Hacker News: pfortuny

New comment by pfortuny in "Apple WWDC 2026"

pfortuny — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:31:25 +0000

They are bad actors with a worse script. Just that.

New comment by pfortuny in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

pfortuny — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:35:47 +0000

Try quicksilver

New comment by pfortuny in "Dopamine Fracking"

pfortuny — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:16:48 +0000

So true!

New comment by pfortuny in "Dopamine Fracking"

pfortuny — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:17:12 +0000

I guess it is mostly (by default):

a) real pseudonymity b) no photos/videos c) no infinite scroll d) no notifications e) very specific (mildly speaking) topic range f) very very good ranking and filtering algo ....

New comment by pfortuny in "Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar"

pfortuny — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:10:22 +0000

These are very common in Spain too.

New comment by pfortuny in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

pfortuny — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:51:14 +0000

Snarky morning: "spiritual souls" as opposed to "mere animal souls". Sorry, could not control myself.

New comment by pfortuny in "Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth game"

pfortuny — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:34:16 +0000

Also: you cannot pretend to be "physically realistic" on a computer screen. The simplest thing: if there is more ambient light, your pupils decrease and your sight is different. You cannot simulate "true light" unless you also simulate that.

New comment by pfortuny in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

pfortuny — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:38:39 +0000

What about the right of not being determined by others? Say, the 10% who vote no.

New comment by pfortuny in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

pfortuny — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:12:56 +0000

No: at least in my 2023 Corolla, in order to power off it must be in Park, and then, when you power off, the lid on the shift-stick is blocked.

You can leave it in neutral and exit the car, obviously, but the car is started.

New comment by pfortuny in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

pfortuny — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:44:37 +0000

Honest question: what do you mean?

New comment by pfortuny in "Googlebook"

pfortuny — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:26:00 +0000

Screams of "COME ON DO SOMETHING WE NEED THE STUDENTS TO NOT BUY MACs!"

Built for Gemini?? No thanks.

New comment by pfortuny in "A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous"

pfortuny — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:48:45 +0000

OK. But those can be "Zukerberg" promises?

New comment by pfortuny in "A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous"

pfortuny — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:48:08 +0000

Ok, thank you.

New comment by pfortuny in "A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous"

pfortuny — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:51:39 +0000

Honest question:

Do these systems not share data with the AI servers? Or are they all local (on-site, not on-computer)?

I am totally baffled by the trust people put on these systems, sharing with them the most obviously private data.

New comment by pfortuny in "How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?"

pfortuny — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:49:35 +0000

An elliptical wheel, at most. A square one without an axle, most probably.

New comment by pfortuny in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

pfortuny — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:26:01 +0000

European students are preparing for their finals.

New comment by pfortuny in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

pfortuny — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:20:19 +0000

My students are essentially forced to use MS services. So... there is that.

So am I, come to think of it.

New comment by pfortuny in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

pfortuny — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:37:11 +0000

Spain here. Most of our public Universities have their IT stack on MS... I cannot fathom how much of our national budget goes to their pockets.

Thankfully, I store my teaching materials on my personal non-uni webpage, and the student's marks in my office's computer (apart from the MS-based Uni system).

Whenever something happens with MS, chaos ensues throughout the whose Uni and the students end up paying the consequences.

New comment by pfortuny in "Floats Don't Agree with Themselves"

pfortuny — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:53:26 +0000

IIRC it also depends on the CPU's storage and capabilities.

New comment by pfortuny in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

pfortuny — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:22:17 +0000

Think historical records of, say, share values for past years. You might have a single db for 1900-2000, for instance. Things like that.

Not everything needs to be real-time updated.