Hacker News: lmpdev

New comment by lmpdev in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

lmpdev — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:20:12 +0000

I assume they mean same t/sec as a SOTA cloud model

New comment by lmpdev in "Apple fixes 75 security issues with your iPhone and 155 for Mac, update now"

lmpdev — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:38:04 +0000

I assume they’re referring to Fable’s guardrails?

New comment by lmpdev in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

lmpdev — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:51:36 +0000

Yes they’re not related and are much more humane imho

No Orcas, good rehab program, seal exhibit is good (no true seals), Polar bears are a bit sad though

I did the seal diving experience which was great - mostly disabled California sea lions and NZ Fur seals (which do well in captivity)

New comment by lmpdev in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

lmpdev — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:04:49 +0000

In wealthy parts of the US, maybe

The vast majority of the world is nothing like this

From Scotland to Tasmania, most courses congregate around already wet and mostly sand/loamy soil (largely unusable for other purposes without major construction)

I agree with you for artificial American places like TPC Scottsdale or Wolf Creek GC etc

New comment by lmpdev in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

lmpdev — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:58:16 +0000

Is the Lake course as good as I’ve heard?

New comment by lmpdev in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

lmpdev — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:53:52 +0000

Seems to be mostly be a US-only phenomenon

And even then, a broad generalisation

It’s $10 USD/round in my area, cheaper than bowling by a mile

Ask HN: Anyone Else Burnt Out?

lmpdev — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:59:23 +0000

There’s a lot of change occurring in the industry and am curious if it’s burning others out

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917199

Points: 12

# Comments: 7

New comment by lmpdev in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

lmpdev — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:08:49 +0000

The answer is we don’t know for certain

There are even some philosophers/mathematicians who attest to finitism (they’re not mainstream, though), but if correct would undermine our idea of fields and continuous structures more broadly

New comment by lmpdev in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

lmpdev — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:57:15 +0000

A parallel concept to this is from functionalism/theory of mind in Philosophy is that of Multiple Realisability

New comment by lmpdev in "Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms"

lmpdev — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:50:12 +0000

One thing that irks me quite a bit is when adjacent fields adopt the same acronym for different things

LoRa (RF tech) vs LORA (AI optimisation technique) GLM (statistics) vs GLM (AI model)

New comment by lmpdev in "I Am Behind on C# 14 Features, and I Can't Prove It but Does It Matter?"

lmpdev — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:54:05 +0000

The new Primary Constructors syntax is an absolute god-send for simple classes

New comment by lmpdev in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

lmpdev — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:07:37 +0000

What Malcolm Turnbull did to the NBN was absolutely disgraceful

The reforms also resulted in a lot of people never getting FTTN/FFTC in the first place - so will forever be 5G only unless there’s a new scheme rolled out

New comment by lmpdev in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

lmpdev — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:44:09 +0000

Another LoRA moment

New comment by lmpdev in "Nostalgic Kits Central (2024)"

lmpdev — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:15:53 +0000

Jaycar in Australia still sells them

Just released new packaging actually

New comment by lmpdev in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

lmpdev — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:12:27 +0000

I mean in the same way getting Wolfram Alpha to solve a really hard/ugly differential equation I suppose

New comment by lmpdev in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

lmpdev — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:29:35 +0000

I repaired some of ~10 years ago (Australia)

Just low end uncustomised NUCs overheating behind the screen

No idea if that’s still the case

New comment by lmpdev in "Tourists to Australia to have social media vetted under Trumpian Coalition"

lmpdev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:52:11 +0000

Their voter base is largely dying off

I don’t see them being one of the top two parties in a couple of decades unless younger generations start actually having resources/assets to conserve

New comment by lmpdev in "Tourists to Australia to have social media vetted under Trumpian Coalition"

lmpdev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:48:20 +0000

Geoff Provest (Nationals MP) recently did the same thing commenting on an Albanese social media post pretending to be a disgruntled Labor voter

New comment by lmpdev in "Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future"

lmpdev — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:30:06 +0000

Not an expert but every node in an UHVDC network would need expensive equipment

Point to point is just two nodes, but scaling that outward would be very expensive

AC transmission is relatively cheap in comparison

New comment by lmpdev in "Some Unusual Trees"

lmpdev — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:55:21 +0000

Yeah the Blue Quandongs get pretty big

Tweed Valley in NNSW so lots of water and volcanic soil

Edit: turns out the Blue Quandong and the Quandong are very different species - my mistake