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New comment by personalityson in "Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it"

personalityson — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:25:32 +0000

Never been to London, 3 out of 9 correct.

New comment by personalityson in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

personalityson — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:53:20 +0000

I can't phantom they haven't made an app for Android TV yet

New comment by personalityson in "Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end"

personalityson — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:37:06 +0000

Win 11 has not changed much since June -- https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

What's wrong with Win 11 exactly?

New comment by personalityson in "Bit is all we need: binary normalized neural networks"

personalityson — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:41:27 +0000

Unless each iteration is 90% faster

New comment by personalityson in "A love letter to the CSV format (2024)"

personalityson — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:26:25 +0000

It should have been semicolon from the start

New comment by personalityson in "How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe"

personalityson — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:00:50 +0000

Does this include US population?

New comment by personalityson in "How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe"

personalityson — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:32:38 +0000

If not white, what are they?

New comment by personalityson in "GPT-5"

personalityson — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:52:55 +0000

So, where is it?

New comment by personalityson in "Windows XP Professional"

personalityson — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:49:39 +0000

I was able to create a vbs script (MsgBox "Test"), but it keeps opening in Notepad...

New comment by personalityson in "Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out"

personalityson — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:21:10 +0000

I agree. Let's have some kind of distinction between work and labor

New comment by personalityson in "Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out"

personalityson — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:28:58 +0000

The goal of every civilization is to abolish work. I don't see the problem.

New comment by personalityson in "Windows 10 EOL"

personalityson — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:29:56 +0000

53% of all Windows PCs https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

New comment by personalityson in "Grand Theft Auto VI Is Now Coming May 26, 2026"

personalityson — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:39:00 +0000

NPC's better be using AI (ran locally)

New comment by personalityson in "Numbering should start at zero (1982)"

personalityson — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:22:21 +0000

"I must confess that I was very slow on appreciating LISP’s merits. My first introduction was via a paper that defined the semantics of LISP in terms of LISP, I did not see how that could make sense, I rejected the paper and LISP with it."

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EWD128...

New comment by personalityson in "Numbering should start at zero (1982)"

personalityson — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:46:17 +0000

He also hated Lisp

New comment by personalityson in "Numbering should start at zero (1982)"

personalityson — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:44:05 +0000

Matlab, Fortran, Julia, R, SAS, SPSS, Mathematica, and the whole field of mathematics. F*ck off all mathematicians, what do they know about counting?

New comment by personalityson in "Numbering should start at zero (1982)"

personalityson — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:39:56 +0000

Another idiot confusing continuous measure (time) with counting discrete units

If it helps: you have one whole array element only if one year has passed

What are you trying to do: do you want to know where each element starts, or do you want to measure the total sum/accumulated amount?

New comment by personalityson in "Numbering should start at zero (1982)"

personalityson — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:38:37 +0000

Array elements are not a continuous measure. Level of water, for example, is.

The mark on your measure tape corresponds to the total sum/amount.

If you count from zero, number of elements no longer corresponds to the size/length. So already here you deviate away from your tape principle.

You have one whole element when your tape measure shows 1, not zero.

New comment by personalityson in "Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?"

personalityson — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:01:24 +0000

All of Tarkovsky is on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hBLv-HLEc

New comment by personalityson in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)"

personalityson — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:52:20 +0000

I have a recurring dream where I'm trying to type something on my phone, and it never comes out right, I delete and try again and again, can't hit the right buttons