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New comment by maartenscholl in "Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%"

maartenscholl — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:15:18 +0000

Surprised it took so long for a car-centric country to get on board with these

New comment by maartenscholl in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

maartenscholl — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:06:42 +0000

Research the "Treaty of Tordesillas"... by which I mean, don't just look up a one paragraph summary, spend a bit of time with it. A few papal bulls at least. Ideally in a modern formulation you should encounter the term "Requerimiento" without having directly searched for it, and how the modern iteration of the line-of-demarcation doctrine is a reaction to that in a way the 1494 version didn't have to contend with.

I'm not doing advocacy here, I'm giving pointers on how to come to a deeper understanding of what is going on.

It is also important to understand that the United States is directly attacking this doctrine by just sitting there. You are free to agree with the United States. Again, I'm just giving something to guide people to a deeper understanding of what is going on beyond the surface level playground politics of it all. There's more going on than that.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Topologist's Map of the World"

maartenscholl — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:15:13 +0000

The Netherlands and France share a border on the island of Saint Martin

New comment by maartenscholl in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

maartenscholl — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:01:05 +0000

This is an interesting point about energy market balancing but it has causality backwards. Spain simply has a better energy mix than Germany, no matter how big the spread between the countries is as a function of interconnectedness.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

maartenscholl — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:00:48 +0000

Reminds me of US Pinball laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball#Relation_to_gambling

New comment by maartenscholl in "How well do you know C++ auto type deduction?"

maartenscholl — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:30:18 +0000

What is going on with the second element in the final example?

    std::pair x {1, 2.0};
    auto [v, w] = x;

Why is the second element a float according to the blog post?

    std::tuple_element<0, std::pair >::type&

New comment by maartenscholl in "Fluid Glass"

maartenscholl — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 05:59:43 +0000

The meandering movement of the droplets around the sides remind me of the Gray-Scott reaction–diffusion system

How Much Math Is Knowable? (Scott Aaronson Santa Fe Institute Talk) [video]

maartenscholl — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:35:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQC7AIT91_g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45205018

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Whom Do We Trust? How AI Is (Re)Shaping Our Interactions Today (Gillian Tett) [video]

maartenscholl — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:59:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVXnBLh9tWY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44655845

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by maartenscholl in "Advertising without signal: The rise of the grifter equilibrium"

maartenscholl — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 06:19:37 +0000

This has little to do with equilibrium analysis, it is just the market for lemons story but for the ad space. You need to investigate the buyers and what they believe about brand quality.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement"

maartenscholl — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 05:47:47 +0000

Meta famously tracks people extensively even if they don't have an account there, through a technique called shadow profiles.

Billionaires Convince Themselves Chatbots Close to Making Scientific Discoveries

maartenscholl — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:19:37 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44576946

Points: 20

# Comments: 7

New comment by maartenscholl in "OpenAI for Countries"

maartenscholl — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:21:00 +0000

Democratic AI is non-negotiable

New comment by maartenscholl in "Migrating away from Rust"

maartenscholl — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:26:58 +0000

I experienced the same, I had to disable my adblocker to view it, it seems the content is inside a tag `

New comment by maartenscholl in "Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs: The Performance Impact [pdf]"

maartenscholl — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:18:27 +0000

I think in the example the parent gave `arr[3]` is past the end of the 3 element array, where `i` might reside, potentially changing its value.

New comment by maartenscholl in "The 2005 Sony Bravia ad"

maartenscholl — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:51:27 +0000

Not really, the lava lamp's fluid dynamics are very sensitive to initial conditions and the fluids behave chaotically, whereas the bouncy balls have highly predictable trajectories.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Rust inadequate for text compression codecs?"

maartenscholl — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:11:42 +0000

The author claims to be an expert in C++ but begins the article with a detour that incorrectly states that static and dynamic dispatch are necessarily orthogonal in C++. In reality you can do both within the same hierarchy using CRTP combined with a virtual base method. Compile-time inlining eliminates the overhead associated with the virtual call, so you can match Rusts flexibility with the same performance.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Amazon’s delivery drones are grounded in College Station, Texas"

maartenscholl — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:51:50 +0000

Businesses just rise to meet demands. Texas is the ideal place for the highly individualistic, neighbors an environmental issues be damned attitude. It's not like the cities there are designed so you can take a leisurely walk from your house to get some victuals.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Show HN: Cot: a Rust web framework for lazy developers"

maartenscholl — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:10:15 +0000

Then why shouldn't those people choose Ada, which also has Ada Web Application (AWA)?

New comment by maartenscholl in "Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died"

maartenscholl — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:10:12 +0000

This is sad news, I was aware of his work on Half Life 2 through art books, and I bought the first Dishonored game because of it