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New comment by drtournier in "Not buying another Kindle"

drtournier — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:23:37 +0000

Always loved to have an e-ink reader but the walled gardens always made it so hard. Until I bought the xteink x4, as skeptical as I could be. What a great little device. https://www.xteink.com/products/xteink-x4

New comment by drtournier in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

drtournier — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:05:39 +0000

$> telnet tsunami.thebigwave.net

The one and only. Still online to my surprise.

New comment by drtournier in "Python is not a great language for data science"

drtournier — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:38:15 +0000

JavaScript is not a great language for web development either, yet…

New comment by drtournier in "Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers"

drtournier — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:35:55 +0000

OP thank you for this generous text. I would add that these tips are amazing for people with post-covid/long-covid/brain-fog too

New comment by drtournier in "The Mainframe Six (2022)"

drtournier — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:33:27 +0000

I just discovered that 90% of all credit card activity still rely on mainframes https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/mainfram...

New comment by drtournier in "Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB""

drtournier — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:08:13 +0000

New comment by drtournier in "Garmin Forerunner stuck cycling through triangle screen"

drtournier — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:57:37 +0000

Thank goodness it is a bug. For a second, I thought I was on the new squid game.

New comment by drtournier in "Show HN: Marmite: Zero Config Static Site Generator written in Rust"

drtournier — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:27:59 +0000

And it worked. Congrats for reaching Front Page, Bruno!

New comment by drtournier in "[dead]"

drtournier — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:30:10 +0000

This article contains potentially harmful advice. I would never expose my eyes to direct sunlight - The risk of permanent retinal damage is insanely high, even if you gaze at the sun for a few seconds straight.

New comment by drtournier in "Apache Zeppelin"

drtournier — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:11:10 +0000

I was an user of zeppelin for a couple of years (v0.7-0.8), we used it to run Scala Spark and the UI has a lot of bells and whistles to make it easier to use Spark, display spark dataframes and simple dataviz features out-of-the-box. It is a bit relatable to the notebook experience you would have in databricks.

New comment by drtournier in "Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)"

drtournier — Fri, 17 May 2024 12:01:35 +0000

https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/1791241244468806117

New comment by drtournier in "The Lost Worlds of Telnet (2019)"

drtournier — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:24:47 +0000

$>telnet tsunami.thebigwave.net

New comment by drtournier in "High coffee consumption, brain volume and risk of dementia and stroke"

drtournier — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:58:02 +0000

Coffee and tobacco consumption is a known correlation (one of many refs https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158991/). Curious to see if authors considered that, as tobacco is one of the main aggressors of vascular tissue, which causes dementia in the long run.

EDIT 1: Just in time, UK Biobank (almost 500.000 people) study pointing to increased longevity with coffee consumers, an interesting controversy that just doesn't fit with their smaller study conclusion (although overall longevity is a different outcome, you would expect to find more dementia in older people) https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/coffee-lo...

New comment by drtournier in "How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer"

drtournier — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 19:07:47 +0000

Our case took around 14 months for the EB-1 from the first call to lawyer to the green card in our mailbox.

New comment by drtournier in "How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer"

drtournier — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:42:58 +0000

Glad you made it OP, congrats! As an immigrant in the US I went through the "Extraordinary Ability" path and the process was a journey of pain and anxiety. Many roundabouts with a lawyer that promised me expertise in the process and it ended up with a NOID (Notice of Intention to Deny - something like that) from USCIS. My wife and I had to study the USCIS manual page by page and re-wrote almost all documentation from the lawyer. It wasn't easy but we made it.

New comment by drtournier in "Beyond "Abolish the FDA""

drtournier — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 12:06:13 +0000

Just read two paragraphs and sounded like someone asked ChatGPT to write this thing as a Joe Rogan podcast.

New comment by drtournier in "SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle"

drtournier — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:58:24 +0000

https://xkcd.com/2347/

New comment by drtournier in "A BERT for laptops, from scratch"

drtournier — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 21:42:35 +0000

This is awesome. Long time I wanted to pre-train a language model in Brazilian Portuguese and just got a 24GB 3090. This is the perfect timing. Thank you for sharing your notebook.

New comment by drtournier in "MK-1"

drtournier — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 22:30:09 +0000

MKML == abstractions and wrappers for GGML?

Easy-to-call 988 Suicide help hotline gets a spike in calls for help

drtournier — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:09:25 +0000

Article URL: https://text.npr.org/1149202586

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34401386

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