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New comment by deruta in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

deruta — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:42:33 +0000

When you're multilingual, you'd switch between languages on the fly, mid-sentence even, just because the words in other language come to your mind quicker, seem to better match nuances, etc.

New comment by deruta in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

deruta — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:25:58 +0000

> Becoming aware of typography practices will drive you insane.

And try to use the em-dash properly these days!

New comment by deruta in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

deruta — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:04:59 +0000

It's decent. Treatment of franchisees, on the other hand...

New comment by deruta in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"

deruta — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:50:59 +0000

And alliteration for extra cool.

New comment by deruta in "Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018)"

deruta — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:22:26 +0000

As I see it, the name fits perfectly. If the superellipse is a square at n -> inf and a circle at n = 2, then in-between... welp, a squircle.

New comment by deruta in "Calculator Forensics (2002)"

deruta — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:49:39 +0000

I was with you until I remembered the default unit for angles in calculators is degrees, not radians.

New comment by deruta in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

deruta — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:31:27 +0000

I'm honestly out of the loop, what are they doing?

New comment by deruta in "Calling Their Bluff"

deruta — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:13:58 +0000

I've, in turn, heard much praise for how Estonia is doing it.

New comment by deruta in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

deruta — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:02:20 +0000

Scunthorpe problem seems to be showing in the latter case.

New comment by deruta in "Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub"

deruta — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:03:16 +0000

I was involved in the 99,999th and the 100,000th one in my FQA days.

We were being onboarded, they were just for demo and were promptly deleted. No one cared about the Cool Numbers.

New comment by deruta in "Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate"

deruta — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:05:05 +0000

Don't they any way?

New comment by deruta in "Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from?"

deruta — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:20:44 +0000

And a proof by "counting something":

1 + 2 + ... + n = n(n+1)/2

2 divides n(n+1), n(n+1) = 2m

7 * n^3 + n =

2*(3*n^3 + n) + n^3 - n =

2*(3*n^3 + n) + n(n+1)(n-1) =

2*(3*n^3 + n + m(n-1))

New comment by deruta in "1/0 = 0 (2018)"

deruta — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 08:18:01 +0000

I'm trying to have fun continuing this with the reals, and I'm feeling dizzy.

New comment by deruta in "Microsoft Teams with Startup Anduril on Army Combat Goggle System"

deruta — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:45:40 +0000

Headlines Register Prone To Garden Path Sentences

New comment by deruta in "Y combinator codex (2021)"

deruta — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:17:27 +0000

Congrats on finding time! Maybe this will push me to get back to my nib stash, ha.

Got any experience with adapting fountain pen inks for calligraphy?

New comment by deruta in "Sorry, wrong number"

deruta — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:25:25 +0000

The East/West names for the branches mean "eastern branch/western branch", they both still are pretty much N/S-bound

New comment by deruta in "Emoji History: The Missing Years"

deruta — Sun, 12 May 2024 12:36:52 +0000

I concur. Consider TFA. The symbols are not converted to from ASCII smileys and are used like an extension of the charset. Conversely, I remember web chatrooms in the mid-00s, where a colon-paren would always be converted to the service's pallette's rendition of an emoticon, pretty color and 3D to beat.

Plus, there's a question of how people use them, but that distinction I think came later

New comment by deruta in "Emoji History: The Missing Years"

deruta — Sun, 12 May 2024 12:26:21 +0000

Isn't it?! There's plenty of talking about how "we're regressing to hieroglyphs", but that doesn't capture the nuance in usage of emojis in different languages.

Your example expands well to old-school emoticons. Where I live, an "xD" serves as a laugh and is used in rather general way. Meanwhile in the Anglosphere it's stereotypically associated with specific demographics

New comment by deruta in "TheDesk desktop environment"

deruta — Tue, 07 May 2024 08:47:13 +0000

Multiple desktop shell sessions per user. Oh yeah, that would rock

New comment by deruta in "Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences"

deruta — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:39:59 +0000

Per a nitty exploitable quote, do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

You can generalize addition to semigroups but that's not a point, eh?