Hacker News: ludicrousdispla

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Fable Took My Job"

ludicrousdispla — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:48:22 +0000

knowing which button not to press, ... priceless.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:37:38 +0000

I would think that a simple steak is a whole food, but I have no idea what would be in a SimpleSteak™

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:29:13 +0000

>> AI is truly a once in a civilization event.

Aren't we on our 3rd or 4th iteration of AI at this point?

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

ludicrousdispla — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:07:21 +0000

I bet a matrix of cpu fans mounted to the ceiling would work rather well, rgb lighting is optional.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal"

ludicrousdispla — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:35:00 +0000

maybe he'd just consider it a hyperbolic statement

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Installing NeoVim caused original Vim undo files to be deleted"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:02:49 +0000

maybe they tried to undo the change, but were not able to

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting"

ludicrousdispla — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:36:34 +0000

For Spain it would probably be Catalan Independence, for France any mention of air conditioning technologies, and for Italy it's pineapple on pizza.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]"

ludicrousdispla — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:39 +0000

Play a game long enough and the main challenge becomes inventory management. I look forward to the IVAR update.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun)"

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:22:11 +0000

The second and third attempts are much less difficult.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun)"

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:19:28 +0000

how do I submit a 'contribution'

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:05:01 +0000

Unfortunately, the current leadership in AI and tech more generally seems unconcerned with reputational risks.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "I refused to train the AI that could replace me"

ludicrousdispla — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:01:44 +0000

But they wrote the article on principle, and that has a greater impact.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?"

ludicrousdispla — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:31:55 +0000

I took my first statistics class as an evening course, before going to graduate school, and 90% of the work involved doing hand calculations, avg., variance, std. dev., z-scores, t-tests, etc. And I think that gave me a strong grasp of those fundamentals.

If you could do something similar for bayesian statistics I think that would be useful, but not necessarily popular.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting"

ludicrousdispla — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:42:12 +0000

While reading your comment it occurred to me that virtually all reporting on (or talking about) science involves applying it to an unsuitable context. Schrödinger's cat is probably the most prolific example of this.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:00:15 +0000

You should add some RGB backlighting to it.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:53:45 +0000

The one criticism I can offer on IKEA furniture is that some of it doesn't move well, specifically the particle board stuff which will fall apart at the joints if it's not carefully handled.

Having said that, I also tend to not buy the particle board stuff.

I'd prefer it if IKEA offered more options (dimensionally) on their durable furnishings.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:55:53 +0000

I credit Minecraft with getting an entire generation comfortable using command line statements.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Bug Blindness"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:51:51 +0000

I think at least half of the software developers out there simply don't test their code in the final product (or at all). And why would they when their revision is being reviewed in a pull request?

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall"

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:15:22 +0000

As the model keeps improving, to the extent it has some utility, it will decrease in value.

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

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:08:47 +0000

No, it is nothing like retinal fatigue, which is what they are referencing in that sentence.

The later section on "What Do Most Visualizers See?" is a better description, although the level of detail is highly dependent on effort, and lack of distraction.

And I'd argue that detail is not particularly important as the visualization is just there to represent conceptual things.