_ roughly 'they should work together' (from the Declaration of Human Rights)).

To be clear, I do like 'outcounterexampled' a lot!

New comment by beeforpork in "How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues"

beeforpork — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:06:58 +0000

Wasps, not bees.

(Sorry, I'm a bit of a nerd. But I am sure you can cope with that.)

New comment by beeforpork in "Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act"

beeforpork — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:06:38 +0000

Fair enough. And you are definitely better than them! :-) You are too kind to these people.