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New comment by froh in "Anthropic wants your thoughts on AI"

froh — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:07:07 +0000

it doesn't want mine, on a fresh free tier account.

New comment by froh in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

froh — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:52:53 +0000

> €157,680

outside germany the `,` reads as thousands-separator. may I offer you a `.` in exchange?

also that's gross, not net (Brutto/Netto) which is _painfully_ lower.

New comment by froh in "Huawei and Qualcomm announce broad patent license agreement"

froh — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:56:36 +0000

HUAWEI Mate 20 X 5G was launched in 2019, so what exactly are you referencing here?

New comment by froh in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

froh — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:00:07 +0000

will this be appealed at the EU level?

New comment by froh in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"

froh — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:17:31 +0000

now I'm confused: if sha-256 is only used for new repos (default) and sha-1 continues to work for sha-1 based remotes, so a git clone, git push just keeps sha-1, then what exactly is the remaining issue? to me this sounds like a perfect and user friendly migration strategy.

New comment by froh in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"

froh — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:13:19 +0000

no it's about the architecture and design: fossil enables coexistence of both hashes in one repo

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/hundredandone.md

27. Fossil allows both legacy SHA1 hashes and newer SHA3-256 hashes in the same repository.

New comment by froh in "Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan"

froh — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:21:35 +0000

swipe/glide typing?

New comment by froh in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

froh — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:53:12 +0000

Steinberger as in Emil Steinberger?? I don't get it. what's the reference?

New comment by froh in "Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++"

froh — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:09:54 +0000

do you intend to add sth like python bindings, especially for the AST and walker classes?

then Yantra would become great to parse well-known structured data from python at low-level speed.

New comment by froh in "Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++"

froh — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:06:45 +0000

this would be narrowing parsers down to programming languages. however parser generators are great to real quick parse structured data, too.

this is extra helpful if the parser generator also generates intuitive language bindings to, e.g. python or TS.

New comment by froh in "A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work"

froh — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:55:38 +0000

missing the point are we

when systems engineers through intelligent restructuring of low level data structures save 1 TB of ram for their company without loss of productivity that is unrelated to revenue and market but still improving the bottom line.

if FB puts strings shorter than 64 bytes not on the heap but into the string control data via a union, that's in the same category of saving costs without adding a single new feature.

New comment by froh in "37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it"

froh — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:44:24 +0000

yes! and there are things that are known and others that are fuzzy in the hive mind :-Do

so much fun, thanks a ton!

New comment by froh in "LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators"

froh — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:56:24 +0000

it takes longer because they started later.

mobilitY for parents with little children or people in wheelchairs was "not a priority"

it's not that NYC subway was a novelty isn't it?

New comment by froh in "LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators"

froh — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:54:25 +0000

I remember I extensively used Berlin public transport nearly 30y ago and was annoyed how you couldn't use it with a stroller because of the lack of "accessibility"

I then realized "accessibility" translates straight to: mobility with little children. which affects many many additional people, but it's rarely in the public discourse anywhere.

in Paris in 2019 I then saw parents with tiny light-weight sit-on micro scooters, as a creative work-around to the parental public mobility challenge.

but 2055? ooof.

New comment by froh in "The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security"

froh — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:24:51 +0000

TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories_(Peirce)

New comment by froh in "Waymo in Singapore"

froh — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:21:57 +0000

I'd also love to see Waymos more in the countryside: _there_ calling a cab is annoyingly expensive, financially impractical, while "granny" and "pops" are having a hard time driving around without help.

I have high hopes for a positive social impact of self-driving cars out there.

New comment by froh in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

froh — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:10:26 +0000

and deliberately so, as it would be infinitely hard to upgrade the kernel license.

alas, only GPL-3 gives the right to repair and modify the TV or car or refrigerator you own...

New comment by froh in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

froh — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:08:32 +0000

yes, exactly, that's the fliplside of it. the business loves GPL free embedded, gpl-3 was created to protect our freedom, the right to repair and modify, as far as GPL components are concerned. it was created as response to Tivo, who locked in their embedded system (a TV iirc).

the trend to give software mit or bsd licenses instead ead of GPL is concerning.

New comment by froh in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

froh — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:15:16 +0000

it's GPL free. which is good for embedded, the business side of it. like cars.

New comment by froh in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

froh — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:11:41 +0000

to enable GPL free embedded Ubuntu, field tested on all platforms (because it happens to be the default).