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New comment by rhema in "Sun Clock"

rhema — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:53:42 +0000

https://editor.p5js.org/rhemalinder/full/im3tyPBDW - I made this one for myself and it's pretty similar.

I have this hard-coded to south dakota, but it looks like this and I made it a while ago. Same idea, except I turn it such that "solar noon" is at the top.

Think 12 noon is really "high noon" or solar noon? Nope, not unless you are in the center of a timezone!

New comment by rhema in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

rhema — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:42:30 +0000

I love my little dual core X99 board with Xeon E5 2673 V3. It's not power efficient, but I just leave it in my basement for local Jupyter Notebook stuff. Much faster than everything cloud-based for a reasonably price at my scale.

New comment by rhema in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

rhema — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:26:57 +0000

9 year old me got my first "hacking" experience out of this game. With the shareware version, you could not select the ultra tank that could shoot 3 bullets for a human, but you COULD if it were the computer player.

The "hack": -start a game with a normal tank VS ultra computer player as p2. -save the game (as a file). -open the game file. -read the ASCII text and just flip which player has which text.

Now, I had my ultra tank.

New comment by rhema in "When ChatGPT turns informant"

rhema — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:19:44 +0000

> I tried the same questions with my own account. I was surprised at how much it was able to synthesize that wasn't completely off-base.

This makes it worse, no? I can't imagine this is not happening right now by lovers, close friends, and agencies.

Just look at past attempts such as xkeyscore. It was keyword based and included words like UNIX to target people. They don't mind being wrong!

I Visited a Chinese NAS Factory and Here Is What I Saw [video]

rhema — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:08:36 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43937642

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

My 10 Step Solution for Accelerated PowerPoint Slides AI in 2025

rhema — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:27:20 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/rhemalinder/status/1907463057715974417

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558447

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Novation Launchpad: Custom Tabla Mode (With Ken Shorley) [video]

rhema — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:29:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9B95znRJ28

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356953

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rhema in "Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award"

rhema — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:29:18 +0000

I used their RL book for a course I taught. It's beautifully written and freely available (http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-2nd.html)! I kept getting distracted by the beautiful writing that I would miss the actual content.

I use two trumpets to play the flute [video]

rhema — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:29:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcx_gU60aL0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053251

Points: 32

# Comments: 5

New comment by rhema in "[dead]"

rhema — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:51:32 +0000

Sorry, folks. This is what you get when the institutions fail to help the people they ostensibly were designed to help. There are more than 400 government agencies. No one even knows which one is responsible for what. There are artificial fiefdoms that exist because they self-perpetuate, are effective at shifting blame, and curry a perception of importance.

IMHO, Elon is an agent of chemotherapy for an obviously overgrown bureaucratic cancer. He will take it too far. It's a dirty and thankless job. However, it might be the only way to "refactor" the state without a civil war or revolution. It reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I , who rewrote laws (cut 90% of the volume) to consolidate their meaning.

I'm not cheering for it, but institutions have lost.

Science of Groove [video]

rhema — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:14:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Ch7avfPP0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41312252

Points: 13

# Comments: 6

New comment by rhema in "Fertility as Metascience"

rhema — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:48:37 +0000

I don't think everyone should have bunch of kids. However, if you are in a good relationship and both like having kids, think about having 5 instead of 2. My personal experience of having 5+ kids is that the difficulty mostly scales logarithmically, meaning kid 1 is a lot of work, kid 2 is a lot more work, but kid 3 more (but less more) work.

The social dynamics can really work well. Kids can be less work when they can entertain each other. Add some homeschooling, work from home, and creative projects and it makes life really fulfilling.

YMMMV, but it's a valid and reasonable way to live for some.

I created Clippy [video]

rhema — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 14:01:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kcQzCzSDvc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36257935

Points: 130

# Comments: 34

New comment by rhema in "The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked"

rhema — Fri, 26 May 2023 13:54:14 +0000

I always thought the GW was short for George W. Bush. Not a popular figure when XP came out.

New comment by rhema in "The Lofi Magic of VHS Audio [video]"

rhema — Fri, 05 May 2023 16:38:35 +0000

FYI, I posted this mainly for its description and illustration of the VHS format. The author of the video has very high quality explanations of technical and cultural details of instruments.

The Lofi Magic of VHS Audio [video]

rhema — Thu, 04 May 2023 21:28:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHoTzs3mtM8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35822324

Points: 152

# Comments: 61

New comment by rhema in "Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks"

rhema — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 22:25:48 +0000

There's a truck exactly like that a block away from where I live in my rural town.

New comment by rhema in "Meta increases Zuckerberg's security allowance from $10M to $14M"

rhema — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:23:26 +0000

Seems pretty low for one of the most powerful people in the world.

New comment by rhema in "Twitter Engineers Say Musk Doesn’t Know WTF He’s Talking About"

rhema — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:20:33 +0000

True? How could it be anything but true. Twitter is a complex system that started when text messages were by and large SMS via a 10 number key pad on brick phones.

While Elon has rough edges, imagine his situation. It's a hostile take over where it's not just the board, but the workers themselves who have bad blood with Elon specifically. How do you manage a company when 90% of its employees are expecting and almost encouraging it to burn to the ground?

It's tricky. Imagine your coworkers were tying to sabotage you and you needed to be able to give them tasks on a large complex project. Even when goals are aligned, small differences in implementation directions can fracture teams. So, I understand where he's coming from.

New comment by rhema in "Saudi woman jailed for 45 years for social media posts"

rhema — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 16:46:16 +0000

She may be getting off relatively easy. If she happened to be in an embassy, it might have cost her an arm and a leg, and another arm and another leg...