Hacker News: kgbcia

New comment by kgbcia in "No vegan milk is equivalent to dairy, nutritionists conclude"

kgbcia — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:29:24 +0000

Should be rebranded "calcium fortified drinks"

New comment by kgbcia in "Convert photos to Atkinson dithering"

kgbcia — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 22:51:12 +0000

Would be great for eink/epaper devices.

New comment by kgbcia in "EU confirms Apple can make a portless iPhone without USB-C"

kgbcia — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:15:59 +0000

Let's see if apple will remove USBC to make the phones thinner

New comment by kgbcia in "Curious why Microsoft did not use Rust to rewrite the TypeScript Compiler?"

kgbcia — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:29:55 +0000

why not Rust?

Anders: When you have a product that has been in use for more than a decade, with millions of programmers and, God knows how many millions of lines of code out there, you are going to be faced with the longest tail of incompatibilities you could imagine. So, from the get-go, we knew that the only way this was going to be meaningful was if we ported the existing code base. The existing code base makes certain assumptions -- specifically, it assumes that there is automatic garbage collection -- and that pretty much limited our choices. That heavily ruled out Rust. I mean, in Rust you have memory management, but it's not automatic; you can get reference counting or whatever you could, but then, in addition to that, there's the borrow checker and the rather stringent constraints it puts on you around ownership of data structures. In particular, it effectively outlaws cyclic data structures, and all of our data structures are heavily cyclic.

New comment by kgbcia in "Notes on Guyana"

kgbcia — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 19:00:55 +0000

Good read, sent it to my Kindle. It was the CIA who messed up that country in the modern era. Glad they found oil and now have insane GDP growth. Hope they don't ruin the Amazon rainforest nearby. Hope the racial tensions ease down and infrastructure is built up, so I can visit one day.

New comment by kgbcia in "Were RNNs all we needed?"

kgbcia — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:59:10 +0000

Decision trees is all we needed

New comment by kgbcia in "Reading texts on paper versus computer screen: Effects on reading comprehension [pdf]"

kgbcia — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:49:30 +0000

What about eink

New comment by kgbcia in "HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?"

kgbcia — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 02:47:12 +0000

Isn't .mobi an ebook format?

New comment by kgbcia in "At least 20 dead as walkie-talkies explode in Lebanon"

kgbcia — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:37:02 +0000

It's weird how these headlines are written in the passive voice and as to blame Hezbollah. "At least 20 dead as walkie-talkies explode in Lebanon as Israel declares ‘new phase of war’ against Hezbollah"

How about Israel detonates 3000 explosives in Lebanon.

New comment by kgbcia in "PUBG developer Krafton make a life simulation game inzoi"

kgbcia — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:58:46 +0000

if it's anything like the Sims, or imvu second life, it will be popular. People like to fantasize about a life they can't have.

New comment by kgbcia in "Tim Sweeney: " Now Apple is demanding a 30% cut of all Patreon DONATIONS"

kgbcia — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:33:03 +0000

Time for that breakup

New comment by kgbcia in "Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers"

kgbcia — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:36:54 +0000

Still waiting for cookies to be removed

New comment by kgbcia in "Phish-friendly domain registry ".top" put on notice"

kgbcia — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 02:57:52 +0000

I registered a top domain for ten years , total cost $28.

New comment by kgbcia in "Wikipedia: 97% of all articles lead to Philosophy"

kgbcia — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 18:38:01 +0000

Okay I will play this game without a crawler. i looked up UFC fighter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabib_Nurmagomedov. Then you see oh his personal life says he's a Muslim, that leads to islam article, Quran, religious text, religions, Philosophy of religion,Ethics, then philosophy!

New comment by kgbcia in "GNU Nano 8 comes with modern key bindings"

kgbcia — Fri, 31 May 2024 21:57:20 +0000

Great move. I'm not a fan of emacs nor vim complexity.

New comment by kgbcia in "Google's AI is that stupid, feeds people answers from The Onion"

kgbcia — Mon, 27 May 2024 23:28:25 +0000

It's not stupid, just you get what you pay for in LLM. I think LLM need some kind of reinforcement learning stage to instruct them what's true and false. obviously Google rushed this thing out of the gate to prevent ChatGpt from taking over their search space. I find myself using ChatGpt more often, since it's advertisement free at the moment.

New comment by kgbcia in "The Canadian government's plan to plant two billion trees"

kgbcia — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 21:32:52 +0000

Wish they could plant some random crops like potatoes and corn to the mix. And a healthy barrier to prevent wildfire from destroying all their work.

New comment by kgbcia in "Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1k drug can be made for $5"

kgbcia — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 20:47:47 +0000

Goes for any software that can be copied

New comment by kgbcia in "Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser"

kgbcia — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:59:53 +0000

I was thinking of doing something like this for visually impaired users. The next step is to pipe it into the JavaScript web speech synthesis API.

https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/web-speech-api/speak-easy...

Feature request: Can we have dark mode?

kgbcia — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:28:06 +0000

I know there is an API, but a small change in CSS will be better @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39677933

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