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New comment by pineaux in "Sun Clock"

pineaux — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:17:37 +0000

I actually have exactly a clock as a mental model of the year and the seasons. December is 12 o' clock.

But weirdly, I dont have a mind's clock to represent the day. Precisely because it feels to me that the clock shape is unfit to show time. Because 03:00am feels wildly different from 03:00pm. My mental representation is a 3d spiral slightly offset and looping back on itself. So imagine two clockfaces when looking from up top, seethrough. The bottom one is a bit to the left so you can see both well. Each consecutive number goes a bit higher. After 12 midnight the numbers quickly decend down back to 06:00am. I have this image for as long as.I remember.

New comment by pineaux in "Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga"

pineaux — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:44:49 +0000

Other "nice" names for this product: AmiColi AmiLisp

New comment by pineaux in "Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter"

pineaux — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:06:46 +0000

No, as i understand it: the underwriters are the banks that write out the shares and give a sort of guarantee. So they decide the price of the IPO.

New comment by pineaux in "The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life"

pineaux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:31:58 +0000

Actually bipedal systems are very energy efficient when walking and moving and very slightly inefficient when standing still.

New comment by pineaux in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

pineaux — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:50:13 +0000

Its because democracies werent and arent really democracies. But that aside. Corruption is rampant, the oil sector has politians in their pocket for a long long time and since the cold war, a counter narrative doesnt really put any weight in the scale. The billionaires arent afraid anymore.

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

pineaux — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:12:06 +0000

I almost never hear the story that I find the most believable: that a small group of people will use AI to demolish the 99.999% of us.

New comment by pineaux in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

pineaux — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:28:51 +0000

I wanted to ask the exact same question. 2500 is a very low order size for injection molding am I wrong?

New comment by pineaux in "Volkswagen planning to cut up to 100.000 jobs globally"

pineaux — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:12:46 +0000

They can just tariff the shit out of the Chinese cars. That will work great.

New comment by pineaux in "AI Is a Bad Tool"

pineaux — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:49:26 +0000

I get their point, but they are probably wrong. Not saying the AIs will not get better and better. They probably will, but I see a chance that there are smaller and smaller gains and the AIs cant make those gains happen. But coding with llm's doesnt say its shoddy code per se. I view it as: We used to use hand saws to make cabinets. Then we had tracksaws. Then we had CNC saws... You still need to understand woodworking to make a nice table in all these scenarios.

New comment by pineaux in "Mistral OCR 4"

pineaux — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:49:11 +0000

Uhm... isnt mistral mostly funded by ASML? A dutch company?

New comment by pineaux in "Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists"

pineaux — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:23:33 +0000

Nah, its almost for sure xenophobic and classist. I think fat bikes are the best thing that happened to amsterdam because all the scooters disappeared. All the poor people that used to ride scooters are now riding fat bikes. Its better for their health and their wallet. Yes they tend to be a bit less educated and socialised, but they were like that when they drove scooters as well. Banning fat bikes is gesture politics.

New comment by pineaux in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

pineaux — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:45:41 +0000

That is a false way of saying it. Because then you are unpacking what dBs are, which is fascinating, but not how humans perceive sound. We use dBs exactly because it approaches human experience of sound better (although still shitty) than sound pressure would. A better logarithmic system would use base 2, I think phons tried to popularize that, but signal processing calculation with a base 2 log is less convenient than a base 10 log. So I think that is the reason.

For who wants to know: sound perception doubles every 10dB so. 30db of dynamic range is about 8 times as much dynamic range from the perceptual perspective.

New comment by pineaux in "Magnetoelectric antennas could transform how underwater robots talk"

pineaux — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:43:53 +0000

And a lot faster than on land. 5 times if I recollect correctly.

New comment by pineaux in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

pineaux — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:11:21 +0000

Are you the kind of guy that says that all things that serve no purpose except for entertainment should be banned?

I am of the opposite school. I think practical things are fine and dandy, but the things that make us human, make life worth living, are all "useless".

New comment by pineaux in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

pineaux — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:29:37 +0000

This is some terry pratchett level craziness.

New comment by pineaux in "Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants"

pineaux — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:44:14 +0000

Nah, its not that they were trespassing. Its that they were trespassing while shouting that they were going to hang pence. It was because they were part of a group that attacked police officers. The goal of the trespassing counts.

New comment by pineaux in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

pineaux — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:55:36 +0000

Anything [prefix]maxxing just sounds so bad. It just feels so Andrew Tate...

New comment by pineaux in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

pineaux — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:23:23 +0000

Its because the president used to have a modicum of respect for the house and the Senate. So the president did have the sole right to send military anywhere on the planet and even launch nukes without any need for congressional permission. This is by design. But the other presidents were a bit less crazy so we never noticed.

New comment by pineaux in "We accepted surveillance as default"

pineaux — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:04:25 +0000

I agree. Was annoyed by it.

New comment by pineaux in "We accepted surveillance as default"

pineaux — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:04:01 +0000

Play and read simultaneously. Its nice.