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New comment by oytis in "Buy Your Friends Batteries"

oytis — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:15:52 +0000

But then you still have to buy birthday presents on top of that

New comment by oytis in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

oytis — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:19:26 +0000

African continent is probably the last place in the world where this is relevant, and they are on track to fix it.

New comment by oytis in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

oytis — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:11:27 +0000

Nobody buys new though, these are for companies and posh people

New comment by oytis in "GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2"

oytis — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:30:12 +0000

You are calling a Linux (sorry, GNU/Linux) killer small silly stuff?

New comment by oytis in "The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)"

oytis — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:59:26 +0000

Hm... I vaguely remember a different article debunking the Dunning-Kruger. Basically the conclusion was that the data from the experiment shows that people's estimations of their results are all over the place, with people scoring high being actually slightly (but only slightly) more confident that they did well.

UPD: probably this one https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...

The article in the post is older though

New comment by oytis in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

oytis — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:25:27 +0000

Are we not expecting any practical benefits from mathematical discoveries any more? Not even as a means to help other sciences?

New comment by oytis in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

oytis — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:13:51 +0000

One should differentiate between "working in academia" and "doing science" here. Science is fundamentally about the curiosity, the desire to know, not the process of getting there.

If we can now know anything we want, we have an age of unimaginable abundance before us. I think it's more likely though that we will just be able to know more things than before and/or maybe learning new things faster - which is a good thing too, but there is still work for human scientists to do

New comment by oytis in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

oytis — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:20:50 +0000

Wouldn't it be great if we had a cure for cancer, working fusion energy or at least a proof for P vs NP even if no human had a joy of discovering it?

New comment by oytis in "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making"

oytis — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:18:12 +0000

I think the author means if it happens regularly, and asking people to stop doesn't work or marks you as a dangerous dissident. Obviously, it is wrong to quit in response to one person doing something stupid

New comment by oytis in "CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years"

oytis — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:20:26 +0000

I don't know about you, but occasionally going outside to breathe some fresh air makes a lot of difference for me

New comment by oytis in "Never argue with your boss (2009)"

oytis — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:32:48 +0000

I feel like the real takeaway should be "don't make a competition out of a technical discussion". A culture that doesn't allow openly debating technical decisions sounds like one I wouldn't want to be part of.

New comment by oytis in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

oytis — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:53:08 +0000

Good UX makes you achieve your goals on a website faster. It implies that the website has a purpose apart from spending your time on it. If it has no such purpose, and yet people are spending a lot of time there, it's probably addictive

New comment by oytis in "Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France"

oytis — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:16:19 +0000

Yeah, we are not talking about ecological impact of France enough

New comment by oytis in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

oytis — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:17:54 +0000

Uh-oh

New comment by oytis in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

oytis — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:38:22 +0000

Small songbirds apparently

New comment by oytis in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

oytis — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:35:30 +0000

So far it's only US doing this. I don't think it's in anyone else's interest to limit development of open source models or chips. Nvidia has secured a leading position in GPU market by being the best overall, but if US continues to mess up with the export, that changes the calculation and surely we'll see the alternatives

New comment by oytis in "Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour"

oytis — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:42:16 +0000

With every interview process you say "yes" only once and "no" many times. Where there are a lot of candidates, then many more times, while spending less time on each candidate. There is no way to design a process that will not leave the majority of candidates disappointed - as soon as they are up front with the amount of work you'll need to do, it sounds ethical to me

New comment by oytis in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

oytis — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:31:41 +0000

Yeah, but I've also appreciated the symbolism much more as an angsty teen than as an adult.

The best part about Tolstoy is how he depicts the intricacies of human relationships, and that's a thing most people cannot appreciate until they hit like 30

New comment by oytis in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

oytis — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:42:30 +0000

I dunno, I feel like Dostoevsky hits perfectly around high school. I enjoyed Crime and Punishment around 9th grade, but tried read some Dostoevsky as an adult, and it really reads like young adult luterature.

I only learned to appreciate Tolstoy as an adult though - it was extremely boring for me as a teenager barring some smaller pieces

New comment by oytis in "Building reliable agentic AI systems"

oytis — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:18:34 +0000

Absolutely. Either you use LLMs and tolerate unreliability or you are writing proper reliable software yourself