Hacker News: lmz

New comment by lmz in "Vx – One Language, Every Chip"

lmz — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:20:53 +0000

Can sort of make sense of the transfer and performance bit as: the location is encoded as part of the data type instead of some sort of automatic spillover to main memory that will behave differently based on data size.

New comment by lmz in "The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)"

lmz — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:46:59 +0000

The fact that they still allow this would point towards the latter. They are quite capable of locking it down like they do the iPhones.

New comment by lmz in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

lmz — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:44:20 +0000

> I rather think most Ukrainian soldiers would disagree with you here.

In modern society, of course, most soldiers are not Ukrainian (or Russian).

New comment by lmz in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

lmz — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:48:57 +0000

Most countries don't import (and naturalize) as many foreigners while expecting the locals to serve national service. There's also this quip from a minister some time ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37627269

New comment by lmz in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

lmz — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:21:53 +0000

Believe me, if you ask the locals there they would mostly say the same thing about their government too.

New comment by lmz in "You said no MCP"

lmz — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:00:44 +0000

In the before times, you could use Applescript to expose those things. Is MCP preferable to (LLM generated) Applescript?

New comment by lmz in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"

lmz — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:31:02 +0000

This thread shows the difference between a high and low trust society.

New comment by lmz in "Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”"

lmz — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:50:27 +0000

It's not even global, is it? It's session scoped.

New comment by lmz in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

lmz — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:34:21 +0000

I don't live in the US, but yes. I've seen people get into punch-ups because of the queues (although that happens with gas queues as well). All I'm saying is that queues are not improved by having longer servicing times. If you have the same ratio of cars to fuel pumps / chargers, the one that takes 30 minutes to fill up will be worse.

New comment by lmz in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

lmz — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:14:23 +0000

And they fill up in a few minutes. Now try the same queue length when it takes 30 minutes to fill up.

New comment by lmz in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

lmz — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:22:17 +0000

The queues can get bad if there are too few chargers.

New comment by lmz in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

lmz — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:14:59 +0000

Are you comparing (hybrid) gasoline figures to diesel on a liter per km basis? What about cost per km now that diesel prices have shot up?

New comment by lmz in "Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK"

lmz — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:19:38 +0000

Surely depreciation is determined by the buyer's expected price? So it doesn't matter if objectively you say the battery is at 95% health but all the buyers apply a steep discount due to it being an EV.

New comment by lmz in "C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake"

lmz — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:24:51 +0000

Meh. In today's world if exact sizes were not a requirement then you should use the int_fastN_t types to at least guarantee the width you are expecting instead of using the fixed size types (which may not be optimal) or using plain "int" which may be smaller than expected.

New comment by lmz in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

lmz — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:26:36 +0000

A while back they renamed some gene names so they wouldn't trigger Excel's autocorrect: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...

New comment by lmz in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

lmz — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:30:21 +0000

Not everything is papers and theses. Not an academic but I can imagine Excel being quite useful.

New comment by lmz in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

lmz — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:24:31 +0000

There's a gap between "old brand makes bad product" and "people knowing old brand is bad". There lies the short term profits.

New comment by lmz in "Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update"

lmz — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:14:44 +0000

There was a US lawsuit against them for their linear compressors: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/consumer/fridge-failures-...

New comment by lmz in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

lmz — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:59:45 +0000

The dirty secret is there's a lot of people employed to do things that are not "products that matter" according to your definition.

New comment by lmz in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

lmz — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:49:37 +0000

Some humans don't even manage to do that.