Hacker News: limaoscarjuliet

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper"

limaoscarjuliet — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:16:03 +0000

The "beatings" delivered by IRS will be deterministic for sure!

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

limaoscarjuliet — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:08:09 +0000

In Poland smaller companies tell you outright: this and that person is on vacation, but plese call back in 2 weeks. Bigger companies will often ignore you and drag your problem through the vacation time.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "Tell HN: Meta is down"

limaoscarjuliet — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:55:34 +0000

:-) Yeah, this is officially boring now. Still fun though!

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "Tell HN: Meta is down"

limaoscarjuliet — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:01:14 +0000

How about downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com ? Yes, it does exist.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

limaoscarjuliet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:27:37 +0000

To me, putting up a fight against the obstacles is the key to satisfying life. Yes, I'm not always winning (duh!), but it is the act of defiance that does it for me.

So yes, make peace, but do continue to say "I can do it" before you do.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

limaoscarjuliet — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:30:16 +0000

The first thing I do on every new phone is to turn off 99% of notifications. Messaging ones and email are first to go. I cannot stand the constant beep-beep.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

limaoscarjuliet — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:58:11 +0000

EVery company that comes up with a product that brings a lot of gravy turns into place where people like this flourish. They have always been there - they would ask your question to many people, get their anwers and pass the response as their own.

Nowadays their job is much easier, just two copy pastes and lunch break.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "The Eternal Sloptember"

limaoscarjuliet — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:46:03 +0000

Yes, the beatings will continue until morale improves!

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "We are retiring our bug bounty program"

limaoscarjuliet — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:17:05 +0000

"[...] bottleneck isn't in writing the code. It is in reading and understanding the code". 100% agreed! Furthermore, the more code is generated by AI, the fewer people will actually understand it!

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "Proton Meet"

limaoscarjuliet — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:53:11 +0000

Packet round trip between US and EU is approx. 100ms. Given acceptable latency for voice communication is below 300ms, we should not worry about that too much.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

limaoscarjuliet — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:28:53 +0000

In some games - most famously Doom - entire multiplayer is based on exchanging just the inputs and the games on all connected computers are deterministic enough to provide same outcome on all of them.

I am one of the authors of Fire Fight game (1996-ish) and we pulled the same stunt. It was actually easy, we just had to build our own "random number generator" and fix all bugs with uninitialized memory :-)

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

limaoscarjuliet — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:54:08 +0000

Some things are idioms that one repeats so often they just stick, e.g. I use "grep.... | cut -c x-y | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr" to quickly grep frequency of some events from a log file.

Don't feel bad - no one remembers them all, we just remember a few idioms we use...

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

limaoscarjuliet — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:16:51 +0000

As with every bubble, we, the people, will pay for it. There will be recession, inflation and general "one step back" to hopefully move "two steps forward" one day in the future.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "Trade Chaos Causes Businesses to Rethink Their Relationship with the U.S."

limaoscarjuliet — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:06:28 +0000

It is a double edged sword - the U.S. manufacturers no longer have to compete with potentially better products from overseas, they can push lower quality to the local market for the same price.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign"

limaoscarjuliet — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:48:23 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1613/

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair"

limaoscarjuliet — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:39:28 +0000

I have 4 crowns, 2 done using moulds, 2 using the 3d scanner. Same doc, same office. The moulded ones were ok with some adjustments, but the 3d scanned ones were perfect since day 1. I'm happy with the progress in dentistry.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "The Company Man"

limaoscarjuliet — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 06:42:15 +0000

Assuming this is fiction... A good friend of mine is a professional writer. I learned from her that most of what is presented to us, readers, as fiction is really not so far removed from what really happened.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

limaoscarjuliet — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:39:04 +0000

I paid a ticket for this in NYC.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?"

limaoscarjuliet — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:49:37 +0000

> In fact, I think in near future it will be the norm for MLLMs to "think" and "reason" without outputting a single "word".

It will be outputting something, as this is the only way it can get more compute - output a token, then all context + the next token is fed through the LLM again. It might not be presented to the user, but that's a different story.

New comment by limaoscarjuliet in "We’re secretly winning the war on cancer"

limaoscarjuliet — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:36:07 +0000

I have done mine at 50, you are half asleep, does not hurt, you do not remember anything. Fasting day before is the worst part.

All in all, nothing to worry about, just do it.