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New comment by mietek in "I don't understand quantum physics (2018)"

mietek — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:09:50 +0000

It seems to be intermittent right now. Internet Archive can help.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://scholarpedia.org/artic...

New comment by mietek in "I don't understand quantum physics (2018)"

mietek — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:54:20 +0000

Unfortunately, this work perpetuates the misunderstanding of Bell's theorem and its implications with respect to hidden variable theories. See the Scholarpedia article on Bell's theorem for an in-depth discussion, including quotes from Bell himself, deeply frustrated at the misunderstanding.

https://scholarpedia.org/article/Bell's_theorem

New comment by mietek in "GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards"

mietek — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:23:48 +0000

What about the 5090?

New comment by mietek in "I built a programming language that LLMs can't use"

mietek — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:46:54 +0000

You think you don't have a context window? Try coming back to your own uncommented code after half a year.

New comment by mietek in "900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)"

mietek — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:53:55 +0000

We ſhould ſtart a club.

New comment by mietek in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

mietek — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:01:39 +0000

Great writing. Maybe you should write more about your experiences. I would gladly read more.

New comment by mietek in "A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis"

mietek — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:36:55 +0000

What is worth creating when anyone can create anything?

New comment by mietek in "iPhone Duo"

mietek — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:51:53 +0000

B1 is exactly 1 meter tall.

New comment by mietek in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

mietek — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:06:59 +0000

> most of the messages are just gibberish

Encrypted data should be indistinguishable from gibberish.

Reality is catching up to science-fiction. In "Person of Interest", the Machine circumvented the limitation of having its memory deleted every night, by hiring humans at a data-entry company to manually re-type its memory back in every morning.

New comment by mietek in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

mietek — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:37:50 +0000

There is a lot of space in, you know, space, for people who live long enough to travel.

New comment by mietek in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

mietek — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:36:36 +0000

Roughly, yes. See B. Werner (1997) “Sets in types, types in sets”.

New comment by mietek in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

mietek — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:35:08 +0000

If only you had bothered to check the settings, you would have found the option to keep your music files where they are when adding to the iTunes library. It's been there all along, and it's still there in SoundJam's current reincarnation as Music.app.

New comment by mietek in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

mietek — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:08:54 +0000

Keep telling yourself that.

New comment by mietek in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

mietek — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:37:53 +0000

> Jensen Huang disagrees and has said AI is a marathon.

Of course he'd say that; he wants to keep his shovels flying off the shelves.

New comment by mietek in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

mietek — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:39:49 +0000

> Have a strong anti-counterfeit strategy. Don’t overlook this.

Would like to see this highly non-obvious point expanded upon.

New comment by mietek in "UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro"

mietek — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:23:05 +0000

Indeed, it's annoying that there doesn't seem to be an Apple-approved method for customizing the outer display.

New comment by mietek in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

mietek — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:14:10 +0000

I found the ability to merge unrelated repositories very useful when collecting various bits of work I did separately and combining it into a single library.

New comment by mietek in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"

mietek — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:07:48 +0000

My number one request: let me block specific sites from my search results.

New comment by mietek in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

mietek — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:12:31 +0000

I built an example project showing how to build shared libraries in Haskell, in 2019.

https://github.com/mietek/haskell-so-example

New comment by mietek in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

mietek — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:18:30 +0000

If they're using a LLM to make those decisions, then they're fundamentally unable to provide the reasons for those decisions, because of how LLMs work.