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New comment by esquivalience in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

esquivalience — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:18:11 +0000

I totally disagree with this! I think it's very important for experts to be able to adapt to their opinions based on evidence.

New comment by esquivalience in "A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)"

esquivalience — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:19:39 +0000

> Your writings made me wonder in which discipline you got your doctor’s degree.

Is this a horrible sideswipe or do people think it was intended frankly?

New comment by esquivalience in "I won a championship that doesn't exist"

esquivalience — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:57:29 +0000

The author has been using parenthetical comments like that since at least 2017, judging by a review of old posts on that site.

New comment by esquivalience in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

esquivalience — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:58:54 +0000

As in 'please', from 'if you please'?

New comment by esquivalience in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

esquivalience — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:23:56 +0000

> I work with senior citizens and tried to explain how to parse the domain in the URL by looking for the first forward "/" after the "https://" and then scan backwards but they find that mental algorithm confusing and those instructions don't stick.

Might try explaining it this way?

It works the same way as a postal address. The first part before `/` is the envelope: by analogy it runs streetaddress.city.country.

You can give a name to your house, or add an apartment to the front - but that doesn't change the most significant part.

New comment by esquivalience in "Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]"

esquivalience — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:28:16 +0000

I'd pay to cook with WiFi. Just imagine the signal strength!

New comment by esquivalience in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

esquivalience — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:08:43 +0000

Language: Metallica lyrics (https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=metallica+lyrics)

Input:

    happy birthday. Did you get any nice presents? It's nice to see you.

Output:

    Another year decays!
    Darkness falls upon your day!
    What offerings did you seize from the void?
    The ritual of your birth is complete!
    I behold your face once more!
    YEAH!

New comment by esquivalience in "Number Research Inc"

esquivalience — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:02:52 +0000

Not according to https://numberresearch.xyz/info

    most searched:

    69 29504 searches
    67 13640 searches

edit: ...presumably due to the HN effect, 69 has jumped up to ~33k while 67 stagnates at ~13k!

New comment by esquivalience in "Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows"

esquivalience — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:32:07 +0000

There are no units of exercise and no units of depression either.

In my opinion the best measure of exercise is perceived effort. So while you're asking for objective answers, I think a lot of this is inherently subjective.

The benchmark you're asking for is also ill-defined. For example: How frequently to be as effective as what type and what frequency of therapy?

New comment by esquivalience in "Animated Knots"

esquivalience — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:35:39 +0000

This is a big part of whatmade me take up knitting as a hobby – one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done.

New comment by esquivalience in "Animated Knots"

esquivalience — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:33:32 +0000

As an avid knitter, I can confirm it really is. In practice there might be multiple knots as you change balls of yarn for example but topologically each sweater is just a very fancy knot.

In fact, the words are etymologically linked, they’re really just the same word! See https://www.etymonline.com/word/knit

> knit(v.)

> Old English cnyttan "to tie with a knot, bind together, fasten by tying," related to Old Norse knytja "bind together, form into a knot," Middle Low German knütten "to tie, knot," Old English cnotta "a knot," from Proto-Germanic knuttjan, from stem knutt-. Of brows, late 14c. Intransitive meaning "do knitting, weave by looping or knotting a continuous thread" (especially in reference to plain stitch) is from 1520s.

New comment by esquivalience in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

esquivalience — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:10:46 +0000

Death, and some science. That's it?

New comment by esquivalience in "UK government launches fuel forecourt price API"

esquivalience — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:19:36 +0000

Since paracetamol interacts with alcohol,there may be more rationality than first thought!

New comment by esquivalience in "Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot"

esquivalience — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:37:15 +0000

According to the README, Anthropic itself is one of the contributors to this project.

New comment by esquivalience in "Viking Ship Museum in Denmark announces the discovery of the largest cog"

esquivalience — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:22:02 +0000

But according to the article and other sources, it strictly is the biggest cog. Why wouldn't it be right for them to announce it that way?

New comment by esquivalience in "Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons"

esquivalience — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:48:09 +0000

Great advice thanks, and a new technique to learn too. When making walking sticks I usually go to 1200 grit, or 2500 where finish is really important. Finishing is my favourite part of the job, similar to your point about epoxy (why would you want to interface with a layer of plastic?)

New comment by esquivalience in "Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons"

esquivalience — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:41:20 +0000

It's still out there! It only _seems_ distant.

New comment by esquivalience in "Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons"

esquivalience — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:04:16 +0000

> Which finally gets to my point: What are the allergic affects of the tree, its raw sap, the liquid lacquer, and maybe for hypersenstive/reactive urushiol allergies, the finished lacquer?

The Wood Database can be a useful practical site for this sort of thing. I found [0], a page for a different wood which is said to contain the same allergen:

> The sap contains urushiol (the same allergen found in Poison Ivy), and can still be irritating to some sensitized individuals even after the wood has been dried, and sap can also seep through some wood finishes to the surface of the wood.

Same as poison ivy? Count me out if true: I react badly.

[0] https://www.wood-database.com/rengas/

New comment by esquivalience in "Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons"

esquivalience — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:00:41 +0000

Alin (OP), what a wonderful article. I've had the same problem and had given up experimenting for similar reasons to you. I'm now thinking to finish the cup I've half carved and have sitting on the shelf in the shed. Thanks!

Your shop looks great too. Others might enjoy folowing the link buried towards the bottom of the article.

New comment by esquivalience in "Sacrificing accessibility for not getting web scraped"

esquivalience — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:26:24 +0000

This is fairly highly accurate (from a skim read, close to but not quite 100%). The article describes fooling ChatGPT with a caeser cipher, but not a full test of the obfuscation in-practice.