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New comment by frutiger in "Baby's Second Garbage Collector"

frutiger — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:29:55 +0000

I wanted to read this but I couldn’t because of all the allusions in the article that distracted me from the points the author was trying to make.

New comment by frutiger in "Seed of Might color correction process (2023) [pdf]"

frutiger — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:13:37 +0000

Maybe that’s no coincidence as the German word braun means the same as the English word brown.

New comment by frutiger in "Block spent $68M on a company offsite in September 2025"

frutiger — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:48:47 +0000

Bloomberg Engineering

New comment by frutiger in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

frutiger — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:56:49 +0000

Most mechanical watches unwind smoothly, ticks are typically due to a powered quartz crystal.

New comment by frutiger in "There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)"

frutiger — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:57:07 +0000

They did so well, they lived to tell the tale. Or squawked.

New comment by frutiger in "1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico"

frutiger — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:15:45 +0000

There is no such thing as “pure X” when it comes to organisms.

New comment by frutiger in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

frutiger — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:12:23 +0000

These lenders will want some interest. The collateral is only useful if he defaults. If the collateral generates realized gains then those are taxed.

New comment by frutiger in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

frutiger — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:21:00 +0000

I know. I would still be impressed if Bezos’s w-2 income was below $400k.

Edit: also you need to pay the loan back, and the income to pay it back is taxable. You can die with an outstanding loan, but i’m sure bezos lenders will structure the loan to make sure they get most of their money back.

New comment by frutiger in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

frutiger — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:51:15 +0000

The child tax credit starts tapering off if your adjusted gross income is more than $200k single ($400k joint). If Bezos is reporting less than that due to other deductions then that’s truly impressive.

New comment by frutiger in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

frutiger — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:03:51 +0000

The answer was almost certainly generated by an LLM.

New comment by frutiger in "The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets"

frutiger — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:00:30 +0000

Excalidraw

New comment by frutiger in "Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark"

frutiger — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:21:42 +0000

Also, amusingly, France is most definitively in Western Europe, so I’m a bit confused about GP’s link between Eastern Europe and “go look up this French word”.

New comment by frutiger in "Eat Real Food"

frutiger — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:39:06 +0000

Yes I understand bioavailability etc. My point is that it’s nothing to do with how processed something is.

New comment by frutiger in "Eat Real Food"

frutiger — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:51:23 +0000

People who complain about “processed foods” generally have a basic misunderstanding of chemical/biochemical processes and energy gradients or activation energies.

Ultimately, everything is highly processed or we’d be eating rocks. The magnificent manufacturing line in animal or even plant cells is one of the most processed things at the finest molecular level that we know!

New comment by frutiger in "Eat Real Food"

frutiger — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:46:57 +0000

Scientists have never really had that much influence. See: high priests, religion, politics, &c.

New comment by frutiger in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

frutiger — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:18:48 +0000

How long has your barber been cutting hair?

New comment by frutiger in "The most famous transcendental numbers"

frutiger — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:38:15 +0000

I think the elements of the base need to be enumerable (proof needed but it feels natural), and transcendental numbers are not enumerable (proof also needed).

New comment by frutiger in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

frutiger — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:44:44 +0000

Most of the Amazon delivery trucks I see are big trucks with Ryder on the side or electric cargo bikes with Prime on the side.

This is in Manhattan mostly below 60th St. though, that might be the difference?

New comment by frutiger in "Craft software that makes people feel something"

frutiger — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:36:23 +0000

He started writing his stories long before he was a Professor. It was while he was a young man fighting in the First World War.

New comment by frutiger in "Distributed ID formats are architectural commitments, not just data types"

frutiger — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:10:11 +0000

> ID formats aren’t just formats. They’re commitments.

Reading direct LLM output is highly cringeworthy.