Hacker News: fastasucan

New comment by fastasucan in "Midjourney Medical"

fastasucan — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:07:11 +0000

This backpressure is even with cheaper devices such as x-rays etc.

New comment by fastasucan in "Midjourney Medical"

fastasucan — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:06:25 +0000

Because if a "condition" doesn't impact you, will it help to be aware of it? Over treatment can be a real problem. You dont want to take medisine you dont need, or spend much time in a hospital if there is no net positive outcome.

New comment by fastasucan in "New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times"

fastasucan — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:49:44 +0000

This cancer is a pain. My father was extremely lucky, and was diagnosed early. Next up was months of chemo that left him to be a shell of himself. Then he could be operated. They removed parts of his stomach, his spleen and duodenum. And his whole pancreas.

Complications after his surgery meant he had two more. He is now, three weeks after the first operation learning to walk again. It will be an additional week or two untill he can eat. (Without the complication he would have been walking and eating two weeks after the first operation). Oh and he is a diabetic now, since they removed his pancreas.

Just crossing my fingers that he will get out of the hospital without any more complications, and adapt to the new life.

New comment by fastasucan in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

fastasucan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:37:09 +0000

Lo and behold*

Git folders doesn't go well with onedrive.

New comment by fastasucan in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

fastasucan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:59:45 +0000

That depends on your needs and goals. Super strict type checking might not be the most important feature.

Its like saying "if you want a car that is a bit sporty, wouldn't it be best to buy a Lamborghini??

New comment by fastasucan in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

fastasucan — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:15:58 +0000

No, professors mark their own exams.

New comment by fastasucan in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

fastasucan — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:13:28 +0000

>The students at Scandinavian universities are selected to a degree, but represent a far broader range of the distribution and correspondingly there's a broader range of exam results.

I disagree with that, it is common knowledge that these students will get A's if they do a semester in the US.

New comment by fastasucan in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

fastasucan — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:33:21 +0000

If you are very present on slack, ofcourse you dont feel that you are interruped.

New comment by fastasucan in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

fastasucan — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:27:39 +0000

Culture is a lot more than translated language.

New comment by fastasucan in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

fastasucan — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:25:14 +0000

Other better models cant use the training data this model have...

New comment by fastasucan in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

fastasucan — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:24:07 +0000

There is a lot more to it than literal translations. Even if an american can talk Norwegian it doesn't mean that they get the cultural context right.

"Oh yeah after you drive 2 hours home from work your wife and kid will greet you with some delicious pie" doesnt work so well even if its in Norwegian.

New comment by fastasucan in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

fastasucan — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:17:15 +0000

>makes sense to have one country specialize in producing it, and the rest just consume

Oh ok then, just finnish culture for you then.

New comment by fastasucan in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

fastasucan — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:21:20 +0000

> in both major dialects

Nynorsk and bokmål is not dialects but variants of written Norwegian.

New comment by fastasucan in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

fastasucan — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:19:15 +0000

The fund is specifically mandated to not invest inside Norway to avoid making an enormous bubble and sky high inflation.

New comment by fastasucan in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

fastasucan — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:34:27 +0000

The last three years more or less none of my students have bought the textbook for the subject. That is pretty mind blowing. In turn they expect a complete textbook from my lecture notes, which isn't possible.

I get that textbooks are getting more expensive though.

New comment by fastasucan in "Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol"

fastasucan — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:43:41 +0000

Just find the one that is right for you.

New comment by fastasucan in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

fastasucan — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:40:08 +0000

My university also had their own system before - what was especially great with that system was that it was all open. Every course had its own webpage, where you first chose which year/semester you were interested in ans then you got all the course information for that year, all the assignments and the exam if it were from a previous year.

It made it so much easier if you wanted to know more about a course before taking it, so much easier to find extra practise materials (last years assignments and exam etc).

Now its all in Canvas and only reachable for those who are enrolled at the course.

New comment by fastasucan in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

fastasucan — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:22:34 +0000

You cant really do that in lots of cases. What grounds the grade is from is in many cases set in stone.

New comment by fastasucan in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

fastasucan — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:10:55 +0000

Who is doing the work though, the student, chatgpt or claude?

New comment by fastasucan in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

fastasucan — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:05:14 +0000

Exactly. We all laughed at the cases where productivity was measured in lines of code. But now the whole world somehow optimize for it.