Hacker News: komadori

New comment by komadori in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

komadori — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:45:12 +0000

That's what distinguishes super yachts from mere regular-sized yachts. The wide base of the hull increases stability on the water to the point that donkey husbandry becomes practical.

New comment by komadori in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"

komadori — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:58:38 +0000

I would characterise myself, per your original question, of being able to superimpose imagined objects onto my visual field.

I would not say that such a superimposed red circle is entirely indistinguishable from a real one, but the experience is very much akin to seeing. For one thing maintaining superimposed objects requires a degree of mental focus of which I am constantly aware, especially if the object is detailed and solid.

This feels a bit like "is my red the same as your red?". What do even mean when you say you can "imagine that wall with the red circle on it", but you can't "see" it? Is there no visual aspect to your experience whatsoever? Do you have a spatial sense of the red circle's size and position? Do you experience (hear?) verbal statements about the red circle's existence and properties, or is this some conceptual sense of the red circle that is both non-verbal and non-visual?

New comment by komadori in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

komadori — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:43:15 +0000

That's easily solved!

The Conduit® Thinkerface® Pro Band will contain a small 90B dense local model that pre-screens your Conduit® NeuroTokens® stream for compliance against the Conduit® Acceptable Usage Policy applicable for your region and subscription tier.

If non-compliance is detected you'll be promptly notified via a small current applied to the Conduit® ThinkRight® Human Training Electrodes embedded within your band. Intensity and duration are dynamically adjusted until compliance is restored.

Even better, because this all happens on-device before your Conduit® NeuroTokens® are sent to the Conduit® NeuroServer®, non-compliant thoughts don't count towards your Conduit® Daily Thinking Allowance or expend credits from your Conduit® Additional Thinking Purchase Plan.

New comment by komadori in "Harddrive Is Probably Full"

komadori — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:18:25 +0000

I recently ran `df` and was surprised to see that I'd used more than half of the two terabyte SSD in my laptop. So, being apparently atypically proactive, my first action was delete all of the target directories in my Rust projects and was equally surprised to see that it freed up nearly 10% of my disk usage (~200 GB)!

New comment by komadori in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

komadori — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:29:51 +0000

That wasn't the prompt. That text was generated by asking the model to describe an image and feeding it a rendering of the SVG it had previously generated.

New comment by komadori in "Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025)"

komadori — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:03:37 +0000

There's a link in his profile: https://rodyne.com/

New comment by komadori in "Exapunks (2018)"

komadori — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:44:06 +0000

Yes, as I recall, he sold Zachtronics to investors sometime after TIS-100 so that he could focus on making the games and have someone else worry about the business.

New comment by komadori in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"

komadori — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:22:25 +0000

I wouldn't say that no one cares, but obviously many fewer people care when the cost of "recompiling" a model from its open source training pipeline is so high. Also, if you only have the weights, you can still use it to generate training data for a new model (i.e. distillation) so it's inherently less locked down then closed source binaries were.

New comment by komadori in "AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Specification"

komadori — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:34:45 +0000

If CPU launches are being delayed until next year due to high memory prices, I wish I shared the CPU manufacturers' optimism the memory prices will be lower next year.

New comment by komadori in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

komadori — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:04:56 +0000

Would you like to have a version with a TrackPoint even if you have managed to live without it?

With all these boutique laptop brands, I hope that one of them will eventually produce a pointing stick keyboard offer a route off Lenovo.

New comment by komadori in "The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement"

komadori — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:28:35 +0000

Jon Peterson's "Playing at the World" is a fantastic book. Highly recommend!

New comment by komadori in "Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games"

komadori — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:27:49 +0000

The first thing I searched for was Deadlock, but was saddened when I realised they weren't talking about Deadlock: Planetary Conquest

New comment by komadori in "Sins of the Children"

komadori — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:54:50 +0000

This short story is set in the same universe as Tchaikovsky's excellent "Shroud" novel and in fact it's the same ship. I wonder where it sits in the chronology because I think the ending of Shroud surely permits an interesting sequel.

New comment by komadori in "STFU"

komadori — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:09:31 +0000

In some Asian cultures, "uncle" can be used to refer to any man older than yourself.

New comment by komadori in "Users only care about 20% of your application"

komadori — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:11:04 +0000

I worked for a company which adopted FogBugz. The multiplier it calculated to be applied to developer time estimates quickly diverge towards positive infinity. It's probably fair to share some of the blame for that between us and it. Nonetheless, we managed to hit our quarterly release deadline well in advance of the predicted five to six years :-P.

New comment by komadori in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

komadori — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:08:54 +0000

The Bank of England used to offer personal bank accounts to their employees, but they phased it out after 2015. Not sure if these accounts were exactly the same as those used for central banking though.

https://hrreview.co.uk/hr-news/strategy-news/bank-england-cl...

New comment by komadori in "Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation"

komadori — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 22:30:24 +0000

Do you think AMD's decision to buy Xilinx was any better or not?

New comment by komadori in "Can you lose your native tongue? (2024)"

komadori — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:33 +0000

That is true of all languages, but I think that Cantonese has a particularly high change velocity in terms of vocabulary and pronunciation compared to, say, English.

I think this is because Cantonese speakers tend to read and write in Modern Standard Chinese (more like written Mandarin) and so are much less anchored by the permanence of text. Additionally, Chinese characters provide even less guidance on pronunciation than English spelling. In this landscape, Hong Kong's small media ecosystem is a fertile breeding ground for new language.

New comment by komadori in "Mitochondria as you've never seen them"

komadori — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:49:08 +0000

I don't know, you make it sound like a pretty good analogy to me.

A coal power plant take a form stored energy which is relatively difficult to use because it has to be burnt with oxygen producing harmful waste products, and turns that energy into electricity which is easier to use in a variety of applications.

A mitochondria take a form of energy which is relatively difficult to use, sugars and fats, because they must be respired with oxygen producing harmful waste products, and turns that energy into ATP which is easier to use in a variety of applications.

New comment by komadori in "Minimal 64x4 Home Computer"

komadori — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:33:40 +0000

At least part of it is licensed under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial licence.