Hacker News: mml

New comment by mml in "How Much OpenAI Spends on Inference and Its Revenue Share with Microsoft"

mml — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:36:12 +0000

the oldheads are snickering at dotcom 2.0 from behind their gray beards.

New comment by mml in "I'm worried it might get bad"

mml — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:12:59 +0000

after 30y of this business, i’m dumbfounded we haven’t organized. doctors, lawyers, plumbers etc seem to benefit hugely from professional orgs and unions in their corner.

i guess we are too well paid.

(all of the above make more than you do, and it’s because they are organized)

New comment by mml in "CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe"

mml — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:14:06 +0000

what i saw of cern was a beautiful campus with ongoing cricket matches on the lawn, lots of offices and computers, and a great cafeteria.

my brother worked down the hall from tbl, and we stopped by, but he was out. brother’s boss (mdm wu, of quark fame), was out of town too.

brother was the vms admin, and would bitterly complain that mdm wu never cleaned out her mail spool, and it was now a ruinous 40mb.

st genis is quaint and nice to visit, with views of mt blanc.

New comment by mml in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

mml — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:55:18 +0000

no, wood is not a carbon sink. its gets turned back into co2 as it decomposes.

New comment by mml in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

mml — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:53:42 +0000

creosote railroad ties are commonly found in landscaping around here. unfortunately, they are hazardous waste, thusly getting rid of them is a bit of a hassle.

New comment by mml in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

mml — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:50:03 +0000

I've seen this video, he did a pretty good job, but his chemical treatment didn't penetrate at all. I suspect he would have benefitted from pressure cooker during that step. this is how treated lumber is treated to get full penetration of whatever chemicals they use.

given the depth the of the penetration, he basically case hardened it. you can see in the bullet tests that the interior laminations are much fatter than the exterior layers.

New comment by mml in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

mml — Mon, 19 May 2025 15:10:13 +0000

"armor wood"

New comment by mml in "Membrane: Media Framework for Elixir"

mml — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:33:42 +0000

I really wish Nvidia had gone in this direction instead of gstreamer :/

New comment by mml in "Threads of God"

mml — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 10:48:33 +0000

sounds identical to the well known “dragon hair” noodle technique from china.

New comment by mml in "Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges"

mml — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:54:06 +0000

this is a police problem. as usual.

New comment by mml in "Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe"

mml — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:32:20 +0000

read an interesting take that North American bison are (were) an invasive species from europe that wound up in NA by crossing some land-bridge at some point in prehistory.

New comment by mml in "Why I quit using SwiftUI"

mml — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 21:29:49 +0000

hold down option when you release the selection to force hidden windows up. i too hate this behavior.

New comment by mml in "Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues"

mml — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:14:50 +0000

zenhub appears to be having issues as well (can't load ticket at all) due to their GitHub integrations I assume.

New comment by mml in "In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether"

mml — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 04:43:46 +0000

they'll just get handed a bale of tether & everyone will just go on pretending

New comment by mml in "When did Maytag go bad? (2007)"

mml — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:38:16 +0000

Some people may not be aware that the Maytag family makes excellent cheese, or did, not sure if they own it anymore.

https://maytagdairyfarms.com

New comment by mml in "When did Maytag go bad? (2007)"

mml — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:36:21 +0000

My Bosch dryer breaks its cheap nylon door latch every 2 years. the replacement costs $25, and could be 3d printed, or punched out of metal in about 10 minutes. once the electronics break, I'm just burning down the house and moving to the woods.

New comment by mml in "Workers are calling out sick in droves"

mml — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 18:26:11 +0000

I think it stands for "Nice, Polite Republicans"

New comment by mml in "Workers are calling out sick in droves"

mml — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 18:24:22 +0000

my school district has been short 2-300 teachers ALL YEAR. my kid didn't have a math teacher for the first few months, then got one, who proceeded to quit a few weeks later. now math class is watching YouTube videos about math. or it would be, but the district just went remote...

New comment by mml in "An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation"

mml — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 16:00:39 +0000

oh, and musk was fired for incompetence, and all his code thrown away after the x.com acquisition. he also isn't the founder of Tesla. basically everything "everyone knows" about Elon "monorail" Musk, is a lie.

New comment by mml in "Yak Shaving"

mml — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:35:38 +0000

I find this blog opprobrious