Hacker News: ejolto

New comment by ejolto in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

ejolto — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:40:53 +0000

There is a big difference, because I understand how those transistors produce a picture on a screen, I don’t understand how LLMs do what they do. The difference is so big that the comparison is useless.

New comment by ejolto in "2025 was the third hottest year on record"

ejolto — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:12:43 +0000

What is alarmist about it? It’s just a fact.

New comment by ejolto in "List of individual trees"

ejolto — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:59:41 +0000

I’m here to let you know you are wrong.

I made an anonymous edit to the Wikipedia page of one of Hemingways short stories three years ago, and my edit is still there.

New comment by ejolto in "Shinigami the Reaper"

ejolto — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:45:18 +0000

I was wondering why something so mean, basically bullying this guy, was on the front page of hacker news. Glad I skipped to the bottom and read the apology.

New comment by ejolto in "Denmark shuts multiple airports, more unidentified drones spotted"

ejolto — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:53:36 +0000

The arrest in Oslo were a married couple from Signapore in their 60s. The man was fined and 8000 NOK for admitting to flying the drone and might get deported. They were flying in central Oslo, and it seems unrelated to the drones in Denmark.

There were also unconfirmed sightings of drones around the airport in Oslo. The director of police states that "It is still unclear what was observed. There are conflicting interpretations of the observations that were made".

New comment by ejolto in "Themis (European Reusable Rocket) is assembled on launch pad"

ejolto — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:08:29 +0000

The Esrange launchpad is more than 50 km from the Kiruna iron mine, which is 4km long, 80m thick and 2km deep.

New comment by ejolto in "Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety"

ejolto — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:37:23 +0000

The 1968 "Hong Kong flu" had a similar case fatality rate and they certainly noticed that.

New comment by ejolto in "Where did the false "equal transit-time" explanation of lift originate from?"

ejolto — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:15:32 +0000

But the air does move faster above the wing without joining back up with the air moving below the wing, see the video jgord shared https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-wings-really-work

New comment by ejolto in "'I had no idea being a social drinker would damage my liver by 31'"

ejolto — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:58:50 +0000

It also says that two large glasses of wine in one sitting is a binge for women.

New comment by ejolto in "Yes, we did discover the Higgs"

ejolto — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:38:53 +0000

No it would mean the standard model is wrong and there would be more to discover.

New comment by ejolto in "Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]"

ejolto — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 07:11:28 +0000

You're in luck because the video is also available in the form of a research paper http://tom7.org/papers/murphy2022harder.pdf

New comment by ejolto in "CamelCase vs underscores: Scientific showdown (2011)"

ejolto — Tue, 21 May 2024 11:24:02 +0000

Classical Latin used all caps no spaces, so rather than caught on we moved away from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua

New comment by ejolto in "Surgeons transplant pig kidney into a patient"

ejolto — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:30:27 +0000

I'm curious, when did you think patients had to take immunosuppressants?

New comment by ejolto in "Florida Just Banned Lab-Grown Meat. I Tried to Find Out Why"

ejolto — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:33:37 +0000

> Thank you. 17% cancer risk per 100g daily red meat is an alarming correlation.

It is an increase of 17%, not 17% cancer risk.

1.51% cumulative risk of colon cancer among men age 0–74 years, and a 1.12% risk among women. [0]

If you eat 100g red meat daily you increase that risk to ~1.7667% for men and ~1.3104% for women.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6791134/

New comment by ejolto in "A visual comparison of different national layouts on a computer keyboard (2019)"

ejolto — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:46:09 +0000

You can use US international layout on an ISO keyboard, then you get is access to all the types of parenthesis while keeping the vertical enter. That's what I do, it doesn't matter what lettes are on the key caps.

New comment by ejolto in "Grass makes better ethanol than corn does (2008)"

ejolto — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:08:18 +0000

You need to mine in order to produce solar power as well. If you take mining into account solar power uses more than 73 times land than nuclear per MWh produced[0]

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source, Numbers from UNECE 2021

New comment by ejolto in "What to do about aggressive moose"

ejolto — Wed, 31 May 2023 07:52:10 +0000

There are moose in Northern Europe and Siberia as well.

New comment by ejolto in "Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum"

ejolto — Thu, 11 May 2023 06:49:04 +0000

> If that last thought intrigues you, you might enjoy reading Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by P.D. Ouspensky.

Also Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman, a collection of short stories where each story is a universe where time functions differently than in our own.

New comment by ejolto in "The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"

ejolto — Tue, 02 May 2023 10:41:52 +0000

Neat! will this finally replace the outdated Linux Device Drivers Third Edition as the de-facto standard reference book for building kernel modules?

https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

New comment by ejolto in "916 Days of Emacs"

ejolto — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:49:36 +0000

Lots of vim users do that too, in fact the ADM-3A terminal vi was written on had ctrl where caps-lock is now and escape where tab is.