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New comment by ginko in "Nobel Disease"

ginko — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:27:27 +0000

"deliberately (created and escaped)" is very implausible yes. "(deliberately created) and escaped" not so much though.

New comment by ginko in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

ginko — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:09:17 +0000

That one I can't be too mad about. Better FIFA gets the profits instead of ticket scalpers.

New comment by ginko in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

ginko — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:54:00 +0000

Jesus isn’t European

New comment by ginko in "The Ever-Receding Pocket"

ginko — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:08:19 +0000

>It has the last master plate, and some photos of how it all looked on the last day. There is a photo of a technician sweeping up on presumably the last day before the plant was shut down. He looked distraught

There's a pretty good documentary showing the last day of linotype typesetting at the New York Times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGjFKs9bnU

New comment by ginko in "Perlin's Noise Algorithm (2023)"

ginko — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:41:32 +0000

Simplex noise is nice because it's more efficient to calculate, especially for larger dimensions but it has a noticeably different look to it so it's not a drop-in replacement.

New comment by ginko in "Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon"

ginko — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:36:41 +0000

Is it so hard to explain what the term "High-NA" is supposed to mean at the start of your article?

New comment by ginko in "France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027"

ginko — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:17:28 +0000

Transputers have nothing to do with quantum computing. They're completely classical computers.

New comment by ginko in "OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court"

ginko — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:20:53 +0000

If I search for "Open AI" on google right now the first search results are openai.com, chatgpt.com and the OpenAI wikipedia page. None of which are open AI.

New comment by ginko in "Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout"

ginko — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:14:20 +0000

The cosmopolitan capital of Tórshavn. Population 14k people.

New comment by ginko in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

ginko — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:05:14 +0000

Because then you have to add that you mean UTC since the time format looks like local time. With beats it's obvious from the formatting that it's internet time.

New comment by ginko in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

ginko — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:43:17 +0000

I almost think that one was a bit too early. Having a "universal" way to share time that's not timezone ambiguous would be pretty handy these days.

New comment by ginko in "Alternate Clock Designs and Time Systems"

ginko — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:33:47 +0000

There's for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_timekeepin...

New comment by ginko in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

ginko — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:57:04 +0000

You can't clean them without leaning dangerously outside for one.

New comment by ginko in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

ginko — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:33:43 +0000

Sliding windows are terrible though. Why would you want those?

New comment by ginko in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

ginko — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:30:51 +0000

The person doing the hiring would be criminally liable and probably go to prison. The corporation itself would at best pay a fine.

New comment by ginko in "The end of the AArch64 desktop experiment"

ginko — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:43:02 +0000

I wonder if a source-based distro like Gentoo would have made OP's life slightly easier. Portage for instance should allow you to maintain a set of patches to automatically apply when you update your kernel. Those flatpak problems also shouldn't exist there.

New comment by ginko in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

ginko — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:53:46 +0000

>Our desktop OSes are just incompatible with running untrusted software, and you're gonna want to do that.

So you're saying people should only use walled garden closed source OSes? Sounds like tyranny to me.

New comment by ginko in "The Doorman's Fallacy in action"

ginko — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:06:52 +0000

>Is there any part of the world you can have a six top with individual checks when you didn't tell them up front to split the bill?

Not uncommon here in Norway. I had payday beers with well over ten people where there was a shared tab with people paying for their stuff as they leave.

New comment by ginko in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

ginko — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:08:37 +0000

IBM regularly announces silicon breakthroughs like this but I'm not aware of those ever becoming products. Is IBM mainly in the business of licensing their technology to big silicon manufacturers with stuff like this? Is it just marketing for their consulting business?

New comment by ginko in "Rhombus Language 1.0"

ginko — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:27:54 +0000

>This is literally not a problem. All Python projects use 4-space indentation.

Tell that to the one team at my old workplace that used spaces for all their scripts.

Like I said it’s a stupid source of errors that can be mitigated through style guides and tooling but it’s still a source of errors.