Hacker News: fastasucan

New comment by fastasucan in "Show HN: Paper – A Journaling CLI for Developers"

fastasucan — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:35:35 +0000

If people want an open source version of this, jrnl is great.

New comment by fastasucan in "Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators"

fastasucan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:22:21 +0000

I dont get why people here are so livid that people like to have a tidy desk and/or tidy up before photographing their desk.

Many people also like to tidy up their home a bit before they receive guests or groom themselves before going out for the night. No reason to judge them.

New comment by fastasucan in "Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators"

fastasucan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:15:03 +0000

>NOT A DIG AT THESE PEOPLE

This whole comment reads as a dig against these people. They like to have it tidy/or they like to tidy up before photographing their desk.

New comment by fastasucan in "Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck"

fastasucan — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:01:20 +0000

We have some viking ships that are older than the Vasa.

New comment by fastasucan in "U.S. science is in chaos"

fastasucan — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:16:20 +0000

>Stuff only a few people world wide know about.

Sounds like a good thing to try to increase diversity and recruitment.

New comment by fastasucan in "DuckDB Internals Part 1"

fastasucan — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:14:26 +0000

>DuckDB is amazing for any sort of fast data analysis when the data is small enough that it can fit on your laptop

It also works great for data that doesn't fit on my laptop.

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.