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New comment by grenoire in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

grenoire — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:29:27 +0000

I love this movie so much it's _unreal_. What an experience, every single time.

And each time I see an article like this, I simply marvel at the immense love for art and life it has. What an incredibly talented crew, what product of mastery and care.

New comment by grenoire in "ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker"

grenoire — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:05:01 +0000

Same, I sold at the peak. Don't hold on to your winners for too long, the stock price is not entirely a function of the company's financial success. A lot of it is just on whims and cycles.

New comment by grenoire in "OpenTTD"

grenoire — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 23:44:03 +0000

There are quite a lot of mods (called NewGRFs), ones like FIRS make the game a lot more complex and challenging by making the economy more involved. There are other ways to increase the difficulty with mods, or just with AI players. I agree that the base game can lead to Too Much Money very quickly, which does feel pointless quickly.

New comment by grenoire in "Show HN: I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it"

grenoire — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:58:44 +0000

I see that he's getting downvoted, but there are minor errors indeed. Problem 31 (https://teachyourselfmath.app/problem?id=31) doesn't list the problem inputs, for example.

New comment by grenoire in "Python, C, Assembly – Faster Cosine Similarity"

grenoire — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:25:13 +0000

How the sausage gets made is not much of a problem for many.

New comment by grenoire in "Retinal cells that help stabilize our world view"

grenoire — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 22:16:44 +0000

People think that the brain is like a micromanager dealing with all parts of the body manually, but it seems like various levels of 'intelligence' in our body is very much decentralised.

New comment by grenoire in "Can't sign in with FIDO2 key on office.com"

grenoire — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 21:57:51 +0000

Do these guys run integration tests of any kind? Makes it easy to assume malice in breaking fundamental features.

New comment by grenoire in "Heron's Horse [video]"

grenoire — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:34:31 +0000

Despite seeing it work at first I didn't even register my amazement until I saw it on the horse model. I was just thinking, oh a cool knife sharpener..?

New comment by grenoire in "Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery validated at 160 Wh/kg"

grenoire — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:56:39 +0000

Lithium is cheap because the externalities of the environmental damage it causes is not accounted for in the pricing. It's a highly exploitative resource which has destructive impacts on local bacterial ecosystems, human communities, and water availability.

Some articles, if you are interested:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09626... https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/fac...

It's not even comparable to sodium, which is abundant practically everywhere.

New comment by grenoire in "Who uses Fabien Sanglard's website template ?"

grenoire — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:41:03 +0000

It's alright but it's not 'appetizing,' if you know what I mean. I look at the list of posts and it's just a wall of black scribbles. Tagging them and spacing it out a little will make it easier to catch people's attention.

New comment by grenoire in "Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe"

grenoire — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:30:41 +0000

Would it also be possible to get the thirst traps and booty models off my feed too? Just like I get some control over my ad preferences and tags, it'd be very handy to get some feed controls in place.

New comment by grenoire in "They can and will ruin everything you love"

grenoire — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:09:34 +0000

> At Mondragon, there are agreed-upon wage ratios between executive work and field or factory work which earns a minimum wage. > These comparatively low wages can make it very difficult to recruit managers from investor-owned firms.

Wow, actually brilliant idea to keep out the nasty investor-owned firms away!

New comment by grenoire in "Advent of Code 2023's new AI/LLM Policy"

grenoire — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:27:06 +0000

There's a distinction between the short-term economic incentives of using AI (work gets done quicker, more code gets written, output is created faster) versus the long-term personal incentives of not using AI early on. I believe mathematics and various natural sciences benefit from having a complete understanding of the tools, their inner workings, and their potential use-cases within your head. I think programming is similar too. If you are already a skilled programmer who is able to construct complex-and-reliable (engineering incentives) systems with great accuracy and reliability, then AI will add speed to your conquests. However, if you are a beginner who is not clear on what fits where, and how a canoe is built before a cargo ship, then AI will hinder the quality of your work, and eventually put you out of a job because you're just a mere puppet to the tool.

New comment by grenoire in "Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located"

grenoire — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 08:38:14 +0000

When you give people the freedom to use the KV store as they wish, you inevitably run into a meta-problem whereby the way they write their data structures in to the KV store is varied across applications. I don't know if you could standardise this structure beyond enforcing applications to use an OS-assigned private store, but I don't see how that would work with portable executables etc.

I suppose you'd need to be very opinionated for it to work, but people will still bodge it to make it work with their needs that your system doesn't natively satisfy (people putting JSON strings in the values, for example).

New comment by grenoire in "OpenAI Employee: GPT-4 has been static since March"

grenoire — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:42:31 +0000

Is there a risk of it hallucinating what new features could do instead of basing information on having seen them before?

New comment by grenoire in "World Capitals Voronoi (2014)"

grenoire — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:39:47 +0000

Wonderful visualisation, always wondered this one. I wish the nodes had the names of the capitals.

New comment by grenoire in "FBI seizes bot shop ‘Genesis Market’ amid arrests targeting operators, suppliers"

grenoire — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 21:55:48 +0000

Looks almost like they're pretending to have been seized for an April Fool's joke.

New comment by grenoire in "Thinking hard makes the brain tired"

grenoire — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:27:44 +0000

I think of sleep, naps, showers, walks as just giving my brain the rest to do some garbage collection (and set SP to 0).

New comment by grenoire in "Flecs – A fast entity component system for C and C++"

grenoire — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:26:25 +0000

To any budding game developers, my advice would be to not rush into ECS and try to accomplish your goals with structs and loops first and understand the fundamentals of how a video game 'works' under the hood.

Your game will get done if you work on it, not necessarily if you pick ECS!

New comment by grenoire in "Thinking hard makes the brain tired"

grenoire — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 12:56:39 +0000

Our brain simply seems to have a lot of cache misses and bad garbage collection.