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New comment by hidroto in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

hidroto — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:40:49 +0000

all right let me buy one of your kidneys, after all you only need one.

New comment by hidroto in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

hidroto — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:27:06 +0000

being skeptical and determining the truth takes a lot of work. I fear that we may just refuse to wade through all the lies and just accept a enforced willful ignorance.

New comment by hidroto in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

hidroto — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:29:39 +0000

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

New comment by hidroto in "How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]"

hidroto — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:44:34 +0000

It has been that way for a while now. I see Veritasium video titles and thumbnails change quite often, it can be quite annoying as it sometimes gives the appearance of it being a whole new video.

A/B testing a title feels wrong to me, its almost as bad as A/B testing a UUID. Just pick a title and stick to it unless you need to fix a factual error.

New comment by hidroto in "Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better"

hidroto — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:06:46 +0000

would it not just produce 'b/c'? assuming 'b/c' is an existent file path

what else could you justify it doing?

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

hidroto — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:52:01 +0000

Thanks for the correction. It seems that all the layman’s explanations on Galois theory i have seen have been simplified to the point of being technically wrong, as well as underselling it.

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

hidroto — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:09:35 +0000

I am no mathematician, but i think you may be overstating Galois result. it says that you cant write a single closed form expression for the roots of any quintic using only (+,-,*,/,nth roots). This does not necessarily stop you from expressing each root individually with the standard algebraic operations.

New comment by hidroto in "Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline"

hidroto — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:44:23 +0000

isnt most of the advantage of soap is that it gets the germs off your skin and washes them down the drain. the soap does not have to kill them to work.

New comment by hidroto in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

hidroto — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:41:26 +0000

i wonder how sensitive your equipment would need to be to read it from the back scatter off the interstellar medium.

New comment by hidroto in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

hidroto — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:41:43 +0000

unobtainium predates Avatar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

and at least that exposition makes more sense then the "fountain of youth brain juice" in the sequel, when the humans can literally reincarnate themselves without having to cross interstellar space to do it.

New comment by hidroto in "An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions"

hidroto — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:06:20 +0000

a collision can send debris into an orbit with a higher eccentricity. these orbits may not last very long as they would also have a lower perigee.

New comment by hidroto in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

hidroto — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:12:26 +0000

> Like if one of the things you have to do is claim to the other device that you’re 2.1 would that get you in trouble?

nintendo tried that with the gameboy. games had to have a copy of the nintendo logo in them. i dont think it was ever tested in court though.

New comment by hidroto in "The twin probes just launched toward Mars have an Easter egg on board"

hidroto — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:22:56 +0000

To an archeologist both artifacts are worth having, just look at Pompeii the frescoes tell you alot but the graffiti on the sides of the buildings tells you something as well.

New comment by hidroto in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

hidroto — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:21:25 +0000

i use the rss feed of the channels i am subscribed to and download the videos i want to watch with yt-dlp. i may browse the homepage every so often but i just copy the links and download them.

New comment by hidroto in "The Other Linux Logo"

hidroto — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:28:56 +0000

looks like a bottle top opener to me, in fact i think it would work just fine as one.

New comment by hidroto in "How can I influence others without manipulating them?"

hidroto — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:56:48 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wJ4ARj67xn8

New comment by hidroto in "This map is not upside down"

hidroto — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:07:29 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South

New comment by hidroto in "Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out"

hidroto — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:08:23 +0000

These might not technically be cancers but the similarity is there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl

New comment by hidroto in "Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall"

hidroto — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:56:07 +0000

little endian vs big endian.

New comment by hidroto in "Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?"

hidroto — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:21:03 +0000

I would have thought it was a typo of 'seafloor' rather than 'seabed'.