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New comment by pxndx in "BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs"

pxndx — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:42:29 +0000

There's obviously an xkcd about this: https://xkcd.com/810/

New comment by pxndx in "How problematic is resampling audio from 44.1 to 48 kHz?"

pxndx — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:33:32 +0000

Yeah, but that noise keeps compounding every time you resample.

New comment by pxndx in "Size of Life"

pxndx — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:18:29 +0000

Are you sure about that? for me it just leads to neal.fun, which is a well loved by HN list of projects, but no IQ test nor begging for money.

New comment by pxndx in "Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)"

pxndx — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 12:01:48 +0000

What's your source? it's the 5th in this ranking I found: https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/europes-best-sel...

New comment by pxndx in "LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain"

pxndx — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:20:10 +0000

Does this matter? I want to watch the games at home, with my friends.

New comment by pxndx in "Burrito Now, Pay Later"

pxndx — Sun, 11 May 2025 20:54:38 +0000

Absolutely unhinged content from someone who needs to touch grass. Payday loans are scams that prey on the poorest, most uneducated people. This industry is actively harmful to society. But hey, I'm sure writing this helps you sleep at night.

New comment by pxndx in "I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs"

pxndx — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:14:00 +0000

You've never played with a pen, finger or spoon hitting different plates and vases on your table and amusing yourself with the drumming? Twanged a ruler on the edge of your desk? Congratulations, that makes you a musician.

New comment by pxndx in "BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank"

pxndx — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:51:41 +0000

Yeah that turns the cable into a 5kW space heater.

So how well is Claude playing Pokémon?

pxndx — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:49:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HyD3khBjnBhvsp8Gb/so-how-well-is-claude-playing-pokemon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291721

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by pxndx in "The Nightmare Bicycle"

pxndx — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:50:44 +0000

No, the author is advocating for the simple two dial (power and time) microwaves, which give you all the control at the cost of having to understand how it works.

The author is saying that in the effort to "simplify" stuff, microwaves now add a potato button and a chicken button, but then you want to cook an eggplant and don't know how.

Beating every possible game of Pokemon Platinum at the same time [video]

pxndx — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:47:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNMWkD5VsZ8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42590310

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pxndx in "Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]"

pxndx — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 08:46:37 +0000

It's protecting us from advanced alien invasions, and doing a great job. Have you seen any recently?

New comment by pxndx in "Riot Games laying off 11%"

pxndx — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:06:07 +0000

I vilify capitalism because it makes kids work in coal mines. Is that unjustified?

New comment by pxndx in "Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically"

pxndx — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 20:33:04 +0000

Lots of deserts and mountains in Spain, while the Netherlands is mostly flat and it's a bunch of small villages that are really close together.

New comment by pxndx in "A clever “perpetual motion” device [video]"

pxndx — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:03:23 +0000

Lost it at the "through the magic of buying two of them" bit!

New comment by pxndx in "Experiments with plane-filling curves and Fourier transform"

pxndx — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 15:51:46 +0000

The Fourier transform is almost, but not quite it's own inverse when dealing with reals, so they'd be very similar to the results here.

New comment by pxndx in "“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says"

pxndx — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:26:36 +0000

the NYT is not a small startup.

New comment by pxndx in "Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and plastic"

pxndx — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:47:29 +0000

If you turn what now is barren land or grasslands into a forest, it absorbs CO2 as it grows, and that CO2 stays captured for as long as that land is a forest, it doesn't matter if individual trees die and decompose.

New comment by pxndx in "LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract"

pxndx — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:17:08 +0000

If the future is autonomous drones killing kids in Pakistan, I don't want to go there.

New comment by pxndx in "How I Taught My Kid to Read"

pxndx — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:51:07 +0000

Yes, there are variations on sounds, but none of the through/enough bullshit english has.