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New comment by minitoar in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

minitoar — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:36:38 +0000

It can also mean damage (blow up, tear up) or completeness (clean up, drink up).

New comment by minitoar in "Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso"

minitoar — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:58:39 +0000

Yes, my grid-tied system is like this. The panels are ~410W and each one has a microinverter with ~390W maximum or something. The more expensive inverters were not worth capturing the peak. You’re better off putting that money into more panels.

New comment by minitoar in "Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables"

minitoar — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:04:37 +0000

Scuba could handle 100,000 columns, probably more. But yes, the model is that you have one table and you can only do self-joins and it’s more or less append only and you were only accessing maybe dozens of columns in a single query.

Feel free to email if you want to chat more.

New comment by minitoar in "Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables"

minitoar — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:30:59 +0000

ClickHouse and Scuba address this. The core idea is the data layout on disk only requires the scan to open files or otherwise access data for the columns referenced in that query.

New comment by minitoar in "GPT-5.2"

minitoar — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:09:54 +0000

In Google Photos shared albums there is a tab that I can only describe as a chatroom.

New comment by minitoar in "Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight"

minitoar — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:48:08 +0000

We flew too close to the sun

New comment by minitoar in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

minitoar — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:29:13 +0000

idk but I’ve definitely experienced this. Presumably it’s a bug.

New comment by minitoar in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

minitoar — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 05:44:41 +0000

UL has a standard, this article goes into some details https://www.ul.com/news/manufacturers-say-hail-yes-solar-pan...

New comment by minitoar in "Grief gets an expiration date, just like us"

minitoar — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:21:05 +0000

I think it’s medicalized because often this set of symptoms is associated with inability to function and it can be treated medically with eg therapy.

New comment by minitoar in "All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers"

minitoar — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:07:34 +0000

Iron Tail Cafe iirc

New comment by minitoar in "All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers"

minitoar — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:02:47 +0000

There was a cafeteria as recently as 2018

New comment by minitoar in "FoundationDB: From idea to Apple acquisition [video]"

minitoar — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 04:24:04 +0000

iCloud uses both.

New comment by minitoar in "Dépanneurs"

minitoar — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 22:59:22 +0000

bodegas usually have bigger selection & hot food

New comment by minitoar in "JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet"

minitoar — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:36:27 +0000

Or just keep launching more so there’s always a usable one

New comment by minitoar in "The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe"

minitoar — Wed, 28 May 2025 18:57:15 +0000

Yeah I think I was downvoted because that’s fairly well known in cosmology and is a refutation of the parent comment.

New comment by minitoar in "The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe"

minitoar — Wed, 28 May 2025 17:23:41 +0000

Are primordial black holes supermassive?

New comment by minitoar in "NASA study reveals Venus crust surprise"

minitoar — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:16:29 +0000

Surprised at all the dead humor comments. Is humor against the guidelines?

New comment by minitoar in "NASA study reveals Venus crust surprise"

minitoar — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:14:55 +0000

I would absolutely demolish a Venus Crust Surprise

New comment by minitoar in "Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week"

minitoar — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:42:46 +0000

No. The price insensitive shoppers will buy everything and the shelves will be empty.

New comment by minitoar in "Joining Sun Microsystems – 40 years ago (2022)"

minitoar — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:39:23 +0000

Great pictures. lol @ khosla.