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New comment by kangalioo in ".de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?"

kangalioo — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:23:31 +0000

So glad I found someone mention this. Amazon.de, SPIEGEL.de is down. Highly prominent sites unreachable. I wonder how long this will last and how big of a thing this ends up being once people talk about it :o Feels big to me

New comment by kangalioo in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

kangalioo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:43:51 +0000

A much cheaper way might have been to buy a couple of Novation Launchpads. 8x8 full RGB tactile buttons for 90€, MIDI-controllable. Four of those next to another for 16x16 at 360€ plus a little bit for cables and controller comes out at 1/3 the price

New comment by kangalioo in "Philips announces digital pathology scanner with native DICOM JPEG XL output"

kangalioo — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:30:04 +0000

Someone using JPEGXL in a real world product

New comment by kangalioo in "My development team costs $41.73 a month"

kangalioo — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:41:29 +0000

If someone made that happen I'd be ecstatic

New comment by kangalioo in "Terence Tao weighs in on the suspension of UCLA grants"

kangalioo — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 09:36:35 +0000

Which is, the UK? China?

New comment by kangalioo in "Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site"

kangalioo — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:01:58 +0000

But what's wrong with sending the number as a string? `"65537"` instead of `"AQAB"`

New comment by kangalioo in "Handling cookies is a minefield"

kangalioo — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:56:52 +0000

Why does the specification specifically mention them, then?

New comment by kangalioo in "Rounding Percentages"

kangalioo — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 12:12:52 +0000

I'm afraid this introduces too much magic

Personally, "0%" doesn't mean "hasn't started" to me, it means "not enough progress has happened to reach 1%". Assuming I'm not alone with that, the rounding becomes a simple truncation `roundedPercent = int(percent)`

An implementation as simple as the concept, which is a good sign in my experience

New comment by kangalioo in "One Million Checkboxes"

kangalioo — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:28:23 +0000

Can be pretty fast if you know your tools well :)

Just tried in VSCode; 2:38min using its fabulous multiline editing. 1:34min on second try due to practice

New comment by kangalioo in "What Computers Cannot Do: The Consequences of Turing-Completeness"

kangalioo — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:32:06 +0000

Yeah, that's definitely fair. What I'm annoyed about is the "checkmate, computers" stance, pretending like the problems computers cannot solve could be solved by other means

New comment by kangalioo in "What Computers Cannot Do: The Consequences of Turing-Completeness"

kangalioo — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:56:28 +0000

I will never understand how people think like that. Sure, there are things computers cannot compute, but that's because those things are _uncomputable_ in general

New comment by kangalioo in "What Computers Cannot Do: The Consequences of Turing-Completeness"

kangalioo — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:54:17 +0000

I don't believe only turing machines are capable of executing other turing machines... Surely lambda calculus can do the same? I was under the impression, lambda calculus can indeed execute itself with even less code than turing machines

There's several very dubious claims that are stated way too confidently like this in the article, like "Yep, virus scanners are almost completely useless"

New comment by kangalioo in "Cooperative C++ Evolution – Toward a TypeScript for C++"

kangalioo — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:17:27 +0000

WebAssembly is not without tradeoffs either. I'm not an expert, but it's often heavier due to bundling the native language's stdlib; it's annoying to interop with the browser environment because that's still JavaScript-tailored; it's also just hard to write code that can be compiled into WASM (e.g. in Rust, it needs to be `#[no_std]`)

New comment by kangalioo in "Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3"

kangalioo — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:12:56 +0000

Good point. When I'm going back and forth writing code and checking its assembly, I also reason about the compiler almost like an intelligent being:

"oh, it doesn't see this condition, so if I help it a little bit, then... Ah now it unrolled, and inlined, but accidentally trashed instruction cache, how will I convince it not to..."

New comment by kangalioo in "How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin?"

kangalioo — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:07:11 +0000

In the linked answer, there's a two-word full answer phrase:

> So I would cut this down to something like nimium valedīxit or totiēns valedīxit: "she bade farewell too much before" or "she bade farewell so many times before".

New comment by kangalioo in "Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger numbers up 25%"

kangalioo — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 23:11:41 +0000

Roughly 2x slower in my experience. The main annoyance are the many changes. Every change carries risk of missing the connecting train

New comment by kangalioo in "In 17th century, Leibniz dreamed of a machine that could calculate ideas (2019)"

kangalioo — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:56:08 +0000

s/frequently/likely

(Large language models are not plain Markov chains, contrary to popular belief)

New comment by kangalioo in "IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)"

kangalioo — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:41:09 +0000

To be fair this is a problem of the Rust web ecosystem. Include a few de-facto standard Rust web crates and you're up to 200 transitive dependencies

New comment by kangalioo in "The past is not true"

kangalioo — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:06:02 +0000

This story brought me to tears within two paragraphs, wow

New comment by kangalioo in "Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge"

kangalioo — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 23:03:25 +0000

I thought it's to transmit good reputation to Meta

E.g. when people trust WhatsApp, and then see it's from Meta, they may trust Meta more too