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New comment by mauriciolange in "Observer Patch Holography (OPH)"

mauriciolange — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:59:15 +0000

Worth separating two things here: the OPH technical papers (particle mass derivations, overlap consistency axioms, IBM quantum benchmarks) are very interesting and deserve scrutiny on their merits. But Mueller has published addenda that go well beyond physics — Rapture, a "Karma Engine" where future observers implement hell for bad actors, Jesus as an "inserted observer," named public figures facing cosmic justice. These aren't derived from the axioms; they're a messianic belief system wearing physics vocabulary. The technical work may or may not hold up under peer review. The addenda are a red flag about the whole project's epistemiology.

New comment by mauriciolange in "Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared"

mauriciolange — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:25:20 +0000

Absolutely, same feeling here. But I also see that the author wanted to say something, and finally he manages: it begins as a rant (generated by a prompt of course) the goes to some examples that are entertaining, at least making me remember how I did some things in the past.

New comment by mauriciolange in "Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared"

mauriciolange — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:21:11 +0000

Some AI slop aside, nice article to help us remember that the platform is much more powerful if we dare to do some things without the crippling framework help.

New comment by mauriciolange in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

mauriciolange — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:37:40 +0000

Ahhh but it gave me the opportunity to ran real programs, coming from an XT! *Edited to add an example: I could for the first time use AutoCAD. The price difference between a 286 and a 386SX was negligible, but the software I could use, was other league.

New comment by mauriciolange in "The Clock"

mauriciolange — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:15:00 +0000

This article, being in turn inspired by another project, has a much more fun to read writing style. The "Gonon: building a clock with no numeral" is full of AI slop and that is very distracting.

so, kudos to the author at Senko.net!

New comment by mauriciolange in "Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support"

mauriciolange — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:14:15 +0000

Two very different solutions. Autohotkey is a scripting language for specific tasks, while Delphi is unbounded in this sense. And Visual Studio has no RAD concept.

New comment by mauriciolange in "Google to obey South Korean order to blur satellite images on maps"

mauriciolange — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:13:35 +0000

This can be seen in action here in Europe. Near Antwerp, in Kruibeke, we stumbled upon a military base when deviating from the A14 to fill the tank. The whole area is blurred in google maps.

New comment by mauriciolange in "ESA has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?"

mauriciolange — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:22:56 +0000

A good counterexample is the Arctic Weather Satellite project. It was defined as a new space process at ESA, so documentation required was reduced at the minimum, and risk acceptance was increased. Absolutely successful, on time, on budget, contractors happy, end users happy. But it is a small project and still difficult to replicate at large and to spread the mindset to other sections at ESA. Source: me. I work at that project as ground segment engineer.

New comment by mauriciolange in "Jeremy Couillard's video games capture what it's like to be alive"

mauriciolange — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:31:46 +0000

...to be alive today, the title without the "today" means something different

New comment by mauriciolange in "Two Dots Too Many (2008)"

mauriciolange — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:49:25 +0000

At first I was confused by the title (my fault) and thought that the article had to do with geo-localization. And only after several paragraphs I could switch to language localization :D

New comment by mauriciolange in "Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight"

mauriciolange — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:52:28 +0000

There were no last payload to be delivered. The remaining payload was intended to deorbit along with the second stage.

Vulture Extinction in India Linked to Higher Mortality and Public Health Crises

mauriciolange — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:21:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20230016&from=f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40860089

Points: 3

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New comment by mauriciolange in "Big data is dead (2023)"

mauriciolange — Mon, 27 May 2024 11:43:20 +0000

source?

New comment by mauriciolange in "How OpenAI's Sora Model Works"

mauriciolange — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:06:56 +0000

I don't understand, from the article, how Sora works when handling a rotation of an object on another object (the leaves in the leaf covered elefant for example). The explanation goes only to the diffussion model, but not to how, from that model, a correct geometry deformation is derived at each step.

New comment by mauriciolange in "How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)"

mauriciolange — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:04:02 +0000

At first I find it difficult to concentrate, but then I started really enjoying the article, and in way I think it is much better than current low-content-big-font websites. But yes, I was raised with this kind of content, so it seems that when I started enjoying was because I synced with a style that I already knew.

New comment by mauriciolange in "An evidence-based guide to expanding your comfort zone"

mauriciolange — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:37:44 +0000

Reading "A founder's guide to expanding your confort zone" instantly set me in my disconfort zone

New comment by mauriciolange in "Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?"

mauriciolange — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:25:03 +0000

I find very difficult to believe that any personal effort on mitigating CO2 emissions is worth it. A single decision by an individual working on a big company does make the difference, either for better or for worse, but not our own indvidual actions as CO2 emitters.

New comment by mauriciolange in "WeWork founder Adam Neumann suggests his apartment tenants plunge own toilets"

mauriciolange — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 17:31:07 +0000

What I find amusing about the article is not Neumann's declaration, but that it merits an article. The writer is used to call someone to plunge her own toilet?

New comment by mauriciolange in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

mauriciolange — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:06:00 +0000

This was a code key, not a codified message, so there was nothing to break, but only the indication that messages could have been exchanged using this key.

New comment by mauriciolange in "Infinite patterns appear in numbers described as moving systems"

mauriciolange — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 10:36:19 +0000

Still not a sufficient explanation but I pretty much like the headline:

Mathematicians are finding inevitable structures in sufficiently large sets of integers.